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.
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
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
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…
Brian Robert Jones Shares Comedic Musical Theater Album About The Louisiana Purchase (And Hayley Williams Is On It) — If you’ve seen a Vampire Weekend, Paramore, or Hayley Williams show in recent years, Brian Robert Jones was the guitarist onstage with the big afro. When not…
Watch ANOHNI Cover Selena and Lou Reed for Balenciaga — The musician soundtracked a Paris runway show debuting the fashion house’s new couture collection
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...
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…
Prime Day MacBook deals guide 2026: What to buy before prices increase — Quick! Lock in these discounts before Amazon matches the Apple Store's higher prices.
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music — The genealogy of electronic music.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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
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
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.
Apple is reportedly cutting hundreds of jobs from Siri, Vision Pro teams | TechCrunch — Apple has admitted that some roles are being impacted as it shifts its focus away from certain initiatives.
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.
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.
22-year-old Mozart’s handwritten notebook unearthed in ‘major discovery’ — The notebook was confiscated during the French Revolution, and has now been found in Paris.
Overmono Detail New Album Pure Devotion — The duo “oven-baked a cymbal covered in coffee grounds, crisps, and vinegar” to record the follow-up to 2023’s Good Lies
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…
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
Encrypted RCS messages now work on both Android and iPhone—here's what you need — It's a big step forward for secure messaging.
Stroll has suspension failure on new Aston Martin — Lance Stroll spins out with a rear suspension failure on the new Aston Martin as Charles Leclerc sets the pace in Hungarian Grand Prix practice.
Whistleblower claims Kennedy Center ‘rushed’ renovations to please Trump — Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse details rusting columns, uneven paint and unnecessary demolition under Trump.
The Mark of the Machine — Few forces have proved as powerful at tempering A.I. use as public shaming has. Now Anthropic is making it even easier to determine if text was generated by Claude.
‘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]
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
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…
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.
Jim James - "Wowed Out" — My Morning Jacket’s Jim James will soon be gracing us with his first solo album in eight years. The good Mr. Olliges announced Wowed Out in June and shared its pounding, soulful, psychedelic hymn “Come Again.” Today he’s back with the title track,…
The 5 worst Samsung Galaxy phones I’ve ever owned, ranked — They can't all be winners.
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.
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.
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…
JPEGMAFIA Removing Experimental Rap Track Over Sample Dispute With Punk Band — About a week and a half ago, experimental rapper JPEGMAFIA released his new album Experimental Rap. Like a lot of JPEGMAFIA records, it’s full of samples, which have often been twisted and warped. Some
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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…
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.
Morrissey Says Diversity Is A Lie Over His Lack Of BBC Airplay — You’re never going to believe this, but Morrissey is mad about something. Last month, the man posted a lengthy screed about an as-yet-unannounced BBC documentary about his old band the Smiths, claiming that it…
Dust Is Not What You Think — Dust is everywhere, but it's not what most people think. Some of it can make you sick, some of it helps rain forests survive, and a tiny fraction is older than Earth itself. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science…
What Did “Lady Chatterley” Liberate? — Once outlawed as obscene, D. H. Lawrence’s novel was meant to heal the world’s sickness about sex. Instead, it mattered most as a legal milestone, a pop-culture shorthand, and a meme.
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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…
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.
Deadly ferry fire leaves dozens missing in Indonesia’s Java Sea — Deadly ferry fire leaves dozens missing in Indonesia's Java Sea
Russia says more than 600 drones targeted Moscow region — The attacks injured at least three people, including a girl, and damaged a Wildberries warehouse, Russian officials say.
A Political Awakening in Arab America — A Midwestern Muslim family’s story of immigration, assimilation, and how one year changed the life of its youngest son.
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…
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We Pick Which Series Will Win and/or Should Win at the 2026 Primetime Emmys — IndieWire Awards Editor Marcus Jones and TV Critic Ben Travers debate which series will win and which series should win at the 2026 Primetime Emmys.
Where water conflicts pose the biggest threat in 2026 — Water-related conflicts have nearly quadrupled since 2020. As World Water Week 2026 begins, Al Jazeera unpacks the data.
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…
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?
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
Libyan Protests Flare as Government Struggles to Keep Lights On — Protests broke out again in the Libyan capital after the energy-rich country suffered its third widespread blackout in two days, fueling public anger over deteriorating basic services.
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…