In May, NYC-based musician Grant Chapman, who’s the percussionist for Chris Taylor’s Body Meat, released the self-titled debut for his sample-based project Torture Methods. Torture Methods is a gothic, glitch-ridden nightmare — but one of those fun ones that plays out in the mind like a surrealist arthouse film. On Friday Sept. 18, Chapman returned with a new single “RIPPER, REAPER.”
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New heavy metal enthusiast William Shatner and his metal group the *uckers made their debut on Sept. 19 at Park West in Chicago. He and his band — composed of guitarists Marcus Nand and Britt Lightning, bassist Phil Soussan, and drummer Fred Achin — are performing tonight at Riot Fest on the Rebel Stage. But last night they did a warm up gig for fans.
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Ed Sheeran’s tour has been in shambles this week after ousting tour opener Macklemore, who made pro-Palestinian remarks in New Jersey earlier this month. Following controversy over those MetLife Stadium shows, billionaire Robert Kraft, whose Kraft Group owns Gillette Stadium, where one of Sheeran’s shows was set to take place, called for Macklemore to be kicked off the tour.
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Plagiarism in music is always a hot topic, and especially so since Stella Lefty’s four ripoff allegations. Fellow young singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine just released her new album Angel, and she’s opening up about accidentally copying a Nick Drake song.
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Over the past few years, Abel Tesfaye has made a fuss over his “the Weeknd” stage name, going back and forth about whether or not he’s going to retire it. It looks like he’s not, as he debuted a new Weeknd song called “Rio” in April, and tonight he debuted another one called “Tokyo.”
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Σtella!!!! The Greek indie/pop artist Σtella returned this week with a new single for Sub Pop, co-produced by the tasteful and well-traveled Rodaidh McDonald. “Belinda” is a beautiful piece of work, carefully crafted but heartfelt, with lots of smart production choices to accentuate the music’s power. Rafael Cohen of !!!, who worked on Σtella’s 2025 album Adagio, also contributes here.
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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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In July, 2hollis leaned into darkness with “Hurt,” a cinematic track that flirted with industrial techno. Now, the unpredictable rapper/singer is back to EDM-infused pop bombast with his new song “Sex.”
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Don’t worry, we’re not going to try to make you pay attention every time one of the BlackPink girls releases a solo track. But if one of them happens to make a banger, you might want to know about that. Rosé, the New Zealand-born BlackPink member, has made at least one banger outside the context of the huge K-pop group. Her 2024 Bruno Mars collab “APT” was a global smash, and it’s still by far the biggest solo track to come from the BlackPink mothership. The same thing could conceivably happen with hew new single “new trick.”
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The purpose of this blog post its to get you to listen to Yaphet, the new album from Philadelphia indie rapper Curly Castro. In most cases, the headline of the post would just be something about how that album exists. But a prospective reader might be more likely to click after seeing lots and lots of other underground rap names in the headline. As it happens, Yaphet opens with a gigantic six-minute posse cut that sounds like the Backwoodz Studioz Avengers assembling, so that’s what goes in the headline. It’s just how the internet works.
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