Evan Stein has played in the excellent Northeastern hardcore bands Anklebiter and Broken Vow, and now he’s the leader of a new group called If It Rains. They make fast, intense, passionate hardcore with just the slightest touch of melody. It’s the classic Turning Point style — raw and guttural and angry, but with the kind of sincerity that might …

If you think Stereogum talks about pop music too much, you are going to hate this post. We fuck with pop music over here, guys! Sorry! A couple of weeks ago, the TikTok influencer Addison Rae released her debut album Addison, and it’s really good. Rae has evidently earned the respect of her pop-star peers. She’s got multiple collaborations with …

You don’t have to be a fan of Seattle trio Coral Grief’s forehead-slap band name to appreciate the way their blinking, sighing psychedelic rock calls back to Stereolab and Broadcast. Coral Grief’s full-length debut Air Between Us drops next month, and we’ve posted the promising singles “Rockhounds” and “Latitude.” Today, they’ve got another one.

In a couple of weeks Wet Leg will share their sophomore album moisturizer. The UK rockers have been fueling the anticipation with a handful of intimate shows, where they’ve been unveiling new songs like “catch these fists,” “CPR,” and “davina mccall.” Today Wet Leg have shared the studio version of “davina mccall,” named after the Big Brother host, along with its …

A few weeks back we got the welcome news that a new Superchunk album is about to drop. Songs In The Key Of Yikes is coming in August, and its lead single “Is It Making You Feel Something” found the indie rock veterans in fighting form. “No Hope,” the new single out today, gets directly to the point, with Mac …

Lorde’s new album Virgin is out this Friday. She’s been rolling out a few tracks from it already, including “Man Of The Year,” last week’s “Hammer,” and the lead single “What Was That,” which she debuted at an impromptu listening party in New York’s Washington Square Park that got delayed a few hours because the cops shut it down at …

In 2023, Golden Apples released the album Bananasugarfire. The following year the Philly shoegaze crew had friends like Dazy and Wicca Phase Springs Eternal reimagine some of the songs. Now they’re back with the announcement of their fourth LP Shooting Star.

Kurt Vile and the War On Drugs leader Adam Granduciel are kindred spirits who share a long history. Granduciel and Vile formed the War On Drugs together in 2005. Pretty soon afterward, Vile left to focus on his solo career, but he and Granduciel kept working together. Granduciel played on a bunch of Vile’s records, and he was one of …

Golden, Texas is kind of a misnomer. Eighty minutes outside of Dallas, its claim to fame is an entire festival dedicated to tubers, with parades and music and something called mutton bustin’. But the small town is known for neither the gilded flesh of its yukons nor its butterballs; instead, its pride and joy is the humble, orange-gutted Ipomoea batatas …

Bassist Carol Kaye was part of a crack team of session musicians who played on hundreds of pop hits in the 1960s and ’70s by the likes of the Beach Boys, the Byrds, the Monkees, Sonny & Cher, the Mamas And The Papas, and many more. Somewhere along the way, drummer Hal Blaine started referring to this unit as the …