- new“Bazooka” Rapper Miami XO Plays First-Ever Show
2026's definitive meme song so far is "Bazooka," the breakout single from Miami XO. In the past couple of months, the 26-year-old South Carolina rapper has earned co-signs from luminaries such as Popcast co-host Jon Caramanica and Hollywood's own Wil…
- 19 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 11:57am -
- newThe Weeknd Debuts New Song In Rio
For a while now, Abel Tesfaye has been saying that he wants to stop releasing music as the Weeknd. Last year, however, he said that he might not be done with the Weeknd after all. And at a show in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday night, he offered some idea…
- 19 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 11:46am -
- newDucks Ltd. – “Easy Come, Easy Go” (Feat. Martin Courtney) (Grant McLellan Cover)
Toronto indie-pop duo Ducks Ltd. are students of the jangle. The same is true of New Jersey’s Real Estate. In either band’s music, you can hear echoes of many decades of shimmery, spangly cult-beloved underground music. Today, Ducks Ltd. and Real…
- 20 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 11:28am -
- newNedra Talley, Last Surviving Member Of The Ronettes, Dead At 80
Nedra Talley, a member of the classic early-'60s girl group the Ronettes, has passed away. In a Facebook post on Sunday, Talley's daughter said that she died at home in bed earlier that morning. The Ronettes' Instagram also shared the news. Talley, w…
- 21 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 10:13am -
- newHurry Announce New Album Zoned Out: Hear The Title Track
Nominative determinism is overrated. It’s been three years since Hurry released their last album, Don’t Look Back, which means now the timing is just about right for a new one from the Philly power-pop band. That record, Zoned Out, will arrive in…
- 21 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 10:07am -
- newStagecoach 2026 Had Sydney Sweeney, 3OH!3, Theo Von, Chet Haze, & More Of Your Favorite Country Stars
The Indio, California country music festival Stagecoach was initially founded in 2007 as a sister festival to Coachella, and in recent years, it too has become a pressure cooker of celebrity sightings and brand sponsorships. Case in point: Sydney Swe…
- 21 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 9:43am -
- newRosalía Pole Dances in Bedazzled Neck Brace On Euphoria, Reflects On Magick Role
Right now, Rosalía is in the midst of a massive global arena tour behind her stunning 2025 album LUX. She also recently released a LUX deluxe edition, featuring a few bonus tracks that were previously only available on vinyl. In the midst of all tha…
- 22 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 9:30am -
- newGeese Throw Out First Pitch For The Mets
Geese are everywhere these days, including the pitcher's mound at Citi Field, where the Mets have been getting killed lately. Collectively, the band stepped up alongside Mr. Met to deliver the first pitch Sunday at the Mets' game against the Colorado…
- 22 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 9:20am -
- newSpringsteen Opens Show Expressing Thanks Trump Was Not Shot At WHCD
On Saturday night, Donald Trump attended the White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Washington Hilton. During the ceremony, a California resident named Cole Tomas Allen reportedly sprinted past a security checkpoint on a different floor of the hot…
- 22 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 8:54am -
- newMichael Jackson Movie Breaks Biopic Opening Weekend Record
Up until this week, Christopher Nolan's 2023 film Oppenheimer had the most lucrative opening weekend of any biopic in history. There's plenty to debate about the way Oppenheimer told the story of its subject, and the film's decision to omit any depic…
- 23 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 8:25am -
- newThe Number Ones: Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U”
The post The Number Ones: Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” appeared first on Stereogum.
- 23 hours ago 27 Apr 26, 7:45am -
- USC Announces Travis Scott Course
Travis Scott is the latest contemporary musician to get college course curriculum in his honor. The Creative Enterprise - Learning From Cactus Jack is a new class at the University Of Southern California's Annenberg School For Communication And Journ…
- 2 days ago 26 Apr 26, 3:18pm -
- Queens Of The Stone Age Reunite With Nick Oliveri At Joshua Tree
Queens Of The Stone Age kicked off the first leg of their spectacular, symphonic Catacombs Tour last October, and last Friday night they resumed with a near-hometown show in the middle of the Joshua Tree Retreat Center. Notably, the set featured a on…
- 2 days ago 26 Apr 26, 2:40pm -
- Hayley Williams Mocks Morgan Wallen, Covers Her Grandad, And Brings Out Snõõper Singer At Nashville Homecoming Show
Hayley Williams is not a fan of her fellow Nashville resident Morgan Wallen. The Paramore singer first publicly alluded to this last summer in an interview with Stereogum honky tonk correspondent Rachel Brown, during which she revealed that Wallen's…
- 2 days ago 26 Apr 26, 1:58pm -
- Madonna Debuts New Song In WeHo, Tries To Get Mic Back From Drunk Addison Rae
A new Madonna album rollout is officially underway. Confessions II, the sequel to 2005's Confessions On A Dance Floor, is arriving in July, and so far she's released the single "I Feel So Free" and performed the yet-to-be-released "Bring Your Love"…
- 2 days ago 26 Apr 26, 1:03pm -
- Hunter Biden Finally Breaks His Legendary Silence About Fakemink
Perhaps you saw fakemink — one of our favorite new artists of last year — at Coachella earlier this month. If not, perhaps you saw photos of Hunter Biden — son of former US President Joe Biden — hanging out with the London rapper backstage d…
- 2 days ago 26 Apr 26, 12:06pm -
- Foo Fighters Bring Your Favorite Toy Live Debuts To SNL UK
Foo Fighters released their new album Your Favorite Toy last Friday, and they celebrated the release with a musical guest appearance on the latest episode of SNL UK. They performed the live debuts of early single "Caught In The Echo" as well as "Chil…
- 2 days ago 26 Apr 26, 9:59am -
- Vince Staples – “Blackberry Marmalade”
Vince Staples’ Dark Times was one of the most important rap albums of 2024. While his Netflix series The Vince Staples Show was canceled early this year, he’s been busy gearing up for his new independent era. Staples recently launched a private D…
- 3 days ago 25 Apr 26, 3:43pm -
- Olivia Rodrigo Debuts New Song With Weyes Blood At Secret LA Show
Before his Coachella headlining set, Justin Bieber held intimate, invite-only shows in LA and no phones were allowed. Last night, Olivia Rodrigo did something similar at LA's The Echo and brought out Natalie Mering aka Weyes Blood to debut what appea…
- 3 days ago 25 Apr 26, 12:54pm -
- Amaia Played A Chair Flute On Tiny Desk
Last year, Turnstile made Tiny Desk history by being the first performer to stagedive. Now, Amaia is making history by being the first to play the chair flute (chlute?). The Spanish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist mostly performed tracks…
- 3 days ago 25 Apr 26, 12:08pm -
- Orphan Donor Announce New Album Ailments: Hear “Show Me The Way”
Way back in 2021, Orphan Donor dropped their frantic sophomore album Unraveled. Since then, the Pennsylvania metallic screamo band have not released much music. There was a noisy, guttural one-off single last year called “Vomit In The Cathedral Of…
- 4 days ago 24 Apr 26, 4:05pm -
- Pupil Slicer & Tayne – “W.N.”
