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Jeff Rosenstock Booked For 311 Cruise 12 Years After His Petition — Among the increasing number of bands who’ve headlined their own concert cruise, 311 are veterans. The genre-melding rockers have been working with maritime music festival promoter Sixthman since 2011, and today…

Frankie Valli Has Finally Retired, His Brother Says — Doo-wop legend Frankie Valli went viral in 2024, but it wasn’t the good kind of viral. Videos showed the 90-year-old Valli still performing onstage, going through the long-familiar motions even though the backup singers…

Lucy Dacus, The Last Dinner Party, This Is Lorelei, & More Pick Their Favorite Album Of 2026 So Far — Last week the Stereogum staff listed our picks for the year’s best albums so far. A few weeks earlier, during our visit to Salt Lake City for Kilby Block Party, our team posed th

Overmono Team With Kindora On New Track "Even Angels Ghost": Listen — The big-deal Welsh dance duo Overmono, made up of brothers Tom and Ed Russell, will release their new album Pure Devotion later this summer, and we already posted lead single “Lockup.” Yesterday, they followed

Just realized the best shows don't explain the weird stuff — they let you sit in it for a whole season and you're somehow fine with it?

Just realized the best shows don't explain the weird stuff — they let you sit in it for a whole season and you're somehow fine with it?

Interpol Announce New Album 'This Mirror Weighs A Ton': Hear Two Songs — Interpol are back, baby! To be fair, the atmospherically decadent New York rock elders have never exactly gone away. Just two years ago, Interpol played the biggest show of their career, with more than 200,0

Dinosaur Jr. Return With New Album and Fall Tour Dates — There Near is their first LP in five years

Skullcrusher Covers Tim Buckley For Sounds Of Saving — By their own description, the nonprofit Sounds Of Saving “designs and provides tools, content, resources, and curriculum to young people, ages 14 to 24, on how to discover and utilize music to support their mental health…

I wasted too much money 3D printing these everyday items when I should have just bought them — Store-bought alternatives might be the wiser choice.

Typatone — The act of writing has always been an art. Now, it can also be an act of music. Each letter you type corresponds to a specific musical note putting a new spin to your composition. Make music while you write.

Typatone — The act of writing has always been an art. Now, it can also be an act of music. Each letter you type corresponds to a specific musical note putting a new spin to your composition. Make music while you write.

Album Of The Week: Nixon Boyd 'Every Time We Turn A Corner' — Usually when I adore a musician, I instinctively hate their imitators, out of loyalty and a desire for originality. But when singer-songwriters come along and remind me of Elliott Smith, I swoon. It’s not like he…

Yasiin Bey Reissuing Mos Def’s The Ecstatic on Vinyl and Streaming — Long out of print and offline, the 2009 Mos Def album is making a comeback

Sweeping Promises Share New Song "Cocoon": Listen — There’s a surfeit of post-punk bands these days; it can be hard to stand out. That’s not a problem for Sweeping Promises, though. The first You Say I Romanticize single “Shooting Shadows” was a memorable banger, and its…

Margaret Glaspy Announces New Album 'I Am Both': Hear "Michigan" — Over the past decade or so, the New York singer-songwriter Margaret Glaspy has built up a truly solid catalog, and it just keeps growing. Glaspy released her album Echo The Diamond in 2023, and she followed it up

Galaxy Z Fold 8 hands-on: This redesign proves Google was right the first time [Video] — Foldables don’t usually get my juices flowing. The sad fact is that while I like the “idea” of a folding...

Why Hull's US Open near-miss shows major win is close — BBC golf correspondent Iain Carter examines Charley Hull’s US Open performance after she came close to landing a first major title.

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music — The genealogy of electronic music.

James Ellis Ford Announces New Album 'Lost In Another World' — The UK artist and producer James Ellis Ford recorded an entire solo album in the hospital last year, when he was in between rounds of chemotherapy. Ford, known to most of us as just plain James Ford, used to be half…

Anthropic is giving teachers free access to premium Claude features, details here - 9to5Mac — Anthropic is providing free access to premium Claude AI features to K-12 teachers in the United States. The effort is...

