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PinkPantheress proudly keeps her songs short. One benefit of that is that when she performed her new NPR Tiny Desk concert that was shared today (September 5), she was able to pack a lot of different ones, eight of them, into her setlist.

Given the often-electronic nature of her music, PinkPantheress‘ Tiny Desk show had a different, more organic sound. She was joined by a backing band that had people playing guitar, keys, harmonica, and more.

In a recent interview, she spoke about her mindset behind performing live, saying:

“I’ve had to basically go against my nature and just jump into things that I know I need to work on. For me it’s more of a confidence thing — like when [her first performance at England’s massive Glastonbury festival] was coming up, my fear was, ‘Well, I can’t do this to a high enough standard, so should I just not do it?’ But it’s gotten better as time has gone on, and I was shocked watching the video back from Glastonbury and realizing how confident I looked, and how nice I looked. I didn’t know if I was gonna be able to get over my fear, and I’m pleased that I did.”

Watch the performance above and check out the setlist below.

PinkPantheress’ NPR Tiny Desk Setlist

1. “Attracted To You”
2. “Pain”
3. “Break It Off”
4. “Illegal”
5. “Girl Like Me”
6. “The Aisle”
7. “Passion”
8. “Tonight”

In 2023, there were rumors that Paramore was breaking up. That stemmed from Uproxx’s cover story on the band, which wrapped by saying that “a chapter of the band’s career has come to a close,” adding, “As for the future of Paramore, all three members agreed that there’s a level of uncertainty.” However, the piece went on to dispel the idea that the group is going anywhere.

Now, the rumor mill has once again fired up. As NME previously noted, Williams’ new solo album, Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party, had fans thinking that the lyrics addressed a break-up with Paramore guitarist Taylor York and the dissolution of the band.

Williams has gone ahead and addressed the situation directly.

In a new interview with The Face, Williams confirmed the band is on a break, but not broken up. She said:

“Do we ever know where we’re at?! [laughs] We always take huge breaks. In order for us to metabolize sh*t that we go through as people, it takes the amount of time it takes between albums. […] There are no better musicians in the world than Zac [Farro] and Taylor. There are no better performers than [the touring musicians affectionately known as the] Parafour. It’s just magic, man. I feel such a vindication in knowing that nobody can discount Paramore. But it’s also really important for me to strengthen other muscles and these parts of myself that I deflated because I was scared that people were going to notice me too much.”

Read the full feature here.

Steven and Ian begin with a cute story about Michael Stipe logging into Bluesky and clarifying commonly misstated lyrics for R.E.M.’s “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine),” the latest stop on the band’s world-class old-guy retirement. They also talk about news that Radiohead is going back on the road for the first time in seven years.

Steven also does a quick Sportscast on the Packers acquiring Micah Parsons, and what this means for the team’s Super Bowl chances. From there, they do an update on the Fantasy Albums Draft, which looks very close. Then they review the new Big Thief album, and discuss where one of the most acclaimed indie bands of recent years stands now. After that, they do a “yay or nay” segment on Slipknot.

In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks about post-hardcore band La Dispute and Steven goes for ’90s-style country singer Zach Top.

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 254 here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.

The NFL has tapped Shaboozey for the 2025-26 Thursday Night Football theme song. The country star’s new song, “Let ‘Em Know,” will soundtrack Thursday night football’s pre-show and marketing materials. You can get a preview above in the commercial for this week’s matchup between the Green Bay Packers and Washington Commanders. In it, Shaboozey performs for a backyard watch party that I’m sure anyone would wish they could attend.

The partnership is just the latest big achievement for Shaboozey, whose 2025 has been jam-packed with career milestones that would be impressive for any artist, but especially one who is basically still at the beginning of his career. He’s joined Spotify’s uber-exclusive Billions Club of artists whose songs have reached 1,000,000,000 streams with “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” He’s been embraced by the country music establishment, from playing at Stagecoach to presenting at the AMAs. And he’s kicking off his tour, The Great American Roadshow, in just a few weeks. Not a bad start for a guy whose name people couldn’t pronounce just a few short years ago (his stage name, Shaboozey, is a simplified phonetic respelling of his real last name, Chibueze).

Meanwhile, the NFL continues to push to make inroads with a broader cultural base; earlier this week, the league also appointed Saweetie the music curator for Monday Night Football. As for Thursday Night Football, you can catch it on Prime at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT.

