On Sunday (Aug. 30), Iron Maiden played their second sold-out night in Toronto and Christopher Cross concluded his North American tour with Toto and the Romantics in the same city. Both the British heavy metal band and the American singer-songwriter used the opportunity to address the rising tensions between Canada and the United States. The post Iron Maiden & Christopher …

Told Slant’s What’s Up is out this Friday. Do not let its title fool you — there is nothing casual about these songs. “Manhattan” and “Draw Blood” are memorable, moving singles, but today’s “Sailor” is a true tearjerker. The post Told Slant – “Sailor” appeared first on Stereogum.

Mvrk, Justin Quiles y Ovy On The Drums nos dan un crossover explosivo con Me Necesita, un sencillo con un ritmo irresistible para los clubes. Esta colaboración reúne a tres artistas de distintas generaciones y reforza el vínculo musical entre España y Latinoamérica. “Me Necesita”es marcada por un constante vaivén de sentimientos. Entre el desamor y la atracción física, la …

“It’s been a bit like a family reunion,” Ben Swanson said onstage at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Saturday night. “The good kind, not the kind where your weird uncle says mildly inappropriate things all night.”  The post At What Comes After The Blues, Secretly Group Celebrates Its Three-Decade Journey To The Forefront Of Indie Music appeared first on Stereogum.

Total Wife’s original tracks already sound like remixes of themselves. The Nashville duo makes a kind of glitched-out shoegaze that pulls in all kinds of experimental electronic touches, and their album come back down was one of our favorites of last year. So it makes perfect sense that Total Wife are jumping on the remix-record train, with a new EP …

When the UK sister festivals Reading and Leeds took place over the weekend, there was one hilariously bleak change in the programming. The post Reading & Leeds Replace New Artist Showcase With “Nepo Baby Stage” appeared first on Stereogum.

Richmond rock ‘n’ roller James Goodson is a music publicist and, full disclosure, an occasional show buddy of mine. He’s also the one-man banger factory behind Dazy, a project that has cranked out many, many excellent songs since Goodson started anonymously dropping Bandcamp tracks during the 2020 COVID summer. Back in 2021, a year before he became a Stereogum Artist …

Ella Langley now has the longest-running non-Christmas #1 song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100. Last week “Choosin’ Texas,” the crossover country smash from Langley’s Dandelion, spent its 19th week atop the chart, pulling into a tie with Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Old Town Road” and Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” for the most weeks …

Rooted in Montréal — though often descending in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, and beyond — MUTEK is devoted to sonic and digital creativity. The festival was founded by PhD scholar Alain Mongeau in 2000. He discovered rave culture in the 1990s, inspired by the Interference Festival at Love Parade in Berlin; Sónar in Barcelona; and German duo Sun Electric. “In …

The plan? Make Noah Kahan’s tour sell out in order to sell more adult diapers. The post Nathan Fielder Negs Noah Kahan In Vancouver Concert Cameo appeared first on Stereogum.