Deadly ferry fire leaves dozens missing in Indonesia’s Java Sea — Deadly ferry fire leaves dozens missing in Indonesia's Java Sea

Michael Stipe Shares New Song "Hum Desiderata": Listen — In April, Michael Stipe appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to debut a new song called “The Rest Of Ever” and reveal that he’s readying his debut solo album. Now, the former R.E.M. frontman is sharing another…

US congressman demands probe into Israel’s 1967 attack on USS Liberty — Thomas Massie suggests the deadly assault was not an accident and calls on the US government to honour its survivors.

The Shins Celebrate 30th Anniversary With Previously Unreleased Songs On New 7" — The Shins’ debut album Oh, Inverted World turned 25 this summer, but the band had been going for five years by the time that dropped. The wistfully chirping indie rockers are celebrating three…

Ibibio Sound Machine Announce New Album Chopping Mountain: Hear "Concept Of Love" — For a long time now, the London collective Ibibio Sound Machine has made a dizzy, cross-cultural form of party music, rooted both in disco and in the Afrobeat that frontwoman Eno Williams grew up

Dee Palmer, Jethro Tull Arranger And Keyboardist, Dead At 88 — Dee Palmer, the composer, arranger, and keyboardist best know for her tenure in Jethro Tull, has died. According to a note from Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson, Palmer passed away at home in Shropshire supported by family

Uh Huh Her Share First New Song In 12 Years — Uh Huh Her, the duo of LA synth-rockers Camila Grey and Leisha Hailey, named themselves after PJ Harvey’s 2004 album, and they started releasing their own music just three years after that LP came out. Uh Huh Her have been on an…

Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data | TechCrunch — The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.

Ben Folds To Produce, Music Direct, & Appear In Off-Broadway Musical — Earlier this week, Ben Folds Five announced they were releasing the shelved first attempt at their debut album for its 30th anniversary. Now, Ben Folds has been revealed as the producer and music director…

The Best Islands to Visit for Turquoise Coves, Cliffside Villages, and World-Class Snorkeling — Welcome to paradise.

Encrypted RCS messages now work on both Android and iPhone—here's what you need — It's a big step forward for secure messaging.

‘Lanterns’ Review: Episode 1 Lights Up Small-Town America with Big Mysteries and a Massive Twist — Spoilers — HBO's gritty "Green Lantern" series premiere is a rollicking introduction despite overloading on information and ending on a big ol' downer. [RECAP]

Booker Prize longlist: See the 13 'dynamite' novels up for this year's prestigious award — Elizabeth Strout, Douglas Stuart and Marlon James are among the 13 authors recognised this year.

Clutter Share New Single "GirlVsHeart": Listen — Clutter are a young indie band from Stockholm. All four members are about 21 years old, and they released their debut EP Loves You last year. In January, the band landed on our radar with the fun single “C.L.U.T.T.E.R.” Today, they

Thom Yorke Talks New Solo Album, Next Radiohead Tour, Music Industry Arseholes — Thom Yorke was honored at Thursday night’s Ivor Novello Awards, taking the podium after an introduction by surprise presenter Harry Styles, who called Radiohead his favorite band and announced he los

GitHub - Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust: Cpp2Rust: Automatic Translation of C++ to Safe Rust — Cpp2Rust: Automatic Translation of C++ to Safe Rust - Cpp2Rust/cpp2rust

B-52s Call Out French Festival For Making Them Set Up As Tornado Neared — This summer Europe has been enduring unprecedented heatwaves. Last week, temperatures in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and parts of France hit record highs. In France alone, the death toll from the…

Whistleblower claims Kennedy Center ‘rushed’ renovations to please Trump — Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse details rusting columns, uneven paint and unnecessary demolition under Trump.

The 5 worst Samsung Galaxy phones I’ve ever owned, ranked — They can't all be winners.

