“Wacced Out Murals,” the opening track on Kendrick Lamar’s GNX, includes the lyric “Don’t let no white comedian talk about no Black woman, that’s law.” Many suspected the line was a reference to Andrew Schulz, who caught flack for his comments about white guys with Black girlfriends on the Flagrant podcast last year. Schulz was a guest on The Sam …

In February, Garbage announced their new album Let All That We Imagine Be The Light, the follow-up to 2021’s No Gods No Masters. Today, the band finally shared the lead single “There’s No Future In Optimism.”

The prospect of a band successfully fusing reggaeton, shoegaze, and black metal is damn nigh unbelievable, but Pyramids pulled it off with “Fools Gold (Mi Vida Ha Ido Pa Atras),” the lead single and opening track from their forthcoming album Pythagoras. Today they’ve shared the album’s second song, “Pretty Pigs,” which keeps the unexpected genre meld going strong.

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, …