Over the weekend, Iron Maiden kicked off their 50th anniversary North American tour in Toronto while Christopher Cross concluded his North American tour with Toto and the Romantics in the same city.
Bluegrass phenom Billy Strings is a bigtime metalhead who came up playing in metal bands, and he seems to have a special affection for Montreal tech-death legends Cryptopsy.
John Travolta, once a chart-topping singer in his own right, put in an extremely random appearance on Sunday night, hosting a Hollywood Forever Cemetery celebration for the Ramones' 50th anniversary…
Say Anything's Max Bemis has canceled a run of upcoming concerts after a teenage girl posted screenshots documenting an alleged months-long interaction with her over texting and social media.
If you make it all the way through to track 21 (of 23), to “Sweet, Sweet Sickly Music”, you’ll hear a tortured guitar unspool against a beat obscured by fuzz.
On its first album since the death of guitarist and vocalist Brent Hinds, the metal band reckons with grief while gesturing toward the wild, energetic sound of its past.
The young New York artist’s summery new album bounces from jazz-funk to swag rap to ’80s throwback, a prodigious display of talent in search of a singular vision.
The much-hyped Manchester group sheds some of its early country influences, focusing instead on tightly wound indie rock and sharp, thoughtful songwriting.
The trio’s first album in five years marks a gloriously messy return to form, dredging up the scuzz of the group’s early work and privileging melody over showiness.
The Danish producer Trentemøller has worked in a range of rock, pop, and electronic styles over the years, from glitch, downtempo, and darkwave to dream-pop and synthwave.
Michelle Buzz and Lance Shipp are two seasoned pop-industry songwriters who teamed up to form the retro art-pop duo Haute & Freddy, and they released their debut album Big Disgrace earlier this year.
Earlier this year, Angèle joined forces with Justice for " What You Want ." That song is going to appear on her new album Instinct , which she's announcing today.
It's been just over a decade since we lost Prince, and it feels like we're only scratching the surface of the famously prolific artist's vast archives of unheard music.
If you’ve loved a metal or punk record made in Oakland, California at any point in the past 20 years, there’s a good chance Greg Wilkinson recorded it.
Sturgill Simpson might have a complicated, contentious relationship with the Nashville country music industry, but he's not going to let that stop him from playing a wild surprise show in the town.
Working with producer Andrew Wyatt, the band turns in a strong and suitably dour album that nonetheless carries the frustrating tinge of more interesting possibilities.
Six years after their first collaborative EP, the Miami rapper and the producer formerly known as Kenny Beats team up again, but both the rapping and the beats mostly feel stuck on autopilot.
In one month, Detroit post-punk greats Protomartyr return with Hotel Usona , the new album that they recorded with Dave Fridmann, a producer with a whole lot of classics under his belt.
The young Brooklyn-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kali Priya Flanagan used to make music under the name KALI, and he's he's a member of the emo band Holidays In United States and also…
Next month, woolly Cincinnati underground rockers the Drin will release I Lost My Way For Centuries , their absolutely massive new 23-song, 74-minute album.
A few years ago, Selena Gomez and her mother Mandy Teefey co-founded Wondermind, a start-up company that advertised itself as a "mental health ecosystem." Gomez, a pop star who is famous for her…
Toronto's First Class Fest, a show that bills itself as "Canada's biggest rap festival," is set to start tomorrow, but it has lost one fifth of its lineup at the last minute.
Bondo’s self-titled third album resurrects the glacial, improvisatory spirit of ’90s slowcore and post-rock, channeling Codeine, early Mogwai, and Tortoise through a sound that is at once knotty,…
The Brooklyn musician brings first-thought-best-thought energy to her meditative songwriting, pairing muted introspection with stripped-down baroque-pop arrangements for piano, strings, and synth.
On her debut album, the British singer-songwriter frames interpersonal tension as a wellspring of potential connection in a set of hushed psych-folk songs.
Real Sharp Pins heads may recall that Kai Slater self-released the project's breakthrough album Radio DDR on Bandcamp in 2024 before the K Records imprint Perennial re-released the record in expanded…
On Isle Peaks , Bitchin Bajas continue their long-running musical exploration of the unknown, turning three outtakes from the Inland See sessions into an immersive journey through imagined landscapes.
