Every week, Consequence’s Songs of the Week column spotlights the best new tracks from the last seven days. Find our new favorites on our Top Songs playlist, and for more great songs from emerging artists, listen to our New Sounds playlist. This week, Sabrina Carpenter quips about a pattern in her past romances.
“Why so sexy if so dumb?” Sabrina Carpenter asks coyly on her new single, “Manchild,” hitting at a recurring theme found in her recent releases: What’s the deal with all these hot dudes being absolute tools?
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Sure, it’s easy to read the song as Carpenter following up on the promise given to her now-ex-boyfriend Barry Keoghan on “Please Please Please” (“If you don’t wanna cry to my music/ Don’t make me hate you prolifically”), but even disregarding any real-life context, “Manchild” serves as another sonic thesis statement from a pop star at the very top of her game.
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Related VideoShort n’ Sweet offered the similarly-countrified “Slim Pickins” and “Please Please Please” — also co-writes from Carpenter’s now-trusty duo of Jack Antonoff and Amy Allen — but “Manchild” has a bit more pep in its step. The track’s syncopated synths and strum-heavy acoustic guitar show that Carpenter is not interested in wallowing, but “Manchild” isn’t a full-fledged disco celebration either; instead, Carpenter skewers her half-witted beau while hinting that she’s maybe, perhaps, ever-so-slightly accountable, too.
“Oh, I like my boys playing hard to get/ And I like my men all incompetent/ And I swear they choose me/ I’m not choosing them,” she sings with a wink, recalling a similar conclusion drawn in “Slim Pickins” about her own inability to choose men with long-term relationship potential. Like the hitchhike-through-mayhem absurdity found in the music video, Carpenter knows the cycle well: They meet, it’s thrilling, dangerous even, and eventually, despite her telling herself things could be different this time, he lets her down. “It’s all just so familiar,” she sings.
Her lyrics are once again endearingly funny — “If I’m not there it won’t get done/ I choose to blame your mom,” Carpenter quips — and more proof that the trio of Carpenter, Allen, and Antonoff have nailed the SabCarp formula. There’s a nostalgic, comforting air, circa late ’70s and early ’80s, which fits with Carpenter’s retro-themed stage movements and music videos. There’s a slight country twang, which allows Carpenter to slip into a more casual and authentic singing style. And, above all, there’s a sharp, halfway-out-the-door wit that instantly puts the listener in Carpenter’s corner.
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Humor, used as often as Carpenter employs it, can start to feel like a defense mechanism — like she’s masking her vulnerability. Perhaps there are some meatier epiphanies to come, but in the meantime, she shrugs off a helpless himbo so well on “Manchild” that you’d have to believe she’s landed on her feet. Better off, even.
— Paolo RagusaAssociate Editor
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After playing a handful of guerrilla-style pop-up shows in anticipation of their new studio album, NEVER ENOUGH, Turnstile flipped Brooklyn’s “Under the K Bridge Park” underpass into an adrenaline-fueled collision of sound and bodies as they ripped through a 24-song set on Thursday night (June 5th).The outdoor show opened with dreamy lead single “NEVER ENOUGH,” as fans shouted lyrics into the air while the band took their positions on stage. When the first riffs broke out, a retro-toned rainbow flag dropped behind the band, sending the crowd surging in every direction and some fans spilling over the barricade. Lead singer Brendan Yates floated about the stage with what can only be described as a mix of jumpstyle and hardstyle dance moves, thrusting the mic stand into the air and jumping sporadically to the rhythm.
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With their new album only hours away from dropping, the band played a mix of songs off of previous LPs and brand-new tracks from NEVER ENOUGH. While some have seen Turnstile’s divergence into a more melodic space as an abandonment of the hardcore principles they stood upon for a majority of their career, the energy in the space proved that hardcore is alive and well in their community.
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Related VideoOlder, heavier singles like “Keep It Moving” garnered the same reaction from the crowd as newer, softer singles like “I CARE”. Even with a barricade and security to keep the room from getting too wild, I caught a handful of stage divers making their way onto the stage and back into the crowd (one guy via a front flip). And from a higher vantage point, you could see the crowd flare and fade to each song as mosh pits formed throughout the venue.
The highlight of the set came during “SEEIN’ STARS.” The lights dimmed to a light blue and Yates began to sing the opening verse. About a minute in, Yates suddenly exclaimed “HAYLEY!” and Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams strutted onstage to sing the song. Williams has been a long time supporter of Turnstile, even appearing on the studio version of “SEEIN’ STARS,” so it was an incredibly special moment on the precipice of NEVER ENOUGH’s release.
With the energy at a boiling point, the band ended the evening with the new hardcore anthem “BIRDS,” and the place exploded with one last wave of energetic moshing. While Turnstile continue to move into a gentler sonic landscape, their ability to mesh hardcore ethos with calmer sounds has pushed them into a space that finds them drawing mainstream-sized crowds without losing their grassroots energy.
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See a photo gallery, fan-filmed video footage, and the setlist from Turnstile’s Brooklyn show below. Catch Turnstile on a UK/European tour of headlining dates and festivals throughout June, as well as North American festival appearances at Ottawa Blues Fest in July, and the Aftershock (Sacramento) and III Points (Miami) festivals in October.[embedded content]
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Setlist:NEVER ENOUGHT.L.C. (TURNSTILE LOVE CONNECTION)ENDLESSCome Back for More / Fazed Out7Keep It MovingPushing Me AwayFLY AGAINI CAREDULLDON’T PLAYReal ThingBig SmileDropInterludeUNDERWATER BOIHOLIDAYALIEN LOVE CALLLOOK OUT FOR ME (live debut)Encore:MYSTERYBLACKOUTSEEIN’ STARS(with Hayley Williams)BIRDS

The lineup for the 2025 Punk in the Park Los Angeles festival has been unveiled, featuring headliners Bad Religion, Pennywise, Descendents, and The Interrupters.The two-day fest is set for October 4th and 5th at Berth 46 at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California, with more than 40 acts set to play across three stages (pick up tickets here).
