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Over the weekend, many fathers took their young boys into the city to see some pop-punk bands. The 2024 iteration of Las Vegas’ When We Were Young festival is currently underway, and headliners My Chemical Romance did their 2006 opus The Black Parade front-to-back Saturday night. MCR initially broke up in 2013,  » Read More

Laura Marling is getting ready to follow up Song For Our Daughter, one of the Best Albums Of 2020, with Patterns In Repeat, her new LP out this Friday. To celebrate, the British singer-songwriter stopped by Later… With Jools Holland for her first live performance in almost three years.  » Read More

Saturday night, Joni Mitchell played her first Los Angeles show in 28 years at the Hollywood Bowl. Like her 2022 surprise set at Newport Folk Festival and her 2023 headlining gig at the Gorge Amphitheater, the legendary singer-songwriter was joined by her rotating cast of backing band members known as the Joni Jam.  » Read More

Billie Eilish was the musical guest on SNL Saturday night, her fourth time doing so in just five years. She released her most recent album Hit Me Hard And Soft back in May, and she performed two songs from it: “Bird Of A Feather,” which featured accompaniment from Finneas,  » Read More

The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inducted its 2024 class with a five-and-half-hour all-star ceremony at Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse on Saturday night. Of the 15 acts nominated for the honor in 2024 Eric B. & Rakim, Mariah Carey, Jane’s Addiction, Lenny Kravitz, Oasis, Sinéad O’Connor, and Sade will have to wait at least another year.  » Read More

It’s been a rough year for the Black Keys. Ohio Players, their attempt to recapture their Brothers/El Camino-era moment of mainstream penetration, topped out at #26 — the lowest chart peak for one of their albums since 2006 and their first that failed to crack the top 10 since 2008.  » Read More

Alex Greenwald famously covered Radiohead’s “Just” with Mark Ronson, so it’s (ahem) no surprise that his band busted out some Radiohead Wednesday night in Jersey City. At White Eagle Hall, Phantom Planet started their headlining set by playing through their underrated Dave Fridmann-produced 2004 self-titled album (i.e., not the one with “California”).  » 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

British nu-disco queen Sophie Ellis-Bextor was thrust back into the spotlight last year when the movie Saltburn used her 2001 hit “Murder On The Dancefloor” to soundtrack its memorably salacious final scene. Today she’s released her first new song since then, a heater titled “Freedom Of The Night.”  » Read More