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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It’s one of my favorite traditions: Every December, Knifeplay — those Philadelphia-based practitioners of slow-burn sonic splendor — re-release their Christmas EP on Bandcamp with one new song added, then it disappears from the internet again when the holiday season wraps up, like a trio of ghosts that visited you in the night. They’ve done…
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NYC multi-instrumentalist Sabrina Fuentes releases simmering, gritty pop music as Pretty Sick. Today, she returns with her first new single in over a year. “Star” features production from Oscar Scheller, and it comes with an entrancing video. “Star” has some pretty searing lyrics, including “Painless god I love being so famous” and “You’re a star…
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Last month Silversun Pickups released “The Wreckage” and announced their forthcoming seventh studio album Tenterhooks, out next February. Today the LA four-piece has returned with another preview of the project with the single “New Wave.” The band’s Brian Aubert revealed that “New Wave” was the first song they recorded for Tenterhooks, setting the tone. He…
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2025 has been a big year for maximalist future-music shapeshifter Jane Remover. They released her opus Revengeseekerz, which landed them on our lists of the best albums and tracks of the year. They also dropped Ghostholding, an LP from their Venturing alter-ego. they released and then deleted a mixtape called Indie Rock. They collaborated with…
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Lily Allen appeared out of nowhere in October with her first album in seven years, West End Girl, a conceptual narrative pop song cycle that goes into brutal detail about the end of her marriage to actor David Harbour. She’s since announced a tour of the UK and been confirmed for SNL, and this week she released the album on a USB drive shaped like a butt plug. Now she’s revealed plans to bring West End Girl to North America in a more extensive way.
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It’s always cool when a legendary act covers a much younger peer, and it’s even cooler when it happens on an underground level. That’s what’s going on here. Last year, the Softies, a ’90s cult-favorite twee duo, got back together and released The Bed I Made, their first album in 24 years. Today, they salute…
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Just a couple of months ago, Guns N’ Roses lead guitarist Slash said the band was sitting on “so much material” and that a new album was “coming.” Guns N’ Roses don’t necessarily have the best reputation for releasing albums in a timely manner — and today’s news is not an album announcement — but…
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The Florida-born, Brooklyn-based rapper Niontay has become an underground staple in recent years, and he’s working fast. Earlier this year, Niontay released his album Fada<3of$. Before 2025 is out, he’ll follow that album with Soulja Hate Repellant, a new mixtape that’ll feature collaborations with Earl Sweatshirt, Lerado Khalil, and Sunny. It’s also got a song…
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Xiu Xiu are people of taste. This is obvious based on their decades of brilliant, provocative musical output, but also based on their selection of covers. Songs like New Order’s “Ceremony” and David Bowie and Queen’s “Under Pressure” are sprinkled throughout their catalog, and they’ve released full-length tributes to Nina Simone and the music of…
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