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 subscribers on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.) …

The Danish producer Trentemøller has worked in a range of rock, pop, and electronic styles over the years, from glitch, downtempo, and darkwave to dream-pop and synthwave. In recent years he’s been pushing further and further into the shoegaze realm, and he goes all the way with it on the lead single from his new album. The post Trentemøller Announces …

Michelle Buzz and Lance Shipp are two seasoned pop-industry songwriters who teamed up to form the retro art-pop duo Haute & Freddy, and they released their debut album Big Disgrace earlier this year. It’s really good! They’ve steadily accumulated buzz since the LP came out, and now they’ve followed it by dropping the bouncily operatic new synthpop jam “Touch Touch.” …

“My problem — and it’s a good problem — is that I’m bored,” Dahi tells me on a humid Manhattan afternoon. It’s mundane self-description and a modus operandi.  The post Dahi Is Playing Catch With Himself appeared first on Stereogum.

Earlier this year, Angèle joined forces with Justice for “What You Want.” That song is going to appear on her new album Instinct, which she’s announcing today. Other guests include Caroline Polachek, SebastiAn, and Soulwax. The post Angèle Announces New Album <em>Instinct</em> Feat. Caroline Polachek, Justice, & More appeared first on Stereogum.

Ascendant hyperpop star underscores has already been doing a ton of big things in 2026. Her breakout album U is one of our favorites of the year thus far, and she’s about to open Charli XCX’s arena tour. Today, pretty much out of nowhere, underscores dropped her new single “Unlimited Love,” a joyously jittery deconstructed Euro-club attack that’ll probably sound …

Anytime that Kendrick Lamar shows up on anyone else’s song, it’s news. Earlier this year, for instance, Kendrick was on his protege Baby Keem’s album Ca$ino. Today, he’s on a new record from Dahi, the veteran Inglewood-born rap producer. The post Dahi – “How To Pray” (Feat. Kendrick Lamar & Amber Mark) appeared first on Stereogum.

Art-rock eminemce Peter Gabriel is right smack in the middle of releasing his new album oi. It’s been coming out in installments all year, with Gabriel releasing a new song on the night of every full moon. One month after the 10-minute epic “One by One,” he’s back with “Looking For the Happy,” which clocks in at a relatively brisk …

As it happens, yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Outkast’s beyond-classic sophomore album ATLiens, which still sounds futuristic today. As it happens, yesterday was also the day that Netflix announced André 3000, the more enigmatic half of Outkast, will appear in its forthcoming live-action series Scooby-Doo: Origins. Zoinks! The post André 3000 Cast In Netflix’s Live Action <em>Scooby-Doo</em> appeared first …

As this year’s just-unveiled Camp Flog Gnaw lineup will attest, Tyler, The Creator is an eclectic soul who cannot be anchored to any particular genre. But it’s always cool when Tyler reengages with his roots and gets back on some real underground rap shit. That’s what he does on “Look Like My Mama,” the new single where he joins forces …