Fresh off the release of her new album Man’s Best Friend — her second album in a row to debut at #1 — Sabrina Carpenter performed album highlight “Tears” live for the first time at the VMAs tonight. Evoking the retro, Rocky Horror Picture Show-inspired visuals of the song’s music video, the performance began with Carpenter crawling out of a manhole and ended with lots of water pouring onto the stage.
Last month, Brent Faiyaz announced his third studio album Icon on his Instagram Story. The Maryland R&B singer released “peter pan.” and “tony soprano.” officially, but he dropped “full moon. (fall in tokyo)” on his extremely aesthetically pleasing website, and that’s also how he shared the newest one, “if. (spring in new york).”
The saga continues: Charles Bissell of the Wrens says that Car Colors is, in fact, not done. The musician clarified this in the comments of our recent post about no more Car Colors music was coming, considering he’d told a fan, “I just no longer want to do this anymore.” But this is not the case.
Last night, Dua Lipa’s massive Radical Optimism World Tour finally kicked off its US leg. In Chicago, the pop star brought out the city’s own soul and funk legend Chaka Khan to perform her 1983 hit “Ain’t Nobody” together.
Bruce “Loose” Calderwood, the vocalist and bassist for San Francisco punk band Flipper, has died. The frontman reportedly passed from an apparent heart attack. He was 66.
Mark Volman, the musician who co-founded the Turtles and the offshoot band Flo & Eddie, became a member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers Of Invention, and changed the course of sampling with his lawsuit against De La Soul, has died. Volman revealed in 2023 that he was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease Lewy body dementia in 2020, but he continued to tour after the diagnosis. According to Deadline, he died today in Nashville following a brief, unexpected illness. He was 78.
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.)
Late last year we checked in on the ascendent Boston rapper Rich Amiri as he released his career-best album War Ready. He’s already ramping up to a new one, Grit & Grace, which includes last month’s lead single “Paranoid.” Today he’s back with another preview, “In & Out,” which is the kind of booming, ominous post-Future trap track Amiri excels at. Listen below.
Back in February we learned Green Day were making a touring-oriented road trip comedy with the behemoth music venues and ticketing monopoly Live Nation and that they were casting “punks, emo, hardcore & alt people” to work as extras during wintertime shoots in Oklahoma City. We now know a bit more about the film.
Icelandic outfit múm have been preparing us for their first album in seven years — History of Silence, out two weeks from today — with the glistening singles “Mild At Heart” and “Only Songbirds Have A Sweet Tooth.” Today, they’ve shared another titled “Kill The Light.”