Stereogum — Post Malone performed a special set of covers for the second night of Stagecoach 2024, the country music fest that takes place the weekend after Coachella on the same Empire Polo Club grounds. Prior to the show, Post Malone gave out a phone number where one could text their requests as to what he covered. more info

Stereogum — Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, breaking streaming and vinyl sale records. As Billboard reports, the album — which was quickly expanded into a 31-song deluxe edition just hours after its initial release — notched 2.61 million equivalent album units in the US, with traditional album sales making up 1.914 million. Those sales were a mix of digital downloads, CDs, vinyl, and cassettes — the album had more than 20 different versions available. more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — A Miranda Lambert and Reba McEntire moment, Post Malone's all-star set and a strange Guy Fieri cooking demo catch our fancy at Stagecoach. more info

Stereogum — Vampire Weekend performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday, and they broke out two covers they’ve never done before. First they did a bit of Bruce Springsteen’s The River song “Hungry Heart” after an audience member requested a Springsteen song for their birthday. Later on in the set, they covered Bob Dylan’s “When He Returns,” the closing track from Slow Train Coming. more info

Consequence Of Sound — The King Crimson guitarist and new wave singer put their spin on the coming-of-age punk anthem. Robert Fripp and Toyah Serve Up “Elderly Edition” of blink-182’s “Dammit”: Watch Spencer Kaufman more info

Metalsucks — It's not called Black Midsummer, after all. The post Tony Martin and Tony Iommi Explain Why Black Sabbath Album ‘Tyr’ Was So Different appeared first on MetalSucks. more info

Metal Injection — "We just called our Kiss cover band 'Kiss'. We didn't really think ahead there." more info

Metal Injection — Possibly their best, they said. more info