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Now that Beyoncé’s country-informed Cowboy Carter is out in the world, we get to find out about all the surprising people who contributed to it.  » 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

Despite often claiming they’re going to take a break after each album cycle, the 1975 never really seem to stop. Last week they finally wrapped up the touring behind 2022’s Being Funny In A Foreign Language, and today Matty Healy has already shared a new solo track.  » Read More

It’s not a country album. Beyoncé already said it wasn’t a country album a few days ago, but artists say a lot of things when they’re promoting records. In this case, it happens to be true. Cowboy Carter, the much-vaunted Beyoncé country album that materialized in the collective imagination when she released the first two singles last month,  » Read More

NPR’s venerable Tiny Desk Concerts series has played host to hardcore bands before (see: Turnstile), but never at the actual NPR office. Relatedly, no band has caused a mosh pit to break out during one of the sessions until now. The act that instigated that sort of physical revelry from behind the tiny desk was Soul Glo,  » Read More

Ben Gibbard is about to head out on another leg of the Postal Service/Death Cab For Cutie anniversary tour, but he was back home in Seattle Thursday for opening day. Before the first Mariners game of the season, Gibbard sang the national anthem at T-Mobile Park. As many on Twitter noted,  » Read More

Welcome to the eleventh Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Marc Abbott, Mark Moody, Matt the Raven, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide what should make the list. It was a strong seven days for new tracks, so we settled on a Top 13 this week, narrowed down from the 24 songs we seriously considered.  » Read More

It’s a tale as old as time: four friends in college decide to pick up some instruments and start a band together. With no experience and no plan other than to hang out and make music, indie rock band Chastity Belt could’ve easily seen its career start and end before graduation came around. Thirteen years later,  » Read More