I’d never heard of the Lawrence, Kansas trio Virga before they got booked to open the first leg of Chat Pile and Soul Glo’s current North American tour, but I’m very glad that I smashed “subscribe” on their Bandcamp. (They’ve only got two more dates on that tour, by the way — tonight in Houston and tomorrow in Dallas — …

Carissa’s Wierd, the Seattle-based duo of Jenn Champion and Mat Brooke, made some absolutely gorgeous DIY indie records back in the early ’00s, and now they’re doing it again. The group broke up way back in 2003 and then spun off into other acts, including Band Of Horses. (Brooke was an original member, and former Carissa’s Wierd leader Ben Bridwell …

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to subscribers on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.) …

The bright, engaging young Irish band Florence Road released the one-off single “7563” in August, and they just finished a North American tour last week. While they were in LA, someone broke into their tour van and stole their gear, but they still finished the run after supporters like Eddie Vedder lent them equipment. Today, they share the sharp, exuberant …

Drake and Don Toliver could be heading toward another major chart moment. Their latest collaboration, “Solar Eclipse,” is projected to debut at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, potentially… The post Drake, Don Toliver’s ‘Solar Eclipse’ Eyes Top 5 Hot 100 Debut as HABIBTI (FOMO) Stays Active appeared first on .

Every Mastodon record has Mastodon on it, but the new pressing of Marrow Deep has mastodon in it. The Atlanta metal legends have announced a new version of their latest album featuring actual mastodon fossils. The records, which will be limited of 170 copies, were pressed at Waxworks Records with help from the University of Georgia’s geology department, using “bone …

If you’ve navigated your web browser to stereogum dot com today, you likely know Colin Meloy first and foremost as the frontman for longstanding bookish indie-folk greats the Decemberists. But for a segment of the population, Meloy is best known as the author of the Wildwood Chronicles, a series of fantasy novels aimed at teens and preteens, set in his …

You may have noticed that Josh Homme, deep into the rollout for the new Queens Of The Stone Age album Perfecth, is looking really, really good these days. Homme was always handsome, but he’s clearly got one of these faces that gets more interesting as he ages. He’s 53 now. He’s about 6’4″. His eyes are a piercing blue. He …

One of my favorite COVID-era Bandcamp finds was Plague Skater, the lo-fi rock project of New Jersey’s Will Schwester. Under the Plague Skater banner, Schwester kicked out two albums’ worth of genre-hopping DIY intensity, 2020’s self-titled debut and 2021’s Plague Skater II. Since then, the Plague Skater account on Bandcamp has yielded lots of experimental releases under various guises, but …

It feels really, really good to hear Cardi B talk her shit. Over the past decade or so, the New York rap star has not really altered her method of shit-talk, and it’s pretty far from the current current mainstream, whether we’re talking about rap or pop. Maybe her shit-talk doesn’t hit quite the same as it did on “Bodak …