Lloyd Cole

This week's playlist includes new music by Janelle Monae, Youth Lagoon, Jorja Smith, Record Setter, Overmono, Hot Mulligan, Queens of the Stone Age, Killer Mike, and more.

‘On Pain‘ is Cole's 12th solo album and features his former Commotions bandmates Blair Cowan and Neil Clark. It's out June 23.

Read tributes to Mark from Sleaford Mods, Adrian Sherwood, Mute Records' Daniel Miller, Irvine Welsh, and more.

Featuring The White Stripes, The Stranglers, Fountains of Wayne, Cat Power, The Divine Comedy, Everything But the Girl, Elvis Costello and more.

You can also read tributes from Lloyd Cole, Real Estate, The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs, Robyn Hitchcock, Primal Scream, Nada Surf's Matthew Caws, AC Newman, Marc Maron, and more.

Ivy‘s whole catalogue is getting reissued by Bar-None, starting with their 1997 second album, ’Apartment Life,’ which features appearances from James Iha, Lloyd Cole and Dean Wareham.

Listen to new music by Lies, Weird Nightmare (Alex of METZ), Jane Remover, Jenny Hval, Christian Lee Hutson, Tancred, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Röyksopp, Lowly, and more.

Read tributes to Levene from Jah Wobble, Thurston Moore, Andy Bell, Anton Newcombe, Adrian Sherwood and more.

Drummer Anton Fier also played with Swans, Bob Mould, Lloyd Cole, Yoko Ono, Pere Ubu, Bill Laswell, John Zorn, Paul Haig, Arto Lindsay, and more. He was 66.

Plus: Stars, Dijon, Saba, Dry Cleaning, Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, and more tour and festival news.