It was a bad week for Bad Wolves. A couple of months ago, the LA metal band released "Paint It Red" and announced Sara "Killboy" Skinner as their new singer. Skinner replaced D.L. Laskiewicz, who left ...

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Last year, the Scandinavian experimental pop duo Smerz released Big city life, one of our favorite albums of 2025. A few months ago, they dropped Big city life EDITS, a remix compilation that featured ...

On Friday (Aug. 28), the first day of Big Church Festival in West Sussex commenced. However, the festival ended early after a large sign fell, leaving one dead and six injured. Britain's largest ...

Nobody will ever be allowed to say a single rude word about Samira Winter in my presence. She records dreamy shoegaze as just plain Winter, and she's also Stereogum's newest VJ. Earlier this year, I ...

In 2019, the Spook School broke up. Now, the Scottish indie-pop band is reuniting to release a new record titled Like A Heartbeat. The lead single "Falling" is out today. "We really wanted to make ...

Last December, while shockwaves from Geese’s album Getting Killed rippled through the world, that band’s frontman Cameron Winter played what was apparently a momentous solo show at the storied New ...

In 1991, Negativland, a long-running “culture-jamming” experimental band, released “The Letter U And The Numeral 2,” a dinky synth version of U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” It ...

Dawn Richard's upcoming album Creole Culture is shaping up to be something special. It's a further exploration into Richard's New Orleans roots, something that she's already dug into on past albums, ...

After a surprising turn into noisy guitar chaos on last year's "Hot Slob," Sylvan Esso announced their new album Ow ∞ last month and shared its Sigur Rós-sampling lead single "Concrete Glen." The song ...

Snooper have been making big moves. In April, vocalist Blair Tramel joined Hayley Williams onstage for a song. A couple weeks ago, the band was announced as openers for Mannequin Pussy and Wednesday’s ...

When Ween released their 1996 album 12 Golden Country Greats, it seemed like an ultimate troll move. The pranksterish duo became unlikely major-label artists during the alt-rock boom period, and they ...