In a small back room of a Radisson Hotel in Appleton, Wisconsin, Chuck Auerbach is offering me a piece of gum. He’s just finished his first-ever live performance in conjunction with the city’...
We don't get albums like the debut from Long Beard often, and when we do, we almost never realize what we have until it's too late. Leslie Bear has been vocal about the fact that she thought this...
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Sturgill Simpson and Jason Isbell are basically the dual high priests of a true bluegrass/folk/country revival. I happen to adore bro-country right alongside their gritty, old-school releases, bu...
Instagram.com/SpaceyKacey"> When we posted the Jessie Ware cover of "A Dream Is A Wish" from Cinderella off the Disney covers album We Love Disney , I was really looking forward to hearing the ...
https://www.stereogum.com/1837894/kacey-musgraves-a-spoonful-of-sugar-mary-poppins-cover/news/
Bay Area noise-punk quartet Never Young veer just enough toward the melodic side to give their songs a pop feel, and their latest track "New Villain" doubles down on that possibility more than ev...
https://www.stereogum.com/1837851/never-young-new-villain/news/
John Carpenter is an iconic B-movie director and film composer best-known for scoring creepy, cinematic horror movies of the '70s and '80s. Carpenter is now in his late sixties, but that didn't s...
https://www.stereogum.com/1837807/john-carpenter-night-zola-jesus-and-dean-hurley-remix/news/
A few days ago Chairlift shared their first new material since that epic Beyonce collaboration "No Angel" in 2013, and "Ch-Ching " definitely sounds like working with the R&B superstar rubbed off...
https://www.stereogum.com/1837816/chairlift-ch-ching-video/news/
Brooklyn dream-pop act Small Black's new album, Best Blues , will be out tomorrow, and in advance of that, they've shared a watery, introspective video for a track off the record called "No One W...
https://www.stereogum.com/1837674/small-black-no-one-wants-it-to-happen-to-you-video/news/
Instagram.com/ThuggerThugger1"> A few short weeks after the release of the middling Slime Season mixtape, Young Thug has released the soul-sampling "Raw" produced by The Treasury . It's slower...
Ramona Gonzalez has been making darkly muted, lush electronic pop as Nite Jewel for several years now. She began the project while at graduate school, discovering what her true passion was, as mo...
https://www.stereogum.com/1837656/nite-jewel-words-feat-batmanonthebeatz/news/
Purity Ring's tombstone-pop tendencies make them the ideal pairing for gothic noise punks HEALTH. Another Eternity was dismissed by many as a retread of Purity Ring's past territory, but just be...
https://www.stereogum.com/1837634/purity-ring-begin-again-health-remix/news/
Math rock spazz trio Battles put out their third cheekily-titled instrumental album La Di Da Di earlier this year, and today they've shared the Ben Jones-directed video for "Dot Net." As Pitchfor...
https://www.stereogum.com/1837578/battles-dot-net-video/news/
ODESZA's Foreign Family Collective is earning a reputation for curating the next wave of up and coming electronic artists. Back in April Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight's label released Big Wi...
https://www.stereogum.com/1837244/kasbo-world-away-stereogum-premiere/news/
Instagram.commomomoyouth"> MØ or Karen Marie Ørsted is a Danish pop singer who had a lot of internet buzz but encountered a weird slump when it came to the reception of her debut album No Myt...
One of my favorite things about Haleek Maul's rapping is how he manages to teeter on the edge of hysterical, like he's grinning maniacally while spitting his lines. "Dead Em" is the latest track ...
It's been three years since Chairlift gave us any of their ethereal, diamond-sharp pop, but 2015 has been such a killer year already, that it was barely even surprising when they teased a new sin...
Billie Marten is 16-year-old folk prodigy from England. I fell hard for her early enormous track "Heavy Weather " and have been following closely since. "Hope is a distance unreached," she sings ...
https://www.stereogum.com/1837390/billie-marten-bird-video/news/
Annie's Endless Vacation EP is lowkey one of the year's best pop releases. All the songs are wistful, serene and dwell in the impossible, what can't quite happen or what hasn't happened or what y...
Love Ssega is a British-Ugandan singer who helped found Clean Bandit but is now pursuing a solo career. Fun fact: He left Clean Bandit to finish up a PhD in laser sensing. Laser sensing. Now, he'...
https://www.stereogum.com/1837347/love-ssega-pray-for-love/news/
It's Rome Fortune's birthday, so he decided to drop a new track for fans to enjoy. You know, kind of like how hobbits give everyone else gifts on their birthdays. Anyway, this track is even more ...
https://www.stereogum.com/1837278/rome-fortune-24-7-feat-d-r-a-m/news/
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Washington D.C. shadow-pop duo GEMS put out their excellent debut EP Medusa in late 2013, and two years later they're following it up with a full-length called Kill The One You Love. We've heard ...
