This is a lot cooler than Katy Perry going into space: NASA played Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club” to wake up the astronauts on Artemis II this morning. However, mission control abruptly cut the audio after Roan sang “heels.” “We were all eagerly awaiting the chorus,” Commander Reid Wiseman joked.
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Vanessa Carlton and John McCauley have been embroiled in an ongoing legal battle with noisy neighbors for a couple years now. The “A Thousand Miles” singer and Deer Tick member brought the conflict to the Rhode Island Supreme Court on Thursday (April 2) while hundreds of high schoolers observed.
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Last year, Tekashi 6ix9ine violated the terms of his supervised release and was sentenced to three months behind bars. The controversial rapper got out of federal detention yesterday, and he was holding a SpongeBob doll he bragged was signed by the former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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The xx are back. The indie greats will be performing at Coachella, Kilby Block Party, and Primavera Sound this year, and last night they played their first show in eight years in Mexico City.
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We love Finnish screamo here at Stereogum. OK, that’s a little broad. More specifically, I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve heard from the Jyväskylä-based band Alas. That includes “Hän pukeutui aurinkoon,” a new track that hit their Bandcamp today. Alas say “Hän pukeutui aurinkoon” is a preview from an upcoming album, and as a sonic promo campaign…
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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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Last September Ava Gore and Ethan P. Flynn, aka Silver Gore, shared their great debut EP Dogs In Heaven. Earlier this week they returned with their first new music of 2026, a single called “Black Cherry Liqueur.” It’s got buzzy synths and a killer chorus; it makes existential uncertainty feel like drinking a fruity spritz.…
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James Gadson, a session drummer whose work appeared on untold numbers of records over the decades, has passed away. Fellow musicians have been sharing tributes to Gadson for the past day, and now Gadson’s wife, Barbara, has confirmed the news to Rolling Stone, citing recent health challenges including surgery and a bad fall that hurt his back. “He was a wonderful man,” Barbara told RS. “He was a great husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, and one hell of a drummer.” Gadson was 86.
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When Bruce Hornsby announced his new album Indigo Park, part of the draw was collaborations with Bonnie Raitt, Ezra Koenig, Blake Mills, and the late Bob Weir. He’s since shared “Ecstatic,” his reunion with Raitt. Now that the album is out, we can hear the rest. Koenig, the Vampire Weekend frontman, guests on “Memory Palace,”…
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she’s green, from Minneapolis, have a gauzy, dreamy sound that they call “moss music.” I think that’s cool. More bands should invent their own fake genres. If she’s green hadn’t done that, we’d just be calling them a shoegaze band, and that description would be reductive and a little inaccurate. They’re definitely in the shoegaze…
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