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Swim Good Now — the project of Toronto producer Jonathan Lawless — is often collaborating. Today, he shared “The Blinding Light,” a song with a big rosters of artists, including Torquil Campbell and Gia Margaret.  » Read More

Stereogum is all about music discovery and over the past 15 years we’ve presented concerts with some of the most exciting emerging artists covered on this site. Mitski, Beach House, Japanese Breakfast, Fontaines D.C., and Snail Mail are among the acts who’ve played our events before they were major names in the indie world.  » Read More

Matt Cutler, the British producer who records as Lone, digs through rave history and makes bangers that feel vaguely dreamy and nostalgic, as if they’ve been pulled from some long-neglected corner of your mind. Two years after the album Always Inside Your Head, Lone’s got a brand-new single called “Triton,”  » Read More

Next month, PACKS, the project headed up by Toronto indie rocker Madeline Link will follow up their 2013 album Crispy Crunchy Nothing with a whole new LP called Melt The Honey. We’ve already posted the early singles “Honey” and “HFCS,”  » Read More

Soulful smooth-pop yarler Michael McDonald will publish a memoir next year. This is not a surprise. McDonald ascended to fame with Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers in the ’70s, and he went on to huge success as a solo artist in the ’80s. McDonald has been around some of the most storied figures in pop history,  » Read More

2023 has been a transitional year for jazz. We lost one of the genre’s most brilliant composers and performers, Wayne Shorter; free jazz flamethrowers Peter Brötzmann and Charles Gayle; genteel pianist Ahmad Jamal; bassist, composer and Spike Lee’s father Bill Lee; singer Tony Bennett; trombonist Curtis Fowlkes; bassist Richard Davis; pianist and composer Carla Bley;  » Read More

Tim “Shogun” Wall used to lead the great Australian punk band Royal Headache, and now he’s got a new group called Finnoguns Wake, a duo with one Finn Berzin. Finnoguns Wake will release their debut EP Stay Young next month, and we’ve already posted first single “Blue Skies.”  » Read More

Last year, the reverb-happy Nashville DIY duo Twen released their album One Stop Shop today, they’ve followed that LP with a new single called “SeaStar.” It’s a rich, layered song about feeling adrift: “Just need a breath to know what you are/ Hanging around like we’re seastars.”  » Read More

Beach House are taking it back to basics this week. On Monday night, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally played without their backing band at the Philadelphia venue Johnny Brenda’s. The show was announced at the last minute, and it included a bunch of live debuts and rarities. Kurt Vile opened.  » Read More