Last year, Angélica Garcia released her third album Gemelo, which was her first LP of singing mostly in Spanish. Now, the experimental pop artist is back with a kaleidoscopic new track called “Butterfly.” “Butterfly” is produced by David Sitek and Ciel Eckard-Lee. On Instagram, Garcia wrote, “I can’t believe this one fr. I’m so so…
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Jellybean Johnson, the founding drummer of Prince’s band the Time, has passed away. The musician born Garry George Johnson celebrated his birthday earlier this week, and his death was announced by his longtime friend and collaborator Sheila E., though the cause is still unknown. He was 69.
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Geese have been celebrating their critically acclaimed new album Getting Killed with a tour while collecting cosigns from greats like Patti Smith and Nick Cave. Last night the rising rockers broke out “Killing My Borrowed Time” from their 2023 4D Country EP.
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It’s a big year for the Smashing Pumpkins. The band is celebrating three decades of their beloved album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness with a goth Erewhon smoothie, a reissue with a 6xLP box set, and an opera with a 60-piece orchestra.
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Olivia Dean has her first Top 5 hit in the US with “Man I Need.” She nabbed her first Grammy nomination, for Best New Artist. She performed on Saturday Night Live and at the ARIA Awards in the past week. Now the rising British pop star has reached the career milestone of publicly feuding with Ticketmaster.
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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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Billy Strings never really stops touring, so the fact that he visited The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday night was no surprise. I was a little bit surprised to see he was there to promote Highway Prayers, an album that came out more than a year ago, but I then I realized my perspective was being tainted by flawed modern beliefs about the disposability of music. It’s cool for an album to have a long tail, culturally speaking.
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This year, the energetic young Pennsylvania rapper/producer Eem Triplin released his debut album Melody Of A Memory and his Come Undone EP, became a XXL Freshman, and did a Stereogum interview. That’s a lot of activity, but the year isn’t over yet. Today, Triplin releases a new single called “If I Wanted To.” Eem Triplin…
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Any time you hear Rico Nasty trill the word “Kennyyyyyyy” on a song’s intro, you know you’re about to hear some shit. Rico and producer Kenneth Blume have both made a whole lot of music with a whole lot of people, but one might argue that the two of them made their best music together,…
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Brigitte Naggar returned this year with Anything glass, her first Common Holly album since 2019. Today the self-professed “sincere-core” artist has delivered a stripped-down cover of “Amour, Amour,” a Michel Legrand song from the 1970 film Peau d’Âne. This song has been in my head since I first encountered it during a film screening in…
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