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Adrianne Lenker wasted no time telling 2,400 Big Thief fans that this was not, in fact, the show they expected to see. “We have a special night for you,” she said as Big Thief took seats around a large wooden table onstage, then quipped: “If you had hopes of hearing songs you know, those can be discarded.” Instead, Len
The prolific Los Angeles underground rap staple Rhys Langston was a Stereogum Artist To Watch in 2022, and he has made a whole lot of playful, verbose, layered music since then. Langston released the album Pale Black Negative last year, and he teamed up with R.A.P. Ferreira and nahhphet on " Sound Of Horns " earlier th
Montreal musician Ruby McKinnon makes gauzy, dreamy music under the name Flower Face, and she became a Stereogum Artist To Watch on the strength of her 2024 album Girl Prometheus . Now, she's back with a hazy, glamorous, awfully pretty new song called "Bad Dream." If Mazzy Star recorded a song specifically for the Driv
The Divine Feminine was one of the best and most important albums of Mac Miller's career. With 2015's GOOD:AM , the Pittsburgh native was already redefining himself as a soulful, melodic sonic adventurer, a fixture of a burgeoning Los Angeles hip-hop scene alongside some of the brightest talents from the orbits of Odd
The music industry is facing a moral and existential crisis as AI-generated music becomes increasingly prevalent. The latest development in streaming platforms’ response is that Apple Music will begin labeling AI-generated songs. According to The Hollywood Reporter , an email sent out yesterday announced that AI labels
Wet Leg's Rhian Teasdale is the face of a new Deutsche Telekom campaign targeted at Gen Z reclaiming agency in a digitally overstimulating world. The campaign is called "Not A Passenger," and actualized in a visual, inspired by the Cardigans' 1998 hit " My Favorite Game ," where Teasdale fends off internet influencer d
Who's ready for some emo that's not afraid to writhe around in the pop-punk muck? Some ultra-catchy pop-rock, charged with angst and charging forward with anthemic energy? That's what you'll get from "Joyce Kilmer Service Area," the lead single from wakelee's new album under construction forever . The post wakelee Anno
Frankie Rose cut her teeth as a member of indie bands like Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls, and Crystal Stilts. On her own, she makes gauzy, gothy '80s-style synthpop. She has toured as an opener for bands like the Jesus And Mary Chain and Swervedriver, and she'll open for the Charlatans on their North American run next mo
The Kyoto-born, Chicago-based musician Sen Morimoto has no fixed genre, and they've messed around with things like jazz and rap on past records. This fall, Morimoto will follow their 2023 album Diagnosis and the 2024 companion-piece EP BONK! with a new LP called Time Is On Your Side , and the lead single suggests anoth
LUCY (Cooper B. Handy) is a prolific New England musician. He's been releasing avant-pop music for over a decade but also contributes to the lo-fi rock duo Taxidermists with childhood pal Salvadore McNamara, the electro-pop project Safe Mind with Boy Harsher’s Gus Muller, and the dance project Club Casualties with prod
Today, London, UK-via-Asheville, NC musician Bex Vines released "Misfortune," her debut single under the moniker lifepath99. The song, which was produced by Liam Brand (Zach Bryan, Mount Kimbie), transforms a nightmare into alternative bliss. The post lifepath99 – “Misfortune” appeared first on Stereogum .
Claire Cronin is the author of the 2020 book Blue Light Of The Screen , about her obsession with horror movies and supernatural imagery, and she's also a singer-songwriter who makes uneasy folk music that's inspired by doom metal and drone. It's been a while since we've heard from Cronin, but she's about to return with
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