Listening to Chuquimamani-Condori bombard Faith Hill’s “Breathe” with kullawada drums and meteoric explosions, drowning that pleasant Y2K-era country-pop song in an apocalypse of supernova bursts and charred alien remnants falling to earth, a flood of memories came rushing back: standing in Target with my parents, watching dozens of identical Faith Hills mouth the words from the rack of TV displays. …

Last month, Chicago’s Cusp announced a new album What I Want Doesn’t Want Me Back with the charmingly distortive “Follow Along.” Today, they’ve gifted us another look at the forthcoming album via the single “Oh Man.”

Over the years, Faith No More/Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton has made a lot of interesting music with a lot of unlikely collaborators. Most of those collaborators have been experimental extremists in one way or another. But now, Patton has gotten together with some people known for making soothing, traditional music: Scott and Seth Avett from the Avett Brothers, the …

A few months after Peel Dream Magazine released last year’s lovely Rose Main Reading Room, they shared a deluxe version of their 2018 debut Modern Meta Physic. But they’re not quite finished with the world surrounding their 2024 project. Today, they’ve announced their new mini album Taurus, which is a collection of songs initially recorded for Rose Main Reading Room.

David Byrne has already had a very eventful year. On top of preparing for his marriage to Mala Gaonkar, he’s done a lot of fun things to promote Who Is The Sky?, his first solo album in seven years, including performing a bunch of songs on Fallon and chatting with Stereogum’s buildings and food correspondent Rachel Brown for our first-ever …

Yesterday, Rila Ogawa, leader of the young Las Vegas screamo band Febuary, accused Ben Barnett, frontman of the veteran Portland screamo group Kind Of Like Spitting, of grooming and sexual manipulation. As Lambgoat reports, Ogawa writes about her experiences with Barnett in a 23-page Google Doc linked on her Instagram story. She writes:

On Sunday night, the great actor and New York icon Chloë Sevigny attended the Emmy Awards, where she was up for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited or Anthology Series Or Movie for her role in Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story. (She lost to Erin Doherty from Adolescence.) While she was at an Emmys Toast party on Friday …

In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This column is a companion piece to The Number Ones, and it’s for members only. Thank you to everyone who’s helping to keep Stereogum afloat.

Foo Fighters just played their first shows with their new drummer Ilan Rubin, who recently replaced Josh Freese. Now, they’re introducing Rubin to their fans in a jokey AI-generated video.

Earlier this year, Footballhead unleashed the angsty anthem “Face To Face.” The Chicago alt-rock band is getting ready to play Riot Fest this weekend, and now they’re back with another dark ripper called “Hesitate.”