Each week, music journalists Courtney and Melissa sit down with a guest to discuss the one song they can never hear quite the same way again thanks to a past relationship. Big Joanie bass player Estella Adeyeri swings by Song My Ex Ruined to talk about how Mitski's 'Happy' was "almost" ruined by an ex but she refused to let it. Adeyeri says - "I just love the storyline that she sets in that song where it’s like, oh, like she didn’t hear them leave, and now’s, now I’ve got tidy up. It’s the come-down. It’s like, oh, this person’s here and stuff, and they made everything about them and not really considered my input, like my time. A few years later you’re like, 'Why was I so impressed about this man? Shouldn’t have been.'"

Oscar news! In the Best Original Song, the following are nominated. Rihanna was nominated for her 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' song “Lift Me Up,” Lady Gaga got a nomination for “Hold My Hand” in 'Top Gun: Maverick,' Sofia Carson is up for 'Applause' from 'Tell It Like a Woman', Son Lux’s song 'This Is a Life' featuring Mitski and David Byrne from 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' is also up for Oscar, as well as 'Naatu Naatu' from 'RRR' by Rahul Sipligunj, Kaala Bhairava, and M.M. Keeravani. In the Best Picture category, music-themed 'Elvis', and 'Tár' are nominated. Rolling Stone reports.

Mitski shares 'Heat Lightning' gentle yet haunting waltz; Bon Iver and Nicholas Britell share 'Second Nature' from the movie 'Don’t Look Up', Adam McKay’s new satire about three scientists trying to warn the world about an incoming comet; Zannie shares their first single ‘Mechanical Bull’, a beautiful piece of folk music.

Alewya shares a hard-hitting reggae song ‘Dragon’ of her new EP; Mitski goes cold & clubby on 'The Only Heartbreaker'; Nils Frame shares a beautiful lullaby ‘Late’; Robert Plant & Alison Krauss have a new album out, with the Calexico cover ‘Quattro (World Drifts In)’ serving as a lovely and warm opening to it.

'Working For the Knife' "arrives with the kind of energy that tosses you back in your scarlet theater seat and keeps you nervously eating popcorn, licking the salt the same way Mitski licks the staircase at 2:08 in the video" - Rolling Stone presents new song by the singer-songwriter. The video is "a strangely compelling short film starring a reluctant performer returning to the spotlight".

Burial shares a powerful statement with 'Dark Gethsemane'; it's just lovingly cozy with Kings of Convenience on 'Rocky Trail'; Mitski goes gothy and dark on 'The End'; Liars offer some syncopated punk-noise with 'Sekwar'; metallic-hardcore Englishmen Cruelty share mighty and ambient 'There Is No God Where I Am'.

1. Deafheaven: 'Ordinary Corrupt Human Love' 2. Sons Of Kemet: 'Your Queen Is a Reptile' 3. Møl: 'Jord' 4. Mitski: 'Be The Cowboy' 5. Earl Sweatshirt: 'Some Rap Songs' 6. NoName: 'Room 25' 7. Rivers of Nihil: 'Where Owls Know My Name' 8. Pusha T: 'Daytona' 9. Kendrick Lamar: 'Bad Kid Chill City' 10. Kids […]

Cat Power's 'Wanderer' comes in 50th, Mitski's 'Be The Cowboy' first on Consequence of Sound's Top 50 albums for the year 2018.