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Shut Up, Dude: This Week’s Best Comments

“Am I battlin’ ghost or AI?” Kendrick Lamar asked Drake on “Euphoria,” and he wasn’t the only one disappointed by our new non-reality this week. FKA twigs testified in a Senate committee hearing about how the AI industry needs regulation while Youth Lagoon slammed Washed Out

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Stream Valee & Black Noi$e’s New Partridge EP

After going quiet for a few years, the singular Chicago rap stylist Valee is suddenly very busy. Valee returned to action with 2022’s Vacabularee , which was actually his first full-length album. Last year, he released collaborative LPs with producers Harry Fraud and MVW .

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The 5 Best Songs Of The Week

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

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Bad History Month – “flight”

Bad History Month, the longstanding and oft-morphing Philly indie band that used to be based in Boston and called Fat History Month, have been on a low-key prolific run lately. Last year they gave us the True Delusion EP and the full-length God Is Luck . The To Be Free EP

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Bryce Dessner – “Lullaby For Jacques Et Brune”

The two twin Dessner brothers are always up to something. These days, Aaron continues to work with the biggest pop star in decades, while Bryce continues to operate in the classical and film-score zones, at least when they’re not too bush with their band. Bryce’s soundtracking

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Sam Ash Is Going Out Of Business After 100 Years

Sam Ash, the music-instrument chain retailer first founded in 1924, is closing all of its remaining stores. In a statement on Facebook , the Ash family writes, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce that all Sam Ash Music store locations will begin store closing sales

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Ghostface Killah – “Scar Tissue” (Feat. Nas)

New York rap titans Ghostface Killah and Nas first joined forces 29 years ago, when both of them rapped on the classic Raekwon track “ Verbal Intercourse .” Ghost and Nas have intersected a few times in the past few decades, and now Ghost has signed with Nas’ Mass Appeal label,

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Channel Tres – “Berghain” (Feat. Barney Bones)

Ever since 2018, the Compton singer and rapper Channel Tres has been cranking out exciting, impossible-to-categorize dancefloor anthems. Now, after eight years, he’s finally ready to unleash his debut album. A few months after releasing the Kaytranada collab “ Lover/Friend ”

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Dicks’ Gary Floyd Dead At 71

Gary Floyd, lead singer for the hugely influential hardcore punk band Dicks, has died. Floyd’s contemporary Mike Watt broke the news on Facebook. No cause of death has been reported. Floyd was 71.

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RXKNephew – “Money Can’t Replace Time”

Traditionally, RXKNephew is best consumed one video at a time on YouTube, but the prolific Rochester Artist To Watch does release albums now and then. His next one will be Till I’m Dead 2 , the sequel to last year’s supposed “debut” album Till I’m Dead . It’s coming at the end

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Stream Ted Leo’s Shake The Sheets Demos

On October 2004, Ted Leo and his band the Pharmacists followed their classic Hearts Of Oak with Shake The Sheets , which might be an even better album. Next month, Leo and the Pharmacists will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Shake The Sheets with a tour where they’ll play the

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