A little over year since All Hell, Los Campesinos! are going to heaven. Not really. But the Welsh indie-pop stalwarts have released a new live album today called So Close To Heaven, which they describe as “[their] way of tying a bow on the All Hell era.”

The new Gap ad directed by Bethany Vargas, enlists international girl group, Katseye, to deliver a full length choreographed dance.  The post A Latina Director Just Reminded Everyone What Good Advertising Looks Like appeared first on Remezcla.

The New York-based indie rocker Scarlet Rae, formerly of Rose Dorn and of bar italia’s live lineup, signed to Bayonet last year, and she’ll release her new EP No Heavy Goodbyes next month. We already posted her singles “Bleu” and “The Reason I Could Sleep Forever.” Today, she shares her EP opener “A World Where She Left Me Out,” a …

Cusp is an appropriate name for an indie band that seems to be perpetually on the brink of a breakthrough, and with each passing year the Chicago band keeps the nomenclature relevant by moving forward to some new threshold of renown. In 2023, we named Cusp one of the year’s best new bands, and Thanks So Much was one of …

Next month, the long-running Philly DIY band Nyxy Nyx will release Cult Classics Vol. 1, their first proper studio record. Midwife’s Madeline Johnston and a Sunny Day In Glasgow’s Josh Meakim contribute to the record, and we’ve already posted lead single “in haze.” Today, Nyxy Nyx — wow, I really hate typing that band name — follow that single with …

UK rock legend Paul Weller, the veteran solo artist who previously led the Jam and the Style Council, is taking legal action against the accounting firm of Harris And Trotter. As Sky News reports, that firm worked with Weller for three decades. According to a legal letter, the firm told Weller in March that their accountants and tax advisers would …

Carly Rae Jepsen’s pop instant classic E•MO•TION turned 10 this summer. We at Stereogum celebrated this milestone for our queen by publishing a great retrospective by Grace Robins-Somerville to mark the album’s initial release in Japan. With the original US release date looming Thursday, Jepsen threw her own party Tuesday night at West Hollywood’s famed Troubadour, performing the album straight …

Superstar DJ Calvin Harris has collaborated with a great many pop stars over the years, but a couple of tracks that he recorded with big names apparently won’t see the light of day. Last year, Harris posted a since-deleted Instagram teaser of “Ocean,” a track with vocals from Miley Cyrus. As People points out, Harris is now denying that he …

In May, Mo Chara, a member of the Belfast rap group Kneecap, was charged under the UK’s Terrorism Act, accused of displaying a Hezbollah flag at a 2024 Kneecap show in London. The charge came after Kneecap were faced with what the group (accurately, in my opinion) described as a “coordinated smear campaign” for voicing their support for the Palestinian …

In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This column is a companion piece to The Number Ones, and it’s for members only. Thank you to everyone who’s helping to keep Stereogum afloat.