Jacky Cadiou plays bass in the extremely sick French oi band Syndrome 81, and he’s also the man behind the solo project Prisonnier Du Temps. (It’s French of “Prisoner Of Time.”) With Prisonnier Du Temps, Cadiou messes around with the same oi tradition that Syndrome 81 uses as a starting point, adding in a stark,…
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Floating Points made another long-ass song with another orchestra. Even if the late Pharoah Sanders isn’t involved, that”s something that you need to hear. The veteran UK producer Floating Points has done a lot of things in his career, but the one that stands above all others, at least to me, is Promises, his vast…
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Kelsey Lu is gearing up to release her long-awaited sophomore album So Help Me God on June 12. She’s already released some stunning singles including “Running To Pain” and “Portrait Of A Lady On Fire.” Yesterday, she shared another track “Better Than That,” which features Sampha. Their voices compliment each other in such sublime way…
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In 2019 Glass Beach released their debut LP The First Glass Beach Album, a feat of emo maximalism that earned the quartet a Band To Watch accolade from frequent Stereogum contributor Ian Cohen. In 2024, Glass Beach re-emerged with their also-excellent sophomore album Plastic Death, but now, it turns out The Last Glass Beach Album…
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The French dance producer Madeon has been working for a long time without getting much attention from Stereogum, and that seems to be working out just fine for him. He’s playing huge festival sets and doing well for himself. He doesn’t need us. But now, Madeon has a new album coming out, and he’s got…
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everyone for ten minutes, the new album from Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers, is coming out in just under a month. So far we’ve heard the singles “the van,” “dirty wedding dress,” and “you and forever,” and today they’re back with “i’m not joking,” a ballad that gets a little freaky with it as far as Bleachers…
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London’s Windmill scene needs to slow down. It feels like every damn day we learn about another exciting new band that comes out of this one club. Nobody can keep up! The latest band in that post-punk wave is Cusk, a gothy-grungy young duo who played their first show a few years ago. Naturally, that…
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Tony Wilson, bassist and co-founder of the hitmaking British soul/funk band Hot Chocolate, has passed away. According to the BBC, Wilson died at home in Trinidad last Friday, and his family shared the news on Facebook. No cause of death has been reported. Wilson was 89.
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With new album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love approaching and lead single “Drop Dead” atop the charts, Olivia Rodrigo will pull double duty on Saturday Night Live this weekend, hosting the show for the first time and returning as musical guest for a third go-round following appearances in 2021 and 2023. We’ve reached the part of the week where promos for the show are starting to appear. In a new one today, Rodrigo stars in the Anne Hathaway role in a timely parody of The Devil Wears Prada.
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Last fall, Shane Lavers shared the Chanel Beads song “The Coward Forgets His Nightmare,” one Stereogum’s 5 Best Songs Of The Week. It turns out the track comes from the highly anticipated followup to the experimental pop artist’s 2024 debut Your Day Will Come, which is being announced today. Amusingly, it is also called Your…
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