When the UK sister festivals Reading and Leeds took place over the weekend, there was one hilariously bleak change in the programming. The post Reading & Leeds Replace New Artist Showcase With “Nepo Baby Stage” appeared first on Stereogum.

Richmond rock ‘n’ roller James Goodson is a music publicist and, full disclosure, an occasional show buddy of mine. He’s also the one-man banger factory behind Dazy, a project that has cranked out many, many excellent songs since Goodson started anonymously dropping Bandcamp tracks during the 2020 COVID summer. Back in 2021, a year before he became a Stereogum Artist …

Ella Langley now has the longest-running non-Christmas #1 song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100. Last week “Choosin’ Texas,” the crossover country smash from Langley’s Dandelion, spent its 19th week atop the chart, pulling into a tie with Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Old Town Road” and Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” for the most weeks …

Rooted in Montréal — though often descending in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, and beyond — MUTEK is devoted to sonic and digital creativity. The festival was founded by PhD scholar Alain Mongeau in 2000. He discovered rave culture in the 1990s, inspired by the Interference Festival at Love Parade in Berlin; Sónar in Barcelona; and German duo Sun Electric. “In …

The plan? Make Noah Kahan’s tour sell out in order to sell more adult diapers. The post Nathan Fielder Negs Noah Kahan In Vancouver Concert Cameo appeared first on Stereogum.

Omni burst out of Atlanta a decade ago with Deluxe, a debut album that placed them at the forefront of a post-punk resurgence. Now the band is putting out a 10th anniversary deluxe Deluxe to mark the occasion. The two-disc set includes the 10 original album tracks and their demos plus the 2017 singles “Fever Bass” and “Thesis” and two …

Bluegrass phenom Billy Strings is a bigtime metalhead who came up playing in metal bands, and he seems to have a special affection for Montreal tech-death legends Cryptopsy. Last year, Strings played a solo on Cryptopsy’s 30th-anniversary medley of re-recorded songs from their 1994 debut Blasphemy Made Flesh. When Strings put together his own Ionia Freak Fair festival in his …

Premier Irish exports Fontaines D.C. announced their Romance follow-up Dopamine Chamber two weeks ago, and they’ve been debuting songs from the album at their live shows lately. Another new one made it into their set at the Leeds Festival on Saturday. “Happy For You” begins slowly and ominously but gradually builds intensity before truly taking off at the end. Watch …

Anyone who willingly attends a Good Charlotte show in 2026 is already demonstrating a certain level of impaired judgment. So maybe it’s not that surprising that one of those Good Charlotte fans would then allegedly drunkenly steal an ambulance from the show and crash it into both a truck and a wall. The post Drunk Woman Steals Ambulance From Good …

The Yankees-Red Sox rivalry has never needed much assistance generating controversy, but Boston radio broadcaster Will Flemming added another chapter Sunday after taking serious exception to Jazz Chisholm Jr. stealing… The post SOURCE SPORTS: Red Sox Broadcaster Calls Jazz Chisholm Jr. “Bush League Player” Following Controversial Stolen Base appeared first on .