MJ Lenderman lives in two worlds. In one, he’s part of the excellent indie group Wednesday. In another, he’s a critically revered solo artist, sometimes also performing with a band as MJ Lenderman & The Wind. Currently, the focus is on the latter endeavor, as MJ Lenderman & The Wind just announced Live At Brooklyn Steel, a concert film, today (September 4).

Not only did they announce it, but they shared the whole thing, all 105 minutes, for free on YouTube.

The film captures the band’s 2025 performance at the iconic Brooklyn Steel venue, shortly after the release of Lenderman’s beloved album Manning Fireworks.

Watch Live At Brooklyn Steel above and check out the setlist below. Also find the band’s upcoming tour dates below.

MJ Lenderman & The Wind’s Live At Brooklyn Steel Setlist

1. “Ghost Of Your Guitar Solo”
2. “Joker Lips”
3. “Wristwatch”
4. “She’s Leaving You”
5. “Toontown”
6. “Six Flags”
7. “Uncle Disney” (Patterson Hood cover)
8. “TLC Cage Match”
9. “Basketball #2”
10. “You Have Bought Yourself A Boat”
11. “Rip Torn”
12. “Manning Fireworks”
13. “SUV”
14. “37 Push Ups” (Smog cover)
15. “You Don’t Know The Shape I’m In”
16. “Bark At The Moon”
17. “No Mercy”
18. “Rudolph”
19. “On My Knees”
20. “Knockin”

MJ Lenderman & The Wind’s 2025 & 2026 Tour Dates

09/05/2025 — Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom %
09/06/2025 — Fort Worth, TX @ Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall %
09/08/2025 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren %
09/09/2025 — San Diego, CA @ Humphrey’s Concerts By The Bay %
09/11/2025 — Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Expo Hall $
09/12/2025 — Oakland CA @ Fox Theater %
09/13/2025 — Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery %
09/15/2025 — Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall %
09/16/2025 — Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall %
09/18/2025 — Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre %
09/19/2025 — Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom %
10/03/2025 — Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music Festival
10/09/2025 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
10/10/2025 — Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music Festival
10/12/2025 — Florence, AL @ ShoalsFest
10/14/2025 — Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium ^
10/15/2025 — Asheville, NC @ Asheville Yards ^
10/16/2025 — Brooklyn, NY @ King’s Theatre (Gather No Moss) #
01/15-19/2025 — Quintana Roo, MX @ Sky Blue Sky Festival

% with Nap Eyes
$ with Cass McCombs and Nap Eyes
^ with David Nance & Mowed Sound
# with Hovvdy

All signs have indicated that a new Tame Impala album is on the way. Kevin Parker released a new song, “End Of Summer,” in July, then he followed it yesterday (September 3) with “Loser.”

Well, it’s happening: Today, Tame Impala announced Deadbeat, a new album set for release on October 17.

A press release notes that on the album, Parker “sculpts a collection of wickedly potent club-psych explorations as a vehicle for some of his most direct, brain-wormy songwriting to date,” and that the project is “deeply inspired by bush doof culture and the Western Australia rave scene, recasting Tame Impala as a kind of future primitive rave act in the process.”

It goes on to reveal that the project was worked on “over the last few years” and primarily put together “between Parker’s hometown of Fremantle and his studio, Wave House in Injidup, Western Australia in the first half of 2025.” As far as lyrical themes, the project sees Parker “channelling an endless bummer, a self-deprecating f*ck-up stuck in a negative feedback loop when he should have long had his sh*t together,” and that it “pitches raving as self-enquiry, self-medication in lieu of self-care and the kick-on as domestic bliss.”

Check out the Deadbeat cover art below.

Tame Impala’s Deadbeat Album Cover Artwork

Deadbeat is out 10/17 via Columbia Records. Find more information here.

Sword II — the Atlanta trio of Mari González, Certain Zuko, and Travis Arnold — unveiled their debut album, Spirit World Tour, in 2023, and now they’re ready for more. Today (September 5), the band announced a new album, Electric Hour. They’ve also unveiled the shoegaze-leaning single “Even If It’s Just A Dream.”

In a statement, the band says of the album:

“The title was inspired by the idea that we are in the era of surveillance technology, but also we imagined ‘electric hour’ as something powerful, a time for creativity, potency and revolution — ‘the time is now’ type situation. We imagined the ‘hour’ as the time a band gets to be on stage — one hour to make your point to the audience, to make sense of the situation facing humanity. One hour to bring into the physical world the music that resonates with people facing repression, increasing alienation, and violence. Basically, one shot to make the revolution. It’s very daunting because you only get one life, one hour. But our limitation is what shows us what is important, what is worthy of our time in this life.”

