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This morning we published my We've Got A File On You interview with Will Oldham, in which the man otherwise known as Bonnie “Prince” Billy reveals, among many other great stories, that he first dropped acid in Chicago under the instruction of fellow Louisville luminaries David Grubbs and David Pajo. Turns out that's not the only reason for Grubbs to appear in these pages today.

Radius is a music venue situated in a former steel factory in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, and it seems to mostly specialize in EDM nights. On Friday night, Radius played host to the dance trio Levity, and people at the venue had a rough time. In video that was passed around on the internet, a security guard shoves someone out the door hard enough that they end up kind of crumpled on the ground, and the guard proceeds to kick the person, or at least to nudge them with a foot. On the same night, a wood beam fell from the ceiling and hospitalized two people. Since then, the venue's owners have put out a statement addressing both issues.

If you were on the indie rock internet in the '00s, then you probably remember Patrick Wolf, the London singer and multi-instrumentalist who released a bunch of records of nicely gothy art-pop. Wind In The Wires , from 2005? That was a good record! Wolf hasn't come out with a new LP since 2012's Sundark And Riverlight . He returned in 2022 with his single “ Enter The Day ” and followed it with 2023's “ Nowhere Game .” Now, Wolf has announced his first new LP in 13 years.

Olivia Osby is one half of the New York duo Lowertown, and she releases solo music under the name Olivia O. Last year, Osby started yet another project, a duo with fellow New York musician Sean Henry with the SEO-unfriendly name Child Star. We've posted Child Star's early singles “ City Song ” and “ Stupid ,” and now they're getting ready to release their debut EP.

Over the past few months, popular fantasy novelist Neil Gaiman has been hit with accusations of sexual misconduct from numerous women. One of those women was Scarlett Pavlovich, a woman who had begun babysitting the child Gaiman shares with his wife Amanda Palmer. In a report for Vulture , Pavlovich said Gaiman sexually assaulted her the first time they met, and later raped her. Now, Pavlovich has filed civil lawsuits in three separate states, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and New York, accusing Gaiman of repeatedly sexually assaulting her while she was working for him. Because of Palmer's involvement, the suit also accuses the couple of violating human trafficking laws.

A few days ago, the Weeknd released , the extremely long and generally impressive new album that's being sold as Abel Tesfaye's farewell to his Weeknd persona.

Ollie Judge introduces Squid's new album Cowards by imagining life as a cannibal. “We call it/ Something else/ To disguise/ Our memory,” he begins, before later adding: “I couldn't eat/ Another thing/ No more pages and pages of crispy skin.” It's not quite as twisted or out-of-left-field as it appears; Judge took inspiration from Agustina Bazterrica's novel Tender Is The Flesh . Over first a discomfiting bed of gnarled guitars and corroded synths and then a surprisingly beautiful piano melody, this is just the latest surreal reintroduction to the strange and anxious world Squid occupies. And on Cowards , Squid's songwriting and lyricism alike sharpen to get to the guts of things, capturing an illness at the heart of the world that only seems to have metastasized during the years the band has been chronicling it.

My Morning Jacket are releasing is , their first non-holiday album since 2021, in March. They began the rollout with “ Time Waited ,” a surprisingly chill lead single.

Julius Pierstorff, the musician known professionally as JJULIUS, comes from the beautiful Swedish city of Gothenburg. His music recalls the playfully warped indie-pop of Gothenburg acts like the Tough Alliance and JJ, as well as the twee UK stuff that preceded it. Next month, JJULIUS will release the new album Vol. 3 on DFA records, and Viagra Boys' Tor Sjödén plays drums on it. We are really into lead single “ Brinna ut ,” and he's shared another one today.

I can't remember how old I was when I heard The Pack's “Vans” for the first time, but I'm sure I've been rapping the hook back to myself ever since. “I got my Vans on but they look like sneakers.” To a Bay Area native, Vans carries the ethos that brought everyone together from all over California, from Anaheim, the founding city of Vans, to Berkeley, the birthplace of Vans' unofficial anthem.