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Fontaines D.C. are slowly coming back into the fold, ratcheting up the hype along the way. Last weekend they unveiled some new songs at their first show in nearly a year, and now the Dublin rockers have confirmed their fifth album, Dopamine Chamber , is coming soon. The news follows their performance at La Route du Rock in Fort-de-Saint-Père, France, last night, where they brought out Kurt Vile.…
Last night, indie pop event Glas-Goes Pop played host to a near-reunion of Felt, with three members of the influential jangle-pop band taking to the stage together for the first time in decades. They performed last night in Glasgow, Scotland at the indie pop music festival Glas-Goes Pop, which was hosted at Glasgow University Union. The post Felt Members Reunite As Feel For First Show In 37 Years…
A good stoner movie always needs a good soundtrack. And the new Dylan Meyer film The Wrong Girls , which hit theaters Friday, appears to have the soundtrack to match. Not only did garage and psych-rock connoisseur Ty Segall score the film, but Mannequin Pussy also have a scene, while tunes by Sheer Mag and Tacocat feature as well. The post <em>The Wrong Girls</em> Has A Ty Segall Score, A…
Last night, at Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, Noah Kahan fans were greeted with a big surprise — and this time it was not shit or piss . Kahan brought out friend and "generational GOAT" Chappell Roan to sing her song "California" from her breakthrough debut album The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess . The post Noah Kahan Brings Out Chappell Roan For “California” In California appeared first…
New York's Raavi are back with their first new music since 2024's The Upside EP. On Friday (Aug. 14), the indie-pop band returned with the sprawling, gorgeous tune "second thoughts," which is the first taste of something new coming soon. It's a relaxed, meditative track, with Raavi Sita's hypnotic vocals as the centerpiece as she sings of jealousy, wine, and skinny dipping, before the guitars…
Courtney Love has been teasing a new solo album since 2020. It would serve as the followup to 2010's Nobody's Daughter , which was billed as a Hole record despite Love being the only member of the band involved. When she first mentioned the LP, she said it was "the longest record that's ever been written in the history of rock, so it better fuckin' be good, no filler." Then, in 2024, she shared…
Earlier this week, Frankie Valli made headlines when his brother Bobby said the 92-year-old doo-wop legend was retiring. But it looks like Frankie's career is continuing after all. The post Frankie Valli Denies He’s Retiring, Brother Bobby Apologizes For False Alarm appeared first on Stereogum .
Slipknot have finally confirmed turntablist #0 is out of the band after 28 years. Two weeks ago, TMZ reported that the metal group’s original DJ, Sid Wilson, was notified that he’d been "permanently kicked out." Now the pink slip appears official. The post Slipknot Confirm Sid Wilson Fired After 28 Years appeared first on Stereogum .
New Orleans duo Twisted Teens have become one of the breakout underground rock bands of the year thanks to two albums' worth of ragged, energetic, extremely catchy Southern-fried punk rock. They recently announced they'll have a third LP out this year to go along with Blame The Clown and Florida Water Blues , a breakup album they've compared to Blood On The Tracks . I have no idea if "toe" will be…
Last year, Paco Cathcart released their first album under their name after over 50 albums as the Cradle. But now the singer-songwriter is back to using the moniker to announce a new LP called Get Yourself A Man & Other Love Songs , arriving this fall. The post The Cradle Announce New Album <em>Get Yourself A Man & Other Love Songs</em>: Hear “Human Nature” appeared first on Stereogum .
Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to subscribers on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.) The…
The Dayton/Columbus quartet Smug Brothers plays a scrappy, classicist form of indie rock that shows plenty of influence from local heroes like Guided By Voices, who once counted Smugs drummer Don Thrasher among their ranks. Next month, they'll follow up last year's very fun Stuck On Beta with a new LP called Pinhole To Vortex , and they started rolling it out today. The post Smug Brothers Announce…
The LA-based singer-songwriter Anna St. Louis has long been a fixture of the greater Woodsist universe, a loose coalition of rootsy, artsy underground acts centered on the upstate New York psych-folk band Woods. Jarvis Taveniere is a core member of Woods who has collaborated with lots of great artists over the years. So it's exciting but not especially surprising that the two of them have teamed…
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As of this summer, it has been 40 years since Eric B. and Rakim released their debut single "Eric B. Is President." That's the song that introduced Rakim to the world, and his hard-nosed but quietly tricky style instantly made him one of history's greatest rappers and put him in top-dive discussions for eternity. After a very long absence and a whole lot of nostalgia-circuit touring, Rakim…
Radiohead returned to the stage in late 2025 for the first time in seven years, playing 20 shows broken up into a series of four-night residencies in major European cities. During the promo campaign for his new solo album Blue Morpho , Ed O'Brien mentioned Radiohead's tentative plans to repeat this method of touring going forward, potentially doing 20 shows a year, visiting a different continent…
Hey, Ghostemane's back! The Florida SoundCloud-rap renegade emerged about a decade ago, and I was pretty fascinated with the ways that he incorporated, metal, hardcore, goth, and industrial into what he was doing, even before he got his rap name tattooed across his forehead. Ghostemane was once in a group with Lil Peep, and he's got collaborations with people like $uicideboy$, Clams Casino , and…
Channel Tres, Compton native and maker of funky-ass club-pop, was putting out records and playing great live shows for years before he finally released his full-length debut. That album, Head Rush , finally came out in 2024, and it had guests like Thundercat, Toro y Moi, and Ty Dolla $ign. This year, Tres appeared on new records from Thundercat and Dahi , and he's been putting out his own singles…
Mari Rubio stays busy. The avant-garde musician is always juggling a million musical projects, including partnerships with claire rousay and Wendy Eisenberg (as Whait) and Lynn Avery (as Pink Must), the sprawling ensemble Water Damage, and her own robust solo catalog as more eaze. She's about to add to that discography. The post more eaze Announces New Album <em>valley and structure</em>: Hear…
The latest from rising alt-pop star Sophia Stel undergoes a beautiful metamorphosis. "Now I’ve Got A Lot You Know," which follows her other stunning one-off, " Molly In The Club ," starts with a soft haze of synths and Stel’s vocals haloed in Auto-Tune. The song swirls in circles, its lyrics ruminating on an important love connection. The words spin in circles, like echoing in an empty room,…
Jane Schoenbrun has great taste . The filmmaker recruited Alex G to score 2022's We're All Going To The World's Fair and 2024's I Saw The TV Glow , and they did the same for Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma , their new slasher film starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. The soundtrack is getting its official announcement today (though we've known about the score since February), and…
Troye Sivan has announced his fourth studio album She's The Best , the follow-up to 2023's Something To Give Each Other , out Oct. 9. He's shared the title track and gorgeous video (visual poem?) starring drag legend Sasha Colby and AMC icon Nicole Kidman. Kidman and Sivan previously worked together in the 2018 film Boy Erased . Sivan worked on the track with Leland, George Daniel, Jack Antonoff,…
Derry Brownson, longtime keyboardist for the hitmaking early-'90s UK dance-rock band EMF, has passed away. The band shared the news in an Instagram post earlier today, and the BBC reports that Brownson had recently been treated for a brain tumor. He was 55. The post EMF’s Derry Brownson Dead At 55 appeared first on Stereogum .