Watch the “Even If It’s Just A Dream” video above. Below, find the Electric Hour cover art and tracklist, along with Sword II’s upcoming tour dates.

Sword II’s Electric Hour Album Cover Artwork

Sword II’s Electric Hour Tracklist

1. “Disconnection”
2. “Sentry”
3. “Under The Scar”
4. “Sugarcane”
5. “Gun You Hold”
6. “Passionate Nun”
7. “Halogen”
8. “Violence Of The Star”
9. “Who’s Giving You Love”
10. “Even If It’s Just A Dream”

Sword II’s 2025 Tour Dates

10/14 — Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre *
10/15 — Birmingham, AL @ Saturn *
10/16 — Gainesville, FL @ The Wooly *
11/03 — Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room ^
11/04 — Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room ^
11/05 — San Luis Obispo, CA @ Libertine ^
11/06 — San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop ^
11/08 — Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre ^
11/09 — Seattle, WA @ Neumos ^

* supporting Julie
^ supporting Feeble Little Horse

Electric Hour is out 11/14 via Section1. Find more information here.

It still doesn’t seem possible: Nine Inch Nails are doing the music for a Disney movie.

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have provided the score for an animated film under the Disney umbrella before (Pixar’s quietly excellent Soul), but not as Nine Inch Nails, the industrial rock heavyweights who gave us “I want to f*ck you like an animal” and “God is dead, and no one cares.” The branding matters; “Featuring music from Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo” doesn’t carry the same weight as “featuring music from Daft Punk.”

Speaking of, Nine Inch Nails followed in the neon-lit footsteps of synth pioneer Wendy Carlos (1982’s Tron) and Daft Punk (2010’s Tron: Legacy) by creating over 70 minutes of new music for a new Tron movie, Tron: Ares.

The first taste of the soundtrack was “As Alive As You Need Me To Be,” and if there was concern that NIN was going to smooth out their seductive nihilism for Disney, it vanished the second the menacing-sounding synths kicked in. This thing sounds massive and — an even greater compliment — right at home between the unlikely strip club anthem “Closer” and the startling “Came Back Haunted.” That’s where Nine Inch Nails placed “As Alive As You Need Me To Be” during the Brooklyn stop of the Peel It Back Tour this week.

This was the closest Trent and Atticus came to representing their cinematic side gig during the brilliant concert — at least officially. The immersive Peel It Back Tour is a triumph of sound, obviously, but also sight. It could have been a movie, and Nine Inch Nails were the stars.

The briskly paced 20-songs-in-100 minutes set was divided between two stages: an intimate B-stage in the middle of the crowd where Trent kicked things off with a solo performance of “Right Where It Belongs” before the rest of the band joined him one by one, Stop Making Sense-style; and the main stage, which was adorned with an illuminated translucent fabric that made the concert look like it was projected on a movie theater screen.

A hard-working videographer running around the stage with a handheld camera to catch the band at their most picturesque angles added to the effect. So did Trent, as physically imposing as ever even at 60 years old, being surrounded by projections of himself. You better believe the lights were a glow of blood-red, like the dominant color palette in Tron: Ares.

Nine Inch Nails never officially took an encore; The final section of the show flowed freely from a timely cover of David Bowie’s “I’m Afraid Of Americans” to a pumped-up “The Hand That Feeds” to the cathartically loud “Head Like A Hole” to the heartwrenching closer “Hurt.”

After Trent vowed to find a way, a curtain bearing the Nine Inch Nails logo descended from above and covered the stage, signaling it was time to go. But there was one song left: Angelo Badalamenti’s “Laura Palmer’s Theme” from Twin Peaks, one of the most gorgeous pieces of music ever recorded, played over the speakers. It served as THE Nine Inch Nails‘ outro music, and a reminder that in 30 years, another arena band might bid farewell with a NIN or Trent & Atticus composition — possibly even something from Tron: Ares.

Before taking off on his 3LWorld Tour this winter, Earl Sweatshirt is making sure there’s plenty of promo for his newly released album, Live, Laugh, Love. After dropping off the video for “Crisco” last week, he follows up today with the clip for “Exhaust.”

In typical Earl fashion, the video bucks tradition by shooting everything out-of-focus, allowing the listener to (ahem) focus on the words and music rather than the visuals. The hazy effect does complement Earl’s blunted, stream-of-consciousness observational style really well, though.

You can listen to Earl Sweatshirt’s “Exhaust” video above, and the dates for his tour below.

