The boundary-busting singer and bassist Meshell Ndegeocello has been getting together with her peers to record cover songs for a very long time. Way back in 1994, Ndegeocello and John Mellencamp had a big hit with their cover of Van Morrison’s “Wild Night.” Today, Ndegeocello announces Synonym, a new album that’s nothing but duet covers. She has rounded up a …

You like riffs? Big, stinky, heavy guitar riffs? Sure, you do. You probably wouldn’t be reading this website if you didn’t. Here at Stereogum, we cover lots of different kinds of music, and plenty of it isn’t riff-centric. But we believe in the riff, and we hope you do, too. If you like the riff, then please allow me to …

If Major League Baseball wanted the 96th All-Star Game to feel like a celebration of the game’s history and its future, Citizens Bank Park delivered. Coming less than 24 hours… The post SOURCE SPORTS: American League Blanks National League In Historic 96th MLB All-Star Game At Citizens Bank Park appeared first on .

It’s all so fluid. The songs on Steve Lacy’s new album Oh yeah? seem to spill out of him with ease, without regard for definition or expectation. Lacy’s interviews about the new LP — his first since 2022’s Grammy-winning Gemini Rights and its chart-topping breakout hit, “Bad Habit” — suggest he worked harder than ever on this music, that he …

The fresh-faced young musician Joseph Scarisbrick leads the Orchestra (For Now), the proggy and ambitious seven-piece London band who released the EP Plan 76 last year. But that’s not Scarisbrick’s only project. He’s also the leader of Big Red, a trio that started off as a solo situation and came to include two other Orchestra (For Now) members, singer/bassist Millie …

Are you ready to be In Endless Awe & Agony? That’s how the Ninajirachi/underscores collaborator daine has titled their debut album. It’s quite a high bar, but the early singles at least gesture in the direction of such extreme sensations. The post daine Announces Debut Album <em>In Endless Awe & Agony</em>: Hear “Love Love (Love Love)” appeared first on Stereogum.

New Brunswick’s own Jon Mckiel is about to loop back into our lives. The sample-based singer-songwriter is set to follow up 2024’s Hex this September with new album Gold Horatio. The post Jon Mckiel Announces New Album <em>Gold Horatio</em>: Hear “Rosemary” appeared first on Stereogum.

It appears that the great Philly DIY punk trio Control Top isn’t around anymore, which sucks. But Control Top hadn’t released anything in a long time anyway, and I’d rather have a new band putting out records than a silent Control Top. Earlier this year, Alan Creedon and Alex Lichtenauer, two thirds of Control Top, announced that they’d formed a …

It’s been three years since koleżanka graced us with Alone With The Sound The Mind Makes. This fall, the NYC-based artist born Kristina Moore will follow up that album with Zone 2, her latest collection of songs. A note on Bandcamp explains the album title: The post koleżanka Announces New Album <em>Zone 2</em>: Hear Two Tracks appeared first on Stereogum.

Things have been chaotic lately for Ekko Astral, the experimental and politically motivated Washington, DC punks who were a Stereogum Band To Watch in 2024. Earlier this year, bandleader Jael Holzman filed a peace order petition against former drummer Miri Tyler, one month after Tyler announced that she was leaving the band. At the time, Ekko Astral were preparing to …