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Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels, but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can come in the form of rock music, pop, or folk. In a sense, it says as much about the people that are drawn to it as it does about the people that make it.

Every week, Uproxx is rounding up the best new indie music from the past seven days. This week, we got new music from Why Bonnie, Enumclaw, Kim Gordon, and more.

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Enumclaw – Home In Another Life

The best band since Oasis has returned, and, despite recent headlines, I’m not talking about Oasis. This distinction belongs to Enumclaw, the Tacoma, Washington four-piece whose strain of scuzzy, fuzzy indie rock landed them an album on Run For Cover. Home In Another Life, their second record, elevates the ’90s alt-rock stylings of 2022’s Save The Baby to soaring new heights with some of the sickest riffs you’ll hear all year.

Kim Deal – “Crystal Breath”

Kim Deal is one of the most influential figures in the wide, nebulous world of alternative rock. As a pivotal component of bands such as the Pixies and the Breeders, Deal’s work has always felt essential. She flaunts a songwriting style that proves catchy hooks and memorable choruses will always stand the test of time, if tunes like “Gigantic” and “Cannonball” are any indicators. As a cited inspiration for everyone from Kurt Cobain to Olivia Rodrigo, Deal has maintained relevance from the late ’80s to the present day. So it comes as a surprise that she is just now putting out her debut solo album, Nobody Loves You More. “Crystal Breath,” its lead single, shows how Deal has adapted her sound over the years: Guitar stabs and rumbling bass coexist with a filtered dance beat and choral vocal harmonies. She always keeps us on our toes; she’s the real deal.

Why Bonnie – Wish On The Bone

As Why Bonnie, songwriter Blair Howerton pens tender, heartbreaking paeans to lost youth and gained wisdom. Wish On The Bone, the follow-up to 2022’s 90 In November, takes the scaled-back ruminations of its predecessor and grants them a wider space, replete with wiry electric guitars, upfront drums, and even fiddles. On Why Bonnie’s new record, Howerton’s songs feel intimate and grand all at once.

Caribou – “Come Find Me”

After putting out an album as Daphni and doing some pop-up DJ sets in various US cities, Dan Snaith has resuscitated the Caribou name for a brand-new full-length, Honey. This marks Caribou’s sixth studio album, and, judging from the slate of singles Snaith has shared thus far, it’s gonna be great. “Come Find Me,” the latest preview, is built on aggressively side-chained synths that eventually yield to a thumping, four-on-the-floor dance beat. It’s French touch for the modern age, and a Canadian is leading the charge.

Blackstarkids – “Soulmatez!”

Blackstarkids have kept nostalgia from getting stale. Even amid the over-saturation of artists, festivals, and cultural trends that have revived the most garish parts of the 2000s, the Kansas City trio’s take on the Y2K blueprint has been exciting and fresh, rather than a lazy simulacrum of its most obvious signifiers. “Soulmatez!,” the lead single of their sixth and last studio album before a long hiatus, is tongue-in-cheek, relentlessly catchy, and sugar-coated without feeling saccharine. Consider it a reminder that pop music is often best when it’s a lot of damn fun.

Kim Gordon and Model Home – “Razzamatazz”

Kim Gordon is on a roll. Following her incredible new solo album, The Collective, and a one-off single in the form of “ECRP” is a collaboration with DC experimental duo Model Home. More toned down than the rowdy, rattling beats on The Collective, “Razzamatazz” demonstrates the Sonic Youth co-founder’s ability to dial things down while maintaining an aura of intense, eerie dread.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – “Grey Rubble – Green Shoots”

Post-rock legends Godspeed You! Black Emperor are back with a new album this fall. No Title As Of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead, their first LP since 2021, refers to Gaza Health Ministry’s death toll of Palestinians as reported on that date. Israel’s brutal genocide on Palestine is ongoing, and new figures report that Israel has now killed more than 40,000 Palestinians. “Grey Rubble – Green Shoots,” the lead single and finale of GY!BE’s forthcoming record, is a nearly seven-minute odyssey through droning guitars, powerful drums, and mournful strings.

deBasement – “Front Left Speaker”

Dance-punk has been resurfacing in the 2020s, but rarely has dance-punk actually, genuinely sounded punk. deBasement, the duo comprising Alli Logout of Special Interest and electronic producer Margo XS, are here to rectify that. As their new double single shows, the two artists unite their respective creative approaches for a heady, exhilarating take on underground rave. “Front Left Speaker,” with its Earth-shattering kick drums and Logout’s commanding delivery, is one of the most thrilling dance tracks released in recent memory.

Allegra Krieger – “Came”

In a little over a week, Allegra Krieger will release her stunning new album, Art Of The Unseen Infinity Machine. But just before it goes out into the world, Krieger has shared one last single from it. “Came,” as she puts it in a press release, navigates “depression and feeling stuck in destructive patterns.” But it’s just as much about breaking free of those patterns, too. Despite her lyrics about “the unraveling sense that you’re going nowhere,” Krieger sounds utterly transcendent.

