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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

Next month, the fast-expanding Leeds post-punk band Yard Act will release Where’s My Utopia?, their much-anticipated sophomore album. We’ve already posted the early singles “Dream Job,” “Petroleum,” and “We Make Hits.” Today, Yard Act have followed those singles with “When The Laughter Stops,”  » Read More

There are so many what-ifs surrounding the role of Tej Parker in the Fast & Furious films. In 2003, John Singleton directed 2 Fast 2 Furious, and he could not lure Ja Rule back to play his part from the first Fast And The Furious movie.  » Read More

Last year, Glixen shared their debut EP She Only Said, a collection of gripping, gauzy shoegaze songs (the opener, aptly titled “Splendor,” is my favorite). The Phoenix band has dates coming up with Interpol, Glitter, Softcult, and more. Today they’re releasing “foreversoon,” which, with its heavy,  » Read More

Bahhaj Taherzadeh, the Persian-Irish singer-songwriter now based in Chicago, is about to release his first album in eight years. Days Outside Of Time, the follow-up to 2016’s Everything Behind Us Is A Dream, features contributions from Glen Hansard and producer Will Stratton. And on opening track “Lights Over London,”  » Read More

Boris, the prolific Japanese fuzz-metal institution, never sits still for long. Late in 2022, the power trio released their surprise album Fade. Last year, they teamed up with Uniform for the collaborative LP Bright New Disease. Now, they’re getting together with another long-running Japanese act for a new split release.  » Read More

Dancer, the charmingly off-kilter Glasgow indie-pop band, are building toward the release of debut album 10 Songs I Hate About You. They shared closing track “Passionate Sunday” last month, and today they’re back with “Change.” It’s a bright, bass-forward track that matches the scraping rhythmic energy of post-punk with Gemma Fleet’s piercingly catchy vocals.  » Read More

Since reforming in 2013, Slowdive has now been around longer than their initial run in the early ’90s. The music industry they now inhabit has morphed into something that would have been completely unrecognizable to their younger selves. But Slowdive’s guitarist, singer (alongside Rachel Goswell), and primary lyricist, Neil Halstead, has never been the type of musician to dwell on the past.  » Read More

British post-punk band Yard Act are releasing a new album, Where’s My Utopia?, on March 1 via Republic. Now they have shared the album’s fifth single, “When the Laughter Stops,” via a music video. The song features Katy J Pearson and the video features actor David Thewlis (Naked, Wonder Woman, and various Harry Potter movies).  » Read More