Bb Trickz has signed to a major, but her new single sounds indie. “Le Le,” the Spanish rapper’s first release for Columbia in the US, is laced with a casually rolling guitar-based loop. It sounds like a sample, but the track was actually produced by Hudson Mohawke, which was quite the surprise reveal given the…

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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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Busy on the campaign trail promoting new album Philadelphia’s Been Good To Me, Kurt Vile is the latest guest on The Adam Friedland Show, as well as the latest to perform some songs for TAFS Unplugged. Vile did not make a beat on the spot like RZA, but before sitting down with Friedland, he performed…

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The LA-based electronic pop experimentalist Oxis already graced us with a full-length album in January, and she’s already ready to follow it up. A month ago, Oxis graced us with two great singles, “Grey Mullet” and “Scup.” It turns out those tracks were a preview of Oxis 9, the marine-themed artist’s follow-up to the aforementioned…

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The Field is alive! With the sound of music! The artist born Axel Willner hasn’t released much music under any of his aliases since his 2018 Field album Infinite Moment. If Wikipedia is to be trusted, Willner’s only project since then came in 2020, when he and Pelle Lundquist dropped a lengthy compilation on us…

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If you’ll allow me to channel the spirit of David Letterman for a moment: Bladee, “Blondie.” “Blondie,” Bladee. (Yes, I am choosing to pronounce Bladee as “Bladey,” not as “Blade,” even though Blade is the correct pronunciation. He will always be Bladey to me, and if he didn’t want people to call him Bladey he…

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Nick Hakim seems due to really, properly blow up, and a brilliant new album might get him there. The Queens-based musician always pops up in fascinating places — in the past few year’s he’s had credits on albums by Adrianne Lenker, Pink Siifu, Eddie Chacon, Lil Yachty, and Zooey Celeste — and his own catalog…

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Coloring Book, the mixtape that launched Chance The Rapper to unforeseen levels of celebrity, turned 10 years old this week. Chance is celebrating that milestone with a 10th anniversary tour this summer and fall. Artist presale for tickets begins Tuesday, May 19 at 10 a.m. local time (register here), followed by general onsale Thursday, May 21 at 10 a.m. local time via ChanceStuff.com. Check out the dates below.

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Clarence Carter, the blind Alabama soul singer and producer who made a string of hits in the ’60s and ’70s, has passed away. Rolling Stone reports that Carter passed away today after a stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis. Carter was 90.

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Rodney Barner, who went by the stage name Rawn Beauty, was the original frontman for Cold As Life, the legendarily chaotic and tough Detroit hardcore band. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Barner was a larger-than-life presence on the Detroit punk scene. In 1993, he was murdered, shot to death in his sleep at the age of 23. Richard Werstine, Barner’s friend and roommate, was arrested for the murder, and he failed to appear for his trial. For decades, Werstine lived as a fugitive, evading authorities. Now, Werstine has finally been taken into custody after being arrested at a dog park in Panama City, Panama.

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