Jamie xx – “Dafodil”

In Waves, the long-awaited sophomore album from producer Jamie xx, is out in a mere matter of weeks now. Strangely enough, that album might not exist without its latest single, “Dafodil.” As one of the first pieces of music Jamie wrote for the record, it’s the song that made him realize he was capable of making another LP. Featuring contributions from guests Panda Bear and Kelsey Lu, “Dafodil” establishes a calm, dreamy ambiance that juxtaposes the bass-heavy house beats we’ve heard previously from In Waves.

Cardi B recently shared maternity photos and an ultrasound of her unborn baby. The ultrasound sparked some funny names, while the maternity pics generated controversy.

Some people noticed that the photos, which were shot in a graffiti-covered alley, featured the word “pedophile” painted on a wall in the background. As HipHopDX notes, the Nicki Minaj fans interpreted this as a shot at Nicki, since her husband and brother have both been charged with sexual assault on a minor. Cardi insists it was simply an accident, though.

She wrote in a tweet, “First of all we literally picked a random street because paparazzi was hounding us everywhere.. this was supposed to be my original first picture and we had to edit the photos in minutes because the shoot got leaked. Didn’t even have time to go over every detail because people were busy trying to expose my pregnancy as ‘aha’ moment…Second I’m ALWAYS with the sh*ts but I’m not using MY MATERNITY shoot to be funny. Are you dumb??”

A user responded, “I hate that ya let people get away wit doing weird shi just because they claim they were ‘unaware’ like n**** you’re a whole celebrity with a team this is a bs ass excuse ngl.” Cardi replied, “A team?? Btch my makeup artist touched up the picture because we didn’t have time for all that, it says the date and time nobody was paying attention to the graffiti… second if I wanted to be petty I would’ve posted a lot of memes last week.. I KEEP TELLIN YALL TO LEAVE ME THE FUK ALONE !! If I’m saying I’m not on that time DONT MAKE ME GET ON THAT TIME. Unrist yourself!!”

More than a year before Nigel McGuinness would grace the stage at Wembley Stadium as an active wrestler, the seeds were planted for his eventual return to the ring.

In April 2023, as McGuinness and AEW CEO Tony Khan travelled on his plane to Long Island, New York, the duo prepared to make the pivotal announcement that All In would take place from Wembley Stadium for the first time later in the year. During that flight, McGuinness says “there was a bit of a discussion” that perhaps he could have his final match against Bryan Danielson that August.

“Then, obviously what happened with Bryan breaking his arm (at Forbidden Door) and not being able to wrestle because Lord knows he’s got 205 perfectly good bones in his body and he needs all 206. So, that wasn’t gonna happen last year,” McGuinness tells Uproxx Sports. “Once we realized that Bryan wasn’t an option (this year) because of him in the Owen and challenging for the title. That’s when I think the idea of doing a Casino Gauntlet match was broached. And after a little bit of thought and discussions back and forth, we decided to move forward in that direction. So I’m forever glad that I did.”

For McGuinness, a return to the ring is something he says he’s struggled with over the last 13 years. There have been both difficult moments and times where he’s been at great peace with the direction his life has taken.

“Be that as it may, there’s always that niggling sense of what could have been. It’s a strange realization when you discover that the only thing stopping you from wrestling was you,” McGuinness continues. “I remember thinking if I was going to wrestle again what promo I’d give and how I’d sort of explain it. One of the lines that came to me was ‘You can get told that your career meant nothing, eventually you start to believe it. Before too long, the voice telling you is your own. Then eventually, one day you realize that it was your voice all along. Nobody else gave a shit.’ To come out and have that moment (at All In) that I never could have dreamed about, certainly 18 months ago, it really was incredible.”

McGuinness never seriously entertained lacing his boots again until Khan mentioned Wembley. Conversations with guys like Christian and Adam Copeland helped him believe that a successful return to the ring was a real possibility. When it became clear that there was a genuine opportunity to wrestle, McGuinness says he didn’t feel like he needed to look like a bodybuilder, but maintained “you need to look like an athlete.”

At 48 years old, that wasn’t easy.

“Ever since (Khan) mentioned that was a possibility, I started getting back in the ring and training,” McGuinness says. “I had a few little bumps and bruises and niggling injuries and stuff that comes from being my age and trying to get back into something as physically demanding as professional wrestling.”

McGuinness calls his surprise appearance as part of the Casino Gauntlet at All In an “incredible moment” and it meant the world to him to wrestle at Wembley, where in 1992 he “had that epiphany that I was going to be a professional wrestler.”

“It’s one thing, certainly the year prior, to come back and announce the world record attendance. But to actually be in the ring. It was just a different feeling altogether. And that reaction was just something that I will take with me for the rest of my life,” McGuinness says. “It gave me an incredible sense of, I wouldn’t say closure because that makes it sound like the last thing for me. But it certainly has given me peace and a sense of surreal reality that this was able to happen. I had a lot of blessings in my life and a lot of obstacles as well. And to be as lucky as I was to have that opportunity – thanks to Tony Khan – it meant so much.”

