‘Water and salt’: Qusra residents trapped in Israeli settler siege — Israeli settlers and soldiers besiege Qusra families for eight days, blocking water and aid.
Squanderers Announce New Album 'Bright Madness': Hear "Theme For The Casino At 5 A.M." — Two years ago, underground OGs David Grubbs and Kramer teamed up with nouveau legend Wendy Eisenberg under the name Squanderers, playing sparse, searching improvisational guitar-bass music…
Dawn Richard Announces New Album 'Creole Culture': Hear "Enough" — The arty R&B explorer Dawn Richard has gone down many fascinating paths over the years, and she has radiated strength through all of it, whether testifying against Sean Combs or making experimental records with…
Smirk Share New Song "Going Off To Die": Listen — We here at Stereogum are stoked for the new Smirk record, Speculative Fiction. Today’s new single, “Going Off To Die,” has us even more stoked. A fuzzy ripper about feeling “like an animal going off to die”? Great in theory, and…
Carly Simon Writes Moving Letter About Parkinson’s Diagnosis — “It is as though the part of the brain that sends out invitations to participate in life has temporarily misplaced the guest list”
Gilla Band Reveal New Song and Tour Dates Through 2027 — Alongside a surreal music video from Cuan Roche and Chanthila Phaophanit
Noname Announces Ten-Year Telefone Tour — “I hope 10 years ago in some small corner of the world you heard the imagination of young folks from the city of chicago”
Title Fight Reunite (For Acoustic Wedding Performance) — The Title Fight reunion already happened, and you missed it. Title Fight, the Pennsylvania post-hardcore greats, played their last show in 2018. They never announced a breakup or a hiatus, but they’ve also ignored the…
DIIV Share New A. G. Cook-Produced Single "The Fountain" From New Album 'ZIRP!' — DIIV surprised us with this one. For one thing, we aren’t used to such a quick turnaround from Z. Cole Smith and friends. They tend to take a fairly long time between albums, but the masterful…
Jack White Joins Stephen Colbert On Monroe Public Access After 'Late Show' Finale — On Thursday (May 21), Stephen Colbert hosted the finale of The Late Show. During his monologue, he reflected on his 2015 appearance on Michigan’s public access station Only In Monroe, where he per
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Turnstile's All-Star Album 'Never Enough: Versions' Is A Wild Ride: Stream — Just last week, Turnstile announced Never Enough: Versions, a “reimagined” version of their gigantic 2025 album Never Enough. They kept the details on the album quiet while unveiling an absolutely…
Feeble Little Horse Announce New Album Bitknot Dropping Next Week — The Pittsburgh noise-pop band’s long-awaited follow-up to Girl With Fish
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond got its first big discount — It’s $40 at Best Buy.
L7 Bassist Jennifer Finch Dies at 59 — The grunge musician died on Saturday after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer
Ministry Announce Final Album and Farewell Tours — The industrial metallers are winding things down with Hate to Go (Take Out or Delivery)
The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds - Ligo Blog — A Ligo research note on redundancy in natural protein fold space and what kind of data still carries signal.
