A few months ago, I saw the Montreal oi band Béton Armé play a DIY show with Poison Ruïn, and I was impressed. Béton Armé’s sound is a hard, classicist take on old-school oi sounds that occasionally draws on the new wave influences so popular in the French oi scene right now. (Béton Armé aren’t French, but they do sing …

Mal Blum is back. The indie rock singer-songwriter has announced their new album The Villain, their first LP since 2019’s Pity Boy. Before it’s out in July, they’ve shared its lead single “I’m So Bored” today.

We knew a new Lorde album was coming, and now we know a lot more. After last week’s police-bothered Washington Square Park listening session and the official release of lead single “What Was That,” the New Zealand alt-pop icon has given us lots of important info about her follow-up to 2021’s Solar Power.

How is a Barbra Streisand/Bob Dylan duet possibly going to sound? This is not a question that I have ever pondered, but we’re about to get an answer anyway. Streisand and Dylan both arrived at fame in early-’60s New York, but their career paths and voices are very, very different. Now, the two legends, both of whom are 83 years …

Hey, this is cool: In just two days, Real Estate will be releasing a new rarities comp. The Wee Small Hours: B-Sides And Other Detritus 2011-2025 comprises 12 tracks from across the soft-focus indie band’s career, including their spin on early Strokes heater “Barely Legal,” recorded in 2011 for Stereogum’s Is This It tribute album Stroked. Martin Courtney sums up …

A couple of years ago, the dance DJ and producer Avalon Emerson made the leap from tracks to songs. Her project Avalon Emerson & The Charm released an excellent self-titled album and became a Stereogum Band To Watch. Right now, Emerson in in the midst of another project that sort of straddles the line between tracks and songs. With her …

“AM I MORE THAN YOU BARGAINED FOR YET?” is the perfect introduction to Fall Out Boy, and for millions of listeners, that’s what it became.

Debby Friday, the pop star of the Sub Pop roster, made her grand return last month with “1/17.” Our own Tom Breihan noted that it “brings back some of that old PC Music feeling,” describing it as “a euphoric, unapologetically cheesy trance-pop confection.” As of today, we know “1/17” is the opening track on a new Debby Friday album called …

New Indigo De Souza! Yay! The North Carolinian singer-songwriter has announced today that her next album Precipice will arrive in July, and as a preview, she’s shared its pumped-up lead single “Heartthrob.”

In the 2000s, Lost Highway Records was the prestige country and Americana imprint for Universal Music Group’s Nashville division. Like, say, Warner’s esteemed Nonesuch Records, Lost Highway was a major label affiliate with indie cred. The label put out soundtracks for the Coen Brothers’ O Brother Where Art Thou?, HBO’s foul-mouthed Western Deadwood, and Paul Westerberg’s music for the cartoon …