McGuinness gets emotional talking about his journey back to the ring and the warm reception he received from the international audience at Wembley. He says it touched his heart hearing from friends and fans alike, and shared a specific story of someone dealing with a health issue who reached out to say his return gave a nice respite from all the struggles and grief in their life.

“It’s an absolute blessing to be able to have that effect on someone. And arguably that’s a good portion of what I wanted to do in terms of being a wrestler all along, was to prove that if you’ve got a dream and you never give up, that you can make it,” McGuinness continues.

Physically, McGuinness says he feels great. He’s continued training as if he’s wrestling tomorrow. He entered the Casino Gauntlet at All In with aspirations of having at least one more match, and that remains true.

“Bryan’s certainly head of line because of our history, there’s so much emotion tied up in a match with him,” McGuinness says. “Zack Sabre Jr. would be a dream match. Adam Copeland, he’s got another of those ‘broken bones.’ There are so many great talents, Lee Moriarty has been gracious enough to get in the ring with me before the shows at Collision, and that’s helped me a great deal.”

Interested in a select number of matches, McGuinness doesn’t want to get caught up wrestling every week again. He enjoys doing commentary with the option to get in the ring every now and again for a special occasion. If All In was the last time he wrestles, he’s also fully complacent if his final match came in front of 50,000 fans at Wembley Stadium.

Storyline or reality, McGuinness says the thing he really wanted was a final match with Danielson for his return to the ring. He has a good portion of envy for Danielson, to see the trajectories of their careers, and admits it was a mixed bag seeing the American Dragon win the AEW World Championship. But McGuinness looks forward to the day when Danielson drops the belt and rides off into the sunset as well.

“It’s going to come, someone is going to beat him for that title and he will go quietly into the night and we will never see crying Bryan again,” McGuiness says. “But I will forever make sure no one forgets him, because every week I’m going to bury him on commentary as if he was still wrestling.”

But what if that person to end Danielson’s full-time wrestling career is McGuiness himself?

“Oh, hey, what a story. What an end to a story that would be,” he continues. “That would be incredible. He’s too smart to ever get himself put in that position to where I could beat him for that title. So I don’t see it happening. But listen, I didn’t see myself walking out of Wembley Stadium and getting a bigger reaction than Bryan winning the title either. These things can happen.”

The season 2 finale of Euphoria, a.k.a. the most recent episode, aired in February 2022. Since then, much of the show’s cast has become big-deal movie stars, including Sydney Sweeney. She’s starred in romantic-comedy box office hit Anyone But You, indie horror Immaculate, and, uh, Madame Web, but don’t hold that against her. But despite her busy schedule, Sweeney is excited to return to Euphoria for season 3, and she’s ready for things to get “crazy.”

In an interview with People, Sweeney called her character Cassie “definitely one of the most special characters for me and I love my Euphoria family, so I look forward to it. I love crazy Cassie, so the crazier, the better for me.” As for season 3, the actress admitted that “honestly, I don’t know anything about it,” but she previously teased a time jump between seasons. “It’s going to be very, very wild,” she told Who What Wear. “I actually like it because there’s so much room for growth for both me as a person and also Cassie as a character.”

Everyone assumes the time jump will put the Euphoria cast in the future, but maybe they’ll travel to the past. It’s what another teen drama starring adults as high schoolers — Riverdale — would do. And did!

Euphoria is expected to return to HBO in 2025 with most of the cast returning, including Zendaya, Jacob Elordi, Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, Storm Reid, and Sweeney.

(Via People)

Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.

This week saw Big Sean, Becky G, and Halle drop new music. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.

For more music recommendations, check out our Listen To This section, as well as our Indie Mixtape and Pop Life newsletters.

Big Sean — “Who You Are (Superstar)”

After a slight delay, Big Sean’s Better Me Than You is finally out. He also delivered a fun video for album highlight “Who You Are (Superstar),” which features Mark Philips, Dylan Patel, Jazz Cartier, Aminé, and Taye Diggs.

Becky G — “Como Diablos”

Mexican-American favorite Becky G just announced a new album, Encuentros, and shared a taste of the project: “Como Diablos,” a pleading but strength-filled number.

Halle — “Because I Love You”

Halle followed this year’s “In Your Hands” with her second new song of 2024, “Because I Love You.” As for the video, Uproxx’s Aaron Williams notes, “Even if you think you know where the plot of this twisty thriller of a clip is going, you wouldn’t be able to guess the surreal snarl in the road ahead.”

Tommy Richman — “Thought You Were The One”

“Million Dollar Baby” is still one of the biggest songs in the country, but he’s got more in the chamber. On last week’s “Thought You Were The One,” Richman is similarly catchy, but with a smoother and slower sound this time around.

Chance The Rapper — “3333”

Chance fans are waiting for him do Star Line, his new album (or whatever it is). In the meantime, he unveiled “3333” last week, a reflective tune that references the amount of tickets he sold for one specific show that resulted in a near-empty venue.

