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"We're gonna try to open the pit at the Olivia Rodrigo show," Die Spitz’s Kate Halter tells Stereogum. We profiled the rising big-riff punk-metal crew, who were recently tapped to open on Rodrigo’s European tour. Check out the feature.
Die Spitz are also on the lineup for Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields, a festival with a cross-generational all-female lineup that also includes Chappell Roan, Mitski Doechii, and more.
Bikini Kill are on the Daisy Chain Fields lineup too, and it looks like we’re getting a Riot Grrrl Summer. Last night Heavens To Betsy reunited for their first show in 32 years and today they announced a US tour — the Portland show is with fellow Olympia punk icons Team Dresch, who just announced their first album in 30 years.
The Rolling Stones unveiled a new song with the Cure's Robert Smith and a bunch of random co-branded editions of their new album.
Also, Mick Jagger on Geese: "I was expecting it to be more indie."
Also, us on Geese’s awesome Nelsonville set: “Not a psyop.”
Morrissey attacked Johnny Marr in a lengthy screed over a new Smiths documentary. Then he deleted it, but not before we grabbed the text for you masochists.
"The Velvet Underground are better than the Beatles," says Ben Gibbard
This week Gibbard’s Death Cab For Cutie also covered Hüsker Dü. And Dü’s Bob Mould released a great new power-pop single with his newly reunited ‘90s band Sugar. (Sugar > the Beatles?)
Speaking of the Beatles, our column The Number Ones looked back at Drake, Future, and Young Thug's goofy rap-star summit meeting "Way 2 Sexy" and the week when Drake dominated the top five like nobody since the Fab Four in 1964.
Future, coincidentally, announced his new album, The Real Me today.
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Beabadoobee’s new album features the vocalists from Title Fight, Deftones, Pinegrove, Paramore, Turnstile, and the 1975.
Speaking of Brendan Yates, Turnstile enlisted a ton of unique openers for their upcoming tour including Slayyyter, Clipse, and Vince Staples.
Speaking of Chino Moreno, Deftones announced the lineup for their Día De Los Deftones festival as their shelved album Eros apparently leaked after 18 years.
Speaking of Hayley Williams, she and Romy covered Prefab Sprout in London.
Phoebe Bridgers announced the album Lost Weekend and shared lead single “Lost Boys,” which features Alex G and her boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker. Check out the video and see where the song landed in our 5 Best Songs Of The Week.
Lucy Dacus can also be heard on “Capstone,” the lead single from Foxing’s Conor Murphy’s new album as Smidley.
Noah Kahan has one request for fans visiting his hometown.
From Leonard Cohen to Japanese horror classics, Brutalismus 3000 discussed the unexpected inspirations behind their killer new album Harmony for Stereogum's Under The Influence series.
SZA warned that AI is exploiting Black artist, and called out vocal AI music proponent Diplo. She’s also on Steve Lacy’s new single “Is It Cool?,” out today.
Tasha's You Are Spring! is Stereogum’s Album Of The Week. Check out our review and a comprehensive list of today’s new releases.
As teased in last week’s Digest, Angine de Poitrine made their UK TV debut and Shania Twain was much impressed with Khn’s hair.
Joy Division are getting their first-ever live collection. It's massive and includes previously unreleased recordings.
Billy Corgan gave Stereogum an update on the long-promised expanded Zwan reissue.
Meanwhile his Smashing Pumpkins got covered by Tame Impala for a new tribute album.
The subject of this email could have only meant one thing: End It's vocalist finally broke his silence on the Banana Man controversy.
The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz covered a very deep Paul Westerberg cut.
Kirk Hammett performed in a “Taylor Swift Is A CSI Psyop” shirt, then fell offstage at Metallica's next show. That same weekend, he told the Irish Times that "pop music is crap” right now.
Speaking of Taylor Swift, apparently she’s engaged?
Carly Rae Jepsen is smitten on the casually luxurious “On Wires” from her just-announced new double album.
Julian Casablancas got to take a break when the Strokes covered the Walkmen with Hamilton Leithauser. He returned the favor by singing with Leithauser's band the following night.
Kylie Minogue, RZA, and Quentin Tarantino are starring in a new movie named after a Bob Dylan song.
K-pop star Mark Lee apologized for wearing a Confederate flag shirt.
After a Goose concertgoer fell to his death from the upper level of MSG, the band dedicated the following night’s show to him and set up a fund to support their fans.
Peter Gabriel is on a new rap song with .idk.
Last.fm deleted all the bots, and the BTS Army is pissed.
Gordi confused Australian chart compilers by debuting at #3 with an EP that wasn’t even announced. Now it’s online, and the singer-songwriter explained the stealth project.
Cara Delevingne released an electro-pop single co-written by Fiona Apple.
Mannequin Pussy covered Ovlov and announced a tour with Wednesday.
The Killers’ Brandon Flowers announced a new country album — hear “Plans.”
Chelsea Wolfe unveiled her spectral new songs and fragrance.
Clive Davis, one of the most successful and iconic executives in the history of the record business, passed away at 94.
Clairo is on a bunch Of Ryan Beatty’s new album out today: "This man had me belt on a song for the first time."
Charli XCX pretends she's not a bad girl anymore on "Wink Wink." It's the last pre-release single from Music, Fashion, Film, which she says has one very unexpected feature.
Tom Hardy’s debut rap album is on the way.
Katy Perry acquired a demonic scorpion tail (in her new video).
PJ Harvey shared a new track sung from the perspective of NASA’s Voyager 2.
Happy 30th anniversary to Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” 👴 and I’ll leave you with longtime Radiohead fans Tyler Durden meeting up at USA vs Türkiye last night…
