160 items from the music press this month, newest first.
Jon Small, who played drums in Billy Joel's early bands the Hassles and Atilla and later became an accomplished director of music videos and concert films, has died.
Macklemore has been loudly advocating for an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza for years, but some Ed Sheeran fans are just now finding out about it.
The band will play a total of 21 dates in 2027
We were into " Control ," the recent single from Oakland "queer post-bubblegum slut grunge" crew Heavy Lifter, and I'd argue "Backyard" is even better.
The fast and nasty Oakland hardcore band Cell Rot put out an album called Parasite last year, the first half of a two-part project recorded with the iconic punk and metal producer Jack Shirley.
Lancaster, PA trio American Motors impressed us with their 2024 debut Content .
Pulp have been back at it for well over three years now, so it's probably too late to reflexively describe them as "the reunited Pulp" or "the resurgent Pulp." But if it's no longer novel for Jarvis…
The Ghosted trio haven't changed much over the course of three albums, turning out sleek, skeletal jazz with deft regularity.
Everyone knows it's dangerous to be in the presence of chainsmokers, but now it looks like it may be dangerous to be in the presence of the Chainsmokers.
Stella Lefty may not have much style or substance as a songwriter, but at least she knows a good hook when she hears it.
Ed O'Brien was telling the truth.
One month ago, Jane Remover issued an ultimatum to M3F Fest: Drop the Israeli alt-rock trio Temper City or they would no longer perform at next year’s event.
Van Halen had quite the summer.
Squares Will Fall lands on Thrill Jockey on November 13
It’s a sad day for metal and wrestling fans.
Some new EDM festival drama just dropped.
The Puerto Rican star’s Super Bowl LX Halftime Show won all seven categories it was nominated in at the Creative Arts Emmys
Last night, at the O2 Forum Kentish Town in London, a bunch of musicians gathered to celebrate the late Mark Hollis and the 40th anniversary of The Colour Of Spring , the third studio from British…
Phoebe Bridgers has been busy.
A Burning Man attendee has died, marking the festival's fourth death in four years.
Future, 2 Chainz, Twista, Young Thug, Travis Scott, and more appeared at the embattled rapper’s Windy City stint
“I did not realize that a few of the accounts contained highly toxic content, so I deleted my profile.
Earlier this week, fans were confused to find that Yeat's verse on YSL's compilation album Slime Language 3 had mysterious disappeared.
Earlier this year, fakemink unleashed his full-length debut Terrified .
After more than a decade away, Brittany Howard’s influential rock band still has a knack for righteous, retro catharsis, but the signature moves can’t help but feel a little safe.
Steven Hall, the veteran musician and Arthur Russell collaborator known as Nirosta Steel, experienced breakout success this year with the release of My Skyscraper , an album comprising recordings…
First hint: “I’ma put out that flame, it’s fuckin’ lame”
Quiet Light's Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2 is easily one of this year's best albums , even if it was promoted as a mixtape.
Since releasing her debut album Speak In The Dark in 2024, Tara has opened for Raye in London and collaborated with King Krule .
Rão Kyao's 1976 debut album Malpertuis can be seen as a direct offspring of Portugal's 1974 Carnation Revolution that ended four decades of dictatorship and allowed the country to breathe…
2 Chainz, Cash Cobain, and Young Nudy are three great tastes that taste great together.
Dan Friel is having a summer, what with the surprise resurgence of aughts noise mainstays Parts & Labor and now a fourth album from guitar-centric, astronomy-centric Upper Wilds.
Earlier this year, Mike Watt joined forces with J Mascis to cover each other's bands on a split .
Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week.
Out September 25 via Anthony Gonzalez’s own Other Suns label
Last month, Elvis Costello announced a 49th anniversary edition of his debut album My Aim Is True , saying that the idea of a 50th anniversary edition struck him as "preposterous" and "made [his]…
Slow Pulp's highly anticipated Yard followup Melodie comes out in exactly two weeks.
