At SF Sketch Fest this week, members of the ’90s comedy troupe the State staged several concerts to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their cult film Wet Hot American Summer. The cover band Middle Aged Dad Jam Band — which features Ken Marino on vocals, David Wain on drums, and often Shudder To Think’s Craig Wedren (who wrote music for both the movie and MTV’s The State sketch comedy series) on guitar — played San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall with appearances from castmates Joe Lo Truglio and Michael Ian Black, Janeane Garofalo, and Marguerite Moreau. The following night TMADJB did a second set featuring all Billy Joel covers with some of the same guests, plus the State’s Thomas Lennon. Here are a bunch of videos:

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In 2024, Chad Hugo filed a legal action against his former Neptunes partner Pharrell Williams, accusing him of attempting to register trademarks for the Neptunes name without consulting Hugo. Now, Hugo is suing Pharrell, claiming he cut him out of their company and owes him up to $1 million from an N.E.R.D. album.

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Philly guitarist Emily Robb is an if-you-know-you-know underground treasure. When I asked Shop Regulars’ Matt Radosevich who he was spinning two years ago, Robb was his reply. She’s put out two albums of noisy, primitive shredding via Pretty Bunco, and today she releases something different. Robb’s soundtrack for the short film The Space Between Attack…

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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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Last October, Slipknot filed a lawsuit against Slipknot.com and its owner. Now, after getting pushback from the domain registrant, the band has filed a notice of voluntary dismissal.

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Hawaii-born, Oklahoma-raised musician PawPaw Rod has come a long way since his 2020 debut single “HIT EM WHERE IT HURTS.” Since releasing his 2024 EP Doobie Mouth, it seems Rod has been in an incubating period. He only released one single last year “Safe Spaces,” which had a soothing country twang to it. Today, the…

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The recent trashy-fun hit Netflix miniseries His & Hers takes place in the small Georgia town of Dahlonega, which means I kept getting Ashley McBryde stuck in my head when I watched it. This was a good thing. “A Little Dive Bar In Dahlonega” is the kind of song that you want to have stuck…

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Franz Ferdinand released their most recent album The Human Fear about a year ago, and they’ve used the intervening time to remind us that they can make anything sound like a Franz Ferdinand song. Recently, they’ve covered Chappell Roan, Britney Spears, and the Smiths (with Johnny Marr). More recently, they visited Australia and paid tribute to their host country with an Amyl And The Sniffers cover.

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Three years ago, a Barcelona band called Belgrado released an album called Intra Apogeum on the international DIY punk label La Vida Es Un Mus, and we thought it was cool as hell. Despite their label affiliation, Belgrado weren’t making punk. Instead, their sound and aesthetic was straight out of time, a well-observed and specific…

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Roc Marciano makes the same album over and over again, and this is a good thing. Marci was already a veteran who’d been through the music-business wringer when he released his 2010 solo debut Marcberg, the album that basically invented a whole new strain of underground rap. On that record, Marci muttered free-associate fly shit…

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