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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 Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music,  » Read More

Joey Beerman’s recent string of Sipper singles has been keeping us clicking. “Nap,” “Sid,” and “Amends” all mixed surging, subterranean dance beats with rock and pop in ways that pleasingly call back to the late ’90s. Today’s new track “If You Didn’t Want”  » Read More

David Soul, the actor and musician known for starring the ’70s cop show Starsky & Hutch and for the chart-topping 1977 ballad “Don’t Give Up On Us,” has died. As the BBC reports, Soul’s wife Helen Snell says that he passed away yesterday “after a valiant battle for life in the loving company of family.”  » Read More

Buzzed about new British five-piece The Last Dinner Party are releasing their debut album, Prelude to Ecstasy, on February 2 via Island. Now they have shared another new song from it, “Caesar on a TV Screen,” via a music video.  » Read More

Some records open doors, giving birth—and lending credence—to entirely new sub-genres. In 2013, Deafheaven’s Sunbather did precisely that, firmly demonstrating that dark metal needn’t be the preserve of neck-bearded Northern European doom-mongers, instead invigorating the genre with melody, lyrical tenderness, and a depth of musical arrangement and instrumental diversity almost previously unheard of within its traditionally insular enclave.  » Read More

Next week, Burlington-based indie folk singer/songwriter Lily Seabird is set to release her forthcoming sophomore record, Alas, out January 12th. After playing bass with Greg Freeman since 2018, Seabird released her debut solo LP, 2021’s Beside Yourself. Her latest album finds Seabird moving forward into new songwriting modes, moving between spectral indie folk and cascading blends of alt country,  » Read More

Former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher and former Stone Roses guitarist John Squire have teamed up for a new song, “Just Another Rainbow.” It is the first taste from a yet to be officially announced collaborative album together.  » Read More

Former guitarist Jeff Schroeder departed last October after 15 years in the band  » Read More

Stream new releases from Sprints; Khadija Al Hanafi; Pile; Luis R Conriquez; Ñengo Flow; Park Jiha, Oliver Coates & Agnes Obel; and Johnny Cinco  » Read More