British new wave legends Squeeze are currently on a North American tour with fellow '80s veterans Adam Ant and Haircut 100, but they had to cancel last night's Vienna, Virginia show for tragic…
Today is Bandcamp Friday, that blessed holiday in which previously unknown new records from underground artists seem to fall on our heads unbidden, like rain from the sky.
Our favorite DJ named after a '90s TV show has returned with another phantasmical new track.
The state of Minnesota has a pretty incredible musical legacy, and that legacy is the focus of a new digital compilation from the people at Sub Pop.
The LA-based sonic impressionist claire rousay does a whole lot of collaborating, working with peers like more eaze , Grumpy , and William Tyler .
I got to know Ace Stallings a few years ago, when he was maybe the busiest hardcore promoter in Richmond.
It's been a few years since Steady Holiday, the one-woman project from LA musician Dre Babinski, released the album Newfound Oxygen .
It was just last year when Tonstartssbandht dude Andy Boay (aka Andy White) released his album You Took That Walk For The Two Of Us , and he's already gone and made another one.
TV On The Radio's Return To Cookie Mountain just turned 20, and when I revisited it , I was struck all over again by how much Katrina Ford's backing vocals added to a bunch of those songs.
Last year, Detroit's Day Residue released i love what you’ve done with the place , a ferocious EP that was diverse in its disgruntled punkiness.
Over the past year or so, UK duo Bassvictim captured a lot of people's imaginations with their blown-out, hedonistic take on experimental bedroom-pop.
You may know Lou Turner as 1/3 of the brilliant rootsy/folksy Nashville indie band Styrofoam Winos or as a regular in Ryan Davis' Roadhouse Band .
Earlier this year, Paramore leader Hayley Williams headed out on her first-ever solo tour .
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As Mouse On Mars, Jan St.
It's the Friday before Labor Day weekend, and summer is pretty much over now even if it is still oppressively hot outside.
Prince may not be on this mortal realm with us, but he left behind an immense archive of work that is still being released to the public, reminding us of the limitlessness of his creativity.
There's something powerful about running into a superstar at the mall.
A few days ago, the great Mary J.
For the past few months, former Turnstile guitarist Brady Ebert has been held without bail at the he Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Boyds, Maryland.
ADÉLA wants this.
The neo-soul priestess and the hip-hop producer throw it back on a seductive, pleasantly rambly collaborative album that returns them both to their roots.
The Oklahoma sludge-metal band has never spoken in subtleties, but its third album is its most pointed statement yet: a merciless depiction of a world in decline.
The stoner-doom institution returns, minus founding guitarist Matt Pike, for a monotonous album of timid riffs and bad weed puns.
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It's Miley, bitch.
The artist formerly known as Miley Cyrus is gearing up to release a new album
Last month, Phoebe Bridgers unleashed her long-awaited, breathtaking Punisher followup Lost Weekend , whose list of collaborators raised eyebrows.
Simple Minds started off in Glasgow way back in 1977, which means that the group's two longtime members, singer Jim Kerr and guitarist Charlie Burchill, are about to celebrate their 50th anniversary.
Here's a lyric for you: "God’s got a picture of the whole world burning, down to the details of his hot white ash." That's the opening line from Emma Ruth Rundle's new single "God's Picture," and…
Please welcome yet another cool band to the Julia's War Recordings roster.
Few new bands have captured the zeitgeist of the 2020s like Chat Pile.
Dreamy Winnipeg mainstays Living Hour are following up last year's excellent Internal Drone Infinity with a new EP.
Stella Lefty isn't the only one out here ripping off hit songs .
Australia's Armlock have been on the rise since their 2024 album Seashell Angel Lucky Charm .
Everyone's having a great time talking about the funniest new character on the pop landscape.
For years, Andrew Sacher served as the resident emo aficionado at BrooklynVegan , shedding light on up-and-coming bands that other sites weren't covering.
Within the independent music world, there's been a growing enthusiasm this year for Historic New Jersey, a recording collective and/or record label in Philadelphia making retro-tinted pop-rock,…
Jaxon Whittington directed the ZIRP!
The club and R&B experimenter Kelela is a bit of a futurist.
