At its best, rock music doesn’t just make noise — it offers release. On his upcoming single “Save Me, Lady Gaga,” Masque taps into that idea with clarity and conviction, delivering a song that treats music as survival, expression, and self-acceptance all at once. Masque, a gay rock artist from Hawaii, has been quietly building […]
Sondre Lerche Takes On Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars’ “Die With A Smile” For Annual Christmas Cover
Every year since 2009, the impressively consistent Sondre Lerche has premiered a just-recorded contemporary cover song on Stereogum around Christmastime. (The first one was a take on Animal Collective’s “Bluish.”) Last year the Norwegian musician did a Ryuichi Sakamoto-inspired interpretation of Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!,” and today, he’s shared his cover for 2025: Lady […]
“Georgia On My Mind,” “I Got Rhythm,” & “Dream A Little Dream Of Me” Among Standards Entering Public Domain In 2026
New Year’s Day also marks Public Domain Day, when the copyrights for thousands of published works expire, allowing anyone to freely record, perform, or interpolate them. This time around that means musical compositions (music and lyrics, not recordings) copyrighted in 1930, and the list includes classics like “Georgia On My Mind” (music: Hoagy Carmichael, lyrics: […]
Asake Issues Statement On Crowd Crush Death At His Nairobi Stadium Show
Afrobeats star Asake has issued a statement after a woman died in a crowd crush at his concert in Kenya, the second such incident at one of his shows. Karen Lojore died Saturday night as a result of a crowd crush during Asake’s show at Nairobi’s Nyayo Stadium, the BBC reports. On his Instagram story, […]
Legendary Unreleased D’Angelo Song “Bitch” Unearthed
One of the most mythologized unreleased D’Angelo tracks has made its way to the internet. When D’Angelo sat for a lengthy Red Bull Music Academy interview in 2014, Questlove popped in to chat a couple times. Near the end of the talk, the Roots bandleader talked up an unreleased song called “Bitch,” recorded in 1996 […]
Gracie Abrams – “Sold Out” (Feat. Bon Iver & Aaron Dessner)
Like her inspiration, benefactor, and collaborator Taylor Swift, Gracie Abrams has enmeshed herself within the Eaux Claires extended universe. Abrams, the hit-making folk-pop singer-songwriter, is multiple albums deep into a recording relationship with the National’s Aaron Dessner, a big-deal indie producer who became a big-deal pop producer when Swift recruited him to produce her 2020 […]
Bob Dylan Explains Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson is the subject of a new profile in The New Yorker today. Writer Alex Abramovich followed Nelson, 92, on tour this year, to get a window into this final phase of his legendary life. There’s a lot of noteworthy info in the story. For instance, COVID-19 made Nelson so sick he wanted to […]
Bad History Month – “The Fighters” (Dust From 1000 Years Cover)
Every few months you can count on Bad History Month’s Bandcamp page to update with some high-quality artisanal small-batch indie rock. Recently, that has involved a lot of covers of the same band. On his PIGWORLD series, Sean Sprecher has been recording songs by Dust From 1000 Years, the longstanding alias of Ben Rector, who […]
Bad Bunny Brings Out J Balvin At Mexico City Tour Finale, Marking End Of Feud
During Bad Bunny’s rise to global superstardom, J Balvin was right there alongside him. In 2016, when Bad Bunny was just getting started and Balvin was already flying high, the Puerto Rican guested on the Colombian’s single “Si Tu Novio Te Deja Sola.” Balvin popped up on several Bad Bunny singles in 2017. The two […]
Refused Play Farewell Show In Their Swedish Hometown
Say it with me now: Refused are fucking dead. Again. The veteran Swedish post-hardcore wreckers played their final concert Sunday at Väven in their hometown, Umeå, concluding a protracted farewell that made them just barely eligible for this year’s In Memoriam video. It’s been almost two years since the band announced their final Swedish festival […]