Here’s a weird one! Weakened Friends are a DIY pop-punk trio from Portland, Maine, and they got motherfucking Buckethead on a song. The band’s new album Feels Like Hell is coming out this fall. We’ve posted the single “Tough Luck (Bleed Me Out),” which rocks unbelievably hard, as well as the band’s cover of Natalie Imbruglia’s “Torn.” (Technically, it’s Ednaswap’s …

International Anthem maintains its status as your favorite indie rocker’s favorite modern-day jazz label — or at least my favorite modern-day jazz label — in part by maintaining connections with the indie rock community in its home city of Chicago. One example is the label’s work with Macie Stewart. You may know Stewart as half of the rock band Finom …

David Bowie’s late-era material is getting the box set treatment. The sixth in a series of career-spanning archival releases from the chameleonic rocker, David Bowie 6. I Can’t Give Everything Away (2002 – 2016), is out on September 12 on vinyl, cd, and digital. We here at Stereogum can’t give everything away either, but we can give away a copy …

The legendary Jens Lekman seems to appear in manipulated form on the new Burial single, but he’s coming back loud and clear with his own new high-concept project next month. Lekman’s new album Songs For Other People’s Weddings was created in tandem with a novel of the same name by David Levithan, author of YA fiction such as Nick And …

Big Thief keep releasing singles from their new album, and, unsurprisingly, those songs continue to be good. Today, we get two more of them to follow “Incomprehensible” and “All Night All Day.” This new pairing keeps up the loose, shimmery, expansive vibe that clearly characterizes Double Infinity. But despite that description, both tracks are as tender and carefully crafted as …

Next month, the great Michigan post-hardcore band La Dispute will return with No One Was Driving The Car, their first new album in six years. No One Was Driving The Car is divided up into multiple acts, and La Dispute have been unveiling the album one act at a time — the three-song opening, the incredible nine-minute epic “Environmental Catastrophe …

Ozzy Osbourne died of a heart attack. As the New York Times reports, the heavy metal icon’s death certificate lists cardiac arrest as his cause of death. The document notes that Osbourne suffered from coronary artery disease in addition to Parkinson’s; he revealed his diagnosis with the latter in 2020.

Back in October 2023, when Samia was still promoting her sophomore album Honey, she stopped by NPR for her debut Tiny Desk concert. That performance would be a pretty significant one — not only because it was the final episode Bob Boilen produced before his retirement, but also because it’s just now gone viral on social media nearly two years …

Terry Reid, the influential English rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter who famously turned down invitations to lead both Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, has passed away. As The Guardian reports, Reid’s reps confirm that he has died. No cause of death has been reported, but Reid was going through cancer treatment this year. He was 75.

Last year, Bad Bad Hats released their eponymous album. Now, the indie rock duo is celebrating a decade of their debut Psychic Reader by recruiting fellow artists for remixes. Squirrel Flower’s take on “All-Nighter” is out today.