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The 5 Best Songs Of The Week

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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Bruiser Wolf Announces New Project Push & Paint: Hear “Why They Play Me?” (Feat. BabyTron)

Detroit underground rap fabulist Bruiser Wolf has been on a serious run ever since he came to prominence as part of Danny Brown’s Bruiser Brigade a few years ago. Last year, Bruiser Wolf released two albums, Potluck and the Harry Fraud collab Made By Dope, and Kevin Durant anointed him as his “favorite new artist…

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At The Gates Announce Final Album The Ghost Of A Future Dead: Hear “The Fever Mask”

Last year, we lost Tomas Lindberg at the age of 52. It fucking sucked, and it continues to suck. Lindberg was the frontman of At The Gates, the Swedish legends who pioneered the melodic death metal sound and did it better than anyone else who ever tried it. He also led great bands like Disfear…

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Grace Ives Announces New Album Girlfriend: Hear “Stupid Bitches”

Grace Ives back! It’s been too long. Ives, then a Brooklyn-based DIY pop artist, released a very cool debut album called Janky Star in 2022, and then she went quiet for a few years. Last November, Ives released three excellent songs — “Avalanche,” “Dance With Me,” and “My Mans” — that she recorded with producers…

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Dave Grohl Breaks His Silence On Firing Josh Freese From Foo Fighters

In 2023, Foo Fighters brought in rock veteran Josh Freese as their new drummer, replacing the late Taylor Hawkins. Two years later, the band fired Freese and hired Ilan Rubin away from the mid-tour Nine Inch Nails. NIN simply responded by bringing in Freese, who’d previously been in the band for a stint, thus completing the great 2025 drummer swap. Since then, Freese has expressed confusion over the firing while admitting that Foo Fighters’ music “wasn’t music that I really resonated with.” Now, Dave Grohl has finally addressed the firing for the first time.

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Avalon Emerson & The Charm – “Written Into Changes”

Avalon Emerson has been leading up to the release of Written Into Changes, her upcoming album with her recently revived project the Charm, with the very good singles “Jupiter And Mars” and “Eden.” Emerson began working on the record after moving from Berlin to upstate New York, and that move inspired today’s new single, which…

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Rostam Revisits Original Version Of Vampire Weekend’s “Campus”

Last November, Rostam teased a new era. His new album American Stories, the follow-up to 2021’s Changephobia, is coming out sometime this year. But before he’s moving forward, he’s looking back. Today the former Vampire Weekend member officially shared the original version of “Campus,” from VW’s 2008 self-titled debut album. (We posted about it back…

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