ASAP Rocky — “Tailor Swif”

There’s new Taylor Swift this week! …Oh, sorry, I misread: ASAP Rocky has a new song called “Tailor Swif.” He went ahead and dropped this one after it leaked online, and no, it’s not actually a Swift tribute/diss.

Victoria Monét — “SOS (Sex On Sight)” Feat. Usher

Usher has had a massive 2024 so far and he kept it going last week by linking up with Victoria Monét. The result is “SOS (Sex On Sight),” an appropriately sultry and seductive tune.

Cordae — “Summer Drop” Feat. Anderson .Paak

Summer’s on its way out, but we won’t turn our nose up at Cordae and Anderson .Paak’s delightful new collaboration, “Summer Drop.” Credit where it’s due for J. Cole, too, as he produced the track.

Kehlani — “When He’s Not There” Feat. Lucky Daye

Kehlani had a tremendous surprise for fans earlier this month when they announced While We Wait 2. Well, there wasn’t much waiting involved, as the project is out now, and highlights include the slow-burning Lucky Daye collab “When He’s Not There.”

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — “Joy”

Uproxx’s Steven Hyden says of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ new album, “His records in the past 10 years have tended toward the morose (even for him) and orchestrated, a kind of grief-choked chamber music. It’s quality work, but Cave’s old rock ‘n’ roll swagger was missed. On Wild God, thankfully, he recovers some of that, though the more sobering perspective of his recent music remains.”

The first Severance season premiered in January 2022, and although multi-year gaps are nothing unusual in the streaming age, audiences have reasonably grown antsy for this Adam Scott series’ comeback over two years later. Presumably, the wait for more can partially be explained by the second season’s budget, which suggests an expansive season and reportedly runs $20 million per episode, so hopefully, that money will go toward providing satisfying answers about those who have been severed. To that end, multiple cliffhangers require resolution, so it’s understandable why a certain artist has been quizzing director Ben Stiller on Twitter/X.

The good news is Apple TV+ has a wealth of other stellar series to gobble up right now, and but the better news is that the Innies Who Became Outies will resume their onscreen stories on Jan. 17, 2025, so let’s talk about what we can expect, beginning with new Lumon Industries employees.

Cast

Let’s just say that the Lumon workforce appears to be expanding. Eight debuting cast members will include Gwendoline Christie, Alia Shawkat (who is absolutely everywhere these days, including on FX’s The Old Man), Bob Balaban, Merrit Wever, Robby Benson, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Stefano Carannante, and John Noble.

Do you want returning cast members? Naturally, Adam Scott is back, and he will be joined by Britt Lower, John Turturro, Zach Cherry, Dichen Lachman, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, and Michael Chernus. Unless Yul Vasquez appears as a clone (you never know with Lumon) or via flashback, we can count him out for the second season.

Plot

If it’s any consolation to those who have been waiting for more Severance, Adam Scott has also been eagerly awaiting the same. He also suggests that the wait will have been worth it because the second season scripts are “great,” and he “couldn’t wait to get there, and get the cameras rolling and film it.” Scott added that Ben Stiller has brought it with his casting “superpowers” for the second season: “Bob Balaban, Alia Shawkat, Gwendoline Christie, great. Robby Benson, incredible.” Additionally, “There’s a young woman, Sarah Bach, who’s coming in for season 2, that is a really exciting young actor.”

Ideally, the second season will pick up where the first one left off, so that we find out whether Innie Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), and Irving (John Turturro) will remember what happened to them in the Outie world. Helly had ended the season by telling a gala crowd how Innie life is not the work-paradise that it’s sold to be, and Mark had discovered that his “dead” wife (Dichen Lachman) was in fact alive and working inside Lumon as a wellness counselor. Ms. Casey, in turn, looked to be headed either to the break room or another ominous department, so it remains to be seen whether she’s still “at work.” Additionally, Irving had realized that his Outie was researching Lumon, and Dylan (Zach Cherry) had been unable to continue fending off Milchick (Tramell Tillman) from ending the Innies’ Outie adventure.

Then there’s the issue of romance between Innies Mark and Helly, which Adam Scott addressed to Variety as “a confusing cocktail of feeling.” Ben Stiller had more to offer on that note, which complicates his apparent desire to leave severance behind:

“There is this growing connection between Mark and Helly happening during the season, and then on the outside, Mark is trying to get over his wife’s death — and then we’re going to find out that his wife is still alive. To put him in this position where the Innie Mark, we’re starting to root for him and Helly, but now we also want to root for Outie Mark to find his wife. That’s an interesting juxtaposition and conflict we’ll explore in the second season.”

Will we see any more flashbacks from Yul Vasquez’s character? Although he was Mark’s “best friend,” we haven’t heard any clues from Apple TV+ or Stiller on whether Petey’s wisdom will figure into this second season.

