Nobody will ever be allowed to say a single rude word about Samira Winter in my presence. She records dreamy shoegaze as just plain Winter, and she’s also Stereogum’s newest VJ. Earlier this year, I spent a few days with Winter at the Kilby Block Party festival in Salt Lake City, where she made this instant-classic video. She was a …

After a surprising turn into noisy guitar chaos on last year’s “Hot Slob,” Sylvan Esso announced their new album Ow ∞ last month and shared its Sigur Rós-sampling lead single “Concrete Glen.” The song, which incorporates the gorgeous, familiar-yet-alien sound of Jonsi’s vocals from “Svefn-g-englar,” marked a return to the duo’s usual speciality of folk-informed, forward-thinking pop. Today they’ve got …

You remember the scene. At least, I hope you remember the scene. It’s hard to forget it. Mad Men. Season five. Episode nine. Michael Ginsberg, a young copywriter at Cooper Draper Price, has an ad pitch all ready to go, but his boss Don Draper humiliatingly dumps his idea and successfully sells his own idea instead. On the long elevator …

Dawn Richard’s upcoming album Creole Culture is shaping up to be something special. It’s a further exploration into Richard’s New Orleans roots, something that she’s already dug into on past albums, and she recorded it with drummer/producer Greg Paul and his Katalyst collective. The early singles, “enough” and the Durand Bernarr duet “baby, can we?,” suggest that it’ll showcase Richard …

We know when the FIFA Women’s 2027 World Cup will be. We know what cities will host games. We even know where the final will be played. And now, we know when and where the final draw will take place.  The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027 Final Draw will stream live on Netflix in the The post Here’s Where to …

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Last December, while shockwaves from Geese’s album Getting Killed rippled through the world, that band’s frontman Cameron Winter played what was apparently a momentous solo show at the storied New York venue Carnegie Hall. Winter played songs from his 2024 solo album Heavy Metal, as well as some unreleased ones. Paul Thomas Anderson, who was a few months away from …

The records that the Whitby, Ontario musician Brandon Williams makes under the name Chastity are pretty simple and direct, but it’s hard to put an exact genre tag on them. Heavy emo? Heart-on-sleeve shoegaze? Power-pop that’s drowning in fuzz and also anguish? Chastity’s music sounds like Jesu and the Promise Ring at the same time. I’m very into it. The …

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The prolific Oakland-based singer-songwriter and visual artist Stephen Steinbrink has been in the game for many years, and he has collaborated with people like Boy Scouts, Emperor X, Dear Nora, and Jay Som. We last heard from Steinbrink when he released his 2023 album Disappearing Coin, and now he’s announcing plans to follow it with a new one called In …