Charli XCX’s much-hyped pivot back to rock music, “Rock Music,” has sparked some strong reactions, including here in the Stereogum extended universe. Though my colleague Margaret Farrell seemed smitten when she posted the song last Friday, none of the rest of our staff seems that enthused. People in our Discord server mostly hated it, and…
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Britpop-era London rock band Gene have not played a show in the United States since 2002, but that’s about to change. The band got back together last year for their first performances in over two decades, and we’ve known they’d be making their way across the Atlantic since they were announced for this coming November’s Darker Waves festival in Huntington Beach. Now they’ve revealed they’ll be sticking around a while.
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In 2023, Welsh brothers Tom and Ed Russell finally released Good Lies, their debut album as Overmono. It earned our Album Of The Week honor and landed at #2 of our list of the best electronic albums of that year. Now, the UK dance duo is announcing its followup, Pure Devotion, arriving this summer. “For us,…
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Buzz has been steadily building around This Is Lorelei. In 2024, after many prolific years in the underground, Water From Your Eyes member Nate Amos signed his solo project to Double Double Whammy and released Box For Buddy, Box For Star, which was well-received upon arrival and has since emerged as one of the defining indie rock albums of this decade.
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Roberto Carlos Lange, the musician known to the world as Helado Negro, rarely goes a long time without releasing new music. Last year, he released the surprise EP The Last Sound On Earth and collaborated with people like Irreversible Entanglements and Vines. A couple of weeks ago, he shared a Sly & The Family Stone…
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Bruce Springsteen has been opening his shows with a prayer. He and the E Street Band walk onstage quietly. He steps to the mic as they atmospherically play behind him. Before a single song is performed he simply speaks to the audience. “We begin the night with a prayer for our men and women in service overseas. We pray for an end to this conflict and for their safe return,” he begins, opening with a sentiment most anyone should be able to agree with. It continues: “The E Street Band is here tonight in celebration and defense of the American ideals and values that have sustained our country for 250 years. We are here to call upon the righteous power of art and music and rock ‘n’ roll in these dangerous times.” Then, he gets a little more pointed:
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Awards-show-friendly British pop star RAYE released her preposterous (complimentary) album This Music May Contain Hope back in March, and she’s been promoting it out on the road this year. Now it seems she’ll be channeling that record’s theatrical energy in an actual movie role.
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Behind the scenes, millennial psych rock overlord Kevin Parker has been a factor on the pop charts for years via work with artists like Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, and Dua Lipa. Lately, the man otherwise known as Tame Impala has been enjoying unprecedented pop-chart success of his own.
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“Go Fuck Urself,” the new single from UK dance-punk types Fat Dog, doesn’t sound the way that you might expect a song called “Go Fuck Urself” to sound. It’s a bouncy, ecstatic synthpop jam with a huge singalong chorus, and I can imagine it becoming a highlight of a festival set. It’s friendly. Maybe that’s…
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In recent years, FKA twigs has been taking more and more movie roles, playing supporting parts in films like The Carpenter’s Son and the rebooted version of The Crow. Just last month, twigs was onscreen in David Lowery’s pop-star thriller Mother Mary, and she also wrote songs for its soundtrack. Now, twigs has taken on her first lead role, playing the Jazz Age star Josephine Baker in an upcoming biopic.
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