Tom Breihan

John Douglas, longtime guitarist for Scottish indie rock band Trashcan Sinatras, has passed away. The band shared the news in a social media post today, writing that Douglas passed away peacefully on Monday "after a brief illness." Douglas was 63.

Weezer's new song "C.E.O." is all about the pressure put on aging rockers to relive their glory days, and the song itself goes out of its way to relive Weezer's glory days. It's structured as a musical redux of the 1994 smash "Undone (The Sweater Song)," the track that made Weezer famous in the first place. The "C.E.O." video also repeatedly calls back to the classic Spike Jonze-directed "Sweater Song" clip, but now with a lot more celebrity cameos.

The veteran Boston indie rapper Esoteric really collects unlikely collaborators. Back when John Cena was early in his wrestling career and doing a

Marta Cikojevic is a member of the Montreal band TOPS, and she also makes solo music under the name Marci. In a few weeks, she'll release Mask Lady And Late Night Girl , her second Marci album, and we posted lead single " Butterfly Sticker ." Today, she shares the bleary, synthy new track "Liquid Heartbeat." The song and its Elliot Weaver-directed video both have an edge of glamorously lo-fi hedonism working for them. Check it out below.

The brands are getting involved with underground music again. In this case, the brand in question is Stone Island, the Italian luxury sportswear company with the nautical-star logo. The underground music is four of the biggest and best bands involved in hardcore and its adjacent worlds: Angel Du$t, Haywire, High Vis, and Knocked Loose. Together, those four bands are the subjects of

Colin Stetson is a busy man. Earlier this year, the master of tense drone-moan-squawk baritone sax teamed up with fellow avant-garde OGs Greg Fox and Trevor Dunn to release the album . Next month, Stetson and experimental bagpiper Brìghde Chaimbeul will release their new collaborative LP . Now Stetson is also one third of 10¹⁷, a new band that also includes Stian Westerhus and Erland Dahlen, two powerhouse musicians from the Norwegian jazz world.

Steve Earle and Los Lobos are both roots-music institutions who have been leaving their respective marks on the world since at least the '80s, and they've got a lot of shared history. Over the years, Earle and Los Lobos have toured together, and they've shared god knows how many stages, but they've never collaborated until now.

Two Shell use AI. They admitted it. For a while, there have been rumors about the pranksterish London dance duo and their reliance on generative AI to make so much music, and they confirmed it earlier this summer. In a Resident Advisor interview, one of the duo's two masked, anonymous members said that they've used AI "for a couple of years now" and that they consider it to be "just another instrument, really."

Hey, here's a random-ass combination! Right now, Guns N' Roses are on one of their many global stadium tours. On Wednesday night, they hit Toronto's Rogers Stadium. In the process, they crossed paths with big-voiced country star Chris Stapleton, who will headline a show at the very same venue tonight. Presumably, that's why Stapleton put in a surprise appearance during GNR's set last night.

It's still not totally clear why Charlie Manning Walker decided to end his great Chubby And The Gang project and then immediately start a new band called the Easy Eight, but that's what he did.