In June, Father Dionysios Tabakis announced he was getting ready to play his first-ever live set at Philadelphia's Making Time fest, which goes down next month.
Father Dionysios Tabakis had recently come under fire for religious blog posts that employed homophobic language, as well as ties to a Greek neo-Nazi organization
William Basinski's last full-length solo studio album was 2020's Lamentations , though the renowned composer has released a lot of collaborative projects since.
Rotterdam post-punkers Tramhaus spend a whole lot of time touring Europe, and their recent songs show the kind of locked-in chemistry that can really only come from playing a whole ton of live shows.
The two members of the synthpop duo Boy Harsher met in film school, and their last album was the soundtrack for The Runner , a 40-minute short film that the duo made in 2022.
All summer, the prolific traditionalist country star Charley Crockett has been embroiled in controversy stemming from his decision to drop the opening act from a pair of his shows.
Maybe the greatest moment of Peter Jackson's gigantic 2021 documentary The Beatles: Get Back is the scene where the cameras capture Paul McCartney writing the Beatles classic " Get Back ," seemingly…
About one minute into "aimee lou wood freestyle," the new single from the LA band untitled (halo)," a guy starts rapping in a detached, spaced-out flow that reminds me of SALEM when they first…
The reliably excellent, retro-tinted Richmond singer-songwriter Kate Bollinger was dropping great tracks for years before releasing her debut full-length Songs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind in 2024.
Way back in 2000, the White Stripes released their powerful, unhinged cover of the 1974 Dolly Parton classic " Jolene " as the B-side to their "Hello Operator" single.
The pop star’s new album trades aesthetic sleekness for a more organic sound, telling a real-life love story through sophisticated, romantic songs that tap jazz, blues, soul, and Feist.
The seven-track companion to 2024’s Something in the Room She Moves blends new songs with reshaped versions of previously released material to offer a new glimpse at the L.A.
Members of hardcore bruisers Vein.fm and nu-gaze breakouts Fleshwater reassemble beneath the metalcore banner, combining brute strength and progressive instincts into a slab of unrelenting violence.
The “Cutwater” rapper’s debut LP tests the water with rehashed takes on trending sounds, none more effective than the homegrown Chicago juke that fueled her breakout.
Shania Twain, Beyoncé, Cyndi Lauper, Jane Fonda, Paul McCartney, Joan Jett, Jack White, and Carol Burnett have each shared their own memories of the country legend, who died today at the age of 80
"I been gettin' up each morning with the hair of the downward dog." That fantastic lyric belongs to "Marlboro Vinyasa," the latest single from Willi Carlisle's Tyler Childers-produced double album…
Trumpeter Will Miller has been a fixture of Chicago's music scene for years, appearing on key 2010s releases from artists like Chance The Rapper, Whitney, and Twin Peaks and branching out beyond the…
Grunge overlords Soundgarden have only played live a few times since the sudden, tragic 2017 death of frontman Chris Cornell, and they've had some legal issues with Cornell's widow Vicky in the years…
Giraffe consists of a quartet of well-known Los Angles improvisers -- Dave Harrington, Spencer Zahn, Robert Walter and Kosta Galanopolous -- who share an affinity for humid grooves and loose-limbed…
Dexter Story — the prolific project of Los Angeles-based producer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer Dexter Gordon — already released an album earlier this year called Inner .
After a surprising turn into noisy guitar chaos on last year's " Hot Slob ," Sylvan Esso announced their new album Ow ∞ last month and shared its Sigur Rós-sampling lead single " Concrete Glen ." The…
Last December, while shockwaves from Geese's album Getting Killed rippled through the world, that band's frontman Cameron Winter played what was apparently a momentous solo show at the storied New…
The records that the Whitby, Ontario musician Brandon Williams makes under the name Chastity are pretty simple and direct, but it's hard to put an exact genre tag on them.
The prolific Oakland-based singer-songwriter and visual artist Stephen Steinbrink has been in the game for many years, and he has collaborated with people like Boy Scouts , Emperor X , Dear Nora ,…
Around these parts, the tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis is best known for his work with the Messthetics , the jazz-rock trio featuring Fugazi's rhythm section.
"Post-rock" can describe several quite different subgenres, but whatever the term means to you, Yr Knives are doing it somewhere on their debut single.
