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
WASHINGTON, June 26 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that the framework agreement reached with Israel and Lebanon establishes a clear process to restore Lebanon's sovereignty, disarm Hezbollah and dismantle its infrastructure. The agreement enables
Israel and Lebanon hailed an agreement signed Friday with the United States to pave a way towards peace on their front in the Middle East war, while Iran-backed Hezbollah warned the deal would thwart plans to resolve the broader conflict. At the signing ceremony in Washington,
Rockstar's latest open-world game could be the PS5's biggest release ever
A mission to raise the orbit of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is poised for launch no earlier than Tuesday, June 30, at 6:23 a.m. EDT (10:23 p.m. UTC+12), from Kwajalein Atoll, part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
Plasma is an ionized gas, often referred to as the fourth state of matter. Plasmas, which are created artificially by applying energy to a gas, are found in the fluorescent tubes that illuminate kitchens. However, they have many other possible applications, such as the
It's been 21 years since Miranda Lambert released Kerosene , which means she's been one of our greatest mainstream country stars for a very, very long time. She's not slowing down. This year, Lambert co-wrote and sang backup on Ella Langley's gigantic crossover hit "Choosin'
Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza’s killer animatronics are out for more blood. Blumhouse Atomic Monster has tapped Gary Dauberman to write the script for the next installment of “Five Nights at Freddy’s.” Dauberman has penned some of the most successful horror franchises of the past
Almost a year ago, Dovetail released a very beautiful track called " raining here, too ." In the fall, I caught them at New York's beloved Night Club 101 opening for Ken Park; the two Vassar students wore angel wings on their backs and played dreamy songs that swallowed the
The spokesperson for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) denied claims by American officials regarding the establishment of a direct hotline between Iran and the United States concerning the Strait of Hormuz, calling it a "sheer lie".
The writer behind the beloved 'It' and the 'Annabelle' movies is coming in to bring some fresh blood to the hit Blumhouse Atomic Monster video game movie franchise.
Candidates backed by the mayor drew upon their traditional base of more affluent voters while winning over young voters across racial lines.
Tens of thousands gathered in Beirut and southern Lebanon, where the sound of Israeli strikes on nearby Nabatiyeh al-Fawqa could be heard in the distance. Crowds chanted slogans including 'Death to America, death to Israel'
More accurate navigation systems and improved wireless communications may not come from traditional electronics, but rather from atoms. Researchers at Penn State and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new way to build tinier, smarter
The subject of today's NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an ancient inhabitant of our galaxy. This sparkling scene features a globular cluster: a collection of tens of thousands to millions of stars, all tightly bound together under the influence of gravity. There are
A grim, personal real-life case inspired Tõnis Pill’s directorial debut, “Fränk.” When the director was a young boy living in a small Estonian town, a person with an intellectual disability died after tragically falling under a train. A rumor quickly spread that a gang of boys,
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients sued the federal government Thursday, citing significant delays in renewals of their status under the Trump administration. Those brought to the U.S. as children rely on the status, created under President Obama, in order
Fans of the national teams that will play in one of the most liberal cities in the United States are trying to distance themselves from the branding the match has received, and are angry at what they describe as the imposition of local values
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) issued two subpoenas to billionaire investor Leon Black during Black’s voluntary transcribed interview before the panel Friday. In a statement, Comer said Black refused to answer questions about nondisclosure agreements (NDAs)
The full orchestral soundtrack sounds amazing, and honors the original Star Fox 64 score
A compassionate new book explores how canine companions across Western art history break down the emotional boundaries between species.
Shakeup at Versant-owned MS NOW will mark the end of longtime anchor Alex Witt’s nearly three-decade run at the network.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) expressed concern about the implications of the Supreme Court’s Thursday ruling in Mullin v. Doe, which authorized the Trump administration’s efforts to strip certain humanitarian protections from Haitians and Syrians residing in the U.S. “Today’s
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Traces or perforations caused by living organisms after an animal's death can be found on various dinosaur bone remains. These perforations, known as bioerosion structures, provide information that helps us understand relationships between living organisms in the past,
With the North American fire season underway, and a record number of acres already burned nationwide, NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite's three instruments are observing vegetation precursors to fires, along with plumes of smoke and their
The Mexican artist had been attending the Annecy Animation Film Festival in France and his credits include ’Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ and ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy.’
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is raising its Ebola response to the highest level, agency officials said Friday, as the outbreak continues to spread uncontrolled across the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. “Elevating the response level reflects
There's growing evidence that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are getting married at Madison Square Garden, but they're not the first to tie the knot at a famed music venue
Billy Strings is a virtuoso bluegrass musician and a giant star in the jammy Americana world. He's also a big fucking metalhead. Last year, Strings shredded a solo on a medley of re-recorded 1994 songs from tech-death legends Cryptopsy. Now, Strings is preparing for his own
The Secret Service left themselves vulnerable to hacking due to issues with both official and personal devices, a government watchdog found in a report ordered after the assassination attempt on President Trump’s life in Butler, Pa. The report from the Office of Inspector
Thousands had expressed their support for the artist and activist after right-wing tabloids accused him of antisemitism.
Adani is accused of bribery and misleading US investors.
NEW YORK, June 26 - A U.S. judge ordered the Justice Department on Friday to justify its decision to drop criminal charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, declining to rule immediately on Adani's lawyers' request earlier in the week to formally dismiss the case.
President Trump warned that the democratic socialist candidate victories in Tuesday's New York primaries go beyond the left-leaning state. “The Democrat Party is in big trouble because this isn’t stopping with New York," Trump said Friday, speaking at the Faith and Freedom
A24 explained its research partnership with Google’s DeepMind unit as a bid to have “a seat at the table“ in Hollywood’s reckoning with AI after fans pelted the independent studio with criticism for embracing the technology. “This is a research partnership,” A24 communications
“The privacy and silence reflect the intimacy and meditative spareness of my art.”
One scene in Supergirl confirms that the most divisive detail in James Gunn's Superman is 100% canon to the DCU.
David and Lucy’s story almost ended on a much more horrific note than it already did
Archaeologists have uncovered an unknown stone circle that dates back at least 4,000 years to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age and was most likely used for ritual activities.
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are tiny carbon-based nanomaterials that have attracted increasing attention as environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional heavy-metal quantum dots. They are lightweight, photostable and potentially biocompatible, and their light absorption
Noah Kahan's been having strange problems lately. Recently the folk-pop sensation was a bit weirded out by Kidz Bop's cop-friendly cover of his song "The Great Divide." Now, he's asking his fans to stop stealing his hometown's road sign. The post Noah Kahan Has One Request For
National Assembly president Jorge Rodríguez updated the figure on Friday. The UN reports over 50,000 missing. Spain urges its citizens in Venezuela to contact consular emergency services.
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Billionaire investor Leon Black received two subpoenas Friday after he refused to answer questions about NDAs he’d allegedly signed with women in Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit. “I have never abused a woman. I have never been with an underage woman. I have never engaged in sex
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled 7–2 that the German pharmaceutical and agrochemical giant Bayer cannot be sued in state courts for failing to warn that glyphosate—a key ingredient in its subsidiary’s bestselling weedkiller, RoundUp—could cause cancer. Make American
The probe comes after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice dropped previous inquiries into Polymarket last July.
A stop gap before what sounds like larger changes to expeditions.
The carry-on bags feature all sorts of small touches that hark back to Pokémon starters