The final 2026 FIFA World Cup USA Opening Ceremony went down last night at Inglewood’s Los Angeles Stadium, featuring performances from LISA, Anitta, Tyla, Rema, Future, Dan + Shay, and Purahei Soul. It also had a headlining set from Katy Perry, who was joined by the 10-year-old Norwegian singer Tius Luka for her 143 track “Wonder.”
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Here is a wholesome news story for the weekend: An Arizona man named Geoff Guy found a credit card at a Payson gas station, and it happened to belong to Alice Cooper, who had been golfing in the area and accidentally left the card at a pump. He managed to get it back to the rock legend, and was rewarded with a signed copy of his latest album The Revenge Of Alice Cooper.
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When our pal Ryan Leas covered Pop Montréal for us a few years back, he brought back word of La Sécurité, who he described as a brooding and shadowy art-punk band with a dash of Devo’s playfulness. That francophone combo is back today with Bingo!, their second LP, and I didn’t want to head into the weekend without recommending it.
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In 2018, the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody became the highest-grossing musician biopic of all time. It accumulated awards, with Rami Malek winning a Golden Globe for his performance as Freddie Mercury and the film taking home Best Picture. Now, Michael has broken the record, bringing in $911.9 million worldwide.
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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 subscribers on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)
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When post-punk iconoclast Mark E. Smith passed away from lung and kidney cancer in 2018, the Fall had been working on a new album. Now, that album is finally coming out. It’s called Post Script, and the lead single “30 Degrees” is here.
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In the past, I’ve referred to Fousheé as an alt-R&B singer. That’s a pretty vague genre tag, but it doesn’t really apply anymore. No genre tag does. Fousheé seems perfectly happy wandering all over the map, and she’s made some extremely cool music along the way. Last year, Fousheé teamed up with Yung Lean and Iceage’s Elias Rønnenfelt on the one-off single “Little Gods.” Fousheé and Rønnenfelt did a Smerz remix together, too. Today, Fousheé releases “Drive,” the new song that Rønnenfelt produced.
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Leaves drop every autumn, and this year that includes the Album Leaf. Jimmy LaValle’s longstanding ambient/electronic/post-rock project will release their ninth LP, A Body Of Voices, in October. It will feature LaValle’s recent singles with Stephen McBean of Black Mountain and Pink Mountaintops, Spencer Zahn, Maiah Manser, and Aisha Badru, as well as a new team-up with Nicole Miglis of Hundred Waters, who has apparently been making the rounds after her solo debut Myopia two years ago; she also appears on the new Bonobo album.
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Last week the Stereogum staff listed our picks for the year’s best albums so far. A few weeks earlier, during our visit to Salt Lake City for Kilby Block Party, our team posed the question to some of our favorite artists at the fest. Kilby performers including Lucy Dacus, the Last Dinner Party, This Is Lorelei, Ben Kweller, Cardinals, and more weighed in with their own 2026 album recommendations. (Isaac Brock opted out because he exists outside of time. The universe is shaped exactly like the Earth, etc., etc.)
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Last month Sari Lightman of Tasseomancy and Lightman & Lightman made her solo debut with “The Way I Saw You.” The lead single serves as the magical title track of her forthcoming album, which is produced by Meg Duffy. Now the Canadian indie musician is unveiling another beautiful preview with “Give It All Up.”
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