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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

Owen Ashworth has quietly built up quite a legacy in indie music. Besides his prior work as Casiotone For The Painfully Alone and his more recent releases as Advance Base, Ashworth co-runs the great indie label Orindal Records, which has released music by a truly great roster of artists including Wednesday,  » Read More

Veteran producer Trevor Horn is rolling out Echoes – Ancient & Modern, a new covers album pairing Horn with an array of his favorite singers. It’s how we ended up with Tori Amos covering Kendrick Lamar, and it also includes a reunion between Horn and Seal.  » Read More

Welcome to the 32nd Songs of the Week of 2023. This week Caleb Campbell, Mark Moody, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphires all helped me decide what should make the list. It was a quiet week for new tracks, so we settled on a Top 7.  » Read More

One tip: don’t even consider approaching The Taste of Things with an empty stomach.  » Read More

Chris Walla, the former Death Cab for Cutie founding member/guitarist/producer, has surprise-released a new EP of songs he originally recorded in 2002. It’s fittingly titled 2002 ep and is out now, timed to Bandcamp Friday.  » Read More

Next week, Bay Area-based indie singer/songwriter Anna Hillburg is set to return with her forthcoming third album, Tired Girls. Hillburg first debuted with her 2013 self-titled album and followed in 2018 with her sophomore effort, Really Real. Tired Girls sees her operating from a similarly evocative and ornate chamber pop mold, but also sees her incorporating swelling horn arrangements,  » Read More

Ben Gibbard couldn’t have asked for a more mythical year than 2003.  » Read More

“This album is a burning building,” says Andrew Savage of his second solo album, “and these songs are things I’d leave behind to save myself.”  » Read More