Release Date

Nearly three years after the first season debuted, Severance will return on January 17, 2025 with 10 weekly episodes.

Trailer

A teaser has thus far unveiled Gwendoline Christie’s foreboding character telling Mark, Dylan, and Helly that they “should have left.”

Next up, here’s Mark carrying Lumon Industries-created balloons that resemble his paperweight before he is shown glitching and going on the run:

50 Cent and Eminem have been collaborators and friends for decades now, but 50 thinks his first encounter with Em left the Detroit rapper feeling a little uncertain for a moment.

At about 51 minutes into a new Million Dollaz Worth Of Game interview, 50 said:

“It was wild. It felt like… remember that show they had, Punk’d on MTV? I thought they had cameras and they was going to come out and say, ‘You’ve been punked.’ I was in California, he flew me to LA, right? I came out, I was so… bugged out from the experience that I came through the airport with the [bulletproof] vest and sh*t on. I’m lucky I took the shock plate out the front of the joint. […]

I get there, he like, ‘Yo!’ Hugs me, feel the vest and sh*t and was like [shocked expression]. [I said,] ‘Yo, this is going to be the biggest sh*t, right?’ He’s like, ‘Yo, so excited.’ It made me question whether what was happening was happening. […] It felt so good that it couldn’t be right.”

He added, “When I met him, the first night I met him, he had an event. The Marshall Mathers LP just came out, the first week, he sold 1.7 million records. And he was so excited about me that I’m looking like, ‘You serious?’”

One of the most talked-about titles at the 2024 Venice Film Festival is Queer, director Luca Guadagnino and writer Justin Kuritzkes’ follow-up to Challengers. The film stars Daniel Craig as an American ex-pat living in Mexico in the 1950s who, per the official synopsis, establishes an “intimate connection” with a young student, played by Drew Starkey.

Queer also stars singer Omar Apollo, who has a sex scene with Craig.

“Yeah, I had to get on the soup diet,’ he told Starkey in a conversation for Interview. “Luca did not tell me to lose weight, but when you’re about to have a sex scene with Daniel Craig, you’re like, ‘Oh, dude, I can’t be looking off.’ I was at 200 pounds, because I’m 6’5″. It’s around where I should be, honestly. But I got down to 181 when the movie came. I lost 20 pounds because I read in the script that my character had a flat brown stomach. I was like, ‘Damn, I’m actually not flat right now.’ I had to get it together, and I was on tour with SZA. Luckily, I didn’t have that many lines.”

The “Pedro” singer celebrated his birthday on set, which everyone involved everyone singing him “Happy Birthday” and doing shots. “I had a lot of good birthdays and a lot of bad birthdays, but that was my best birthday,” he said. “The most intense.”

A24 acquired the distribution rights for Queer in the United States, but there’s no release date yet.

Friday, September 6

• 40 Watt Sun — Little Weight (Fisher’s Folly)
• Ant — Collection of Sounds: Volume 1 (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
• Arrested Youth — Too Late to Start Over (Lowly)
• Bleachers — A Stranger Desired (Dirty Hit)
• blink-182 — One More Time… Part 2 (Viking Wizard Eyes)
• Boston Manor — Sundiver (SHARPTONE)
• Bremer/McCoy — Kosmos (Luaka Bop)
• Caleb Hearn — Left of McKinney (Nettwerk)
• Claude Fontaine — La Mer (Innovative Leisure)
• Conner Youngblood — Cascades, Cascading, Cascadingly (Missing Piece Records)
• The Crane Wives — Beyond Beyond Beyond (The Crane Wives)
• The Dare — What’s Wrong with New York? (Republic Records)
• David Gilmour — Luck and Strange (Sony Music Entertainment)
• David Luning — Lessons (David Michael Luning)
• Dummy — Free Energy (Trouble In Mind Records)
• Elephant Tree — Handful of Ten (Magnetic Eye Records)
• Eva Cassidy — Walkin’ After Midnight (Blix Street Records)
• Fat Dog — WOOF. (Domino)
• Fig Dish — Feels Like the Very First Two Times (Forge Again Records)
• Fcukers — Bagg$$ EP (Technicolour)
• Fred again.. — ten days (Fred Gibson)
• Future Palace — Distortion (Arising Empire)
• George Strait — Cowboys and Dreamers (UMG)
• Georgia Gets By — Split Lip EP (Fat Possum Records)
• God Is An Astronaut — Embers (Napalm Records)
• The Heavy Heavy — One of a Kind (ATO Records)
• Hinds — Viva Hinds (Lucky Number)
• JHAYCO — Le Clique: Vida Rockstar (X) (UMG)
• Jessie Murph — That Ain’t No Man That’s The Devil (Columbia Records)
• Jordan Rudess — Permission to Fly (InsideOutMusic)
• knitting — Some Kind of Heaven (Mint)
• La Doña — Los Altos de la Soledad (La Doña)
• Laura Jane Grace & the Mississippi Medicals — Give An Inch EP (Dial Back Sound)
• LL Cool J — The Force (Frequencies of Real Creative Energy) (LL Cool J)
• Lollise — I Hit the Water (Switch Hit Records)
• Luke Winslow-King — Flash-A-Magic (Bloodshot Records)
• Many Eyes — The Light Age (Perseverance Media Group)
• Masayoshi Fujita — Migratory (Erased Tapes)
• Max Richter — In a Landscape (Universal Music)
• Mercury Rev — Born Horses (Bella Union)
• MJ Lenderman — Manning Fireworks (Anti)
• Monolake — Studio (imbalance)
• Nala Sinephro — Endlessness (Warp Records)
• Neil Young — Archives Vol. III (The Other Shoe Productions)
• Niall Horan — The Show: Live On Tour (Neon Haze Music)
• Nicky Jam — Insomnio (Sony Music)
• Okay Kaya — Oh My God (ONErpm)
• Paris Hilton — Infinite Icon (11:11 Media)
• Rebounder — Sundress Songs EP (Rebounder)
• Rex Orange County — The Alexander Technique (Sony Music)
• RINI — Lucky 7 EP (Warner Records)
• Sarah Kinsley — Escaper (Verve)
• Shovels & Rope — Something Is Working Up Above My Head (Dualtone Music Group)
• slenderbodies — the sugar machine (slenderbodies)
• SUUNS — The Breaks (Joyful Noise Recordings)
• Tall Juan — Raccoon Nights (Tall Juan)
• Tamar Berk — Good Times for a Change (Tamar Berk)
• The The — Ensolument (Cineola Limited)
• Toro y Moi — Hole Erth (Dead Oceans)

