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, …

Music legend Erykah Badu announced this past March that she was working on her first album in 15 years. The project, which will be the official follow-up to 2010’s New Amerykah Part Two (Return Of The Ankh) and her first longer project since 2015 mixtape But You Caint Use My Phone, is solely produced by the Alchemist. Today, we get …

JADE is Jade Thirlwall, a former member of the hugely popular UK girl group Little Mix. Last year, JADE made a big splash with the release of her first solo single “Angel Of My Dreams,” a giddy and ambitious pop anthem that became a cult sensation even as it crossed over to proper mainstream-hit status in the UK. She followed …

This past April, the quasi K-pop group KATSEYE (a project between US-based Geffen Records and South Korea-based Hybe) released the confounding “Gnarly,” their first single of the year. It’s an abrasive, campy hyperpop track that was originally written by Alice Longyu Gao as searing take on LA vapidity. Today, they released the follow-up track “Gabriela,” which takes a sharp left …

Paul Simon and Stephen Colbert sure seem to get along. Last year, Simon went on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show and named his favorite Paul Simon songs, as well as one that he loathes. Since that time, Simon has gone back out on the road. Simon finished a farewell tour in 2018, and he’s recently been dealing with serious hearing loss. …

Atlanta post-punk greats Omni returned last year with Souvenir, their first album in five years. We had a reminder of that album this week when Automatic, whose Izzy Glaudini guested on the awesome “Plastic Pyramid,” put out their own new single “Is It Now?” And here’s another thing to keep Souvenir-era Omni on our minds.

A couple of weeks ago, the big-deal influencer Addison Rae released her debut album Addison, and it’s a much better record than anyone could’ve predicted a few years ago. (Our pop columnist Katherine St. Asaph is guardedly positive on the LP; I am just plain positive.) One of the cool things about Addison is that the artist recorded the entire …

I Just Can’t Wait To Die is an awesome title for an album, especially when the songs are pretty wholesome. It comes from New Jersey band Yawn Mower, who have another preview from the album today. The anthemic lead single “Rascal” had a little edge to it, but this new one “Geothermal Springs” is straight-up uplifting and fun.

Coldplay’s third album, X&Y, turned 20 two weeks ago. To mark the occasion, the band has dusted off “Speed Of Sound,” the album’s lead single, which was the band’s first American top 10 hit but was later disavowed by the band.

Chris Brown pleaded not guilty to an assault charge in February 2023, where he allegedly hit music producer Abraham Diaw with a Don Julio 1942 bottle. According to the BBC,… The post Chris Brown Enters Not Guilty Plea for London Assault Charge appeared first on .