There he was: Britt Daniel, carrying his camera around Times Square. It was the fall of 2003, maybe 2004. I was a scrubby Midwestern undergrad visiting New York City for the CMJ Music Marathon, a sort of “SXSW in NYC” situation where buzz bands played umpteen times in venues around town. Spoon were not on the lineup, and setlist.fm does …

Denver’s Madeline Johnston gave us her latest Midwife album No Depression In Heaven last fall, and today she’s sharing a B-side that surely was not left off the tracklist for quality control reasons. “Signs” finds Midwife’s gauzy dream-state slowcore applied to the subject of grief. It’s about searching for glimpses of the people we’ve lost, trying to find whatever connection …

These days, LVL UP’s Dave Benton is plenty busy with his Trace Mountains solo project. Last year, Benton released Into The Burning Blue, the album that he recorded with Japanese Breakfast’s Craig Hendrix. Later this month, he’ll head out on a UK tour that includes a bunch of dates with MJ Lenderman. And right now, Benton has a new Trace …

Earlier this year, the German-South African artist WizTheMC and the producer Bees & Honey teamed up to release “Show Me Love,” a pop song that draws from the South African house genre known as amapiano. South African pop star, the biggest name ever to emerge from the world of amapiano, appeared on a “Show Me Love” remix, and the song …

The San Francisco punk band Culture Abuse broke up in 2020 for a very specific reason: Singer David Kelling was accused of sexual misconduct with an underage girl. Kelling’s former bandmates decided to keep going without him, which can’t have been an easy decision, and they started a new band called M.U.T.T. The group released their debut LP Bad To …

At the beginning of this year, the Weeknd dropped Hurry Up Tomorrow, the follow-up to 2022’s Dawn FM. The pop star cinephile also hasn’t given up on his film career yet. He’s releasing a film of the same name on May 16, which co-stars Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan. Seems like he’s preparing to remind us of this big venture …

It’s been nearly eight years since Broken Social Scene released Hug Of Thunder, their most recent album, but the Canadian indie collective remains plenty present. “Anthems For A Seventeen-Year-Old Girl” has emerged as a kind of standard, with tons of younger indie rockers covering it, and the band has a new documentary and a tribute album on the way. Also, …

As of right now, the most read post on Stereogum dot com is all about Evanescence’s 2003 smash “Bring Me To Life.” On the recent season premiere of his show The Rehearsal last weekend, Nathan Fielder put forth the theory that the chorus of “Bring Me To Life” helped inspire Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger to pull off the Miracle On …

On this day in 1970, Dennis Coles—better known to the world as Ghostface Killah—was born in Staten Island, New York. A founding member of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan, Ghostface has… The post Happy 55th Birthday To Wu Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killaaaaaahhh!!! appeared first on .

Rilo Kiley aren’t just back to the point where they’re playing shows. They’re back to the point where they’re playing late-night shows. They’ve got product to promote. At the beginning of this year, we learned that Rilo Kiley would return to headlined this year’s Just Like Heaven fest. The reunion went a lot further than that. After years of speculation, …