James Rettig

Puscifer wrote and recorded a new song for a comic book series based on American Psycho. Yes, that’s right: the Bret Easton Ellis novel turned iconic 2000 movie has gotten the a comic book treatment, with a story written by Michael Calero and illustrated by Piotr Kowalski and Brad Simpson. The series published its first issue last year and is still ongoing, and now it will have a soundtrack component.

Cher has won a lawsuit against Sonny Bono’s widow Mary over royalties related to the songs that she made as one-half of Sonny And Cher, as Billboard reports. As part of their 1978 divorce settlement, Cher was granted a permanent 50% cut of the publishing revenues of the songs that Sonny and Cher had recorded together during the time that they were married.

At the top of the year, Katy Kirby released her sophomore album Blue Raspberry , a more than worthy successor to her 2021 debut — it was our Album Of The Week . Today, Kirby is announcing a deluxe edition of Blue Raspberry that'll be out this summer featuring two tracks that didn't make the album. The first of those, “Headlights,” is out now.

Kate Bollinger has been putting out dreamy pop songs for a while now, primarily collected in a string of EPs and singles that date back to 2017. Today, the Richmond musician (who is now based in LA) has announced her debut full-length, Songs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind , which will be out in September. Collaborators on it inclue Sam Evian, Matthew E. White, Jacob Grissom, and Adam Brisbin. Lead single “Any Day Now” is out now.

Nourished by Time, the home recording project headed up by Baltimore musician Marcus Brown, landed on our Best New Bands and Best Albums lists last year thanks to Erotic Probiotic 2 . He's since signed to XL Recordings and put out an EP with them, . Today, he's back with a new track that appears on Scenic Route – Road Less Travelled Vol. 2 , a forthcoming compilation from the London label Scenic Route. “I Guess I Got My Answer” is the sort of gooey, moody throwback that Brown is so great at, and you can check it out below.

Back in February, the London musician John Glacier signed to Young and released the Like A Glacier EP; its Eartheater-featuring single “ Money Shows ” landed on our best songs of the week list.

Earlier this month, Prefuse 73 announced new album, New Strategies For Modern Crime Vol. 2 , the sequel/companion album to , which came out in March. He shared “ Lion Chorus ” from it at the time, and today the producer is back with another one, the slinking, shapeshifting “Vast Wildlife Poison,” which sounds like it could soundtrack one hell of a movie scene. Check it out below.

The last time we checked in on the roaring power-pop duo Cowboy Boy in 2021, they were split between Boston and Los Angeles and about to put out , a double EP that featured basically all of the songs that they had recorded until then. The pair have since joined up in Los Angeles, but the Boston never fully goes away as evidenced by “Great Scott,” the lead single to their new album Lipstick On A Pig

Tom Morello turns 60 today — happy birthday, dude! Today, he's been announced as the latest recipient of the Woody Guthrie Prize, an award started a decade ago to recognize “outstanding contributions to music and activism.” (Last year, the winner was

Primavera Sound is taking place in Barcelona right now, and a portion of the festival will be livestreamed through Amazon Music. The stream will be available through Prime Video and Twitch, and it'll begin at 1:30PM EST each day, starting Thursday afternoon and running through Saturday.