Earl Sweatshirt Tour Dates 2025-2026

10/31 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks (w/ Denzel Curry & Freddie Gibbs)
11/05 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex – Rockwell
11/07 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
11/08 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst
11/09 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace Of Spades
11/11 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
11/13 – Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
11/14 – San Diego, CA @ SOMA
11/16 – Los Angeles, CA @ Camp Flog Gnaw
11/19 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Midtown
11/20 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
11/21 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
11/23 – New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues
11/25 – Miami FL @ Miami Beach Bandshell
11/26 – Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Live
11/28 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade – Heaven
11/29 – Washington, DC @ The Fillmore Silver Spring
12/02 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
12/03 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
12/04 – New Haven, CT @ Toads Place
12/06 – Montreal, QC @ Beanfield Theatre
120/8 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
12/10 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
12/11 – Chicago, IL @ Ramova Theatre
12/12 – Minneapolis, MN @ Uptown Theater
12/15 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
12/16 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox SoDo
01/20 – Helsinki, Finland @ Ääniwalli
01/22 – Oslo, Norway @ Rockefeller
01/23 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Slaktkyrkan
01/24 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Amager Bio
01/26 – Hamburg, Germany @ Uebel & Gefahrlich
01/27 – Berlin, Germany @ Metropol
01/29 – Prague, Czech Republic @ ROXY
01/31 – Vienna, Austria @ Flex
02/02 – Rome, Italy @ Hacienda
02/03 – Milan, Italy @ Farbique
02/04 – Munich, Germany @ Backstage Werk
02/06 – Zurich, Switzerland @ Rote Fabrik
02/07 – Frankfurt, Germany @ Batschkapp
02/08 – Cologne, Germany @ Essigfabrik
02/10 – Utrecht, Netherlands @ TivoliVredenburg
02/12 – Antwerp, Belgium @ De Roma
02/13 – London, UK @ Exhibition
02/14 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
02/15 – Dublin, Ireland @ The Academy
02/17 – Paris, France @ Trabendo
02/19 – Barcelona, Spain @ Sala Apolo
02/20 – Lisbon, Portugal @ Lisboa ao Vivo

Live, Laugh, Love is out now via Tan Cressida and Warner Records. You can find more info here.

Animal Collective were indie kings in the 2000s and among their most revered works from the era is the 2005 album Feels. That project has been around for two decades now and the band is celebrating with some tantalizing new releases.

One is Feels 20th Anniversary, which features the original album along with a bonus disc of nine B-sides and previously unreleased demos. Among them is a demo of “Grass,” which the band has shared today (September 4). The other is FEELSLive 04/05, which was recorded live to MiniDisc in 2004 and 2005.

Feels 20th Anniversary is available on 3LP, 2CD, and digital, while FEELSLive 04/05 will be on cassette, MiniDisc, and digital. The digital releases for both are set for October 17.

Listen to “Grass (Demo)” above. Below, find the cover art and tracklists for Feels 20th Anniversary and FEELSLive 04/05.

Animal Collective’s Feels 20th Anniversary Album Cover Artwork

Animal Collective’s Feels 20th Anniversary Tracklist

Disc 1
1. “Did You See The Words”
2. “Grass”
3. “Flesh Canoe”
4. “The Purple Bottle”
5. “Bees”
6. “Banshee Beat”
7. “Daffy Duck”
8. “Loch Raven”
9. “Turn Into Something”

Disc 2 (B-sides & demos)
1. “Must Be Treeman”
2. “Fickle Cycle”
3. “People”
4. “Tikwid”
5. “My Favorite Colors”
6. “Banshee Beat (demo)”
7. “Bees (demo)”
8. “Grass (demo)”
9. “Tikwid (demo)”

Animal Collective’s FEELSLive 04/05 Album Cover Artwork

Animal Collective’s FEELSLive 04/05 Tracklist

1. “Wastered (Live Bowery Ballroom 8/15/04)”
2. “Loch Raven (Live Haverford College 4/23/05)”
3. “Did You See The Words Edit (Live Haverford College 4/23/05)”
4. “Fickle Cycle (Live Ottobar 11/19/04)”
5. “Grass (Live Ottobar 11/19/04)”
6. “Daffy Duck (Live Ottobar 11/19/04)”
7. “Turn Into Something (Live Coltrane 4/22/05)”
8. “Sponge Luke (Live Bowery Ballroom 8/15/04)”*

* bonus track on physical formats only

Feels 20th Anniversary is out 10/17 via Domino. Find more information here.

FEELSLive 04/05 is out 10/17 via Domino. Find more information here.