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I’m seeing the Boss tonight, but sad to be missing all these exciting Coachella billboards:  » Read More

Coachella’s first weekend of 2024 begins today on the hallowed grounds of the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA. The era-defining fest took longer than normal to sell out this year, but it will indeed be full for a slate headlined by Lana Del Rey on Friday, Tyler,  » Read More

The late country-pop icon Glen Campbell had a long history with Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson. As a member of the famous early-’60s session-musician nucleus known retroactively as the Wrecking Crew, Campbell played on a ton of Beach Boys records, including Pet Sounds. When Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown and stopped touring with his group,  » Read More

The Cleveland band Woodstock 99 plays the kind of ragged, chaotic punk rock that careens ahead at untenable speeds and is constantly threatening to go off the rails. Their new EP 99 Ta Life, discovered through former Pitchfork mainstay’s Evan Minsker’s predictably excellent new see/saw newsletter, is a wild ride befitting song titles like “I Kissed A Cop,”  » 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

Ace Stallings, a guy who I’m friendly with, does a whole lot for the hardcore community, both in his Richmond hometown and in his new adapted home in the Bay Area. Stallings books shows, does the great Forum Of Passion podcast, and sings in a bunch of bands.  » Read More

Jason DeFord, the face-tatted Nashville musician known as Jelly Roll, has been using that name professionally for more than 20 years. Using the nickname that his mother gave him as a child, Jelly Roll started off as a Southern mixtape rapper before transitioning into a hybridized form of Southern rock and, finally,  » Read More

Last year, the Nashville DIY duo Twen released their album One Stop Shop and followed it with the one-off single “SeaStar.” Today, Twen have another new jam, and it fits right into their growing catalog of loopy, deapan, personality-driven music.  » Read More

Last year, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross released soundtracks for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem and The Killer. The Nine Inch Nails pals — who have a lot of new projects in the works — are back now with the score for Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers remixed by Boys Noize.  » Read More