The Polaris Music Prize is awarded annually to the year’s best album out of Canada. For 2025, that album is All Cylinders by Yves Jarvis. The Montreal R&B/retro pop-rock hybridizer beat out fellow shortlist honorees Bibi Club, Lou-Adriane Cassidy, Marie Davidson, Saya Gray, Mustafa, Nemahsis, the OBGMs, Population II, and Ribbon Skirt. All Cylinders came out in February via In Real Life.
On Sunday night, the great actor and New York icon Chloë Sevigny attended the Emmy Awards, where she was up for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited or Anthology Series Or Movie for her role in Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story. (She lost to Erin Doherty from Adolescence.) While she was at an Emmys Toast party on Friday night, she posed for a couple of photos with Marilyn Manson, the shock-rocker who has been hit with multiple allegations of sexual assault in the last few years. Some of those accusations came from Manson’s former fiancée Evan Rachel Wood, a peer of Sevigny. People were not thrilled with Sevigny about that.
In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This column is a companion piece to The Number Ones, and it’s for members only. Thank you to everyone who’s helping to keep Stereogum afloat.
Since last fall, we’ve been following the exploits of the Irish indie rock band Cardinals. Today, the Cork-based combo is taking a big step: They’ve announced their debut album and shared its title track.
The plan was to meet at Doug Dulgarian’s apartment. Turns out I’m at his second home. Expecting a far more residential locale, I check my phone to confirm I’m in the right place. ‘I too am almost there,’ reads the text.” I cup my hand above my brow and scan the sidewalk for a familiar face.
It has arrived! Seven months before the event is set to take place, Coachella has unveiled the lineup for its 2026 festival. This time around, all three headliners are big-deal pop stars. As previously reported, Sabrina Carpenter and Karol G are right up at the top of the bill, and they share that space with the resurgent Justin Bieber, who just released two albums in the past few months and who has not done a full-scale live performance in North America since 2022. The bonus-headliner spot goes to Italian dance producer Anyma, who is presenting the world premiere of something called Æden. All three nights, the direct sub-headliner support will be an act that has been reactivated in one way or another — the xx, the Strokes, and Young Thug. And there’s a whole lot going on in the undercard.
Last week, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues hit theaters and featured Elton John. The legendary singer and pianist also stars in a new documentary from the World Gold Council trade association called Touched By Gold, and it includes an explanation of how he turned his kneecaps into jewelry.
It’s been a couple of years since we’ve heard from Katie Alice Greer. Her last release was 2023’s More Barbarism EP, made up of outtakes from her debut solo album Barbarism. Today the former Priests singer is back with a new song called “Talk To Leslie.”
Listen alla y’all: Pop-punk giants PUP and Jeff Rosenstock are currently out on a big co-headlining tour with opener Ekko Astral, and it looks lit as fuck. Those gigs all end with a big “Double Band” encore, with PUP and Rosenstock’s Death Rosenstock band joining forces to play a few songs, including the recent PUP/Rosenstock collab “Get Dumber.” Then everyone, including Ekko Astral, gets together for a big, sweaty singalong of a ’90s alt-rock banger. For most of the tour, it’s been Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know.” Last night, it was motherfucking “Sabotage.”
Avery Tucker used to be one half of the great indie rock duo Girlpool, and he’ll release his full-length solo debut Paw next month. It’s a stripped-down, emotive folk-rock record, and it sounds nothing like what Tucker made with Girlpool, and definitely not like what Harmony, the other former Girlpool member, is making these days. We’ve already posted Tucker’s singles “Big Drops,” “Like I’m Young,” and “Malibu,” and now he’s also shared the closing track “My Life Isn’t Leaving You.”