Jane Penny of TOPS released her debut solo album Surfacing back in April, and she’s already rolling out new material in her live sets. Saturday night at Joe’s Pub in NYC, Penny performed two new songs. They kept up the retro post-chillwave pop vibes we’ve come to expect from Penny’s catalog, and I’m looking forward to hearing the studio versions, when...

Charli XCX’s Boiler Room set back in March featured an A. G. Cook edit of “Everything Is Romantic,” a new song from the suddenly imminent new album Brat. Saturday at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Charli gave the standard version of the track its live debut. “This is a new song from my new album,” Charli announced from the stage. “The best album of the...

Major League Soccer’s Nashville SC (that’s Soccer Club for short) kicked off Pride Month last night with a performance from local celebrity Julien Baker. As part of the festivities, the boygenius member delivered the ball to the field, retrieving it from a box she carried and placing it upon a pedestal. Baker then proceeded to show off her mad guitar...

When Steve Albini died last month, PJ Harvey, who recorded her 1993 classic Rid Of Me with Albini, contributed to a Guardian feature memorializing the legendary studio engineer. She also tweeted this message:

The start of Pride Month occasioned an intense exchange at the Weekends With Adele residency show Saturday night at Caesars Palace. While Adele was sitting at a piano bench monologuing between songs, someone in the crowd shouted, “Pride sucks!” Adele responded immediately and forcefully to the heckler: “What was that? Did you just say Pride sucks? Did...

Last month, Zach Bryan released “Pink Skies,” which earned a spot on our 5 Best Songs Of The Week list. Last night at the Oakland Coliseum, the country musician gave a live debut to that tune.