Creatively speaking, returns are uneven on Drake’s surprise three-album drop. But commercially speaking, Iceman, Habibti, and Maid Of Honour are a major coup. The albums have debuted at #1, #2, and #3 respectively, making Drake the first artist to ever occupy the top three spots on the Billboard 200 concurrently.
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Neil Young is back on stage. The music icon gave his first performance in almost exactly a year last night during his surprise appearance at a benefit concert for his friend David Suzuki. At Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre, he performed “Heart Of Gold” from 1972’s Harvest and “After The Gold Rush” from the 1970 LP of the same name.
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On Thursday (May 21), Stephen Colbert hosted the finale of The Late Show. During his monologue, he reflected on his 2015 appearance on Michigan’s public access station Only In Monroe, where he performed a test run of The Late Show to an audience of 12 people and had Eminem as a guest. “Show business being what it is these days, that’s probably where you’ll see me next,” he said in the monologue, and then pulled through yesterday.
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The Charli XCX rollout continues. This month we got “Rock Music” and its b-side “I Keep Thinking About You Every Single Day And Night,” followed by “SS26,” whose b-side, “Playboy Bunny,” is here now. Like “I Keep Thinking About You Every Single Day And Night,” “Playboy Bunny” is only available on her b-sides Instagram account…
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Rob Base, the New York rapper best known for his timeless hit “It Takes Two,” has died. Per Variety, Base, born Robert Ginyard, passed away today, just four days after his birthday, after a private cancer battle. He was 59.
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Thom Yorke was honored at Thursday night’s Ivor Novello Awards, taking the podium after an introduction by surprise presenter Harry Styles, who called Radiohead his favorite band and announced he lost his virginity to “Talk Show Host.” In interviews surrounding the ceremony, he talked about what he’s been up to, which includes finishing up the solo album mentioned by Radiohead bandmate Ed O’Brien (whose own solo album Blue Morpho is out today). It sounds like he worked on it with Sam Petts-Davies, the producer and engineer who has helmed Yorke’s recent albums with the Smile.
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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, updated throughout the week.)
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A couple of months ago, Compton club funkateer Channel Tres flipped the Crystal Waters classic “100% Pure Love” on his single “Medicine.” Today, he’s got another new track. As far as I know, this one doesn’t interpolate any early-’90s bangers, though it does have some of that feeling. It’s a heady house track with a…
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Look, I don’t know what to tell you. There’s a new Scary Movie movie, right? They’re rebooting the franchise, bringing back the Wayans brothers and Anna Faris and Regina Hall. It’s just called Scary Movie, same as the first, even though it’s the sixth entry in the franchise. There’s a Lizzo song on the soundtrack.…
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