If you were looking for a daily dose of disco-pop, Debbii Dawson’s latest single “Chemical Reaction” will have you nostalgic for Golden Hour-era Kacey Musgraves. The rising pop star just finished touring with Role Model across North America and returns with the follow-up track to “You Killed The Music.” “Chemical Reaction” is as if a mad scientist blended a bit …

The shoegazey, slowcore-ish, folk-adjacent Philadelphia indie rockers Knifeplay have spent the two and a half years since their spectacular sophomore album Animal Drowning slowly trickling out new music without giving us a proper follow-up just yet. There have been new Christmas songs that always disappear from Bandcamp once the holiday season is over, a reissue of debut album Pearlty, and …

The Black Keys have been going through it lately. Last year, the veteran rockers canceled an entire arena tour because of low ticket sales, and they also faced criticism for playing an “America Loves Crypto” concert in their Akron hometown, which was funded by shady Republican operatives attempting to swing a Senatorial election and which looked very silly. Also, the …

Earlier this year. Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington’s group Darkside, which recently added drummer Tlacael Esparza, released Nothing, one of this year’s best albums. Harrington also makes a lot of music outside the context of Darkside. Last year, for instance, Harrington released the solo album Skull Dream. Now, Harrington has a new LP that he made with his old friend …

Ghanaian-American rising star MOLIY has unleashed a high-energy remix of her viral hit “Shake It To The Max (FLY),” this time joining forces with global EDM giants Major Lazer, along… The post MOLIY Teams Up with Major Lazer for Explosive “Shake It To The Max (FLY)” Remix appeared first on .

On this day in 1989, Brooklyn native Special Ed made his mark on the rap world with the release of his debut album Youngest In Charge via Profile Records. Just… The post Today In Hip Hop History: Special Ed Released His Debut Album ‘Youngest In Charge’ 36 Years Ago appeared first on .

Young Mazino, who was Emmy-nominated for his performance in 2023’s Beef, plays one of the newest characters in the new season of the acclaimed apocalyptic TV series The Last Of Us. Last night, he guested on The Tonight Show to talk about the it. (By the way, if you’re like me, running a bit behind culturally, and haven’t watched yet, …

Here at Stereogum, we haven’t done enough to keep up with Boldy James prodigious 2025 output. To be fair, nobody else has, either. It’s impossible. The Detroit underground rap legend is currently on the sort of run that put prime Robert Pollard to shame. Thus far in 2025, Boldy James has released six albums, all of them full-length collabs with …

A band called Yawn Mower is almost definitionally a dad rock band — not just any pun, but that pun as your band name? And yeah, I would call the Asbury Park band’s combination of indie, emo, and power-pop a very dad-friendly sound in 2025. At least it’s highly appealing to this particular dad.

Back in 2012, Paul McCartney released Kisses On The Bottom, an album of pop and jazz standards with just a couple of originals. One of those originals is “My Valentine,” which sounded a lot like “My Funny Valentine” but which was apparently an entirely new song. McCartney got Eric Clapton to play guitar on the song, and Johnny Depp and …