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Ty Segall released Harmonizer, his last proper album, less than a year ago. A few months ago, Segall also released his soundtrack to the documentary Whirlybird. But Segall’s not about to take a vacation or anything. Instead, later this summer, Segall will follow those two records with the new LP Hello, Hi. We already posted that album’s title track, and now Segall has shared another one.

On Friday, Bridie Monds-Watson, the Irish singer-songwriter who records as SOAK, will release their new album If I Never Know You Like This Again. We’ve already posted the early singles “last july” and “purgatory.” Now, with the LP release looming, Monds-Watson has dropped one last pre-release single.

Snail Mail stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday to perform “Glory” from last year’s Valentine. Opening up about “Glory” last year, Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan told us: “I wrote this from a place of hurt. Another kind of angry one, which is crazy… It’s also sad. It fits in the universe. It came really naturally. I remember writing it really quickly and being like, This song bangs and it’s done.

6ix9ine continues to take drastic measures in his pursuit of clout. Now, he's taunting Lil Durk about King Von's death with the use of a look-alike and a prop. On Tuesday (April 26), 6ix9ine shared a video on his Instagram page where he is standing on a street corner with a group of men, one of whom looks exactly like Lil Durk. The look-alike goes by the nickname Perkio. In the clip, Tekashi pulls a jacket out of a bag and one of the rapper's associates puts it around the shoulders of faux Durk, who looks scared.

Madcap mastermind John Dwyer has kept up his non-stop string of releases over the past year with albums from projects like Moon Drenched and Gong Splat, which Dwyer made with a whole bunch of friends and collaborators. Today, he’s announcing a brand-new Osees album, A Foul Form, which is due out on August 12 via Castle Face Records. Lead single “Funeral Solution” is scurrying and furious. The album comes with a statement from noted fan Henry Rollins:

Post Malone was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend, performing opposite host Selena Gomez. He did the recently-released single “Cooped Up” with Roddy Ricch and debuted a new track called “Love/Hate Letter to Alcohol,” which is a collaboration with Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold. Pecknold was on the SNL stage with the background singers to perform it with him. (Fleet Foxes performed on the show in 2009.)

Ricky Gardiner, a Scottish guitarist best known for his work on classic records by David Bowie and Iggy Pop in the late 1970s, has died from Parkinson’s Disease. Bowie producer Tony Visconti shared the news in a Facebook post today, having learned of it via Gardiner’s wife Virginia. “Another guitar genius and personal friend passed into the next world last night,” Visconti wrote. In a separate post on Twitter, Iggy Pop wrote, “Dearest Ricky, lovely, lovely man, shirtless in your coveralls, nicest guy who ever played guitar. Thanks for the memories and the songs, rest eternal in peace.” Gardiner was 73.

Crowning, from Chicago, released one of the best screamo albums of 2020 with their full-length debut Survival Sickness. NAEDR, from Singapore, also released their debut album Past Is Prologue in 2020, and it was also one of the year’s best in the realm of skramz. Now the two groups are teaming up on a split 12″ called Rayau for release at the end of May.

Portola Music Festival is a new event that’s headed to San Francisco’s Pier 80 this September. Its name, as a press release notes, alludes to 1909’s Portola Festival, which took place three years after the city’s devastating 1906 earthquake. Its inaugural lineup includes a whole bunch of good names.

Arcade Fire continue to be everywhere to promote WE, and increasingly the focus has been on “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid).” The song had a big Coachella moment, which in turn became part of its music video, and Arcade Fire played it on SNL as well. Although they’ve also...

A little over one day after dropping his much-anticipated new album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, Kendrick Lamar is back with a brand-new video for album cut “N95.” Directed by Dave Free and Lamar, “N95” follows the thought-provoking deep fake video for “The Heart Part 5.”

New Jersey lo-fi rockers Plague Skater’s Plague Skater II was one of my favorite albums of last year. Today the self-professed “scuzz pop” act is back with another efficiently titled project, an EP called psep. Will Schwester continues to handle mostly everything where Plague Skater is concerned;...

Do you ever find yourself watching a band and thinking about your own level of coolness vis-à-vis that band? That used to happen to me pretty often when I was a kid — when I had a soft, lumpy, unformed notion of what “cool” was. It doesn’t really happen to me anymore. I’ve been around too much, and I’ve known too many people in bands. I’ve mostly stopped caring about my own coolness, and I’ve realized that most people in bands are big fucking dorks. But one night in Richmond last month, the old feeling came back. Spiritual Cramp were onstage, and I was thinking, “Damn, I should really try to be cool like these guys.”