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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

Kid Cudi is selling his own funnel cake mix. General Mills announced Thursday that Cudder, a self-professed funnel cake connoisseur, is teaming with Bisquick to launch his own spin on the product. It’s apparently a nostalgic favorite that takes my fellow Ohioan Scott Mescudi straight back to his childhood:  » Read More

Buffalo rap hardhead Benny The Butcher has a truly chaotic discography. Earlier this year, Benny released his Def Jam album Everybody Can’t Go. A couple of weeks ago, Benny and his Black Soprano Family crew released an album called Summertime Butch. Now, Benny has a new EP with three songs,  » Read More

In 1965, the Staple Singers, already giants in the world of gospel, released Freedom Highway, an album explicitly inspired by the Civil Rights struggle. Pops Staples wrote the album’s title track, and his daughter and bandmate Mavis was in her mid-twenties when it came out. Mavis Staples is 85 years old now;  » Read More

Last month, Queens Of The Stone Age announced that the rest of their July shows would be cancelled while frontman Josh Homme headed back to the US for emergency surgery. Today, the band announced via Instagram that the remainder of their 2024 tour, including festival appearances, would be canceled as well.  » Read More

Thurston Moore is set to release a new album, Flow Critical Lucidity, in September. We’ve already heard quite a few tracks from the Sonic Youth co-founder’s latest, including “Isadora,” “Hypnogram,” “Rewilding,” and “Sans Limites”  » Read More

The wildly creative Florida singer and rapper Doechii signed with Top Dawg Entertainment a few years ago, and she scored a hit last year with the Trillville-interpolating Kodak Black collab “What It Is (Block Boy).” Since then, Doechii has released a handful of promising one-off singles like “  » Read More

The country singer’s second studio LP, House on Fire, arrives in September  » Read More

The Chicagoans did a rousing version of the Staples Singers’ 1965 political anthem  » Read More