Weather tracker: Thunderstorms strike across Europe amid record heatwave — Storms are typical during intense heat but this week’s have been extreme. Plus, deadly monsoon rains in Bangladesh

Modest Mouse Guitarist Addresses Allegations Of Sending Inappropriate Messages To Minor — Modest Mouse guitarist Simon O’Connor has been accused of sending inappropriate messages to a minor. The allegations were made over the weekend on Reddit with screenshots showing the…

From Rules to Intelligence: AI-Powered Governance for Enterprise | Raghunath Loganathan | TEDxSCES — What happens when governance evolves from manual checklists and static policies to intelligent systems capable of monitoring, detecting, and responding in real time? In this…

Eight charged over alleged conspiracy to attack White House UFC event — Thousands of people attended the event last month, including President Trump and Vice-President JD Vance.

Johnny Hates Jazz’s Calvin Hayes Dead At 63 — Calvin Hayes, the British musician who co-founded the ’80s pop band Johnny Hates Jazz, has died. The keyboardist and drummer collapsed in his home in Washington earlier this week. He was 63. On social media, Clark Datchler and Mike…

24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed

Ukraine ‘cuts off’ Crimea from Russia, plunging it into an energy crisis — Ukraine is ramping up short-, medium- and long-range drone production to bring Russia’s war to a standstill.

Precision Nutrition Blog | Free Articles & Infographics — Free articles and infographics on the latest in nutrition, exercise, health, and coaching.

Precision Nutrition Blog | Free Articles & Infographics — Free articles and infographics on the latest in nutrition, exercise, health, and coaching.

Citi Says Magnificent Seven Tag Is Obsolete in AI Stock Winners — The popular Magnificent Seven stocks moniker is “no longer relevant” in assessing how to play the US artificial intelligence trade, according to Citigroup Inc. strategists.

Brazil to Offer Billions in Debt Relief for Struggling Farmers — Brazil’s government plans to publish a provisional measure on Wednesday to renegotiate more than 100 billion reais ($20 billion) in rural debt, as President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva prepares to seek reelection in…

Here's Your Song Of The Summer 2026 — You did it! You participated in the democratic process! Now that you’ve all cast your ballots and we’ve counted them, we at Stereogum are happy to reveal the results of our annual Song Of The Summer readers’ poll. Below, check out the top…

@ Sign to 4AD for New Album Autosmile — The lead single from the Philly psych-folk duo’s sophomore LP is an elliptical, seven-minute acoustic ballad

Listen to the Rolling Stones’ Song With Robert Smith — “Divine Intervention” is one of two Foreign Tongues tracks featuring the Cure frontman—if you can hear him

Nuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation | TechCrunch — The potential deal highlights a growing trend of complex, multi-stage funding rounds that mask true entry prices.

UN report: Israeli forces shield settlers during attacks on Palestinians — The UN says Israeli security forces routinely accompany settlers and act as a shield for their violence.

5 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Madonna, Ken Carson, and More — Stream new releases from Madonna, Ken Carson, Mary in the Junkyard, and more

Bangladesh Is a Nuclear Power Test Case for Developing Nations — Atomic energy offers emerging economies a way to wean themselves off imported fossil fuels, but it also has downsides.

Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’ — Four-minute miles are almost routine. Middle schoolers are beating college runners. Inside the youth track boom that’s turning kids and teens into speed machines.

Jamendo Music | Free music downloads — Free music downloads and streaming. Discover and explore 600,000+ free songs from 40,000+ independent artists from all around the world.

Jamendo Music | Free music downloads — Free music downloads and streaming. Discover and explore 600,000+ free songs from 40,000+ independent artists from all around the world.

Gomez injury overshadows winning start for Iraola — Liverpool start life under Andoni Iraola with a 4-2 win over Sunderland thanks to goals from Kieran Morrison, Dominik Szoboszlai, Federico Chiesa and Lewis Koumas.

CFTC Warns Prediction Markets Against American-Style Casino Odds — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission told prediction markets to avoid using American-style gambling odds as the US regulator fends off legal challenges alleging the platforms are illicit sports betting…

Return of goods to markets in Gaza doesn’t mean people can afford them — Displaced Palestinians in Gaza struggle daily to afford food, with soaring prices and limited income opportunities.

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