Friday, September 13

• Albin Lee Meldau — Discomforts (Glassnote)
• Allysha Joy — The Making of Silk (First Word Records)
• Amy Grant and Vince Gill — When I Think of Christmas (UMG)
• Angie McMahon — Light Sides EP (AWAL)
• Ben Goldsmith — The Start of Something Beautiful (Sony Music)
• Bones UK — SOFT (Sumerian Records)
• Chance Peña — Ever-Shifting, Continual Blossoming (Chance Peña)
• Chilly Gonzales — GONZO (Gentle Threat)
• COIN — I’m Not Afraid of Music Anymore (10K Projects)
• Colin Stetson — The love it took to leave you (Colin Stetson)
• Crobot — Obsidian (Crobot)
• Cursive — Devourer (Run For Cover Records)
• Divine Sweater — A Time For Everything (Better Company Records)
• Emily Frembgen — No Had Feelings (Don Giovanni Records)
• Floating Points — Cascade (Ninja Tune)
• Fousheé — Pointy Heights (RCA)
• Foxing — Foxing (Grand Paradise/Miscellaneous Recordings)
• The Fretless — Glasswing (Birthday Cake Records)
• George Brown — Where I’m Coming From (BFD)
• Ginger Root — SHINBANGUMI (Ghostly International)
• Gurriers — Come And See (No Filter)
• Hayden James — We Could Be Love (Future Classic)
• Hello Mary — Emita Ox (Frenchkiss Records)
• Hulvey — CRY (Reach Records)
• The Jesus Lizard — Rack (Ipecac Recordings)
• Jade Hairpins — Get Me the Good Stuff (Merge Records)
• John Early — Now More Than Ever (Thirty Tigers)
• julie — my anti-aircraft friend (Atlantic)
• Kal Marks — Wasteland Baby (Exploding In Sound Records)
• keshi — Requiem (Island)
• ionnalee — close your eyes (to whom it may concern)
• Lady Blackbird — Slang Spirituals (BMG)
• Legions of Doom — The Skull 3 (Tee Pee Records)
• Lily Kershaw — Pain & More (Nettwerk)
• London Grammar — The Greatest Love (Sony Music)
• Lunar Vacation — Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire (Keeled Scales)
• M. Ward — For Beginners: The Best of M. Ward (Merge Records)
• Maddie & Tae — What A Woman Can Do EP (UMG)
• Make Friends — Loaded Fun EP (Ignition Records)
• Matilda Lyn — Sunwarmed EP (Giant Music)
• Max Jaffe — Reduction of Man (Whited Sepulchre Records)
• Miranda Lambert — Postcards from Texas (Vanner Records)
• My Brightest Diamond — Fight the Real Terror (Western Vinyl)
• The Mystery Lights — Purgatory (Wick Records)
• Nada Surf — Moon Mirror (New West Records)
• Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets — Indoor Safari (Yep Roc Records)
• Nilüfer Yanya — My Method Actor (Ninja Tune)
• Porches — SHIRT (Domino)
• Robert DeLong — PLAYLIST of DOOM (Round Hill Records)
• Sarah Davachi — The Head as Form’d in the Crier’s Choir (Late Music)
• Silent Theory — Tell Us How It Ends (Silent Generation)
• Snow Patrol — The Forest Is the Path (Universal)
• Snotty Nose Rez Kids — Red Future (Savage Mob Records)
• Spirit Mother — Trails (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• Suki Waterhouse — Memoir of a Sparklemuffin (Sub Pop)
• Surf Trash — The Only Place I Know (Surf Trash)
• Texas Hill — Soldiers (queue records)
• Tindersticks — Soft Tissue (Lucky Dog/City Slang)
• Tom Meighan — Roadrunner (Blue Rocket Records)
• Tony Levin — Bringing It Down to the Bass (Flatiron Recordings)
• Trentemøller — Dreamweaver (In My Room)
• TR/ST — Performance (Dais Records)
• Wendy Eisenberg — Viewfinder (American Dreams Records)
• Yon Loader — Yon Loader (Tiny Engines)

