LA’s Cosmic Joke play hardcore like it’s pop-punk, taking cues from their melodic ’80s SoCal forebears. They impressed us with their 2024 debut LP and last year’s guest-heavy covers EP for wildfire relief, and word is, they’ve got a whole ‘nother album of that stuff ready to go. In November, Cosmic Joke will release Suburban Decay, comprising 12 more snotty …

Earlier this year, Peaches returned with No Lube So Rude, her first album in over a decade, which was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize. Now, the pop icon is giving her timeless 2000 hit “Fuck The Pain Away” its first remix for the new Hellraiser game. The post Peaches Remixes “Fuck The Pain Away” For New <em>Hellraiser</em> Game appeared …

It’s time for another LCD Soundsystem residency. James Murphy and co. have announced a string of NYC shows slated for the holiday season at Queens’ Knockdown Center and Brooklyn’s Brooklyn Steel. It includes their 100th NYC residency show. The post LCD Soundsystem Announce 100th NYC Residency Show, Al Doyle Announces Debut Solo Album <em>Hollywood Saviour</em> appeared first on Stereogum.

Girl groups, like boy bands, have a limited lifespan: Their dissolution is all but inevitable, and they go through hell to get there. It’s one of those realities about pop music that we pretend isn’t going to happen this time, until it does, and then all of a sudden we always noticed the cracks in the facade, the outages in …

Jess Williamson releases her new record A Mile South Of Heaven next month, and she’s inventing new forms of album promotion. Today, she revealed that she adopted a highway that helped inspire the LP, and she’s declaring it “the unofficial Mile South of Heaven.” The post Jess Williamson Adopted A Highway appeared first on Stereogum.

David Sylvian has announced his new album The Distance Between The Killer And The Killing, coming next year. It’s billed as the followup to 2009’s Manafon, though since then the Japan singer has released the ambient excursion There’s A Light That Enters Houses With No Other House In Sight and various compilations. The post David Sylvian Announces New Album <em>The …

These days, the Flaming Lips are a band in some disarray, and it’s nice to be reminded of a time what that wasn’t the case. Anniversary reissues are good for that. When they released their 2006 album At War With The Mystics, the Lips were already a psych-rock institution who’d become an unlikely touring sensation. Their previous album, 2002’s Yoshimi …

In June, Kalia Vandever released their new album Mana. Now, the trombonist and composer is teaming up with Darkside’s Dave Harrington for a joint LP called Evergreen, arriving this fall. The post Kalia Vandever & Dave Harrington Announce New Album <em>Evergreen</em>: Hear “The Chase” appeared first on Stereogum.

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Seattle indie rockers Chastity Belt have been making fuzzy, beatific music for 15 years now, and we gave Album Of The Week honors to their last LP, 2024’s Live Laugh Love. A couple of weeks ago, Chastity Belt released two tracks, “I Could Say Less” and “Pavement.” As it turns out, both of those songs will appear on Chastity Belt’s …