London metal experimentalists Pupil Slicer dropped their album Fleshwork last year. Today they’ve teamed up with the industrial noise pop act Tayne, also from London, on a single called “W.N.” It’s a hefty industrial track with eerie vocals,…
- 4 days ago 24 Apr 26, 3:25pm -
- PARTYOF2 – “2 NIGHTS IN LA”
PARTYOF2 are not new to this. I remember hearing about Swim and Jadagrace when they were part of the band grouptherapy., which formed in 2019 and was originally four members including TJOnline and Rhea. The latter two artists went their separate w…
- 4 days ago 24 Apr 26, 2:03pm -
- Bedouine Shares New Benefit Single “Canopies” For Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
- 4 days ago 24 Apr 26, 1:15pm -
- 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, whi…
- 4 days ago 24 Apr 26, 1:06pm -
- Sugar World – “Terra Incognita”
LA’s Sugar World are releasing new album supercassettevision later this year on Sunday Records. They’ve already teased the follow-up to their 2022 debut with the single “Red Heart On Fire” and “In Magazines.” Yesterday, they returned wit…
- 4 days ago 24 Apr 26, 12:44pm -
- Rosco P Coldchain & Nicholas Craven Share Collaborative Album Play With Something Safe
If you were a big Clipse/Neptune fan in the ’00s, then perhaps you remember Rosco P Coldchain, the verbose, gravelly Philly rap hardnose who always seemed like he was poised for a breakout moment. Coldchain had some vivid, memorable verses on Neptu…
- 4 days ago 24 Apr 26, 12:14pm -
- Latto – “GOMF” (Feat. GloRilla)
There’s a decent single that the 2007 ringtone-rap anthem “Yahhh!” is the greatest contribution that Soulja Boy ever made to society. Over a maddening one-finger keyboard riff, Soulja and his associate Arab bellowed gibberish at fans who approa…
- 4 days ago 24 Apr 26, 11:38am -
- Mina Tindle – “My Light” (Feat. Sufjan Stevens)
French folk artist Minda Tindle released her lovely album Compass Rosa last November. A few songs on it featured Sufjan Stevens, including the single “Heaven Thunder.” Today, Tindle released an expanded version of the album with three new songs,…
- 4 days ago 24 Apr 26, 11:14am -
- Che – “Tell U Sum” & “Nosferatu”
In the past few years, the 19-year-old Atlanta rapper Che has emerged at the forefront of the post-Playboi Carti rage-rap wave. He does the fried, chaotic bleepy-staticy thing better than pretty much anyone else, and he finds room for tiny, achy melo…
- 4 days ago 24 Apr 26, 11:05am -
- Rostam – “Back Of A Truck”
Rostam officially announced his new album American Stories a little over a month ago. It’s coming out at the beginning of May. He shared the lead single “Like A Spark,” and today he’s back with the follow-up single “Back Of A Truck.” It c…
- 4 days ago 24 Apr 26, 11:02am -
- Love Remain – “Paris, Forever”
London dance producer Love Remain specializes in music that’s hard and physical but that’s also trapped deep in its own memory. His mixtape With Every Cloud came out last fall, and he followed it with the single “Steppa” earlier this year. Ye…
- 4 days ago 24 Apr 26, 10:43am -
- Skepta Is Making House Music Now
The world of UK grime is way more rooted in club culture than US rap is. Grime evolved directly out of the rave and pirate radio scenes, and plenty of UK rappers have had their biggest pop successes on EDM tracks — Dizzee Rascal on “Bonkers” an…
- 4 days ago 24 Apr 26, 10:32am -
- The Homesick – “Esperanto”
Dutch art-pop trio the Homesick (Elias Elgersma, Jaap van der Velde, and Erik Woudwijk) are back with a quirky little single “Esperanto.” The new song arrives alongside the announcement that they signed to independent Austrian label Siluh Records…
- 4 days ago 24 Apr 26, 10:26am -
- Action Bronson – “Triceratops” (Feat. Lil Yachty & Paul Wall)
“Tadow, Queens be the birthplace/ Turn you to a fuckin’ cheeseburger at a children’s birthday/ Yeah, I deserve a mermaid/ So I could buy my bitch fake Hermes.” It’s Bam Bam! No rapper other than Action Bronson would write those lines in a m…
- 4 days ago 24 Apr 26, 10:04am -