Friday, September 20

• Alaskan Tapes — Something Ephemeral (Nettwerk)
• Alex Henry Foster — A Measure Of Shape And Sounds (Hopeful Tragedy Records)
• Alunah — Fever Dream (Heavy Psych Sounds)
• Beautiful Junkyards — Nova (Ghost Box)
• The Black Pacific — Here Comes Our Wave (Dine Alone Music)
• Blossoms — Gary (ODD SK RECORDINGS)
• The Calamatix — The Calamatix (Hellcat)
• Chase Rice — Go Down Singin’ (Dack Janiels Records)
• Cher — Forever (Warner Records)
• Dave Guy — Ruby (Big Crown Records)
• Dolores Forever — It’s Nothing (Sweat Entertainment)
• Drake White — Low Country High Road (Reverend White)
• Ed Schrader’s Music Beat — Orchestra Hits (Upset The Rhythm)
• FIDLAR — Surviving the Dream (FIDLAR)
• Fight Dice — Total Party Kill (Fight Dice)
• Gregg Allman Band — Uncle Sam’s (Peach Records)
• Herb Alpert — 50 (Herb Alpert Presents)
• Hippo Campus — Flood (Psychic Hotline)
• Honeyglaze — Real Deal (Fat Possum Records)
• Ibukun Sunday — Harmony / Balance (Phantom Limb)
• Jake Bugg — A Modern Day Distraction (Sony Music)
• James Bay — Changes All the Time (Mercury Records)
• Jamie xx — In Waves (Young)
• Jaz Karis — Safe Flight (MNRK Records)
• JD Simo and Luther Dickinson — Do the Rump! (Forty Below Records)
• JJ Wilde — Vices (Black Box Recordings)
• Joan As Police Woman — Lemons, Limes and Orchids (Play It Again Sam)
• Johnny Foreigner — How To Be Hopeful (Alcopop)
• Julian Casablancas + The Voidz — Like All Before You (Cult Records)
• Kat Von D — My Side of the Mountain (Kat Von D)
• Kate Pierson — Radios and Rainbows (Songvest Records)
• LICE — Third Time at the Beach (AD 93)
• little bit — talk a blue streak EP (Hit the North Records)
• Lutalo — The Academy (Winspear)
• Katy J Pearson — Someday, Now (Heavenly Recordings)
• Katy Perry — 143 (Capitol Records)
• Keith Urban — HIGH (UMG)
• Louis the Child — The Sun Comes Up (Interscope Records)
• Luna Sol — Vita Mors (Ripple Music)
• Manu Chao — Viva Tu (Because Music)
• Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway — Into the Wild EP (Nonesuch)
• Mutant Academy — Keep Holly Alive (Equity Distribution)
• Nelly Furtado — 7 (Nelstar Entertainment Inc./21 Entertainment Group)
• Neon Trees — Sink Your Teeth (Round Hill Records)
• Nightwish — Yesterwynde (Nuclear Blast)
• Nonpareils — Rhetoric & Terror (Mute)
• Nubya Garcia — Odyssey (Concord Jazz)
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan — Chain of Light (Real World Records)
• Odetta Hartman — Restoration EP (Transgressive Records)
• Orion Sun — Orion (Mom+Pop)
• Or:la — Trusting Theta (fabric Originals)
• Oxlade — Oxlade From Africa (Epic Records)
• Pale Waves — Smitten (Dirty Hit)
• Pearl & The Oysters — Planet Pearl (Stones Throw Records)
• Photay — Windswept (Mexican Summer)
• Purple Disco Machine — Paradise (Sony Music Entertainment Germany)
• Regional Justice Center — Freedom, Sweet Freedom (Closed Casket Activities)
• Sammy Rae & The Friends — Something For Everybody (Nettwerk)
• Seether — The Surface Seems So Far (Fantasy Records)
• Smallpools — Ghost Town Road (Nettwerk)
• St. Lundi — The Island (Good Taste Recordings)
• St. South — Big Sads EP (Nettwerk)
• Sunset Rubdown — Always Happy to Explode (Pronounced Kroog)
• Tanukichan — Circles EP (Carpark Records)
• Tasha — All This and So Much More (Bayonet Records)
• Terry Gross — Huge Improvement (Thrill Jockey Records)
• Thurston Moore — Flow Critical Lucidity (Daydream Library Series)
• Tom Walker — I Am (Relentless Records)
• Unto Others — Never, Neverland (Century Media Records)
• The Waeve — City Lights (Transgressive)
• Wilderado — Talker (Bright Antenna Records)

