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Fashion icon Jack Harlow helped Snap launch its goofy new $2,200 AR glasses.
Lizzo explained why her new album Bitch failed to crack the Billboard 200.
Any River, the masterful new LP from Nashville trio Styrofoam Winos, is Stereogum’s Album Of The Week. Subscribers can check out our review and a list of every album that’s releasing today.
This week, as The Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead turned 40, Johnny Marr announced a new album and Morrissey got a shitpost taken down amid his legal fight with imposters.
Our column The Alternative Number Ones reviewed the Wallflowers' car-radio singalong "One Headlight."
The Grammys changed some eligibility rules, allowing recent breakouts like Geese and Ella Langley to submit for Best New Artist for a fourth time.
Olivia Rodrigo needs a yacht rock playlist.
Alice Cooper gifted his latest album to a man who found the rock star’s credit card in a gas pump.
Sleep announced a new lineup — and shared their first song without Matt Pike.
One of the doom metal band’s new members, Melvins’ Dale Crover, also shared his cover of “Harvest Moon” decades after playing Neil Young in the video.
Laufey appeared on The Simpsons to parody the slow, haunting pop covers featured in so many movie trailers.
Fenix Flexin denied that his viral song "Rubberz" is AI-generated. Boy George launched an AI company to help artists reclaim their hits. And we asked Goo Goo Dolls' John Rzeznik for his take on all this AI discourse.
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Faith No More teased a reunion tour.
Ultra Lights are Stereogum’s latest Band To Watch. Hear the new single "Good Enough" and read our interview with the fuzzed-out, disaffected, marvelously catchy Atlanta rockers.
Ariel Pink said he's the “most banned artist,” but still supports Donald Trump.
Smashing Pumpkins are gonna play America250, a Congress-established counterpart to Trump’s Freedom 250.
A previously unknown Velvet Underground song was revealed in a new book.
Kevin Shields reunited with Primal Scream in Ireland. Billy Corgan also just told us an anecdote about the My Bloody Valentine legend.
Noah Kahan reacted to Kidz Bop’s cop-friendly cover of his recent single.
Albert Hammond Jr. explained the Strokes album delay and joined KennyHoopla on a new single for Juneteenth.
Run The Juleps: Killer Mike and El-P presented Best Bartender at the James Beard Awards.
Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory is retiring its name after a trademark dispute.
Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, & U2’s Bono and the Edge were among the performers at the Barack Obama Presidential Center opening, where the Obamas were joined by the Bidens, Bushes, and Clintons. The Boss also recently received a social justice award and apologized to Bono for turning down a licensing request.
R.I.P. ska and rocksteady pioneer Stranger Cole, Jethro Tull arranger and keyboardist Dee Palmer, hitmaking rap producer Tay Keith, and genre-blending artist Oliver Tree.
Tree detailed the surprising terms of his will in an interview a few months ago.
Amanda Seyfried revealed that viral dulcimer performance stemmed from a shelved Joni Mitchell movie.
Following the Knicks' championship, Alicia Keys performed some New York City songs with Nas at Tribeca Fest and closed out the team's millions-strong ticker-tape parade. The night before, Kim Gordon updated her Knicks jersey in a late-night TV callback.
Father Dionysios Tabakis, the Greek Orthodox priest behind a recent acclaimed drone metal album, is readying his first live show.
Bonnaroo weather wiped out 11 sets on Sunday, including Aly & AJ’s for a second straight year.
FKA twigs teamed with Lil Yachty on the addictive new single "On Your Mind,” out today.
Katy Perry sang with 10-year-old Tius Luka at the World Cup Opening Ceremony.
Lil Nas X shared an update on his mental health treatment.
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