Lola Young passed out onstage during her All Things Go performance at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium yesterday. During her song “Conceited,” the viral British pop singer looked offstage and appeared to tell somebody “I’m gonna faint” before collapsing to the floor, cutting her set short. Young updated fans later that night on her Instagram story, writing “For anyone who saw my set at all things go today, I am doing okay now. Thank you for all of your support.”
Turnstile’s massive US tour kicked off earlier this month, and it hasn’t been going so smoothly. There’s apparently been an ongoing phone theft problem that fans are begging the hardcore band to address. On Wednesday (Sept. 24), things got worse when a cop pepper sprayed a fan.
Well, someone had to cover Sufjan Stevens’ “Chicago” at All Things Go, and Lucy Dacus stepped up to the plate. Last night at New York City’s Forest Hills Stadium, the singer-songwriter performed a beautiful rendition of the festival’s namesake.
Thursday (Sept. 25) and Friday (Sept. 26), Pulp and LCD Soundsystem did two co-headlining shows at LA’s Hollywood Bowl. The second night included the two acts teaming up to cover Heaven 17’s “(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang.”
Earlier this month, Ice Spice joined forces with Latto for “Gyatt,” her first new song since the deluxe edition of last year’s Y2K! Now the viral Bronx rapper is back with the M.I.A.-sampling “Baddie Baddie.”
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, updated throughout the week.)
Earlier this week, Stockholm post-punkers Viagra Boys were on The Daily Show, and frontman Sebastian Murphy wore an Adidas track jacket with the Viagra Boys logo on it. I was like, “Oh, that looks cool.” I didn’t realize it meant that the band was about to get its own Adidas sneakers and tracksuits. But that’s what’s happening. Like Oasis and Korn before them, Viagra Boys now have their own Adidas.
Sonic Youth broke up in 2011, seemingly irrevocably, amidst the divorce of formerly married bandleaders Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. In the years since then, Gordon has not exactly given off the impression that she and Moore are still friends. A couple of years ago, however, Moore claimed that a Sonic Youth reunion is “always going to be on the table.” Last year, Moore got back together with ex-bandmates Lee Randaldo and Steve Shelley at a New York show. That night, Kim Gordon was conspicuous in her absence. But now, there’s at least some indication that Sonic Youth are doing something next year.
After teaming with his brother Josh on modern classics like Good Time and Uncut Gems, filmmaker Benny Safdie is making his solo directorial debut this Oscar-bait season with The Smashing Machine, which doubles as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s big prestige gambit. The film stars Johnson, opposite Emily Blunt, as amateur wrestler and MMA fighter Mark Kerr, and though the character doesn’t sound so different from his own background as a pro wrestler, he underwent a physical transformation for the role (for instance, he has hair).
I’m the narrator, and this is just the prologue, Brendon Urie sang in 2005. Here’s how the story goes: Four guys in Las Vegas got together and started playing music. First a Blink-182 cover band, they rehearsed in the drummer’s grandmother’s living room before making their own music. One member spammed the internet with their demos, and eventually Pete Wentz caved in and listened, prepared to tell these pests that the songs sucked. Instead, the Fall Out Boy bassist — in Los Angeles recording From Under The Cork Tree at the time — was in awe and drove down to Sin City to sign the group to his label. Thus began Panic! At The Disco, whose 19-year career had one of the bleakest arcs in recent history.