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.

Legendary R&B crooner Ronald Isley has spent more than six decades making timeless music, but during a recent performance at Philadelphia’s historic Dell Music Center, the legendary Isley Brothers frontman… The post Ron Isley Reveals Five-Week Hospital Stay During Emotional Philadelphia Performance appeared first on .

In the late 2000s, “Young Folks” was like fairy dust. You’d hear that whistling hook wisping down a city block, and a microbrewery and a Whole Foods would spring up around you. Every Discman spinning it on a burned CD magically transformed into an iPod Nano programmed by Alex Patsavas. When the music wafted into a roomful of actual young …

On this date in 1990, the self proclaimed “World’s Most Dangerous Group” returned with something to prove when N.W.A. released their explosive 100 Miles and Runnin’ EP through Ruthless Records and Priority… The post Today In Hip Hop History: N.W.A. Released Their Second Project ‘100 Miles And Runnin’ 36 Years Ago appeared first on .

The ’90s alt-pop legend Sheryl Crow is not slowing down anytime soon. Crow released her last album Evolution in 2024, shortly after she was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Since then, she has released a protest song called “The New Normal,” co-produced Stevie Nicks’ comeback single “The Lighthouse,” and taken part in all sorts of benefit …

Back in 2016, a young Bandcamp-native singer-songwriter named Sophie Allison released For Young Hearts, her official debut EP as Soccer Mommy. Our former colleague James Rettig was all over that shit. You may think of yourself as a Soccer Mommy OG, but James was the earliest of adopters — so early, in fact, that his post about For Young Hearts …