By: Brandon Pope Riri Williams is not your typical college dropout. As Marvel fans discovered in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” she’s a super genius from the southside of Chicago with… The post Inside Ironheart: Dominique Thorne and Lyric Ross Bring Science, Magic, and Representation Into The MCU appeared first on .

Do you remember the band Kamikaze Palm Tree? It’s fine if you don’t. I definitely got PR emails about Kamikaze Palm Tree, but I don’t remember them at all. The two permanent members of Kamikaze Palm Tree, Dylan Hadley and Cole Berliner, both came from the San Francisco psych-rock scene. Together, they made skronky, skittery art music full of herky-jerk …

Among its three members, the brand new supergroup Orcutt Shelley Miller includes a whole lot of avant-rock experience and salt-and-pepper wizard-beard action. Of the three people in the band, chances are you’re most familiar with Steve Shelley, the most modestly bearded of them. For many years, Shelley played drums for Sonic Youth, and he reunited with his former bandmates Thurston …

Forget the solstice — summer officially begins at Primavera Sound Barcelona. At least, that’s how it felt when the Stereogum staff had our little mini-summit at the festival earlier this month. The sea was regularly in eyesight, the ice-cold Estrella Damm lager was flowing, and the sun was beating down with nary a cloud in the sky, which made those …

Brandy and Monica are joining forces this fall for their first co-headlining trek, The Boy Is Mine Tour. Announced on CBS Mornings, the tour is produced by the Black Promoters… The post Brandy and Monica Announce Co-Headlining ‘The Boy Is Mine’ Tour appeared first on .

Mike Gordon, the enigmatic Los Angeles musician known professionally as Mk.gee, had a tremendous breakout last year. His gooey, off-kilter album Two Star & The Dream Police was a critical sensation that made Mk.gee a favorite of a bunch of prominent musicians, and he got famous enough to get booked as an SNL musical guest. (My daughter saw those performances …

Beyoncé brought the European leg of her Cowboy Carter tour to a spectacular close with a sold-out show at Paris’ Stade de France and fans got an extra treat when… The post Jay-Z Replaces Kanye’s Name in “N****s in Paris” During Surprise Appearance at Beyonce’s Concert appeared first on .

Dublin post-punkers Sprints were a Stereogum Band To Watch in 2023. Their full-length debut Letter To Self came out on the first new music Friday of 2024, and it ripped. Since then, the band has been through a lot. They’ve toured tirelessly, and bandleader Karla Chubb has had to deal with some disgraceful bullshit from audiences. They’ve had a lineup …

Mac DeMarco albums tend to be big swings. DeMarco’s wooziest, most low-key jams are the kinds of things that seem to register with kids online; TikTok gifted him with his first Hot 100 hit a couple of years ago. But DeMarco’s recent albums tend to be the kinds of deep, conceptual works that can’t be consumed so casually. In 2023, …

The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die have always been an intense, dramatic band, and it looks like they’re moving in even more intense and dramatic directions. In the past year, the long-running Connecticut ensemble has released the grandiose, severe singles “Auguries Of Guilt” and “Beware The Centrist.” Those songs will both appear on …