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 members on Spotify and Apple Music, …

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It wouldn’t be a Lorde album release without all the glamor and the trauma and the fucking melodrama. Today, Lorde released her new album Virgin and then performed the entire thing in a surprise Glastonbury set. It’s a great record. Lorde recorded it with a bunch of collaborators, but the main one is Jim-E Stack, a producer who has done …

We’re exactly one week away from Kesha’s new album (PERIOD), but that isn’t stopping her from keeping us well fed with another single. We’ve already heard “Delusional,” “Joyride,” “Yippee-Ki-Yay” with T-Pain, and “Boy Crazy.” We’ve even heard the possible bonus track “ATTENTION!” with Rose Gray and Slayyyter.

The Supreme Court handed Trump’s administration a procedural win that could have long-lasting consequences on birthright citizenship. The post What Does the Supreme Court Decision on Birthright Citizenship Actually Mean? appeared first on Remezcla.

The Bogg are back, baby! Columbus brutalists Sanguisugabogg, a Stereogum Band To Watch in 2023, have risen to the to top of the recent revival in old-school death metal even though they’ve got a name that nobody can pronounce and a logo that nobody can read. Or maybe they’ve risen to the to top of the recent revival in old-school …

Today, Lorde released her much-anticipated fourth album Virgins, and guess what: It’s fucking great! Good job, Lorde! She has been building up to that release for a long time, but she hasn’t really been performing live, unless you count lip-syncing “What Was That” at Washington Square Park during what turned out to be the guerrilla video shoot. Even when she …

Across the three brackets on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10, there’s several Latina drag queens moving on to the semi-finals. The post These Latina Queens Are Moving Onto the ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ 10 Semi-Finals appeared first on Remezcla.

Five years ago, the great Leeds hardcore band Higher Power seemed poised to blow the fuck up. Like their Roadrunner labelmates Turnstile, Higher Power emerged out of the DIY underground with a ferociously energetic live show, and they combined their scene’s stomp-around ferocity with giant old-school alt-rock melodies into an enormously likable whole. Their sophomore album 27 Miles Underwater should’ve …

Lizzo’s comeback is in the works. She recently dropped a few singles hinting at a larger studio album and also has been cast as the lead in the Sister Rosetta Tharpe biopic. She’s still fighting against allegations of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment. But it seems she’s not gonna let the shadow of that lawsuit hold her …