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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

A new Oh Sees track is out today. Actually, it’s an old Oh Sees track, but new to you. The psych-pop oddity “Expert Of Inner Vision” was recorded during the sessions for 2007’s Sucks Blood LP, but it didn’t end up on the record and has been stashed away in the interim.  » Read More

In September, the artsy Atlanta rap duo EarthGang released their EP EarthGang Vs. The Algorithm: RIP Human Art, the first in a planned series. Today, EarthGang has followed that EP with a new track, the first single from the next release in the EarthGang Vs. The Algorithm series.  » Read More

Sometimes, fortune smiles on you. Sometimes, you get up in the morning and the sun is shining a bit brighter, food tastes a bit better. Sometimes, Benny The Butcher and Lil Wayne get together to rip an Alchemist beat to pieces. It’s the little things. You just have to appreciate these moments when they happen.  » Read More

Alt-country singer-songwriter Lizzie No has a new album called Halfsies coming in January. This week they promoted the release with “The Heartbreak Store,” a lovely little ballad that glides through its three and a half minutes. No’s tender vocals are the star here, especially when matched with lyrics as eyebrow-raising as opening line “The cashier knows the truth.”  » Read More

For years, Bry Webb was the fiery town crier out front of the Constantines, the great Canadian rock band that blended salt-of-the-earth heartland-rock idealism with crushing, clattering post-hardcore. The Cons have been mostly on hiatus for years, and Webb’s solo career is not exactly prolific either, but he’s back today with his first new album in nine years.  » Read More

Recently, Guns N’ Roses have been releasing some new songs — or, at least, songs that are new to us. A few months ago, the band followed their 2022 EP Hard Skool with “Perhaps,” another single that reportedly dates back to their Chinese Democracy sessions.  » Read More

Warning: This article contains discussion of suicide.  » Read More

Other Half, the British trio that painstakingly evokes the sound of Y2K-era post-hardcore greats like Les Savy Fav, are back with a new two-song single for Bandcamp Friday. A-side “Hi, Hello” adopts a grandly dramatic posture, especially during the final section with the guy-girl vocals. B-side “Midnight Visitors” is wilder, more immediate,  » Read More