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
Megan Thee Stallion's new album, Megan, features many stars, including a notable verse from the late Pimp C on the UGK and Juicy J collab 'Paper Together.'
ScHoolboy Q has weighed in on Donald Trump and Joe Budden's bizarre golf claims which were made in their first presidental debate ahead of the 2024 election.
Will Smith has impressed fans with a video of him playing a musical instrumental like a pro, warming viewers up for his performance at the 2024 BET Awards.
Nada Surf will share their new album Moon Mirror — the follow-up to 2020’s Never Not Together — in September. The long-running indie rock band announced the record with its lead single “ In Front Of Me Now ,” and today, they’ve shared another highlight called “New Propeller.”
Leah Putnam "> Earlier this year Stereogum partnered with the Wild Honey Pie for a series of intimate pizza party concerts in the Catskills. So far we’ve presented shows by Caroline Rose , Jelani Aryeh , and just this past weekend, Voxtrot . On July 25, we’ll return to upstate
Anytime a Johnny Jewel project announces a new album, you might feel skeptical, and you’d be well-justified. If you were a Chromatics fan, then you were burned plenty of times. Desire, the narcotic space-pop duo of Jewel and singer Megan Louise, released their self-titled debut
Welcome to the first annual Heavy Metal Roundtable, a symposium of sickness inviting some of heavy metal’s brightest minds to help me, an idiot, dissect a metallic topic.
DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ has been putting out a steady stream of songs since her 2023 LP Destiny , among them “ Anything Lost (Can Be Found Again) ,” “ Come Find Out ,” and “ In My Eyes .” She’s said that she’s already working on a new album, and there’s another song from it
The funky, club-friendly Compton vocalist Channel Tres has been regularly cranking out EPs and putting on electrifying live shows for years, so it’s weird to think that he’s only just coming out with his full-length debut. It’s happening. After releasing the single “ Berghain ”
The record appears on the soundtrack for Twisters , out July 19, alongside singles from Luke Combs, Megan Moroney, Lainey Wilson, Bailey Zimmerman, and more
Last week, South Korean pop phenoms NewJeans released “ Supernatural ,” the Pharrell-produced single where they sing in a combination of Korean, English, and Japanese. The song is a big hit in Japan , and NewJeans are on tour over there right now. Last night, they played their
Kodak Black has expressed remorse for rapping about wilfully swallowing a fake Percocet on 'Super Gremlin,' admitting he would've died had he actually done so.
James Blake and Lil Yachty have both been extremely busy lately. Blake dropped his album Playing Robots Into Heaven last year, and he followed it up just a couple of weeks ago with the surprise EP CMYK 002 . Yachty released his psychedelic rock album Let’s Start Here. last
Rootsy country star Tyler Childers released his album Rustlin’ In The Rain last year. Since then, he’s shared stages with the Rolling Stones and Kermit The Frog . Now, Childers has a new song on the soundtrack to the forthcoming summer blockbuster Twisters . That movie has an
Wilco are back with a new EP today called Hot Sun Cool Shroud , coinciding with this year’s iteration of their own Solid Sound festival . If you weren’t able to snag tickets to see them play new stuff and deep cuts at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art this weekend,
JAY-Z and Nas' first-ever collaboration 'No Love Lost' has finally been released for the first time as Shaq's 'You Can't Stop the Reign' hits streaming.
After extricating herself from a messy and exploitative label situation, Houston rap star Megan Thee Stallion is now a fully independent artist. Earlier this year, she had a #1 hit with the diss track “ Hiss ,” and she’s also built up to her new album Megan with the advance
Clairo’s new album Charm is out in a couple of weeks. She announced her follow-up to 2021’s Sling with the May single “ Sexy To Someone ,” which we named one of the Best Songs Of The Week . Today, she’s shared the album’s opening track “Nomad.”
Prolific singer-songwriter focuses on instrumental year in his life in new book '1967,' where the 13-year-old Hitchcock journeys into the Winchester arts scene frequented by the future ambient music pioneer
Beloved French duo Air haven’t released anything since their 2014 commissioned work Music For Museum . Right now, they’re touring in celebration of their 1998 classic Moon Safari , playing the whole album every night. Until this tour kicked off, though, Nicolas Godin and
The legendary Jay-Z/Nas feud erupted during the early days of file sharing, and there was an MP3 that got passed around a lot in that moment: A Jay/Nas collab that was supposedly called “Analyze This.” Back then, you couldn’t trust any of those dream collaborations, since they
Donald Glover has premiered the trailer for his creepy new film 'Bando Stone & The New World,' which will be accompanied by a new Childish Gambino album.
Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter' album saw her dive into country music, and now rising Black artists in the genre are giving her classic hits a country twist.