With Waylon Jennings’ drawl and a profound sincerity, the Killers frontman sells the blustery, Nashville-via-Utah sound of his gaudy but affecting new country album.
It might sound trite and oversimplified to label what Kurt Wagner and Lambchop have gone through so far as a ‘long and winding road’, but it feels apt.
The singer tries to fashion himself as a troubled and thirsted-after pop idol on his debut album, but relies too heavily on mall-pop beats and formulaic lyrics to craft a compelling character.
In March, War Child Records released the stacked HELP(2) benefit compilation, whose massive tracklist included an original song called "Sunday Light" by Anna Calvi, Nilüfer Yanya, Dove Ellis, and…
We're about a month out from the release of singer-songwriter Meg Lui's full-length debut Instant Validation , which she recorded with a producer by the name of Sufjan Stevens.
Ella Langley's adorably heartbroken country hit "Choosin' Texas" came out in October 2025, and it's by far the biggest chart hit of the 2026 calendar year.
Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields festival is coming up this Saturday, and ahead of the festivities she has shared a new song inspired by The Handmaid's Tale .
Wisconsin fuzz-pop artist Graham Hunt made his name with no-budget home recordings, but he went bigger with his forthcoming LP American Pyramid , recording most of it with an eight-piece band at…
You're never going to believe this, but another mega-rich music mogul has arrived at the position that the use of generative artificial intelligence in music production is Good, Actually.
Foo Fighters have spent much of the summer on a stadium tour with Queens Of The Stone Age and Mannequin Pussy, but over the weekend they made their way to the Southern California for something…
The singer-songwriter returns for a prestige goth reinvention, singing dramatic anthems of self-preservation that feel grander and bolder than anything she’s ever attempted.
“He’s all thin now, and he wears these little tight suits, and he’s got these grandpa reading glasses, like, ‘Hey, I can’t do nothing to nobody no more.
The Brooklyn musician’s synth pop remains almost uncannily retro, but a new emphasis on guitar and sharper-edged songwriting give his latest album a personality of its own.
As the Memphis rapper faces life in prison for an alleged attempt to get out of his record contract, the hard-nosed raps on his studio debut are either thrilling or depressing to witness.
Earlier this year, PinkPantheress brought out memorable guests at her Coachella set, including Zara Larsson, who took the stage solo to perform her own song "Midnight Sun." Shortly after, she…
The songs may be familiar to diehards, but on a long-awaited collection of early Alex Chilton recordings they appear in their most primordial form, just sprouting legs and walking on land.
For a long time, the producers of Michael , the Michael Jackson biopic that came out earlier this year, reportedly planned to include a story arc about one of the many children who accused Jackson of…
The prolific Los Angeles underground rap staple Rhys Langston was a Stereogum Artist To Watch in 2022, and he has made a whole lot of playful, verbose, layered music since then.
Montreal musician Ruby McKinnon makes gauzy, dreamy music under the name Flower Face, and she became a Stereogum Artist To Watch on the strength of her 2024 album Girl Prometheus .
The creative and life partners call the project “psychedelic chaos, acid rollers, and big beat, channeled through hardware instruments and animated by love”
Last weekend was Sound And Fury weekend, the moment for the gigantic Los Angeles festival that remains the biggest annual item on the hardcore calendar.
It has been two decades since Sheryl Crow first serenated Lightning McQueen, Mater, and the other sentient automobiles in the town of Radiator Springs.
One of Hollywood's proudest traditions is nominating big-deal songwriter Diane Warren for the Best Original Song Oscar and then not giving her the award.
For fans of Elliott Smith, watching Lucky Three feels like visiting with an old friend that you haven’t seen in a while, all the while knowing that they’re going to leave you again, all too soon, and…
Like fellow Rhythmic Music Conservatory alum ML Buch, the Danish musician recontextualizes hoary sounds in surprising ways, flipping ’80s AOR and jazz fusion into sleek, mysterious art rock.
The British DJ and Mexican alt-pop band livestreamed the production of their new joint mixtape, which highlights a shared interest in freeform music shaped by real-time experience.
The Sacramento rapper’s 16-minute EP is tailor-made for viral engagement, but her outlandish hooks and motivational energy ensure it’s strong enough to stand on its own.
Beabadoobee was already a big star before this year — she wouldn't be booked in arenas and amphitheaters otherwise — but the singles from next month's Pylon have suggested a leveling up.
