It looks like it’s about to be Dominic Fike season. Since he released his 2023 album Sunburn, he’s returned to Euphoria for its third season, worked with Kevin Abstract on new music, and is now releasing some new stuff of his own. Fike is adamant that he’s not releasing a new album, but he does have a new mixtape on the way. It’s called Rocket, and it will be out one week from today via Columbia Records. He’s dropped three new singles “All Hands On Deck,” “Aftermath,” and “Smile” as a preview of the new project.

Last year Sean Kingston, the Miami-born, Jamaica-raised singer behind the 2007 #1 hit “Beautiful Girls,” was arrested along with his mother, Janice Turner, for more than $1 million worth of wire fraud. Shortly thereafter, we learned that Kingston might be facing years in prison for those crimes, and indeed, his mom was recently sentenced to five years following the pair’s conviction back in March for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and four counts of wire fraud. Now 35-year-old Kingston — real name Kisean Paul Anderson — has been sentenced too.

Speaking things into existence is a powerful tool, even if it’s just a casual comment to then-strangers on your first day at college orientation. It might initially seem insignificant, but when that comment becomes real years later, it feels like time folding in on itself – your future self catching up with your past self and vice versa. That’s the kind of spiritual déjà vu that comes to mind when I speak to Racing Mount Pleasant members Connor Hoyt, Kaysen Chown, Sam DuBose, and Sam Uribe about how their big-band folk rock project came together.

The culty, genre-blurring R&B artist has been on a crazy trajectory over the past few years. As a military brat, Dijon Duenas grew up all over the world, and I just found out that he and I went to the same high school in Ellicott City, Maryland. Nobody prominent went to that school; the prominent-alumni part of our Wikipedia page is a disaster. Go Eagles, anyway. Dijon started out as one half of the duo Abhi + Dijon, and then he contributed to records from people like Brockhampton and Charli XCX. He released his debut album Absolutely in 2021. That album wasn’t a blockbuster, but it’s been a sneakily huge influence on artists from across the pop spectrum. Today, Dijon releases his second album, and it seems primed to become a big deal. It’s also fucking awesome.

It’s been seven years and a whole lot of hits since Cardi B released her debut album Invasion Of Privacy, and album number two is finally coming out in about a month. Cardi’s sophomore LP Am I The Drama? will feature her recent single “Outside,” as well as the years-old hits “WAP” and “Up.” Today, Cardi shares another new single, and this one is a full-blown homage to a Jay-Z deep cut from 1997.

In 2023, Bauhaus’ Daniel Ash told us about his supergroup Ashes And Diamonds with Bruce Smith (Public Image Ltd., the Pop Group) and Paul Spencer Denman (Sade, Sweetback), and today it’s finally here. The band is announcing their debut album Ashes And Diamonds Are Forever, and their debut single “On A Rocka” is out now.

Indie rock oddballs Vundabar made fun tunes out of sad circumstances on their March LP Surgery And Pleasure. Today, the Boston band is back with a new outlandish earworm called “Big Bad Bubble Boy.”

The great Sinéad O’Connor had a brief, tumultuous run as a pop star in the late ’80s and early ’90s before the media and the American public turned on her. She went on to a long, eventful career before passing away in 2023 at the age of 56. Before her death. O’Connor told her own story in a memoir and a documentary. Now, inevitably, a Sinéad O’Connor biopic is in development.

Some shit is going down. We’re looking at a brewing feud between Lana Del Rey and Ethel Cain, our two greatest creators of expansive torch songs about American malaise. Last night, Del Rey shared a minute-long teaser for a new song, describing it as “Track 13” and tagging Jack Antonoff, the producer of the new album that she’s been working on for a while. The opening lyric: “Ethel Cain hated my Instagram post.” What is she talking about

Over the past week, you, the readers of Stereogum, have cast your votes to determine this year’s Song Of The Summer — and if I may say so, you have voted well. Today, we’re ready to reveal the results of the poll. Check out the top 10, and a graphic listing our past 15 years of winning tracks, below.