Last night, Dua Lipa’s massive Radical Optimism World Tour finally kicked off its US leg. In Chicago, the pop star brought out the city’s own soul and funk legend Chaka Khan to perform her 1983 hit “Ain’t Nobody” together.

Last night, Dua Lipa’s massive Radical Optimism World Tour finally kicked off its US leg. In Chicago, the pop star brought out the city’s own soul and funk legend Chaka Khan to perform her 1983 hit “Ain’t Nobody” together.

Baseball has lost a legend. Davey Johnson, the mastermind behind the New York Mets’ unforgettable 1986 World Series victory, has passed away at age 82, confirmed by Mets team historian… The post SOURCE SPORTS: Mets ’86 World Series Manager Davey Johnson Passes Away At 82 appeared first on .

Bruce “Loose” Calderwood, the vocalist and bassist for San Francisco punk band Flipper, has died. The frontman reportedly passed from an apparent heart attack. He was 66.

Mark Volman, the musician who co-founded the Turtles and the offshoot band Flo & Eddie, became an important fixture of Frank Zappa’s Mothers Of Invention, and changed the course of sampling with his lawsuit against De La Soul, has died. Volman revealed in 2023 that he was diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disease Lewy body dementia in 2020, but he continued …

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, …

Late last year we checked in on the ascendent Boston rapper Rich Amiri as he released his career-best album War Ready. He’s already ramping up to a new one, Grit & Grace, which includes last month’s lead single “Paranoid.” Today he’s back with another preview, “In & Out,” which is the kind of booming, ominous post-Future trap track Amiri excels …

Back in February we learned Green Day were making a touring-oriented road trip comedy with the behemoth music venues and ticketing monopoly Live Nation and that they were casting “punks, emo, hardcore & alt people” to work as extras during wintertime shoots in Oklahoma City. We now know a bit more about the film.

The Orchestra (For Now) are a London seven-piece that make big, cataclysmic, head-scratching euphoria. They released their debut EP Plan 75 earlier this year and are wasting no time with the follow-up. Their second EP Plan 76 is due Oct. 31. Earlier this week they shared the grand new single “Hattrick” and a surreal accompanying video directed by Joe Starrs.

Last year, label HATETOQUIT and Brooklyn band Hiding Places organized a compilation album Merciless Accelerating Rhythms – Artists United For A Free Palestine, which featured Mount Eerie, Little Wings, Fust, hemlock, and Family Vision. All proceeds went directly to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) and Palestine Legal. A year later, the unfathomable genocide pursued by Israel is still going …