Friday, September 27

• Alan Sparhawk — White Roses, My God (Sub Pop)
• BAYNK — SENESCENCE (BAYNK)
• Being Dead — EELS (Bayonet Records)
• Ben Böhmer — Bloom (Ninja Tune)
• Bill Frisell, Andrew Cyrille, and Kit Downes — Breaking the Shell (Red Hook Records)
• Billy Strings — Highway Prayers (Reprise Records)
• The Black Dahlia Murder — Servitude (Metal Blade Records)
• Blue Heron — Everything Fades (BLUES FUNERAL RECORDINGS)
• Christian Lee Hutson — Paradise Pop. 10 (Anti)
• The Coronas — Thoughts & Observations (So Far So Good)
• Creed Bratton — Tao Pop (OneRPM)
• Crows — Reason Enough (Bad Vibrations)
• Dar Disku — Dar Disku (Soundway Records)
• Daughtry — Shock to the System (Part One) EP (Dogtree Records)
• Dean Spunt — Basic Editions (Drag City)
• Desperate Journalist — No Hero (Desperate Journalist)
• D.R.U.G.S. — Until God Shows (Velocity Records)
• Dylan Marlowe — Mid-Twenties Crisis (Sony Music)
• Dylan Sinclair — For the Boy in Me (Five Stone Records)
• Ezra Collective — Dance, No One’s Watching (Partisan Records)
• fantasy of a broken heart — Feats of Engineering (Dots Per Inch Music)
• The Fray — The Fray Is Back EP (The Fray / Firebird)
• Gabe Goodman — The Rock (fullaway)
• Gallant — Zinc. (Mom+Pop)
• Gavin DeGraw — Chariot 20 (Sony Music)
• Gemma Hayes — Blind Faith (Gemma Hayes Music)
• Hayden Thorpe — Ness (Domino)
• High Parasite — Forever We Burn (Parasite Productions)
• JD McPherson — Nite Owls (New West Records)
• John Davis — JINX (Lost in Ohio)
• Kate Bollinger — Songs from a Thousand Frames of Mind (Ghostly International)
• Kit Sebastian — New Internationale (Brainfeeder)
• Leif Vollebekk — Revelation (Secret City Records)
• Liam Benzvi — …And His Splash Band (Fat Possum Records)
• Logan Crosby — 2019 (50 Egg Records)
• Luke Bryan — Mind Of A Country Boy (UMG)
• Matchess — Stena (Drag City)
• Matt Maeson — That’s My Cue: A Solo Experience (Atlantic)
• Maxïmo Park — Stream of Life ([PIAS])
• Merce Lemon — Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild (Darling Recordings)
• Michelle — Songs About You Specifically (Atlantic)
• Mickey Guyton — House on Fire (UMG)
• Mr. Gnome — A Sliver of Space (El Marko Records)
• Mustafa — Dunya (Arts & Crafts)
• Neva Dinova — Canary (Saddle Creek)
• Nina Nesbitt — Mountain Music (Apple Tree Records)
• October Drift — Blame the Young (Physical Education Recordings)
• Origami Angel — Feeling Not Found (Counter Intuitive Records)
• Richie Kotzen — Nomad (BMG)
• Sad Night Dynamite — Welcome the Night (AWAL)
• Schande — Once Around (Daydream Library Series)
• Serj Tankian — Foundations EP (Serj Tankian)
• Sunflower Bean — Shake EP (Lucky Number)
• Tropical Fuck Storm — Tropical Fuck Storm’s Inflatable Graveyard (Three Lobed Recordings)
• Trace Mountains — Into the Burning Blue (Lame-O Records)
• TSHA — Sad Girl (Ninja Tune)
• Tuelo — Regarding My Heart (Minah Management)
• Van Morrison — New Arrangements and Duets (Exile Productions)
• William Basinski — September 23rd (Temporary Residence)
• The Wolfgang Press — A 2nd Shape (Downwards)

On August 1, Britney Spears wrote on social media, “Excited to share with my fans that I’ve been working on a secret project with #MarcPlatt. He’s always made my favorite movies … stay tuned.”

Shortly after that, there were reports that a biopic of Spears’ memoir The Woman In Me was in motion. However, it looks like that’s not what Spears was talking about.

In a post shared on Instagram over the weekend, Spears explained, “The project I might be doing isn’t a biopic story … it’s a fictional musical where I play an extremely intelligent character [winking emoji] !!! It’s flattering to be in such good company like Jon Chu !!!”

Variety reported at the time that Wicked director Jon M. Chu and producer Marc Platt were attached to the biopic, and that Universal secured the film rights to the memoir “in a highly competitive auction.”

A publisher’s statement on the book reads, “In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice — her truth — was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman In Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey — and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love — and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.”