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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

Jay-Z has a funny relationship with the written word. As a rapper, Jay famously never wrote anything down. Instead, he assembled entire verses in his head, going into his fabled rain-man state to fit all those interlocking pieces together. But writers have probably published millions of words about Jay, and Jay has published some words about himself,  » Read More

Big day for Weezer news. Not only did Rivers Cuomo welcome Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan to the stage last night in Queens, he also stars in a new ad for Ash & Erie, a clothing brand designed for short men.  » Read More

Everyone loves Weezer. Maybe most of us have more of a love-hate dynamic going on, but the love is in there. That extends to Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan, who enthusiastically joined Rivers Cuomo and friends onstage last night at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens.  » Read More

How do you write an 11-minute powerviolence song? How is that possible? As a genre, powerviolence is defined, at least in large part, by its brevity. Bands challenge themselves and each other to come up with short, disorienting bursts of anxiety. A song might be 45 seconds long, and it might switch riffs and tempos three times.  » Read More

Welcome to the 24th Songs of the Week of 2023. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because of the July 4th holiday falling on a Tuesday, leaving less songs to consider. So, this week’s Songs of the Week is supersized and incorporates tracks from the last two weeks.  » Read More

Irish singer CMAT has shared a video for her new song “Where Are Your Kids Tonight” (featuring John Grant), which is the latest release from her upcoming album Crazymad, For Me  » Read More

Georgia-based metal band, Baroness, have shared a music video for their new song, “Beneath the Rose,” which is the second single to be released from their upcoming album, STONE.  » Read More

Make no mistake that Palehound’s (aka El Kempner) latest album, Eye on the Bat (released today on Polyvinyl), is of the breakup variety. But that’s hard to assess from its opening track, “Good Sex.”  » Read More