In February, Garbage announced their new album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, the follow-up to 2021’s No Gods No Masters. Today, the band finally shared the lead single “There’s No Future In Optimism.”

The prospect of a band successfully fusing reggaeton, shoegaze, and black metal is damn nigh unbelievable, but Pyramids pulled it off with “Fools Gold (Mi Vida Ha Ido Pa Atras),” the lead single and opening track from their forthcoming album Pythagoras. Today they’ve shared the album’s second song, “Pretty Pigs,” which keeps the unexpected genre meld going strong.

I can still hear you saying you would never break the Chain, but we here at Stereogum are doing our part to make them famous. The Australian hardcore band announced their new album today. Titled Blind The World, it’ll arrive next month via Boston’s esteemed Triple B label. Opener “Useless” is a heaving beast of a track that wastes no time getting down to business, and you, in turn, should waste no time pressing play on it if you like your hardcore caveman-like and mean.

Fingerstyle guitar maestro Eli Winter first promoted his new album A Trick Of The Light with the surprisingly rocking single “Cracking The Jaw.” Now he’s getting you to pay attention to “For A Fallen Rocket” by letting it soundtrack a pretty fun low-budget music video.

In February, three out of the four of the Chromatics reunited to make music for the Lost Records: Bloom & Rage soundtrack. Today, Ruth Radelet, Nat Walker, and Adam Miller are back with a new song called “The Veil” from the second part of the soundtrack, which arrives in a week.

The White Lotus fans bid farewell to Season 3 last Sunday. Mike White’s HBO black comedy is known for its Emmy-winning music, which since Season 1 has been handled by composer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer. But just a few days before the weekend’s finale, Tapia de Veer confirmed he wouldn’t be returning for Season 4: Tapia de Veer said the show’s production team was generally dismissive of his more experimental ideas, and that the temp score White provided him as a reference point sounded like “just nice background music.” Now, White has responded.

Metallica’s new documentary is called Metallica Saved My Life, and they’re lending credence to that notion by hosting blood drives in conjunction with a bunch of their upcoming tour stops.

One of the most underrated albums of 2024 was Porches’ idiosyncratic “hypergrunge” opus Shirt, and he’s back today with an expanded version called Shirt Expansion Pack to remind us. It comes with two new tracks, one of which is the title track, which is a very interesting method.

How do you stop someone from rising through the ceiling? This is the first line of Ribbon Skirt’s “Deadhorse,” the opening to their debut album Bite Down. It only gets more visceral and surreal from there: There’s someone kicking through window panes. There’s piss in a cup. There’s someone fucking up their whole life on a Wednesday. There’s a midnight meeting at a 7-Eleven. There’s black ice on the freeway. There’s someone crying on an airplane.

Meet thistle., the new signees to Venn Records. Made up of Cameron Godrey on guitar and lead vocals, Carey Judwyn Rushton on bass and vocals, and Lewis O’Grady on drums, the grungy emo band hails from Northampton, UK and is sharing the new song “it’s nice to see you, stranger” today, and it shreds.