Tops

Today’s NYC-area shows include Rolling Loud day 3, Mannequin Pussy, City Morgue, TOPS, Magnetic Fields, Sister Nancy, MIKE, and more

This week’s playlist includes new music by Every Time I Die, HEALTH & Poppy, Bonobo ft. Jamila Woods, Animal Collective, Parquet Courts, and more

Plus: Gang of Four (with David Pajo on guitar), Ride ‘Nowhere’ shows, Dave, Chain Fest, Big Thief, CHAI, Tig Notaro, and more tour and festival news.

Listen to new songs by TOPS, Tokyo Police Club, No Bragging Rights, Jaga Jazzist, Deaf Club, Jlin, Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT, Aeon Station (Wrens), and more.

Montreal’s TOPS are back with new single “Party Again,“ a wistful midtempo jam about our shared pandemic lockdown year, which comes with an announcement of rescheduled tour dates.

The Barcelona festival has two different weekends (one that the organizers say ”we owe you” and one that ”we owe ourselves”), and there are also weekday shows and a Sunday brunch on the beach…

Major Murphy will release their second album, ‘Access,‘ on April 2.

Talk Show Host, American Television, Mercy Music, LOVEBREAKERS, Catholic Guilt, Answering Machine, and In Parallel told us about their favorite music of the year.

‘Save Stereogum: An ’00s Covers Comp‘ also features Waxahatchee, Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, Ty Segall, Mac DeMarco, Car Seat Headrest, El-P, Dirty Projectors, Anna Calvi, Hamilton Leithauser and more.

Sacred Bones, Thrill Jockey, Sad13, Wicca Phase, RVNG, Father/Daughter, Get Better, Brutal Panda, Cascine & more are donating to bail funds, legal defense funds, and other similar causes.