Stereogum is partnering with Focus Features for free screenings of the new film The Ballad Of Wallis Island in New York and Los Angeles next month. Directed by James Griffiths, the comedy follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island
I still have my songbook from the day Tobias Jesso Jr. taught piano lessons at South By Southwest. It was March 20, 2015, just three days after Jesso released Goon — his first and only album, which turns 10 years old today. Jesso was the star of a Tumblr-sponsored event at
Live Nation said 94 percent of tickets for all shows had been sold amid reports and speculation that sales were flagging
Drake’s “unjustified claims against UMG are no more than [his] attempt to save face for his unsuccessful rap battle with Lamar,” Universal Music Group says
The two stars recently got engaged, but right now, they want to celebrate their collaborative LP 'I Said I Love You First'
Organizers say they're programming one complete week of film, TV, and music in March 2026, as opposed to the separate segments of years past: "SXSW music is not scaling back; we are leveling up"
J. Cole has tapped Lil Wayne, 21 Savage, Erykah Badu and more for 2025's Dreamville Festival, which will be the fifth and final iteration of the event.
Planning For Burial are back. Thom Wasluck has announced has announced his experimental metal project’s first new album since 2017: It’s Closeness, It’s Easy is out in May, and today, he’s shared its lead single “A Flowing Field Of Green.”
After frontman Ken Casey spotted an attendee holding up the all-black MAGA hat popularized by Elon Musk, he compared the allegiance to a cult and said: “This is America, there’s no kings here"
The rapper originally accused the trio of rappers (and Soulja Boy) of sampling "Me and My Goons" without authorization
A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie has miraculously survived a devastating car crash that totaled his car but somehow left the rapper without any injuries.
As its title implies, I Am Music is an argument for his status as an era-defining talent and a wholly unique pop star
The country artist is slated to take over the role of the Emcee in the hit revival later this month
Playboi Carti's long-awaited new album 'Music' has had a blockbuster debut, surpassing Drake and Kendrick Lamar for first day streams.
Billed as “The Pet Sounds Band,” Jardine and the group are planning a show that mixes hits with overlooked Seventies Beach Boys gems
The Louisville straight-edge hardcore band xWeaponx haven’t released a lot of music — just a 2022 demo and a 2023 split with World Of Pleasure — but all of their songs make me want to pick someone up by his ankles and swing him into a tree trunk. They’ve got an absolute banger
“It only takes a handful to make your life feel like a really easily threatened thing,” the musician explained in a recent interview. “I’ve been practicing not reinforcing that narrative to myself”
On paper, the dreamy Atlanta rockers Lunar Vacation’s new song “Lights Off” looks like the band’s country move. It’s a mostly-acoustic shuffle with harmonicas and slide guitars, after all. But Lunar Vacation take those elements and do something radically different with those
South By Southwest launched in the 1980s as a music showcase, a Southern companion to New York City’s New Music Seminar. But over the decades, the event has ballooned into a multi-disciplinary conference involving tech, film, comedy, and more, to the point that music started to
In the US, Kevin Rowland and his Birmingham band Dexys Midnight Runners are generally remembered as one-hit wonders, thanks to the massive success of their 1984 smash “ Come On Eileen .” In the UK, though, Rowland is a hero of the people.
Frank Ocean has teased fans with new music after a snippet of unreleased material soundtracked his rumored boyfriend's latest video blog.
Ball-knowers have never stopped being tuned into the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but the band has been enjoying a resurgence of public interest thanks to “Maps” going mega-viral on TikTok. Now, after returning to the stage in 2023 in support of comeback album Cool It Down , the band has
The mask has always been a huge part of Orville Peck’s presentation and mystique. When Peck, a former indie rocker, debuted his queer country persona with his 2019 debut album Pony , he kept his face hidden behind a kind of fringed Lone Ranger mask. The mask has been through a
Eight-city theater trek will find the trio accompanied by strings and piano on “all-time favorites” and deep cuts
The musician has posted a second Instagram Story post revealing candid reflections on external perceptions and expectations following weeks of speculation and concerns about his health
Last Friday Playboi Carti finally dropped Music , his oft-delayed follow-up to 2020’s Whole Lotta Red . The rollout was a little messy: The album didn’t drop at midnight ET as initially promised, a couple of the song titles were changed after its release, and the album cover
In 2023, the Cure announced their first North American tour in a long while, and they did their best to keep ticket prices affordable. When Robert Smith saw the Ticketmaster service fees that were tacked on to most of those tickets, he said that he was “ sickened ,” and he got
Kanye West's surprising new song with Diddy and North West has led to the controversial rapper once again igniting a feud with his ex-wife Kim Kardashian.
A.G Cook, Bladee, Kelly Lee Owens, the Dare, the Japanese House, Jodie Harsh, and YSEULT will also take the stage as Charli XCX takes over LIDO Festival in London's Victoria Park on June 14
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop
A$AP Rocky has namedropped Hip Hop's so-called 'big three', Kendrick Lamar, Drake and J. Cole, on a new track that he premiered at Rolling Loud.
The duo also performed their Boygenius-produced single "Skin on Skin"
The singer appeared at the 40th anniversary celebration of Dollywood in Tennessee
On Saturday, the rapper headlined his first show since being acquitted on two firearm assault charges
The star’s seventh Number One-bowing album also marks her biggest debut on streaming
A fire during a nightclub show in Kocani, North Macedonia killed 59 people early Sunday morning, the AP reports. Video footage shows sparklers from the stage hitting the ceiling, resulting a blaze that caused a portion of the one-story club’s roof to collapse.
Questlove talks about his new Sly Stone movie, previews his Earth, Wind & Fire doc, and much more
Kanye West has continued his recent run of pro-Nazi statements with a new song about how he's reading 'Mein Kampf' and 'rocking swastikas.'
Denis Leary doesn’t like R.E.M.’s “Shiny Happy People.” He proclaimed as much way back in 1992, the year after the Out Of Time single came out, when he did an MTV spot based on his standup routine poking fun at the state of rock ‘n’ roll. “R.E.M. ‘Shiiiiiny haaaaapy people’…