Ghostly acoustic blues songwriter Cass McCombs is set to release A Folk Set Apart: Rarities, B-Sides & Space Junk. McCombs shared the jaunty, uptempo rocker "Evangeline" to kick off the project. ...
https://www.stereogum.com/1837200/cass-mccombs-evangeline/news/
Raye aka Rachel Keen is a 17-year-old singer from South London (Croydon) who has been writing songs since she was 10 and cites old-school jazz and soul influences like Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgeral...
https://www.stereogum.com/1837166/raye-tell-me-prod-blood-diamonds/news/
As a generation who grew up on Disney become artists in their own right, the nostalgia is growing stronger with each passing day. Which is why We Love Disney, a new album of Disney covers by arti...
https://www.stereogum.com/1837145/jessie-ware-a-dream-is-a-wish-cinderella-cover/news/
Instagram.com/AndrewJamesPeter"> As we previously reported , the Echo In The Canyon tribute to California folk-rock took place last night at the Orpheum in LA. Jakob Dylan was a main player, fr...
Amoeba.com"> Amoeba Music is a staple record store that originated in Berkeley, California and expanded to locations in San Francisco and Los Angeles. As the music industry turned digital, it's...
Instagram.com/Matsor"> Yesterday was National Coming Out Day and to mark the occasion, Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij reflected on his own story in an Instagram post. Batmanglij shares how...
https://www.stereogum.com/1836942/vampire-weekends-rostam-batmanglij-reflects-on-coming-out/news/
This past Saturday marked World Mental Health Day, a 24-hour period devoted to raising awareness for those who struggle with mental-health issues. Did you know mental health is just as important ...
Cindy Lou Gooden. It sounds like the name of a china doll, or a well-heeled lady gearing up for cotillion. My favorite Cindy Lou before today was the tiny little Who girl from The Grinch who help...
https://www.stereogum.com/1836858/very-fresh-clean-touch/news/
Danish punk quartet Yung is the brainchild of 21-year-old Mikkel Holm Silkjær. We recently named them a Band To Watch , and they'll play one of their first US shows this Wednesday during CMJ. To...
Chance The Rapper has been riding the crest of his new collaborative mixtape Surf for most of this year, but it seems like the tireless wunderkind never lets up. Instead of resting on his laurel...
Sometimes Grimes gets frustrated with the media for aggregating what she posts on her Tumblr, but in this case hopefully she appreciates the signal boost. She's been extremely vocal about the imp...
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Formerly of Olympia, country dream-punkers Gun Outfit have relocated to Los Angeles and signed to North Carloina folklore purveyors Paradise of Bachelors . Their fourth album Dream All Over follo...
https://www.stereogum.com/1836580/stream-gun-outfit-dream-all-over/news/
Dave Grohl's band the Foo Fighters have achieved household name status. They regularly sell out packed arena shows and tick off the all boxes as Major Rock Stars. He was also in Nirvana, a band y...
Enigmatic electronic producer Steven Zhu aka ZHU is readying his new Genesis Series project, steadily dropping tracks off the guest-heavy release. Previously he shared "Automatic" featuring Aluna...
https://www.stereogum.com/1836512/zhu-alunageorge-automatic-video/news/
Patti Smith has been on a tear lately. She's returned to the public eye with a new book called M Train and recently performed her iconic album Horses in full for a live recorded session at Elec...
https://www.stereogum.com/1836485/boston-declares-october-10-patti-smith-day/news/
Conner Youngblood's second EP The Generation Of Lift is out today, and it's a short and sweet release of elegant experimentalism. Youngblood floats harp, percussion, guitar, banjo, and plenty of ...
https://www.stereogum.com/1836459/stream-conner-youngblood-the-generation-of-lift/news/
After several mixtapes, Le1f's debut full-length Riot Boi is coming out this November. We've heard the initial SOPHIE-produced single "Koi " and seen its tropical CGI fish-infested video. Today h...
As their video for "Regret " indicated, British art-rockers Everything Everything have a penchant for the visually surreal. In the newly-released video for "No Reptiles" they turn the stage into ...
https://www.stereogum.com/1836427/everything-everything-no-reptiles-video/news/