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The '90s alt-pop legend Sheryl Crow is not slowing down anytime soon. Crow released her last album Evolution in 2024, shortly after she was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame . Since then, she has released a protest song called " The New Normal ," co-produced Stevie Nicks' comeback single " The Lighthouse ," and taken part in all sorts of benefit shows and all-star covers. Now, she's got…
Back in 2016, a young Bandcamp-native singer-songwriter named Sophie Allison released For Young Hearts , her official debut EP as Soccer Mommy. Our former colleague James Rettig was all over that shit . You may think of yourself as a Soccer Mommy OG, but James was the earliest of adopters — so early, in fact, that his post about For Young Hearts alludes to previous collections songs for the…
One night last week, Houston venue White Oak Music Hall had a strange clash of events. Upstairs hosted current far-right Attorney General Ken Paxton, running for US Senate against Democratic state Representative James Talarico, while downstairs hosted emo-punk groups Meet Me @ The Altar and Leisure Hour. The bands were unaware that the event was scheduled that same night, and according to Texas…
There's already been a lot of conversation swirling around the girl group KATSEYE, with two members, Manon Bannerman and Sophia Laforteza , going on recent hiatus. Despite the shift in dynamics, KATSEYE powers on. Today, they release their anticipated EP WILD , which features an Ed Sheeran co-write and a reworked Charli XCX song that she wrote for her 2014 album Sucker . The post KATSEYE Cover…
Last month, prolific Aussie rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announced their 28th album Alien Metal , but they didn't share a release date. Over the past couple weeks, they've teased the album with singles " Level 5 ," " Kill For The Steel ," and the title track . As of today, we're finally able to experience their intergalactic rave. The post King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s New Album…
A couple of months ago, I was in an AT&T store on one of those errands that takes way, way longer than it should. While I was waiting for who knows what, a naggingly familiar song came over the store speakers, and it took me somewhere between 30 and 60 seconds to realize that I was hearing Sugar Ray's 1999 hit "Every Morning." That's not a song that I encounter very often these days — not like…
Doo-wop legend Frankie Valli went viral in 2024, but it wasn't the good kind of viral. Videos showed the 90-year-old Valli still performing onstage, going through the long-familiar motions even though the backup singers behind him were clearly hitting most of the actual notes. When at least one online commenter likened Valli's continued performing career to "elder abuse," Valli himself felt the…
"Townies" by Wednesday — that's a good song. The best song of 2025 , in fact. Townies, a Los Angeles-via-Boston emo band, tweeted shortly after the Bleeds release, "Wait til they hear Wednesday by Townies." Now, they've finally delivered on that promise. The post Townies React To Wednesday’s “Townies” With New Song “Wednesday” appeared first on Stereogum .
The bleak, demoralizing Green Day movie Nimrods hits theaters tomorrow, but the premiere transpired on Wednesday (Aug. 12) at the Hollywood American Legion Post 43. Brian Bell was there and spontaneously offered an update on the Weezer movie, which we first learned about last year when Rivers Cuomo told the Coachella crowd . The post Weezer Movie Coming Next Year appeared first on Stereogum .
Later this month, Penguin Random House will publish Nobody Broke Your Heart , a deeply sourced Elliott Smith biography by the journalist Jamie Fisher. It sounds like a great read, and it has yielded at least one unexpected twist for a longtime Smith fan. The post Elliott Smith Biographer Discovers His Unsent Response To A Teen’s Fan Letter appeared first on Stereogum .
It turns out that even if you make a song as big as "Mr. Brightside," you still succumb to feelings of competition with your peers. Brandon Flowers is not shy about this; in 2020, he told NME that he was grateful for Ezra Koenig because Vampire Weekend's Father Of The Bride "helped to propel us into the right direction and realize that we couldn't just phone in the Killers' record." In a new…
Usher and Chris Brown are currently co-headlining a massive stadium tour, which has yielded lots of bizarre controversies, surprisingly all involving Usher and not Brown. Usher went viral for inviting a woman onstage in Nashville for some faux-flirtatious grinding and then dismissing her when she clearly wasn't into the bit. He went viral again for allegedly sending a body double onstage in New…
In a couple of weeks, Atlanta metal titans Mastodon will return with Marrow Deep , their first album since the sudden, recent death of former member Brent Hinds. We've already posted early singles " Your Ghost Again " and the Josh Homme collab " Snakes For Dinner ," and the album also has contributions from members of Gojira, Clutch, Converge, and Lamb Of God, as well as Black Sabbath legend…
Oh, Tinashe is going for it. Next month the resurgent dance-pop/R&B cult hero will hit us with her new album Popstar , and early singles " Too Easy " and " Crash Out " are extremely encouraging. Today, Tinashe shares the all-out dancefloor blitz "Melatonin," which is already my favorite of the Popstar singles. This thing goes so much harder than a song called "Melatonin" should be expected to go.…
There's this Oakland band called Unity, right? Not an easy name to search. When Scott assigned this post, I almost threw my laptop out the window. How am I supposed to know all this shit? I don't. I never heard of Unity. Well, now I know about Unity, and I can tell you that they are good. I guess it was worth it. The post Unity Announce New Album <em>Comes Back To You… / Was There Ever…
We've been waiting for this one for a while . Erykah Badu, one of our greatest living artists, hasn't released a proper album since 2010's New Amerykah Part Two (Return Of The Ankh) , and she hasn't put out a full-length since her 2015 mixtape But You Caint Use My Phone . Some time back, though, Badu revealed that she was working on a new collaborative album with the Alchemist, the great and…
