I can still hear you saying you would never break the Chain, but we here at Stereogum are doing our part to make them famous. The Australian hardcore band announced their new album today. Titled Blind The World, it’ll arrive next month via Boston’s esteemed Triple B label. Opener “Useless” is a heaving beast of a track that wastes no …

Fingerstyle guitar maestro Eli Winter first promoted his new album A Trick Of The Light with the surprisingly rocking single “Cracking The Jaw.” Now he’s getting you to pay attention to “For A Fallen Rocket” by letting it soundtrack a pretty fun low-budget music video.

Earlier today, the UK indie-pop group Sorry sampled Ohio indie rock legend Guided By Voices on their new single “Jetplane.” Now, Portland rapper Aminé has sampled British rap guy the Streets on his own new single. “Arc De Triomphe,” our latest preview of next month’s 13 Months Of Sunshine, finds Aminé sing-rapping over a 2-step garage beat laced with samples …

It seems increasingly likely that 2025 will see the release of the first Lorde album since 2021’s Solar Power. And not just because all the other ones have come at four-year intervals. Today the Kiwi alt-pop favorite posted the first ever video to her official TikTok account, and it includes a snippet of new music. In the clip, Lorde can …

A Southern California man has pleaded guilty to orchestrating a high-stakes memorabilia scam that raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars—and included forged autographs of none other than Kobe Bryant… The post Memorabilia Broker Pleads Guilty After Selling Forged Kobe Bryant and Kardashian Collectibles appeared first on .

2025 has not been a very good PR year for the John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts. In February, Donald Trump fired numerous board members including its longtime president Deborah Rutter, and then appointed a fleet of new staffers to elect him as the institution’s new chairman. Perturbed by Trump’s goal to take down “woke culture,” Ben Folds, …

The great Detroit underground rap fixture Sada Baby is currently incarcerated on a felony drug charge. Detroit’s Fox 2 reports that police in Sterling Heights, Michigan pulled over Sada Baby’s Dodge Ram in January because of an issue with his window tints. When they ran his license, they found out that the rapper, whose government name is Casada Sorrell, had …

We’re two days away from the start of Coachella, the gigantic music festival by which all other gigantic music festivals are judged. The lineup poster came out back in November, and we already took a deep journey into the font sizes contained therein. Coachella’s organizers recently unveiled the set times and made some last-minute lineup tweaks, adding Ed Sheeran and …

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