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The song of the summer race really heated up this week. Olivia Rodrigo’s “vampire” is pretty good, but can it beat an unearthed Steely Dan track, Fall Out Boy’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire,” and Colleen Ballinger’s apology song? They’re all on Grimace’s 4th of July playlist so I’ll letcha know next week.  » Read More

Traysh are an experimental trio with deep roots in the Chicago underground who describe their music as “somewhere between Phish, Sun Ra, Black Dice, Medeski/Martin/Wood, and Bitches Brew era Miles.” Four weeks from now they’ll follow their 2020 live album A Sleeping Village (recorded at the esteemed Avondale club Sleeping Village,  » Read More

Two months ago, Margo Cilker announced Valley Of Heart’s Delight — the follow-up to her extremely good 2021 album Pohorylle — and shared lead single “Lowland Trail.” Today the Oregon-based alt-country singer-songwriter has another new song for us.  » Read More

Can you believe it? They actually made a movie based on the esteemed reissue label Light In The Attic. Two years ago we learned that Casey Affleck and Walton Goggins had been cast as Donnie and Joe Emerson, siblings whose obscure 1979 record Dreamin’ Wild was brought to music-geek prominence by a Light In The Attic reissue in 2012.  » Read More

In terms of catalog, the North Carolina-based Tiny Engines was one of the best indie record labels to emerge in the 2010s, boasting incredible releases from the Hotelier, Mannequin Pussy, Illuminati Hotties, Wild Pink, Spirit Of The Beehive, awakebutstillinbed, Strange Ranger, and many more. Then, at the end of the decade, things fell apart.  » 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

YouTube legend Nardwuar The Human Serviette has come a long way since 1991, when Sonic Youth treated him like dogshit. This past weekend, Narduar made the pilgrimage to Summer Smash, the rap festival in Chicago. There, he interviewed Florida rap energy-bomb Ski Mask The Slump God. Since Nardwuar and Ski Mask’s last encounter,  » Read More

The charts have been lacking something lately. A certain pizzazz? The spark of excitement that accompanies big-tent pop music at its best? As we reach the midpoint of 2023, it’s hard to remember a time when mainstream pop has been so bereft of zeitgeist-seizing giddiness — certainly not during the hottest months of the year,  » Read More

Today, the Alchemist released his new EP Flying High, and one of Alc’s frequent collaborators has a new album, too. The permanently chilled-out New Orleans rap veteran Curren$y has made a lot of records with the Alchemist over the years; their most recent was last year’s Continuance.  » Read More