Remember when every pop star was claiming to have synesthesia? As if associating certain sounds with certain colors was not an extremely common sensory experience? That was a fun/annoying trend. I'm r

The Menzingers returned back in February with "Nobody's Heroes," a dose of huge, lightly-punky heartland rock. Now, the Philly mainstays have revealed that they're following up their 2023 album Some O

It's been a couple of years since Ibibio Sound Machine, the London dance-funk band led by the Nigerian-British singer Eno Williams, released their most recent album Pull The Rope. Today, the group ret

Jura, the composer born Ani Liv Kampe, is part of Copenhagen's thriving avant-garde pop scene. On Friday, she gave us that community's version of a posse cut. The nine-minute "You Make A Fire, You Mak

Opus Kink are a Brighton band who have been making a lot of press noise, and they'll release their debut album The Sweet Goodbye this summer. Their sound is hard to describe. It's a churning and vague

"I'm like, 'This girl is a freak'/ Yeah, she's just like me." That's a great pop lyric! Hayden Dunham, known professionally as Hyd, is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist, and their latest solo

I've been listening the the Berlin-via-Massachusetts crew Elder for a long time, and I still mostly think of them as a doom metal band. But when you hear the opening of Elder's new track "Capture/Rele

Norwegian noise rockers Hammok recently announced their new album When Does This Place Become Our Scene, due out this June. Its lead single "The Scene" is a promising one, as is today's follow-up "Tap

Last year, the whole Stereogum staff went out to Barcelona for the Primavera Sound Festival, and we had a time of it. That festival goes all night, and I'd barely slept when we went to the first day o

We're just two days away from Kacey Musgraves' new album Middle Of Nowhere, and the promo campaign is in high gear. Today, she's announced a North American arena tour and weighed in on "Horses & Divor

Last fall, Shane Lavers shared the Chanel Beads song "The Coward Forgets His Nightmare," one Stereogum's 5 Best Songs Of The Week. It turns out the track comes from the highly anticipated followup to

With new album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love approaching and lead single "Drop Dead" atop the charts, Olivia Rodrigo will pull double duty on Saturday Night Live this weekend, hosting the

Nick Thorburn and Mike Stroud are both indie veterans: Thorburn co-founded the band Islands after the breakup of his previous group the Unicorns, while Stroud is a member of the electronic rock duo Ra

Did you know The Devil Wears Prada 2 is coming out this Friday? As in, the Friday before Met Gala Monday? The marketing behind the sequel to the 2006 blockbuster is absolutely nuts. Olivia Rodrigo jus

Cinder Well is the project of LA-based singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Amelia Baker, who's been releasing music since 2015. Her latest album was 2023's Cadence, and today she's

In 2024, Nia Archives released her debut album Silence Is Loud, combining jungle and indie rock and earning a nomination for the Mercury Prize. Now, she's announcing her sophomore effort, Emotional Ju

In 2015, Oakwood shared their debut EP Summer, which contained three tracks of vehement Midwest emo. The Texas-based band then fell into obscurity and the music was taken off streaming platforms. A fe

Earlier this month, David Burke, who performs as d4vd, was arrested for the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. The 21-year-old alt-pop star was formally charged shortly after, and now new

Since 2007, Nixon Boyd has been playing guitar in the Canadian indie rock band Hollerado. Last month, he announced his debut solo album Every Time We Turn A Corner and shared "Trouble Of Your Own." No

The outlaw country star David Allan Coe, a storied figure who leaves a vast and tangled legacy, has died. Coe's wife Kimberly Hastings Coe confirmed his passing to Rolling Stone, though the cause and

From 2009 to 2014, Uta Plotkin was the vocalist for the Portland band Witch Mountain. Those years in American doom had the shape of a miniature heavy metal epoch. A half-decade is an eternity in scene

How would you describe JPEGMAFIA's music? "Experimental rap," perhaps? Well, that's the title of the hip-hop provocateur's upcoming album. The follow-up to 2024's I Lay Down My Life For You arrives ne

The last time that Olivia Rodrigo announced a tour, the big news was that alt-rock legends the Breeders would open her shows in New York and LA. But a different Rodrigo opener was the one who got the

The hugely popular UK dance DJ and producer Fred again.. has a very, very long video up on his YouTube right now. That clip has the title "USB002 EVERY SHOW," and it runs for 108 hours, or about four

It's been a little while since we've heard from Hey, ily. The off-kilter emo-pop project of Montana-bred, Twin Cities-based Caleb Haynes released their sophomore album Hey, I Loathe You! back in 2024,

Tony Wilson, bassist and co-founder of the hitmaking British soul/funk band Hot Chocolate, has passed away. According to the BBC, Wilson died at home in Trinidad last Friday, and his family shared the

London's Windmill scene needs to slow down. It feels like every damn day we learn about another exciting new band that comes out of this one club. Nobody can keep up! The latest band in that post-punk

everyone for ten minutes, the new album from Jack Antonoff's Bleachers, is coming out in just under a month. So far we've heard the singles "the van," "dirty wedding dress," and "you and forever," and

The French dance producer Madeon has been working for a long time without getting much attention from Stereogum, and that seems to be working out just fine for him. He's playing huge festival sets and

In 2019 Glass Beach released their debut LP The First Glass Beach Album, a feat of emo maximalism that earned the quartet a Band To Watch accolade from frequent Stereogum contributor Ian Cohen. In 202

If you steal PinkPantheress' style, she might pop up at your place of work and look you right in your gigantic fake eyes. A beloved cartoon character just had to learn that the hard way. Over the pas

Dairy Queen is a useful scene-setting device. Like John Mellencamp name-checking the Tastee-Freez, songwriters have been dropping DQ into their songs to evoke a small-town milieu for decades. From Ala

Earlier this month, Netflix released the fourth season of Love On The Spectrum, the reality television show about adults with autism looking for love. Last night, the Kid Laroi brought out Connor Toml

Madonna has been ramping up to Confessions II, the sequel to her Stuart Price-produced 2005 club classic Confessions On The Dancefloor. She dropped lead single "I Feel So Free" two weeks back, just be

Last month, Olivia Rodrigo covered the Magnetic Fields' "The Book Of Love" for the HELP(2) benefit compilation. Now, Stephin Merritt and Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold performed the 69 Love Songs classic

Last year, British post-punks Squid released Cowards, which we named our Album Of The Week. Now, guitarist Anton Pearson is making his solo debut as an ambient artist. Driving Through Belgium is out i