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Overmono Went Out Of Their Minds Making Pure Devotion
Since emerging in 2016, Overmono have honed a hooky strain of UK garage. Tom and Ed Russell quickly attracted respect from tastemakers: The 2021 single, “So U Kno,” was crowned Resident Advisor ’s track of the year. Their 2023 full-length debut, Good Lies, elevated the stakes. Fr
Album Of The Week: Mallory Hawk Chinook
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Gracie Abrams’ Hell Is Other People’s Expectations
Gracie Abrams, for most of her career, has lived inside labels. The LA-based singer-songwriter is a former Taylor Swift superfan and current Taylor Swift protegee. To her fans, she's a generational exemplar of "sad girl" pop; if you Google that, you'll find an impressively long S
The Alternative Number Ones: Third Eye Blind’s “Semi-Charmed Life”
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Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Breathtaking Orchestral Album
Cécile McLorin Salvant is not a jazz singer. That’s probably why I like her work so much. The post Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Breathtaking Orchestral Album appeared first on Stereogum .
Album Of The Week: Nick Hakim I Can See
Theoretically, Nick Hakim makes soul music, but it’s more like visiting spirit music. The Queens-based polymath, a trusted collaborator for figures as disparate as Adrianne Lenker and Lil Yachty, can be heard on many kinds of records. But he may be doing his finest work in his ow
The Number Ones: Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby” (Feat. Jack Harlow)
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Jennifer Finch, L7 Bassist, Dead At 59
Jennifer Finch of L7 has died. The musician joined the Los Angeles punk band in 1986 as bassist and vocalist and played on five of their studio LPs, including 1990’s Smell The Magic and 1992’s Bricks Are Heavy , two of the grunge era’s essential and most influential albums. Earli
Jay-Z, Yankee Stadium, And How New York Grew Up With The Blueprint
Toward the beginning of last Saturday’s brief rap god reunion, a noble Black woman once again saved me from myself. Or rather, from about nine shots of Espolon and a surge of fanboy euphoria. Moments beforehand, Eminem had emerged from the dark shadows of a Yankee Stadium tunnel
Generacion Suicida Are Here To Depress The Punks
"We're here to depress the punks, I guess." That was Tony Abarca, frontman of the LA band Generacion Suicida, talking to a restaurant patio full of punks in Richmond on Wednesday night. During one of his infrequent moments of between-songs patter, Abarca admitted to being "not mu
Wanna Feel Old? This Is Phoebe Bridgers’ Tonight Show Band Now
On Tuesday, Phoebe Bridgers was a surprise guest on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show . Her backing band was a group of very skilled kids, nodding to the "Lost Boys" she sang about in her Peter Pan -inspired comeback single. Yesterday, Bridgers returned to Fallon to perform an acoustic
Band To Watch: Swapmeet
It's the songs. A lot of indie bands these days are filtering '90s alt-rock inspo through the lens of Alex G-era Bandcamp, but Swapmeet have the tunes to set them apart from the pack. The Adelaide quartet's 24-year-old members share songwriting duties and often switch instruments
Album Of The Week: Quicksand Bring On The Psychics
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The Alternative Number Ones: The Verve Pipe’s “The Freshmen”
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Los Skeepers – “NADA MÁS+”
There's a new boyband in town. Los Skeepers (Juan Andrés Paiz, Alex Olivares, Joaquín Flores, Juan Pablo Nájera, Danniel Díaz Contreras, and Jeremy Sandoval) formed in Guatemala City and released their debut single " Luismigirl " in June 2025. On Friday, they released a new singl
Bob Dylan Band Debuts Yet Another Surprise Guitarist In Cincinnati
Bob Dylan is still having guitarist issues. This past Friday, July 10, another new guitarist joined his live setup. Memphis-based rhythm & blues guitarist and vocalist J. Jad Tariq performed with Dylan's band in Cincinnati, Ohio at PNC Pavilion. The post Bob Dylan Band Debuts Yet
Jack White, The Rolling Stones, And That Old Time Rock And Roll
The White Stripes blew up fast. I was a high school senior in 2002, when V2 Records brought the prior year’s White Blood Cells to the MTV2 viewers of America. I remember immersing myself in the album on a portable CD player in the backseat of my parents’ sedan on my way from Colu
Album Of The Week: Kelela new avatar
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The Number Ones: Coldplay & BTS’ “My Universe”
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Band To Watch: Mary In The Junkyard
How would you start a band? Maybe cast a spell by putting relics of each other in a small container? The post Band To Watch: Mary In The Junkyard appeared first on Stereogum .
Jadasea, The Camouflaged Link In Groggy Underground Rap
Asking Jadasea about his new album title, Holly Grove , it feels like I’m playing a game of multiple choice. One moment, it’s a poignant tribute to his home. The next, he just chose it because he thought it sounded cool. Kicking back in his friend’s garden on a sunny London after
Metal’s Best Two-Album Years
Converge got us good, didn’t they? On April 1, less than two months after the release of their long-awaited 10th studio album Love Is Not Enough , the Massachusetts metalcore heroes announced Hum Of Hurt , their second full-length of 2026. They got me good, anyway. I profiled Con
Album Of The Week: Nixon Boyd Every Time We Turn A Corner
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The Alternative Number Ones: U2’s “Staring At The Sun”
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How Leonard Cohen, Pulse, Death Grips, “Good Music With Really Bad Vibes,” And More Influenced Brutalismus 3000’s Killer New Harmony
Brutalismus 3000, the duo of producer Theo Zeitner and singer Victoria Vassiliki Daldas, appear framed inside a Zoom window from their Berlin apartment, set against an art piece of Blade, half-human, half-vampire, posed in front of an American flag. The image is a fitting backgro
Did We Need A Gen Z Rivers Cuomo?
"Respectfully, you’ve been quite naked this era." So begins a recent Interview feature on LA singer-songwriter Malcolm Todd. Ironically, he is not naked in that interview, but he is on the cover of Do That Again , a shirtless bathtub-and-beer shot that's lit like the Backrooms. O
Die Spitz Are Moving Fast
"We're gonna try to open the pit at the Olivia Rodrigo show," Kate Halter grins. A month earlier, this would've been an insane thing to say. For one thing, Olivia Rodrigo shows don't have pits. Rodrigo plays arenas, and those arenas are full of seats — seats that are now going fo
Album Of The Week: Tasha You Are Spring!
I spent most of May at a sprawling state park, striding down dirt paths beside billowing meadows, through insect-ridden trails in the woods, and along the entire shore of the beach two miles from the parking lot: a glittering reward for the long, sweltering walk. When I listen to
James Brandon Lewis Is Here To Testify
James Brandon Lewis gives the impression of being wise beyond his years, but he’s got just as many questions as anybody else. The son of a minister, he grew up in Buffalo, NY, and attended Howard University. After graduation in 2006, he moved to Colorado, where he spent several y
Through The Flames Of Hell With Boards Of Canada
Despite a personality-defining affinity for esoteric electronics, I am not a Boards Of Canada diehard. When I want IDM, I usually reach for Aphex Twin or Squarepusher. In the scope of 1990s Warp Records, I am partial to Seefeel, Two Lone Swordsmen, and Plaid. Even the way I disco