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Italians Do It Better wish Madonna, who is returning to Warner Music after 10 years with Interscope, a happy 63rd and pay tribute with a new covers album.

Listen to new songs by Really From, Trippie Redd/Chino Moreno/Travis Barker, Valerie June, Kid Congo, Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, Club Intl (MGMT remix), Worn, Rise Against (HEALTH remix), Elcamino/Benny the Butcher, and more

This week in Bill’s Indie Basement: Chromatics’ stunning ‘Closer to Grey’; DIIV get heavy on ‘Deceiver’; Sloan revisit 1998’s ‘Navy Blues’ with a new box set; and Madchester icons Happy Mondays reissue their earliest EPs.

Will we ever get Dear Tommy? Who knows, but finding out doesn’t seem so crucial now.

“The project began as a sonic exploration of the sounds I was hearing in my nightmares,” Jewel says. “I wanted to find my way out of the maze by focusing on beauty over fear — like the way the fractured sunrise looks in a dream.”