Orcutt’s deconstruction of “Louie Louie” is a mash-up of Steve Reich’s 1970 minimalist milestones “Four Organs” with the rock staple.
One of the most potentially fascinating albums on the docket right now is ZIRP!
A final series of the offbeat interview show will “celebrate everything Chicken Shop Date has been,” says the host
Six years after finding themselves unexpectedly at a crossroads, Kasabian arrive at their third act with a fresh sense of direction and a renewed appetite for experimentation.
Lizzy Goodman’s Meet Me In The Bathroom, released in 2017 was a massive hit.
Czarface are, in terms of their unique aesthetic parameters, one of the most fun, rewarding rap projects to keep tabs on.
Earnest and disaffected, ironic and confrontational, the Brooklyn songwriter’s Sub Pop debut channels trans rage into scrappy DIY punk with no patience left.
A year after his mother died of an overdose, the boundary-breaking bluegrass guitarist returns with an idiosyncratic and personal new record.
The Swedish songwriter fills her solo debut of textural art-rock with ferocious portraits of girlhood and surges of gratitude for every sensation available to her.
The Texas band pairs mostly German-language lyrics with boisterous but buttoned-up post-punk for a debut that could almost pass for a lost European import.
Baltimore's Crying Laughing play an intoxicating combination of jazz and post-rock.
In June, Brutalismus 3000 released their second album, Harmony , which they told us was inspired by Leonard Cohen, Pulse , Death Grips, and more.
American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson has died.
“I don’t want to be associated with the guy"
Watch Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, the Police’s Stewart Copeland, and others remember the late Rush drummer
Grumpy's new album Unfindable Ring comes out next month.
Dance DJ and producer Logic1000 has been around for a while, and she's about to release her new collab-heavy album Confirmation!
The adventurous, genre-agnostic Canadian producer Ryan Hemsworth has been around since the early cloud-rap days.
Oakland's Samuelito Cruz has been intermittently cranking out lo-fi guitar-pop as Toner for over a decade now, and these days he's doing it for the esteemed Smoking Room label.
Elon Musk, the richest and arguably shittiest man on the planet, is the subject of Musk , a new epic-length documentary from Alex Gibney, a filmmaker who was Oscar-nominated for 2005's Enron: The…
Andy Stott fans have been starving.
Todd Jones started the Oxnard band Nails way back in 2007, after his legendary tenures in both Carry On and Terror, and they quickly became one of the most brutal, extreme bands on the entire…
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Troye Sivan released the original version of his song "Easy" on his In A Dream EP way back in 2020.
The ferocious, shapeshifting Vancouver punk band PISS signed to Sub Pop in the spring, and now they're ready to roll out their first album for the vaunted PNW label.
The anonymous, cult-beloved South Korean shoegaze auteur known as Parannoul has made a lot of music over the past few years, but he has been relatively quiet in 2026 — nothing since the one-off track…
The New Jersey artist Matthew Miller has been releasing music under the name GDP for nearly two decades, but he was off the radar for quite a while.
Here's something you should know about the LA-based indie/country singer-songwriter known as GracieHorse: She is fully willing to dress up as the Hamburglar on her album cover.
When we named Font a Band To Watch two years ago, we categorized their music as dance-punk, but that descriptor doesn't fit their new song at all.
Clinic have announced their 10th studio album Wild In The Streets .
The conservatory-trained Copenhagen musician Fine Glindvad Jensen used to lead the electro-pop group CHINAH, and she has made music with peers like Erika de Casier, Astrid Sonne and Iceage's Elias…
Alanis Morissette is coming off a triumphant weekend performing alongside Olivia Rodrigo at her Daisy Chain Fields festival, but not all is well in Morissette's world.
On Saturday night, the Kia Center, Orlando's largest indoor arena, turned into the site of what appeared to be an impromptu Nazi rally.
A regularly updated guide to the new albums, EPs, mixtapes, and projects getting released in the coming weeks and months
Constantly meandering in copyright turmoil that renders it inaccessible, 1972's lone eponymous record by American Spring (sisters Marilyn Wilson and Diane Rovell, formerly of girl group The Honeys)…
Forty-six years after his death, John Lennon is now a grandfather.
