Perhaps you saw fakemink — one of our favorite new artists of last year — at Coachella earlier this month. If not, perhaps you saw photos of Hunter Biden — son of former US President Joe Biden — hanging out with the London rapper backstage during the festival’s second weekend. When those photos went viral, a lot of people thought they were AI-generated, considering the 56-year-old lobbyist/businessman is not the type of person you might expect to enjoy an off-kilter cloud rap set at Coachella. But fakemink associate Christian Thomas-Irving, aka CTi, confirmed to Stereogum that the encounter did in fact happen, and TMZ confirmed that it was real, too. fakemink’s “Night, Blooming Jasmine .” engineer Moustafax2 posted a selfie with Biden too. Now, Biden himself has broken his legendary silence on the matter.

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Foo Fighters released their new album Your Favorite Toy last Friday, and they celebrated the release with a musical guest appearance on the latest episode of SNL UK. They performed the live debuts of early single “Caught In The Echo” as well as “Child Actor.”

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Vince Staples’ Dark Times was one of the most important rap albums of 2024. While his Netflix series The Vince Staples Show was canceled early this year, he’s been busy gearing up for his new independent era. Staples recently launched a private Discord server for his fans and today he shared new music – a…

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Before his Coachella headlining set, Justin Bieber held intimate, invite-only shows in LA and no phones were allowed. Last night, Olivia Rodrigo did something similar at LA’s The Echo and brought out Natalie Mering aka Weyes Blood to debut what appears to be the next single from you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love.

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Last year, Turnstile made Tiny Desk history by being the first performer to stagedive. Now, Amaia is making history by being the first to play the chair flute (chlute?). The Spanish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist mostly performed tracks from last year’s Si Abro Los Ojos No Es Real at the NPR office.

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Way back in 2021, Orphan Donor dropped their frantic sophomore album Unraveled. Since then, the Pennsylvania metallic screamo band have not released much music. There was a noisy, guttural one-off single last year called “Vomit In The Cathedral Of Nous,” but until today, that was it. Now a whole new Orphan Donor LP is on…

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London metal experimentalists Pupil Slicer dropped their album Fleshwork last year. Today they’ve teamed up with the industrial noise pop act Tayne, also from London, on a single called “W.N.” It’s a hefty industrial track with eerie vocals, a compulsively listenable synth loop, and unhealthy amounts of of searing bombast. The B-side for “W.N.” is…

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PARTYOF2 are not new to this. I remember hearing about Swim and Jadagrace when they were part of the band grouptherapy., which formed in 2019 and was originally four members including TJOnline and Rhea. The latter two artists went their separate ways, and in 2024, PARTYOF2 was born. They released their debut album AMERIKA’S NEXT TOP PARTY last…

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Bedouine’s first album in five years, Neon Summer Skin, will arrive at the top of June. The early singles “Long Way To Fall” and “Always On Time” have been as thoughtful and tender as we’ve come to expect from Azniv Korkejian. Today, she’s released a third song from the album under special circumstances. Today is…

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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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