San Francisco’s Badvril were the first shoegaze band to play a federal prison, at least according to their TikTok. The group has been releasing loud, dreamy tunes since 2023, and on Friday (March 14) they shared their debut album In Heaven.

Earlier this month, Puddle Of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin made headlines for giving a disastrous performance and then claiming he was roofied by his bandmate. Today, TMZ is reporting that the singer was arrested for domestic violence on Tuesday (March 11).

SXSW is going down in Austin. On Thursday (March 13), Julien Baker and Torres — who have a collaborative album called Send A Prayer My Way arriving soon — are having fun. On Thursday (March 13), the pair covered Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried” at Willie Nelson’s ranch’s SXSW-adjacent Luck Reunion. There, they also debuted the unreleased LP track “Showdown.”

Last month, That Mexican OT was honored by his Texas hometown of Bay City. The mayor declared the rapper’s birthday, Feb. 2, will officially be known as “That Mexican OT Day.” Now, he’s back with a new song called “Check Please.”

In January, Marianne Faithfull tragically passed away at age 78. On Friday (March 14), the singer and actress’ former label Decca announced a posthumous four-track EP titled Burning Moonlight arriving in June.

It’s the 30th anniversary of memorable rock albums by Radiohead, Matthew Sweet, Mad Season, Goo Goo Dolls, Elastica, and Collective Soul so, with apologies to Christina Ricci, let’s look back at Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart this week in 1995…

Over the past couple decades, the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY became a sort of East Coast home base for the late Phil Lesh and some of his fellow Grateful Dead alums. Peter Shapiro, the venue’s owner, was the promoter behind the Dead’s 50th anniversary Fare Thee Well shows, and Lesh performed at the venue 106 between 2012 and his death last year. So it’s fitting that the Capitol Theatre and the Village of Port Chester have installed a tribute to Lesh.

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.)

The NYC sample drill producer and Surf Gang leader evilgiane is on an absolute tear. Last week he released The Hurtless, a stellar collaboration with Virginia’s Harto Falión that matched evilgiane’s hyperkinetic beats to moody sing-song rap in gorgeous ways. Today he’s back with the 62 starz EP, a six-song team-up with the Spanish rapper and YouTuber Rojuu. This one traverses more charred and chaotic digital terrain — it would be a fine chaser for the new Playboi Carti album — while maintaining some of the moody melodicism of evilgiane’s work with Falión. It’s somehow kinetic and chill all at once, and you can delve into it all below.

Playboi Carti has been playing hard-to-get for years. He’s been teasing a new album without releasing it. He’s been putting new tracks up on YouTube or Instagram but not the streaming services. He’s gone four years without a full-length statement. So when Carti announced that his long-awaited LP would finally arrive today, people got excited. Many of those people stayed up late. It was a long night for them.