Stereogum — My Bloody Valentine’s live return is night. The elusive and beloved shoegaze overlords haven’t played together onstage since 2018. Last year, they announced plans to play Dublin’s 3Arena in November — a show that was more than a year out when they announced it. That one sold out quickly. Today, MBV have announced three more live shows, all in the UK. We have no idea whether those shows will be isolated incidents or whether they’re planning on finally releasing new music, but a My Bloody Valentine mini-tour still feels like news. Check the dates below. more info

Stereogum — Ryan H. Walsh, the person behind the long-running Boston band Hallelujah The Hills, is a writer as well as a musician. In 2018, for instance, Walsh published his book Astral Weeks: A Secret History Of 1968, and we published an excerpt back then. Walsh has written a couple of things specifically for Stereogum, too, including a 2016 deep-dive into the making of the Silver Jews’ classic The Natural Bridge. Back when the Silver Jews were still a semi-functional band, Hallelujah The Hills toured with them. Now, Hallelujah The Hills are announcing a massive new four-album project, and their new single features the Silver Jews’ Cassie Berman, David’s widow. She’s one of many guests who appears on the massive new undertaking DECK. more info

Stereogum — It has been five long years since the last Perfume Genius album. (This isn’t counting 2022’s Ugly Season, which collected work originally composed as accompaniment for Kate Wallich’s contemporary dance piece The Sun Still Burns Here.) To hear Mike Hadreas tell it, the half-decade gap makes a lot of sense. It wasn’t just extensive touring accompanying Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, an album that had built on breakthroughs and experiments to become Hadreas’ biggest, boldest, most varied work to that point. Amidst all that, he also battled a heavy depression during the pandemic, and the music that we now hear on Glory was wrangling not only with that specific trial but also the ways in which we dwell and contort and spiral over various existential quandaries as we age. more info

Stereogum — Canadian pop-punk heroes Sum 41 have been staging a long goodbye. Since announcing their disbandment in 2023, the band has released a farewell punk/metal double album called Heaven :x: Hell and embarked on a farewell tour, and they recently played a hometown farewell show in Toronto. Frontman Deryck Whibley also released a memoir. Sum 41 have one more performance lined up, an appearance at the Juno Awards this Sunday in honor of their looming May 15 induction to the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame. But first, they’re also sharing what are presumably their last recordings. more info

New York Post — Will Smith's new album, "Based on a True Story," is his first full-length solo music project in 20 years, following 2005’s “Lost and Found.” more info

Obscure Sound — R.M. Hendrix crafts a consuming atmospheric prowess throughout YUKS, whose production is often dark and unsettling — though beautifully so. These productions succeed from the more radiant art-pop yearnings of “What Do Boys Become?” to the trip-hop hypnotics within “A Heat Surrounds the Hive,” in addition to tracks that embrace steadily unraveling drones and inventive sample infusions. Icelandic producer Valgeir Sigurðsson co-produced four of the album tracks, and also handled mixing and mastering. “I wanted an album that was equally lyrical and instrumental, melodic and chaotic,” R.M. Hendrix explains. “The tracks progress through crumbling psychological landscapes.” YUKS thematically plays as The post R.M. Hendrix – ‘YUKS’ appeared first on Obscure Sound: Indie Music Blog. more info

Stereogum — Bachman-Turner Overdrive have not been taking care of business for decades, and they certainly haven’t been working overtime. That changes today with the release of “60 Years Ago,” the classic rockers’ first new song since 1996’s Trial By Fire: Greatest And Latest and first with Randy Bachman since 1984’s self-titled LP. more info

Magnet Magazine — Eric Hilton has always been obsessed with compilations. “You bought them to get turned on to new sounds,” he says. “Or you liked the artist compiling it.” Best known as the co-mastermind behind globally influential downtempo/trip-hop/ambient pioneer Thievery Corporation, Hilton is set to release Midnight Ragas via his Montserrat House label on June 20—a “compilation” […] The post MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Eric Hilton’s “Je Ne T’aime Plus” Feat. Natalia Clavier appeared first on Magnet Magazine. more info