Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on ...

A few years ago, the producers Ryan Hemsworth and Giraffage joined forces to form a knowingly silly dance duo called Bodysync. After releasing a bunch of stray bangers, including the Dazy collab “Back ...

For many years now, the Bay Area has had one of the biggest and busiest hardcore scenes on the planet. In 2021, just as ...

In 2023, the North Carolina indie band Wednesday released Rat Saw God, and it was our favorite album of the year. That record was the culmination of a huge rise for Wednesday. Up until recently, ...

My Transparent Eye played the phenomenal Stereogum-presented Shower Curtain show in Ridgewood, giving a transcendent ...

Harrison Whitford is an LA-based songwriter and guitarist. He’s co-written songs with folks like Phoebe Bridgers and Mett Berninger, and he’s played on their records. Eli Hirsch, meanwhile, is a ...

Folk-rock musician Jerry David DeCicca has announced his sixth album Cardiac Country. Most of the album, as he explains in its Bandcamp notes, was written a few months before he receieved a scary ...

Jerry Butler, the veteran soul hitmaker who became a local Chicago politician, has passed away. Butler was suffering from ...

JoBoxers played their first show in over 35 years. The British new wavers saw chart success with their 1983 debut album Like ...

The Grammy Award-winning, Kennedy Center Honoree blues guitar legend Buddy Guy has performed with a ton of familiar names ...

The ’90s sha-la-la veterans Counting Crows have been coming up on this website a lot lately, largely because people keep covering “A Long December.” (Meanwhile, Counting Crows themselves are out here ...

Nine years ago, jazz greats Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith joined forces to release the collaborative album A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke. Both of them have done plenty of big things since then, ...