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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There’s no Hole reunion. That’s not happening. Ex-bandmates Courtney Love and Melissa Auf Der Maur have been hanging out lately, but Love has made it clear that they weren’t actually teasing a full-band reunion. Meanwhile, former Hole drummer Patty Schemel is auctioning off an old T-shirt once owned by Kurt Cobain.

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The twitchy, idiosyncratic Detroit rap weirdo Veeze became a cult hero on the strength of his debut album Ganger, which Stereogum correspondent Peter A. Berry picked as 2023’s best rap album. Since then, Veeze has released a steady string of one-off singles like “Signed A Napkin,” “L.O.A.T.,” and the Lil Yachty collab “Can’t Be Crete…

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Last September, Los Angeleno singer-songwriter-producer Jordan Patterson shared her debut album The Hermit, a solid introduction to her soulful folk-pop. Evidently, that album caught the ears of Secretly Canadian, who are releasing Patterson’s newly announced follow-up EP Songs From A Valley Girl. Its lead single “Just My Friend” is out today, a vivid, upbeat piano…

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Josh Conway, one of the founding members of the Grammy-nominated, TikTok-viral, Stereogum-endorsed group the Marías, is releasing his first solo album. Earlier this year, his bandmate María Zardoya released her own solo project under the name Not For Radio. Conway, the drummer-producer-songwriter, will release his debut solo LP plum in just a few weeks ago.…

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Baltimore pop-punkers Pinkshift are on a seriously prolific run right now. They released their album Earthkeeper last August, then followed it with the single “Snow” a few months later. Today, they drop a new song called “When We Were Friends,” a pogo anthem about post-breakup clarity. Here’s what they say about it: This song was…

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