Bad Religion and Pennywise will headline the Saturday (October 4th) bill, while Descendents and The Interrupters will top the Sunday (October 5th) lineup.
Other acts playing across the two-day fest include Face To Face, Screeching Weasel, The Adicts, Stiff Little Fingers, Street Dogs, Comeback Kid, The Bronx, The Casualties, Michael McColgan & The Bomb Squad, T.S.O.L., Adolescents, Agent Orange, Manic Hispanic, Dead To Me, Teenage Bottlerocket, Guttermouth, Authority Zero, The Bombpops, Dwarves, The Queers, and more.
Related VideoThe Los Angeles edition of Punk in the Park is one of a handful of locations where the festival will be taking place for the remainder of this year. Other upcoming 2025 Punk in the Park fests include stops in Portland, Oregon (June 28th); Denver (July 18th-19th); and Worcester, Massachusetts (September 27th). Get full details at the official Punk in the Park website.
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On June 6th, Lil Wayne dropped his new album, Tha Carter VI. To support the release, he’s announced a supporting US tour taking place in summer 2025 with special guests Tyga, Belly Gang Kushington, and NoCap.Get Lil Wayne Tickets Here
The aptly titled “Tha Carter VI Tour” kicks off with a headlining show at Madison Square Garden in New York City on the night of the album’s release on June 6th. The tour will then get into high gear beginning July 30th in Bristow, VA, with dates running through early October. All told. Weezy and co. will visit 34 cities over of the tour’s duration.
Tickets are now available via Ticketmaster. Fans can look for deals or get tickets to sold-out shows via StubHub, where orders are 110% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program
Related VideoTha Carter VI marks Lil Wayne’s 14th album to date and his first solo release in five years. It also arrives seven years since its precessor, Tha Carter V, in 2018.
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Elliott Smith’s former band Heatmiser are celebrating 30 years of their 1996 album Mic City Sons with an expanded, 2xLP reissue. The new edition arrives on July 25th courtesy of Third Man Records.The new package features a remastered LP of Mic City Sons’ 12 original songs, plus a new LP containing a set of rare demos and unreleased tracks. The set will arrive on standard black vinyl and limited-edition Sunset Pink Transparent & Starry Night Blue Glitter vinyl. Heatmiser have also offered a new teaser detailing the making of Mic City Sons and its legacy 30 years later; watch it below. Pre-orders are ongoing.
Released on October 29, 1996, Mic City Sons served as Heatmiser’s third and final album. Though it was met with acclaim, the project was an extremely challenging endeavor for the quartet and led to their disbandment; initially, the album was supposed to be Heatmiser’s major label debut, but upon learning that the band were on the verge of breaking up, Virgin Records pulled out, and Mic City Sons was instead released by the independent label Caroline. After the release, songwriters Smith and Neil Gust went their separate ways, with Smith continuing his solo career and Gust forming the aptly-named new band, No. 2.
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Related VideoThe surviving members of Heatmiser — Gust, bassist Brandt Peterson (and later, Sam Coomes), and drummer Tony Lash — eventually regrouped to celebrate their output with 2023’s sprawling compilation The Music of Heatmiser, also released via Third Man Records. That process of sorting through hours of demo tapes and unreleased music led to the group revisiting the Mic City Sons sessions.
“I started to go through and found stuff that was pretty much finished, but just never mixed, and some other things that we had run out of time to fully develop,” said Tony Lash in a press release. “It brought me back to that time in a really visceral way. It made me appreciate this creative space and creative life that we were able to sustain there for a little bit. If only we could have somehow worked our way through all the interpersonal issues. I think the record shows that we could be a really good band.”
Revisit Heatmiser’s 2023 edition of Crate Digging, where Gust and Peterson break down 10 Pacific Northwest albums they think everyone should own.
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Black Sabbath’s final concert featuring an all-star lineup of metal and rock acts sold out within minutes, but fans all over the world will be able to witness the historic show thanks to a paid livestream.The “Back to the Beginning” concert, which will mark the final performances from Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne, is set to take place July 5th at Villa Park in Birmingham, England. The stacked lineup includes Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Tool, Slayer, Pantera, Gojira, Halestorm, Alice in Chains, Lamb of God, Anthrax, Mastodon, and many more acts.
Now, it’s been announced that the once-in-a-lifetime concert will stream worldwide for the price of $29.99. Fans also have the option of bundling the livestream ticket with a collectible T-shirt for a total price of $64.98 (see image below). Both options are available at BacktotheBeginning.com.
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Related VideoHowever, there is one catch. The livestream will be delayed two hours from the actual start time in the arena. It will begin at 10 a.m. ET / 7 a.m. PT on July 5th, but will also be available on replay for 48 hours after its start time.
In addition to the bands mentioned above, the all-day concert is set to feature Billy Corgan (The Smashing Pumpkins), David Draiman (Disturbed), Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit), Steven Tyler (Aerosmith), members of Soundgarden, Jake E. Lee (ex-Ozzy guitarist), KK Downing (former Judas Priest guitarist), Mike Bordin (Faith No More), Sammy Hagar,  Sleep Token II (Sleep Token), Papa V Perpetua (Ghost), Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine), Zakk Wylde, and more.
Ozzy, who will perform solo and with Black Sabbath, has been in intensive training to prepare for the concert, as he continues to battle various health issues. He recently mentioned that he’s having his “blood pressure taken 15 times a day,” and added, “All I can say is I’m giving 120 percent.”
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