Life comes at you with velocity, girl. How has it already been 30 years since the breakup of Washington, DC indie-pop greats Velocity Girl? The group, which briefly reunited in 2002, has been back in action lately. In 2023, they played their first show in 21 years, then played some more. In 2024, they released a revamped version of their …

London-based producer Darren J. Cunningham has been making experimental dance music under the name Actress for about two decades now, and he’s nowhere near done. Last month, Actress released “Live By You,” a collaboration with the grime artist CASISDEAD. It’ll appear on Radical Frame, the new album that Actress announced today. The post Actress Announces New Album <em>Radical Frame</em>: Hear …

It’s been a while since Matty Healy has released any music or even played any shows with his band the 1975. Being Funny In A Foreign Language, the group’s most recent album, is a few months away from it fourth birthday, and their most recent performance was their headlining set at Glastonbury, a little more than a year ago. In …

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.