As of this summer, it has been 40 years since Eric B. and Rakim released their debut single “Eric B. Is President.” That’s the song that introduced Rakim to the world, and his hard-nosed but quietly tricky style instantly made him one of history’s greatest rappers and put him in top-dive discussions for eternity. After a very long absence and …

Radiohead returned to the stage in late 2025 for the first time in seven years, playing 20 shows broken up into a series of four-night residencies in major European cities. During the promo campaign for his new solo album Blue Morpho, Ed O’Brien mentioned Radiohead’s tentative plans to repeat this method of touring going forward, potentially doing 20 shows a …

Hey, Ghostemane’s back! The Florida SoundCloud-rap renegade emerged about a decade ago, and I was pretty fascinated with the ways that he incorporated, metal, hardcore, goth, and industrial into what he was doing, even before he got his rap name tattooed across his forehead. Ghostemane was once in a group with Lil Peep, and he’s got collaborations with people like …

Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny has paid tribute to former boxer Prichard Colón, who passed away at the age of 33. Colón suffered a brain bleed following a 2015 fight after receiving repeated blows to the neck, and never fully recovered. In 2016, the WBC introduced the “Prichard Colón rule” to discourage and punish blows The post Bad Bunny Pays …

Channel Tres, Compton native and maker of funky-ass club-pop, was putting out records and playing great live shows for years before he finally released his full-length debut. That album, Head Rush, finally came out in 2024, and it had guests like Thundercat, Toro y Moi, and Ty Dolla $ign. This year, Tres appeared on new records from Thundercat and Dahi, …

Mari Rubio stays busy. The avant-garde musician is always juggling a million musical projects, including partnerships with claire rousay and Wendy Eisenberg (as Whait) and Lynn Avery (as Pink Must), the sprawling ensemble Water Damage, and her own robust solo catalog as more eaze. She’s about to add to that discography. The post more eaze Announces New Album <em>valley and …

The latest from rising alt-pop star Sophia Stel undergoes a beautiful metamorphosis. “Now I’ve Got A Lot You Know,” which follows her other stunning one-off, “Molly In The Club,” starts with a soft haze of synths and Stel’s vocals haloed in Auto-Tune. The song swirls in circles, its lyrics ruminating on an important love connection. The words spin in circles, …

Jane Schoenbrun has great taste. The filmmaker recruited Alex G to score 2022’s We’re All Going To The World’s Fair and 2024’s I Saw The TV Glow, and they did the same for Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma, their new slasher film starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. The soundtrack is getting its official announcement today (though we’ve …

Troye Sivan has announced his fourth studio album She’s The Best, the follow-up to 2023’s Something To Give Each Other, out Oct. 9. He’s shared the title track and gorgeous video (visual poem?) starring drag legend Sasha Colby and AMC icon Nicole Kidman. Kidman and Sivan previously worked together in the 2018 film Boy Erased. Sivan worked on the track …

Derry Bronson, longtime keyboardist for the hitmaking early-’90s UK dance-rock band EMF, has passed away. The band shared the news in an Instagram post earlier today, and the BBC reports that Bronson had recently been treated for a brain tumor. He was 55. The post EMF’s Derry Brownson Dead At 55 appeared first on Stereogum.