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Lady Gaga has been very busy lately. She just starred as Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie à Deux, for which she recorded a whole accompanying album. Along with that, she also has a separate, proper studio album on the way, and she released its lead single “Disease”  » Read More

There’s already a shit-ton of new Christmas music out this year, and we still have just over six weeks left until the big day. Today, A Certain Ratio are throwing their Santa hat into the holiday music ring with a new EP called Christmasville UK. Lead single “Now And Laughter”  » Read More

Anklebiter shall bite no more ankles forever. The Massachusetts straight edge hardcore band lasted for a brief instant and never got around to releasing an album, but all the music that they made kicks ass. Nothing lasts forever, and it’s tradition for young hardcore bands to call it a day when it seems like they’re just getting going.  » Read More

If you know Ripley Johnson from the heavy-ass psych projects Wooden Shjips and Moon Duo, then there’s a good chance you probably also know him as the force behind the considerably lighter psych project known as Rose City Band. Lightness is a big part of the Rose City band proposition, to the point that the first two singles from their upcoming album both have the word “light”  » Read More

“All my rowdy friends have settled down/ On the outskirts of town/ We’re doing divorcee drugs in bathroom stalls/ Of strip clubs or strip malls.” So go the opening lines of “A Half Finished Wall Of Glass Blocks” by American Motors, a noisy, minimalist post-something trio (Post-rock? Post-punk? Post-hardcore? It all kinda fits…) from Lancaster,  » Read More

The other day, I was driving into Richmond for a show, and I noticed a big billboard hanging over Route 64. It was a picture of Mutant Academy, the great local indie-rap collective, and it said something like “Mutant Academy welcomes you to Richmond.” This was one of those digital billboards that keeps changing,  » Read More

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Remember 2018? It’s fine if you don’t. It’s fine if you’re trying to forget. But that’s when… circumstances forced a few fusty news organizations to figure out whether they wanted to include the world “shithole” in their articles or just dance around it. We at Stereogum have never had that problem. We are happy to use the term “shithole,”  » Read More

Annie Clark will play shows next year with Olivia Rodrigo, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Glass Beams, and Wallice  » Read More