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A little more than two years ago, the much-hyped Las Vegas rapper Baby Keem released The Melodic Blue, his debut album. Keem hasn’t put out another record since then, but he’s been plenty busy. Earlier this year, Keem and his cousin Kendrick Lamar released their single “  » Read More

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Last month, Buffalo rap phenom Benny The Butcher teamed up with an on-fire Lil Wayne to release “Big Dog,” the first single from his next major-label album. It’s one of the best songs of Benny’s whole career, and it’s a hell of an introduction for that next LP.  » Read More

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

Last week, the legendary Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan died at the age of 65. Today, MacGowan was laid to rest in the Irish town of Nenagh, in County Tipperary. Thousands of MacGowan’s friends and admirers came out to pay their respects, and some of them sang his songs at the funeral.  » Read More

David Letterman is a huge fan of the National. Back in the spring, he said he wished he could be Matt Berninger, and last month, when Letterman guested on his successor Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, the National were the musical guest by Letterman’s request.  » Read More

It must be nice to be the CEO of a guitar company. You can just do whatever! You can start a band with two massively important musicians, and then you can name the band after your company! Who gives a fuck! You’re rich!  » Read More

Allow me to reintroduce Because The Internet. Released 10 years ago this Sunday, Childish Gambino’s sophomore “album” is a haphazard screenplay (no longer included with the project but preserved on Tumblr), a 25-minute film prelude titled “Clapping For The Wrong Reasons,” since taken-down reference scenes, and a soundtrack divided into seven chapters,  » Read More

For the rising British indie outfit Wings of Desire, creation is a process of rebirth and reinvention. The band itself was born from the wreckage of another, with bandmates James Taylor and Chloe Little first beginning their creative partnership with their time in the band INHEAVEN.  » Read More