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Vehicle Share New Single "Escalators": Listen — I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this gravel-pop track that came out earlier this week, and therefore I must blog. “Escalators” is the newest track from Leeds quartet Vehicle. It’s fuzzy garage rock that recalls ? and…
Pulp Play "Wickerman" For The First Time In 15 Years: Watch — This past Saturday, Pulp celebrated Rough Trade’s 50th Birthday at London’s Royal Festival Hall. They played all the tracks from their latest album More, which came out last year and was their first release on Rough…
Brennan Wedl Enlists Waxahatchee, Snail Mail for New Album — Watch the singer-songwriter’s self-directed video for “Pretty Little Fantasy” from the eponymous LP
Superfan Shares New Song "Picture Of Return": Listen — Last year, Brooklyn’s Kali Priya Flanagan shared a couple Superfan songs, including the Nick Drake-esque “Apeiron (Fantasy Football).” Now, the indie wunderkind has signed to AD 93 and released the new track “Picture Of Retur
Mick Jagger & Ronnie Wood Debut New Stones Song Lamenting America — The Rolling Stones will release their new album Foreign Tongues this Friday. I wrote a bit about it here. One track I didn’t mention is “Ringing Hollow,” the latest (and last?) song to get a pre-release preview…
Alabama Shakes Announce New Album 'I Must Be Dreaming': Hear “I Feel Hope Coming” — After a decade-long interim that saw singer-guitarist Brittany Howard become a solo star in her own right, Southern rock greats Alabama Shakes have been on the comeback trail, starting with a…
Remi Wolf Announces New Album 'Mud': Hear "Bottle" — Last month, Remi Wolf returned with “Twiggy,” which came with a mud-covered music video. Now, the pop up-and-comer is announcing her third album Mud. The second single, “Bottle,” is out today. “I feel like I’ve crossed into a…
US Job Growth Marked Down in Preliminary Benchmark Estimate — US job growth was more moderate in the year through March than previously reported, underscoring a downshift in the labor market that prompted the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates in 2025 despite persistent…
Nashville Star Hayden Panettiere Dies at 36 — The American actor also starred in the Scream franchise and the TV show Heroes
Hammok Share New Song "Blast Off (Blast Off) Blast Off": Listen — “Blast Off (Blast Off) Blast Off” is an objectively funny song title, and I’m not likely to forget it anytime soon. Too bad I can’t say the same thing about the band name Hammok. It would be bad enough if a differe
Clutter Announce Debut Album 'Sugar Rush': Hear "Grease Baby" — This year the fun, high-energy Stockholm rock band Clutter have doled out the singles “C.L.U.T.T.E.R.” and “GirlVsHeart.” Those will both appear on Sugar Rush, Clutter’s debut album. The band announced their LP…
Winter Shares "hide-a-lullaby" Remis With Peel Dream Magazine — Nobody will ever be allowed to say a single rude word about Samira Winter in my presence. She records dreamy shoegaze as just plain Winter, and she’s also Stereogum’s newest VJ. Earlier this year, I spent a few…
Pavement Return To The Road With A Very Unserious "Stairway" Cover — Oakland, CA’s Mosswood Meltdown has expanded to a three-day event for 2026, and last night it kicked off with a Pre-Party featuring Christina’s Trip, Memo PST, Vivian Girls, Wednesday, and headliners Pavement.…
Watch David Byrne Burn Down the House With Stephen Colbert — Pouring one out for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, which ends this Thursday
Foushée Shares New Single "Drive": Listen — In the past, I’ve referred to Fousheé as an alt-R&B singer. That’s a pretty vague genre tag, but it doesn’t really apply anymore. No genre tag does. Fousheé seems perfectly happy wandering all over the map, and she’s made some extremely
Lola Young Performs Her James Blake Collab For The First Time Then Joins His Set At Radio 1’s Big Weekend — On Friday, Lola Young shared a new song, “From Down Here,” her first since releasing her hit album I’m Only F**king Myself. On Saturday, she sang it live for the first time
Yair Netanyahu, Israeli PM’s son, angers UK right over Falklands — Accusing the UK government of ‘hypocrisy’, Yair Netanyahu backs Argentina’s claims to the British-held Falkland Islands.
Paycheque Share New Song "Heatwave": Listen — This Friday, Allison Goldfarb of Geranium and Jackson MacIntosh of TOPS and Drugdealer release their debut album Paycheque. So far we’ve heard “Generic Actress” and “Temporary Love,” and today the LA duo is unveiling one last preview
Pearly Drops Announce Expanded 'The Voices Are Coming Back' With RIP Swirl, Night Tapes, Namasenda, & More — Pearly Drops are getting ready to play Lollapalooza this summer, after which they’ll be joining Slayyyter on the much-hyped WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA fall tour. The Finnish el
Dahi Announces New Album 'Black Boy Alternative' Feat. Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, Vince Staples, & More — Dacoury Dahi Natche, the DJ and producer known as Dahi (formerly DJ Dahi), has worked on a staggering number of great records. You’ll find him in the credits of…
Apple launches next-gen Apple Silicon chips: M6 and M5 Ultra - 9to5Mac — Apple has unveiled two new Apple Silicon chips today. The M6 chip debuts in a new Mac mini model and...