The British producer made Late Loop with no basslines, no reverb, and no effects except for a delay unit
As we continue to obsess over her new record with Dean Blunt as (an alleged) part of the group the Crying Nudes , Copenhagen's Fine shares the sublime lead single from her forthcoming new solo album…
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We’re fresh off the back of an action packed World Cup.
Melody is the beating heart of the songwriter’s new album, which spins tales of loves real and imagined from dense, curlicued arrangements of guitar, piano, and strings.
The Montreal rapper’s fresh take on 1990s golden-age throwbacks matches tried-and-true production with modern flourish.
There’s one particular moment from many years ago that I can never quite get out of my head: during a fantastic Berlin show, Interpol‘s frontman Paul Banks introduced the entire band, by name –…
The rising London pop singer’s new EP is a spirited mix of late-aughts electronic pop, dancehall experimentation, and storybook charm.
The Detroit duo moves between fractured EBM and synth-punk songs and pleasingly ugly sound collage on a mixtape fueled by noise and nihilism.
The Coachella lineup used to drop in January, but we had this year's poster in September 2025, so it does appear to be that time of year.
Everyone hates Suno, except Mary J.
A group of musicians led by the 400 Unit frontman accuse the company of using their work without permission
Throughout the summer we've been posting new songs from gash, the Eau Claire indie deconstructionists who've won over local legend Justin Vernon (they played his relaunched Eaux Claires festival )…
Sean Ragon, founder and frontman for the goth- and punk-rooted psych-folk band Cult Of Youth, has died.
It's September, which means Perennial's Modernism is right around the corner.
Last month, the Bangles' Susanna Hoffs announced a new solo album titled The List .
"Young Jesus." It's not a long band name by any means, but it's kind of a mouthful, isn't it?
The Avalanches are prolific collaborators, and the same is true of Faith No More/Mr.
A statement on the band’s Instagram said that Bemis would take a step back “due to the need to prioritize his mental health and personal well-being”
Things at Levon Helm Studios are getting uglier.
The Something Beautiful follow-up lands September 18
Last weekend, Olivia Rodrigo headlined her own one-off festival Daisy Chain Fields in Irvine, California, and it looked fucking awesome .
She's just being "Miley" now.
Stereogum readers love Drake, right?
An Exchange of Information will be the inaugural release from the Hop Along drummer’s Feral Twin Records
Bonnie Bloomgarden, leader of the consistently great Los Angeles psychedelic rockers Death Valley Girls, recently lost her Altadena home in the California wildfires.
We are oh so back.
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Kali Malone's last solo album was 2024's All Life Long .
Hidden in Pieces Live at the Royal Albert Hall is out now
It's been a few years since Pet Fox released their great debut album A Face In Your Life .
For the past seven years, Kelly Clarkson has proven herself to be an absolutely delightful daytime talk show host.
Over the weekend, Say Anything's Max Bemis canceled a run of solo concerts after a 17-year-old girl posted allegations of inappropriate interactions on the Say Anything subreddit, sharing screenshots…
When she is at her absolute best, Mary J.
Forget the Beatles.
Stephen O’Malley and Lucy Railton join Malone for the LP, led by “Heavy With Fruit”
The Linda Lindas are the embodiment of a dream we’ve all shared at one time or another.
With a features list that reads like a festival lineup, the sprawling remix edition of the Baltimore band’s 2025 album demonstrates there’s almost nowhere its songs can’t go.
On their fourth album since reuniting, Greg Dulli and co.
It has been now over four decades that we have been getting that incredible combination of guitar-dominated noise, melody and often left-field lyrics from Dinosaur Jr.
A mammoth compendium of compositions for choir, chamber ensemble, and pipe organ captures the minimalist composer’s work at its most gloriously austere.
On a brief and breezy new album, the Los Angeles producer offers amorphous ambient pop songs filled with retro trappings, like a soundtrack to an imaginary city of perpetual dusk.
A Las Vegas jury convicted Duane “Keffe D” Davis in the 1996 shooting
Duane “Keffe D” Davis has been convicted of the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur.