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Anna B Savage – “Lighthouse”

Anna B Savage will kick off 2025 with the release of her new album You & i are Earth . The London singer-songwriter shared the Anna Mieke-feautring single “ Agnes ” in October, and today she returned with another gorgeous preview called “Lighthouse.”

Slash And Duff McKagan Are On Gibson CEO’s Latest Single

Gibson made headlines last week by hitting Donald Trump with a cease-and-desist , but the esteemed guitar company is back in the news today for other reasons. A year ago, Gibson CEO Cesar Gueikian launched a new project called the Gibson Band, featuring rock stars Tony Iommi

Win 4-Day Weekend Passes To Big Ears 2025

Big Ears Festival — Knoxville’s shapeshifting, multi-dimensional, genre-defying celebration of music and arts — returns March 27-30, 2025 with another iconic gathering of many of the world’s most influential and visionary musical creators. Stereogum wants to offer you the

Brian John McBrearty – “Repeating”

Brian John McBrearty’s music blurs together ambient jazz and post-rock to gorgeous effect. Or at least that’s what he does on the lead single from new album Remembering Repeating . The lineup on the new LP is McBrearty on synths, bass, and vocals; Matt Douglas on sax (also,

Kilby Block Party Announces 2025 Lineup

This year’s Kilby Block Party was a great time , and now the Salt Lake City music festival has revealed its lineup for 2025. The headliners include New Order, Beach House, Weezer doing the Blue Album , and Justice.

David Grubbs – “The Snake On Its Tail”

Underground legend David Grubbs never stops making music — less than a month ago his new experimental supergroup, Squanderers, dropped their debut album — but the Gastr del Sol/Bastro/Squirrel Bait veteran has not released a solo album since 2017’s Creep Mission . He’ll change

Album Of The Week: Advance Base Horrible Occurrences

Lately when I go see my parents, I’ve started joking with my mom that the first thing she does is update me on all the devastating things that have happened to people she knows, knew, or thinks I might have known since the last time I saw her. Kids I sat next to in band class

Bonnie “Prince” Billy – “London May”

In between the Misfits and his eponymous band Danzig, Glenn Danzig served as the frontman for the short-lived but incendiary goth-punk-metal band Samhain. Long before he found fame as the idiosyncratic roots-music singer-songwriter Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Will Oldham was a

The YSL Trial Is Finally Over

The RICO trial surrounding Young Thug’s Young Slime Life organization, the longest trial in Georgia history, is finally over. The two remaining defendants, Deamonte Kendrick (aka Yak Gotti) and Shannon Stillwell (aka SB or Shannon Jackson), were sentenced today in a Fulton

Cheekface – “Hard Mode”

Los Angeles’ Cheekface have a new single out today. It’s called “Hard Mode,” a punky indie rock number punctuated by lots of hi-hat hits and some sweeping background vocals. And like all good things Cheekface, it’s got a good amount of snark: “Did you enjoy the novelty and then

jasmine.4.t – “You Are The Morning”

We almost certainly won’t get a new boygenius album next year, but all three members of that supergroup did get together to produce an LP that’s coming out next month. Jasmine Cruickshank, the Manchester artist who records under the name jasmine.4.t recorded her full-length

Kendrick Lamar & SZA Announce 2025 North American Tour

Kendrick Lamar and SZA are tight. They used to be Top Dawg Entertainment labelmates, and they’ve continued to collaborate since Kendrick launched his own pgLang label, including two tracks on his new zeitgeist-seizing GNX LP. They did one of those celebrity-on-celebrity

The 50 Best Songs Of 2024

Welcome to Stereogum’s inaugural Best Songs Of The Year list. Typically in December, our staff members share 10 personal favorite tracks each — which we will still be doing, don’t worry — but after 23 years, we felt it was time to do a collective countdown. This year was