Georgia Maq has gone through some pretty intense life changes over the past few years. Her beloved indie rock band Camp Cope broke up, and then she moved across the globe from her native Melbourne to Los Angeles, an upheaval that influenced her November 2024 single “tropical lush ice.” Today she’s back with “Slightly Below The Middle,” the lead single …

It’s Grumpy time. Heaven Schmitt’s idiosyncratic indie project caught our attention last year by releasing the wonderfully weird Bayonet debut Wolfed and collaborating with country superstar Zach Bryan, and now they’re back to announce another EP called Piebald. The lead single “Crush” is a wholesome serenade.

New York rapper and producer Cash Cobain made his name as the main creative force behind the sexy drill subgenre, but he’s on some other shit this year. In the past few months, Cobain has released a couple of singles, “Trippin On A Yacht,” with Rob49 and Bay Swag, and “Sick N Tired,” with OnlyHeaven, that push his sound in …

Three years past his 80th birthday, Paul McCartney is still out there playing the hits. Back in February, the Beatle played a surprise residency at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. Now he’s announced a fresh run of stadium and arena shows, his first North American tour since 2022.

Jason Molina’s influence on indie rock cannot be overstated. The late Songs: Ohia frontman was gone too soon but left an abundant discography behind, and today Run For Cover is announcing a tribute album called I Will Swim To You: A Tribute To Jason Molina with musicians covering some of his songs. The first offerings are MJ Lenderman’s humble rendition …

Kassa Overall is a jazz drummer and bandleader, and he has also dabbled in rapping and beatmaking. Later this year, he’ll follow his guest-heavy 2023 album ANIMALS with CREAM, a new instrumental collection of rap covers. On this one, Kassa Overall and his band go entirely live, staying away from the samples and drum machines that Overall often likes to …

It’s been too long since we’ve gotten new music from Jens Lekman — unless you count the re-recordings of his old work, about which we spoke to Lekman back in 2022. Lekman last graced us with new music in 2019, when he and Annika Norlin officially released their back-and-forth songwriting exchange Correspondence. Now he’s finally got a fresh LP for …

There’s a new band called WOOM, and it seems to have nothing to do with the other WOOM, a Fertile Crescent side project who got a Stereogum post in 2010. I guess “WOOM” is too good of a name to sit vacant for more than 15 years. The latest musicians to call themselves WOOM come from London, and they specialize …

Few openers in recent memory set the tone of an album quite like Infinity Knives and Brian Ennals’ “The Iron Wall.” It’s immediately nerve-shredding, as producer Infinity Knives (né Tariq Ravelomanana) programs an atonal sequence and jittery drums that tumble over each other like a charging rock slide. When rapper Brian Ennals sneers “Yo” a second before his verse, it’s …

New Been Stellar is always a good thing. Their debut album, last year’s Scream From New York, NY, gave us no choice but to name them a Band To Watch. The group returned last month with “Breakaway,” and now they’re sharing the emotive rocker “Adored.”