Last year, the Softies released their long-awaited reunion album. The duo of Tiger Trap’s Rose Melberg and Pretty Face’s Jen Sbragia started making hushed, intimate music together in 1994, and they released a handful of LPs before breaking up in 2000. Last year, the duo returned with The Bed I Made, their first album in […]
Drive-By Truckers & Jason Isbell Reuniting For First Announced Performance In 18 Years
Look at those adorable young men up there. That’s the version of Drive-By Truckers that existed in 2003, when the band released the classic 2003 album Decoration Day. Back then, a very young Jason Isbell was in the band. He was one of their three songwriters. Isbell didn’t write anywhere near as many Decoration Day […]
Wendy Eisenberg – “Will You Dare”
The New York musician Wendy Eisenberg is a big part of the improvisational avant-garde world. They lead the band Editrix. They’re one third of Squanderers, a supergroup with veterans Kramer and David Grubbs. They’re in claire rousay’s live band, and they’ve got plenty of other ventures and collaborations going. Somewhere in there, Eisenberg also releases […]
PONY Announce New Album Clearly Cursed: Hear “Middle Of Summer”
If you are not familiar with the Toronto duo PONY, I strongly urge you to get familiar. Sam Bielanski and Matt Morand make shimmery, catchy, extremely fun crunch-pop. It’s sleek and hooky, but it always feels charmingly homespun. If PONY have ever made a bad song, I haven’t heard it. The band release their sophomore […]
The 40 Best New Artists Of 2025
What do Tame Impala, Haim, Chance The Rapper, and Addison Rae all have in common? Though they’re arguably superstars now, in the past they were all featured among Stereogum’s annual roundups of the year’s Best New Artists (fka Best New Bands). We don’t claim to have any clairvoyant skills around here. We just have good […]
Avalon Emerson & The Charm – “Eden”
Avalon Emerson made her name as a dance DJ and producer long before she decided to try making actual songs, and then she turned out to be really good at that. Partially inspired by Jeff Tweedy’s book How To Write One Song, she started Avalon Emerson & The Charm, a project that exists on some […]
Tobias Jesso Jr.’s Second Album (And First In A Decade) Is Out Next Week
Tobias Jesso Jr. came out of nowhere, and he disappeared back into the background nearly as quickly. In 2015, the tall, bushy-headed Canadian became a low-key sensation with his debut album Goon, a set of piano-led pop songs that tapped into a ’70s singer-songwriter zeitgeist that was percolating in indie music at the time. Jesso […]
Clipse Release ‘F.I.C.O.’ Video Feat. Stove God Cooks — Watch
2025 has largely felt like Pusha and Malice’s year, at least when it comes to big Hip-Hop releases. As many were hoping and saying that they deserved, the pair snagged a bunch of GRAMMY nominations for Let God Sort ‘Em Out in the Album of the Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, Best Rap […]
Fleet Foxes, St. Vincent, Weyes Blood, & More Cover Christmas Songs On Oh. What. Fun. Soundtrack
It’s that time of the year again. Fleet Foxes, St. Vincent, Weyes Blood, and more are getting ready to release Christmas songs for Michael Showalter’s holiday film Oh. What. Fun., which arrives next month. Along with the aforementioned artists, the soundtrack also has Gwen Stefani, Jeff Tweedy, Andy Shauf and Madi Diaz, Empress Of, Uwade, […]
ira glass – “that’s it/that? that’s all you can say?”
In just a couple of days, the noisy-skronky Chicago post-hardcore outfit ira glass will release their bugged-out new EP joy is no knocking nation. The early singles “fd&c red 40” and “fritz all over you” were nervous, convulsive attacks, and the same is true of “that’s it/that? that’s all you can say?,” the new song […]