In 2019, Oslo-based artist Sunniva Lindgård rebooted Sassy 009 as her solo creative endeavor, releasing her KILL SASSY 009 EP, working with artists like Clairo, and creating her own variations of pop classics like Usher’s “Yeah” and Charli XCX’s “Girl, So Confusing.” In 2022, she released her mixtape Heart Ego, but that wasn’t her proper debut. Today, she’s announced her long-awaited first album Dreamer+ that’s out next January. The new conceptual album has been in the works for four years and features Blood Orange, Yunè Pinku, and BEA1991. She’s shared the lead single “Butterflies” with an accompanying visual.

Since 2013, Jenny Hollingsworth has been one half of the adventurous, emotive UK duo Let’s Eat Grandma, along with her childhood friend Rosa Walton. The most recent Let’s Eat Grandma album was the excellent Two Ribbons, which came out in 2022. The duo also scored the Netflix series The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself in 2022, and they covered Nick Drake’s “From The Morning” on a 2023 tribute album. Now, Hollingsworth has released her first-ever solo single under the name Jenny On Holiday.

In April, Samia released Bloodless and it received our Album Of The Week honor. Now the NYC singer-songwriter is unveiling a new Leonard Cohen-indebted track titled “Cinder Block.”

David Byrne has already had a very eventful year. On top of preparing for his marriage to Mala Gaonkar, he’s done a lot of fun things to promote Who Is The Sky?, his first solo album in seven years, including performing a bunch of songs on Fallon and chatting with Stereogum’s buildings and food correspondent Rachel Brown for our first-ever video edition We’ve Got A File On You interview series. Last night, he kicked off the album’s supporting tour with a performance at Benedum Center for the Performing Arts in Pittsburgh. Byrne celebrated his vast iconic catalogue, performing songs from the new album for the first time along with Talking Heads’ classics and a Paramore cover.

Yesterday, Rila Ogawa, leader of the young Las Vegas screamo band Febuary, accused Ben Barnett, frontman of the veteran Portland screamo group Kind Of Like Spitting, of grooming and sexual manipulation. As Lambgoat reports, Ogawa writes about her experiences with Barnett in a 23-page Google Doc linked on her Instagram story. She writes:

The Polaris Music Prize is awarded annually to the year’s best album out of Canada. For 2025, that album is All Cylinders by Yves Jarvis. The Montreal R&B/retro pop-rock hybridizer beat out fellow shortlist honorees Bibi Club, Lou-Adriane Cassidy, Marie Davidson, Saya Gray, Mustafa, Nemahsis, the OBGMs, Population II, and Ribbon Skirt. All Cylinders came out in February via In Real Life.

On Sunday night, the great actor and New York icon Chloë Sevigny attended the Emmy Awards, where she was up for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited or Anthology Series Or Movie for her role in Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story. (She lost to Erin Doherty from Adolescence.) While she was at an Emmys Toast party on Friday night, she posed for a couple of photos with Marilyn Manson, the shock-rocker who has been hit with multiple allegations of sexual assault in the last few years. Some of those accusations came from Manson’s former fiancée Evan Rachel Wood, a peer of Sevigny. People were not thrilled with Sevigny about that.

In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This column is a companion piece to The Number Ones, and it’s for members only. Thank you to everyone who’s helping to keep Stereogum afloat.

Since last fall, we’ve been following the exploits of the Irish indie rock band Cardinals. Today, the Cork-based combo is taking a big step: They’ve announced their debut album and shared its title track.

The plan was to meet at Doug Dulgarian’s apartment. Turns out I’m at his second home. Expecting a far more residential locale, I check my phone to confirm I’m in the right place. ‘I too am almost there,’ reads the text.” I cup my hand above my brow and scan the sidewalk for a familiar face.