Pacific Northwest black metal veterans Wolves In The Throne Room are established masters of heavy, mystical evil shit, and they've just announced plans for an ambitious new concept album.
Claire Cronin is the author of the 2020 book Blue Light Of The Screen , about her obsession with horror movies and supernatural imagery, and she's also a singer-songwriter who makes uneasy folk music…
Bibio's Stephen Wilkinson and Dorian Concept's Oliver Johnson have known each other for over 15 years, but the instinct to start creatively collaborating didn't happen until a few years ago when…
The brainchild of veteran Scottish musician John Hogarty (The Pastels, Telstar Ponies) from Glasgow's storied guitar-pop underground, outside marks the hybrid archival/modern debut of National Park.
The Florida rapper faces off with himself on a hilariously animated new tape, ping-ponging between high and low voices over groovy Florida-via-Michigan beats.
daine is releasing their highly anticipated debut album In Endless Awe & Agony later this year, but it turns out the hyperpop scene has some drama (who could've guessed?).
Due to appendicitis, Phoebe Bridgers had to postpone a series of intimate UK shows this week, which were to be her first live performances since last Friday's momentous Lost Weekend release.
John Errol is a Los Angeles musician making warped, cool indie-pop that draws influences from giants of all genres: Britney Spears, David Bowie, and Nine Inch Nails.
KPop Demon Hunters was a resounding success for Netflix, coming out of nowhere to become the platform's most-watched movie of all time and spawning several of last year's biggest pop hits.
We've been buzzing about the rising London combo World News for so long that I almost can't believe they're just now announcing their debut album, but it's true: In Purgatory is about to get out of…
Over the past year or two, the Boston hardcore workhorses Haywire have been on an absolutely insane run, becoming online cult heroes simply by playing ridiculously fun live shows in front of crowds…
San-Fran indie-rock power-poppers Pardoner released their Peace Loving People album on the longstanding Bar/None label in 2023, and they followed it with the Paranoid In Hell EP in 2024.
Last year, Neil Young and his current backing band Chrome Hearts did a whole lot of touring, and they initially planned to keep it going into this year.
In December 2024, Geese frontman Cameron Winter released his solo debut Heavy Metal , a cult-sensation album that helped set the stage for Geese's Getting Killed to take the indie world by storm last…
The album was produced by Mat from Citizen and mixed by Taylor Young whose band God’s Hate meanwhile surprised the world with a surprise Sound & Fury set followed by a surprise new EP.
While his band Shearwater shares its name with a seabird, Jonathan Meiburg's latest album has us thinking about The Birds —the 1952 short story Daphne du Maurier famously-adapted by Alfred Hitchcock.
Making proudly old-school music with proudly old-school equipment, the Brazilian band summons the sound of classic prog rock with a mystical, psychedelic epic.
Naming your band How Strange It Is must be some kind of indie-rock sleeper cell activation, but the Portland combo is playing it coy by not naming their debut album To Be Anything At All .
Surely you remember Bimbo, the sibling duo who recently signed to the illustrious indie institution Exploding In Sound and caught our attention with the announcement of their debut album The…
Beethoven's "Für Elise" is one of the most famous pieces of piano music in the world, and now it is also the title of a Blondshell song, though without the diacritic.
Alan Creedon and Alex Lichtenauer used to be two thirds of the great Philly DIY punk trio Control Top, and now they're the two members of Index, a new electronic-influenced punk duo with a heavy,…
On Wild Love , Nina Winder-Lind distills the elemental force of New Eves into an intimate, guitar-led set exploring artistic inheritance, self-discovery, and liberation.
Between Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer, Maynard James Keenan juggles many musical commitments , but his entrepreneurial endeavors might keep him even busier.
The UK pop star Ellie Goulding has filed a lawsuit against her two former managers, Ben Mawson and Ed Millet of TaP Management, claiming that they didn't disclose that their management company was…
One of the best music documentaries in recent history is Oasis: Supersonic , a dizzy and euphoric chronicle of Oasis' rise from wayward Manchester youth to the highest heights of global rock stardom.
If you're unfamiliar with God's Hate, the gloriously violent chug-mosh heavy hardcore band from California's San Fernando Valley, the main thing you need to know is that their singer is a big fucking…
Known for their Stax/Volt session work and backing the likes of Isaac Hayes and Otis Redding, catch a glimpse of this electric set of Memphis-based The Bar-Kays at 1972's iconic Wattstax festival.