Fred Armisen & Carrie Brownstein Announce 'Portlandia' Rewatch Podcast — When Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein announced plans for an IFC sketch comedy show called Portlandia way back in 2010, the idea seemed slightly far-fetched. The two had already been baking online shorts…
Giving it Away: How Free Music Makes More Than Sense — Music matters. It’s so integral and pervasive in our culture that it almost feels invisible. It’s even hard to imagine walking into almost any store without hearing music overhead. Culture provides...
Read the Full Credits to Phoebe Bridgers’ Lost Weekend — Bridgers’ third album gathers Alex G, Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, Conor Oberst, and one “Son-John Johnson” who sounds quite a lot like Cameron Winter
The sound went quiet: how New Zealand lost its mus… | Propel — In the third week of June 2026, two announcements landed on Karangahape Road within hours of each other. Flying Out , the record store that had anchored...
Meg Lui Announces Sufjan Stevens-Produced Debut Album: Hear "Elvis Queen" — Back in February, Northern California-born, Hudson Valley-based singer-songwriter Meg Lui was announced as the latest artist to join Sufjan Stevens’ Asthmatic Kitty Records. That news came packaged with…
Russia Extends Diesel-Export Ban as Ukraine Ramps Up Attacks — Russia further extended a ban on diesel exports for producers to keep the domestic market supplied amid intensified Ukrainian attacks on the nation’s refineries.
Teenage Fanclub Announce New Album Do Not Dare to Dream — The band recorded it on the remote island of Great Bernera
Tate McRae Addresses MAGA Rumors — Tate McRae is a throwback type of pop star — a flashy, hair-flipping, choreography-forward singer who doesn’t exactly work to build parasocial relationships with the fans who call themselves (swear to god) Tater Tots. She has also largely…
The Cost of Being Multi-Passionate | Merlin Jennifer | TEDxChennai Institute of Technology Women — Why are we celebrated when technology becomes multi-functional, but questioned when people pursue multiple passions? In this talk, Merlin Jennifer shares a personal story of being…
EU Moves to Support Ukraine Grain Exports and Shield Farmers — The European Union is looking “at all possible lanes” to support grain exports from Ukraine and is working to blunt the financial impact of extreme weather on farmers as part of a responsibility to safeguard global…
The Cure Tour Continues With More Live Rarities — The Cure had a busy weekend. On Saturday, they headlined Primavera Sound 2026 at Barcelona’s Parc del Fòrum and performed some rarities. The following day frontman Robert Smith made a special appearance during bestie Olivia Rodrig
Joanna Gaines’ Greek Pasta Salad Is So Good, I Make It Every Week for My Family — <img src="https://cdn.apartmenttherapy.info/image/upload//k/Edit/2024-07-greek-pasta-salad/greek-pasta-salad-1"> So fresh! <a…
Chief Keef and Katy Perry Work It Out on the Remix — An infamous online beef comes to a close on a new version of Perry’s 2013 song “Legendary Lovers”
David Lynch Accidentally Emailed John Ross, And Other Wild Pink Release Show Stories — In case you didn’t already know, the new Wild Pink album is awesome. The singles for Still Coming Down were all great, but the title track? The closer? Just awesome. I got to witness it live…
James Brandon Lewis Announces New Red Lily Album 'Calling Antonín': Hear "Dilemma Of Hearts" — Around these parts, the tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis is best known for his work with the Messthetics, the jazz-rock trio featuring Fugazi’s rhythm section. But like many jazz…
Best Pokémon TCG deal: Grab the Chaos Rising Booster Display Box for best-ever price — This deal isn't going to stay live for long.
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Portraits of Tracy, 12k Gotti, Greg Freeman, and More: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist — Our weekly playlist highlights songs that our writers, editors, and contributors are listening to on repeat
In new filings, Kennedy Center says it won't try to put Trump's name on facade until Sept. 8 — Lawyers for Rep. Joyce Beatty asked a judge to rule speedily on the complex's renovation and entrance tarp. The National Symphony Orchestra also announced its new season, away from…
Crest Nicholson Now Sees Full Year Loss Due to UK Housing Slump — Crest Nicholson Holdings Plc reversed previous guidance for a modest profit this year and now expects to make a loss thanks to a subdued housing market and lackluster pricing.
Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore Share Songs From New Film Score — The duo reunited for Threshold, a documentary about Olympic skier Jessie Diggins