It’s one of life’s simple joys, like a cool breeze or a hot cup of coffee — or maybe even like a cool breeze and a hot cup of coffee, together: when two very different rappers team up on a track and their styles gel exceptionally well. One instance of the phenomenon arrives today in the form of “Young Player,” …

Charly Bliss spent 9/11 on a boat. The beloved NYC pop-rockers played their first show in 10 months Thursday night on the Liberty Belle, which set sail from Pier 36 and made its way under the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, looping around the Statue of Liberty before returning to port. YouTube user IronChefWong was there, helpfully filming the whole show. …

It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything from Texan garage-punk greats Radioactivity, but time won’t bring them down. The Marked Men frontman Jeff Burke started Radioactivity with his bandmate Mark Ryan in 2013, and members of the band have played in like minded groups like the Mind Spiders, Bad Sports, and High Tension Wires. Radioactivity have been dormant …

Frog are proving to be a prolific force. Next week, the scrappy New York indie band is following up this year’s 1000 Variations On The Same Song with The Count, their second album of 2025. It’s a concept record centered on the titular character, a mysterious figure who allegedly began popping up around NYC just last month.

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, …

Up until fairly recently, Jade Thirlwall was a member of Little Mix, a hugely successful British girl group that was assembled on the UK version of The X Factor. Little Mix went on hiatus in 2022. A little more than a year ago, JADE, recording just under her all-caps first name, released the wild, twisty solo single “Angel Of My …

Earlier this year, London rapper Little Simz released her album Lotus and explained her rift with past collaborator Inflo, from SAULT. Now, she’s starring alongside Cillian Murphy in Steve, Small Things Like These director Tim Mielants’ drama set at a ’90s reform school. We’ve already seen the Steve trailer, and now Simz has shared “Don’t Leave Too Soon,” her song …

Jeff Tweedy’s triple album Twilight Override is imminent. We’ve heard “One Tiny Flower,” “Out In The Dark,” “Stray Cats In Spain,” and “Enough,” and today the Wilco frontman is releasing the Velvet Underground-indebted “Lou Reed Was My Babysitter.”

For the past year, Neil Young has been touring and recording with a new backing band called Chrome Hearts. His new album Talkin To The Trees is credited to Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts, and his current tour is billed as the Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts Love Earth World Tour. As far as cool nomenclature goes, it …

Right now, Taylor Swift has other things going on, and she would presumably prefer to be excluded from the narrative of the ongoing Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni legal battle. Swift’s friend Lively has been locked in a legal dispute with her It Ends With Us co-star and director Baldoni for some time, and a Swift spokesperson did not seem thrilled about …