The Colombian singer-songwriter’s latest album is a post-breakup rollercoaster traversing the emotional peaks and valleys of romantic ecstasy and despair.
Made in a backyard studio, the singer-songwriter’s latest record plays like a respite from chaos, filled with lilting melodies and hopeful reflections.
Usually performers have to worry about fans in the audience throwing projectiles at them — just earlier this month, Billy Strings was the latest victim , getting hit in the head with an object…
Way back in 2014, when she was just coming off of the success of her mega-hit " Call Me Maybe " and working on her critically beloved album E·MO·TION , Carly Rae Jepsen made her Broadway debut,…
Canadian treasure Andy Shauf made the leap to ANTI- and enjoyed a big breakthrough a decade ago with The Party , a concept album full of songs written from the perspective of different people at the…
Back in 1971, when he was just coming off the release of his solo debut Cold Spring Harbor , the 22-year-old Billy Joel gave a college radio interview on Long Island.
On his second album as Akusmi, Pascal Bideau mostly jettisons the short interlocking patterns of his earlier work for a wealth of wider, more colorful and free-ranging compositions.
The UK DJ’s new EP is a seamless suite of shuddering breakbeats, swerving tempos, and subtle ambient shading, condensing the firepower of last year’s Under Tangled Silence into 16 incendiary minutes.
On its fourth album, the Canadian quartet adds a gritty edge to its jangle-pop sound, letting a sense of exasperation bleed into even its most chipper moments.
Philadelphia singer-songwriter Sam Cook-Parrott delivers a set of minimal, lo-fi indie-pop songs on his sixth album, whose highlights include heartfelt tales of good and evil.
In a statement, Springsteen called the former Creem editor “soulful, intelligent, heartfelt, opinionated, bruising and often fantastically argumentative”
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.
In an Instagram video, the singer also confirmed her next solo album is “done,” and thanked contributors including Michael Stipe and Billie Joe Armstrong
A newly released soundtrack to the latest reinvention of the beloved Nintendo franchise doubles as a playful tribute to music’s central role in the world of Donkey Kong.
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.
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…
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.
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.
“I do not take freedom lightly because our freedom has been paid for in the lives of others throughout history,” she says of the Jesse Welles-assisted song
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.
The experimental Brooklyn project returns with a serene and spectral new album, using an ever-shifting musical backdrop to explore themes of illusion and doubt.
On their first full-length together, Segal pushes his soulfully psychedelic beats into more forceful territory, offering solid ground for Eagle’s grimly sardonic post-mortem for a failed relationship.
To anyone on the outside, the six years it’s been since Phoebe Bridgers released Punisher have been packed full of everything you could possibly want as a musician building a career.
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.
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.
Chicago's sprawling Bohemian National Cemetery was first founded in 1877, and since 2013, local promoters Empty Bottle Presents have been using it as the the venue for their Beyond The Gate concert…
In 1969 Istanbul, James Baldwin brought Don Cherry and Turkish percussionist Okay Temiz together to score Fortune and Men’s Eyes , a controversial play about gay love in an Istanbul prison.
Good news for that one very upset uncle from a viral Facebook video a few weeks ago: Police caught the guy who pissed all over an entire family at a Morgan Wallen concert.
The Ghanaian artist’s latest mixtape is aimed squarely at the club, with a fusion of global dance styles underpinning a spirited message of self-empowerment.
Recording and performing under the name 1-800-MIKEY, Sydney's Michael Barker (also of Gee Tee and RMFC) is on the poppier end of the vital Australian punk/garage rock scene.
When not cranking out new Guided By Voices albums at an impossible clip, American lo-fi rock 'n' roll hero Robert Pollard also creates music under alternate guises.
Back at the beginning of the year, Hayley Williams announced that she was teaming up with producer and longtime collaborator Daniel James to form a duo with the great name Power Snatch.
Last month, Nashville's Hannah Cole announced her debut album Switchbacks and unleashed the gritty lead single " MMA ." Now, she's sharing the grungy, frustrated anthem "Mechanical Bull."
These days, one of the few obvious ways that a band or an artist can level up and achieve a new measure of mainstream fame is by getting booked as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live .