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On Saturday, August 30, the inaugural edition of Olivia Rodrigo’s Lilith Fair-inspired music festival Daisy Chain Fields brought a boatload of generational female talent to Irvine, California. Rodrigo headlined the event and had plenty of surprises in store for the crowd, among them a performance of “Landslide” with Stevie Nicks. Watch it below. After Rodrigo and Nicks stand together, the “Gold Dust Woman” singer spoke of the duo’s similarities.

Young Thug has dropped the third installment of Slime Language—his Young Stoner Life label compilation series. Future, Veeze, and Travis Scott all appear on the project, which is split into two “sides,” each with their own cover art. Rounding out the guest list are Cash Cobain, Lil Babt, Tezzus, diamond*, Pz’, Sk8star, Yeat, and many more. Listen to Slime Language 3 and check out both covers below. The original Slime Language came out in 2018.

First but not necessarily foremost, fuck the Eagles. No other American act has been so responsible for the corrosive idea of rock bands as permanent brands, or as outlets for making so much money from selling so much stuff that they are simply too big to stop, no matter what senescence or death itself has to say about the subject. Summaries of their sins and absurdities have now filled several books, but a sampler is instructive.

By the time “I Will Always Love You” got passed down to my generation (Z), one of Dolly Parton’s most famous songs had evolved from a country radio hit to a chart-topping pop behemoth to a hubristic audition song that a parade of hopeful young women belted at Simon Cowell. One viral video of a 13-year-old contestant on The Voice Kids singing it has more views on YouTube than Dolly’s original has streams on Spotify.

As worthy as Dinosaur Jr.’s output has been since their mid-2000s reformation, the group’s work has been tinged with self-consciousness. Where their first three LPs hedged the band’s heroic chops behind ramshackle song structures and slovenly production, post-comeback albums like 2009’s Farm and 2012’s I Bet on Sky buttoned the flannel a bit, mirroring the cleaner, more streamlined sound of their ’90s output, which was mostly J Mascis’ work.

Mac DeMarco fans awoke to a surprise on Friday: four new albums from the singer-songwriter. Well, they’re sort of new—some fans have already heard Dog on the Rock, Seven Off the Two, Seaplane Dog, and The View From Tian Tian, after being handed copies of them on CD-Rs during DeMarco’s most recent tour. The releases, premiering on DSPs for the first time today, still maintain their scrappy origins, with each song named after a seemingly random set of numbers. Give them all a listen below.

The Edinburgh-born, London-based musician known as Venus Ex Machina presents herself as a storyteller, though the music she’s released to date has mostly been instrumental, drawing from dark ambient and post-industrial techno. Her stories take shape in harsh sound, offering dim-lit scenes of a post-apocalyptic world where the human voice is just another texture.

Ice Spice and Lil Yachty have a new song together, “Out My Face (My Baby).” Both the track and its accompanying video, directed by AMD and Yachty himself, are split into two halves. The clip’s first act stages Ice Spice in a variety of lightly surreal tableaus—a boardwalk face-in-the-hole board, surrounded by masks of her own face, momentarily pregnant. Then the beat switches and the video does too, to a diner scene where Karrahboo and Yachty’s fellow Concrete Boys members make brief cameos.

Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore have lined up their second collaborative album of the year: a score for Threshold, a documentary about Olympic cross-country skier Jessie Diggins made by the American directors Lars and Torsten Brinkema. With the announcement come three songs: “Cold Open,” “Sick and Tired,” and “Gallivare 10km.” Listen to them below ahead of the project’s release on November 20.

“Shane MacGowan was full of contradictions—and that’s where the truth of him lived,” writes the Edge in a statement introducing U2’s new cover of the Pogues’ “Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah.” The track is the latest offering from the upcoming tribute album 20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan, out November 13 via Rubyworks. The LP will also feature MacGowan covers by Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Primal Scream, Steve Earle, and Dropkick Murphys.