At the beginning of April, Daughter will released their first new album in 7 years, Stereo Mind Game. The English trio have shared two songs from it already, “Be On Your Way” and “Party,” and today they’re back with another one, the gauzy and immersive “Swim Back,” which features the London string orchestra 12 Ensemble. […]
David Byrne, Stephanie Hsu, & Son Lux Will Perform Everything Everywhere All At Once Song At The Oscars
David Byrne, Stephanie Hsu, and Son Lux will perform the Everything Everywhere All At Once song “This Is A Life” during the 95th Academy Awards ceremony in a couple weeks, as Deadline reports. It appears that Mitski, who sings with Byrne on the song, will not be involved with the performance. “This Is A Life” […]
R&B Singer-Songwriter Jade Latrice Drops Gorgeous Visuals For Her New Soulful Single “The More”
Chicago-bred American R&B singer-songwriter and recording artist Jade Latrice is releasing new visuals for her soulful r&b anthem “The More,” already counting well over 100K views on YouTube. The Chicago-native has been evolving at the speed of light, and in just a few years, has transformed from an emerging singer-songwriter to one of the most […]
Win The Collected Works Of Neutral Milk Hotel Vinyl Box Set
Stereogum is giving away a copy of The Collected Works Of Neutral Milk Hotel. The box set — first released by Jeff Mangum in an extremely limited edition back in 2011 — includes an expanded edition of 1996’s On Avery Island, the band’s magnum opus In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, an exclusive 12″ picture […]
Stream ALLBLACK’s New Album Born To Score Feat. BabyTron, BFB Da Packman, Curren$y, & More
The Oakland rapper ALLBLACK has been making fired-up, energetic bangers for years, and he’s really good at it. ALLBLACK also has great tastes in collaborators, and you can hear all of his gifts at work on his new album Born To Score. The new record follows 2021’s TY4FWM, and it works as a kind of […]
The Story Behind Every Song On U.S. Girls’ New Album Bless This Mess
Ever since U.S. Girls dropped the single “So Typically Now” way back in July of last year, it was clear Meg Remy’s next outing would continue the wild ride kicked off when the project signed to 4AD in the middle of the ’10s. All the pop influences Remy toyed with were in full bloom here. […]
Conway The Machine – “Super Bowl” (Feat. Juicy J & Sauce Walka)
The tough, hardbitten Buffalo rapper Conway The Machine releases a lot of music. Last year, Conway came out with the excellent LP God Don’t Make Mistakes, and he also dropped loose projects like the EP Organized Grime 2 and What Has Been Blessed Cannot Be Cursed, his latest in a series of full-length collaborations with […]
Watch A Trailer For Disney+ Special Bono & The Edge: A Sort Of Homecoming, With Dave Letterman
Next month, U2 are releasing Songs Of Surrender, an album of 40 re-recorded and reimagined songs from their extensive back catalog. We’ve heard new versions of “Pride (In The Name Of Love)” and “With Or Without You,” and it seems like the Irish band are in full retrospective mode. During the Super Bowl, they announced […]
Mae Stephens Is Evolving TikTok Pop From “ABCDEFU” To “IDGAF”
I’ve written about TikTok’s lottery-like rags-to-riches fantasy in this column before — it’s what YouTube’s head of catalog Ryan Thornton once described to Billboard as the “potential of any song to go viral.” About five years into TikTok’s mainstream reign, countless unknown artists have benefited from that literal overnight virality and parlayed that success into […]
Xylouris White – “Red Wine”
If your reference points for the lute start and end with Martin on The Simpsons, then you might be reluctant to check out Xylouris White, the duo of Cretan lute player George Xylouris and Dirty Three member Jim White. But a Xylouris White set absolutely ambushed me at a festival a few years ago, and […]