"There's a certain amount of pressure that comes into our album world when we go in to make a record because we're thinking about keeping people in the arenas, in the stadiums. I think that pushes you into a territory musically. Having everything shut down by Covid allowed these other songs to begin to be heard that were otherwise too quiet" - The Killers' Brondown Flowers says to The New Cue about their new album 'Pressure Machine'. It's much quieter, and deals with his childhood: "I think the thing that was most profound was just that how much grief that I still had that I didn't realise that I was walking around with for some of these people, some of these stories. And that was a little bit of a shock to me, that it was cathartic for me to talk about some of these things".

The Killers aren’t really hurt by not being nominated for Grammys (unlike The Weeknd who really took it to heart), they just make fun with it. Las Vegas boys let loose with a Trumpian tweet, in all caps, and all for laughs...

Jónsi shared a collaboration with Liz Fraser, and 'Cannibal' sound just like that - Sigur Ros meets Cocteau Twins; Nas is back in shape - 'Ultra Black' is sharp and entertaining and juicy; Emiliano Melis released a melodic ambient electronic tape loop composition; Black Noi$e shared a hip-hop banger '1999'; The Killers shared a disco-rock ‘Dying Breed’, with their "most romantic lyric ever"; First Aid Kit shared a cover of Willie Nelson's ‘On The Road Again’, with proceeds going to Crew Nation; GNOD & João Pais Filipe shared live video for ambient and hypnotic 'Terra'; Melvins' Buzz Osborne released acoustic-horror song 'I'm Glad I Could Help Out'; Rufus Wainwright's new song is called 'Devils & Angels (Hatred)' but it's full of life; The Flaming Lips shared their new acoustic psychedelia called 'Will You Return / When You Come Down'; Bobby Sessions dropped militant/protest rap 'Fight'; a great little thing by Paul De Jong - he wrote a poem 'This Poem Will Fade and Die', 97-year old musician and educator Catherine Luening read it, he then set it to music (piano), and made a video featuring Luening in her Manhattan apartment listening to the track for the first time.