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0 Stars Conjure Trembling Indie Rock Beauty On New Album World No. 2

Brooklyn’s Mikey Buishas (formerly of Really Big Pinecone) makes music under the name 0 Stars, and although we don’t assign ratings around here outside the Number Ones franchises, IMO his new album World No. 2 deserves several more stars than that. Released last week, it’s the first release from this project since 2019’s Blowing On…

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Timothée Chalamet Won’t Say Whether He’s Really EsDeeKid

There’s this UK rapper named EsDeeKid, right? White kid from Liverpool. Always wears a mask. Thick accent. Raps over the glitchy, twitchy UK underground beats that are currently picking up all kinds of buzz online. EsDeeKid hasn’t been making music for a long time, but he makes a lot of it. In his videos, he’s usually all in shadow. He’s keeping things mysterious on purpose, and the internet is having a lot of fun with the idea that he’s really Timothée Chalamet. Chalamet himself can neither confirm nor deny.

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Roger Daltrey Knighted

Life is crazy. One day, you sing a song where you’re like, “Hope I die before I’m knighted in the king’s birthday honours list,” and then bam, decades later, you’re knighted in the king’s birthday honours list. As of yesterday, the Who frontman Roger Daltrey is now the Who frontman Sir Roger Daltrey.

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Colleen Shares New Album Libres antes del final: Hear “Antídoto”

Any time you see the name “Colleen” on Stereogum, it’s probably going to be us gushing over the perpetually underrated fuzz-pop singer-songwriter Colleen Green. Not this time, though! (Well, maybe a little bit this time. Coleen Green rules. You should listen to her.) Colleen is also the stage name of Cécile Schott, a French producer…

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Hear Grove’s Galvanizing Three-Track EP Hydra

Things are fucking rotten, and Grove’s latest collection of three tracks is not holding back on what a hot, ragged mess everything is. It’s kinetic, clawing, ready-for-battle club music that at one point samples Irish PM Thomas Gould advocating for Benjamin Netanyahu to burn in hell and then also shouts out Luigi Mangione as a…

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Softcult – “Queen Of Nothing”

We’ve heard a lot of promising previews of the new Softcult album When A Flower Doesn’t Grow: “Naive,” “Pill To Swallow,” “16/25,” and “She Said, He Said.” Now the Montreal duo is back with a shoegazy gem called “Queen Of Nothing.” “This song is about the double standards, harsh judgements, and unrealistic expectations that patriarchal…

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M83 Shares Score For Sci-Fi Art Film Resurrection

M83 is back on his film score bullshit. For a long time now, Anthony Gonzalez has been balancing out work for visual media with his own mainline M83 records. Earlier this year, he released A Necessary Escape, his soundtrack album for the documentary Dakur Chronicles. Today, he shares another new score, this one for the…

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