With singles like this year’s “Kitchen Song” and “I Don’t Like You, But I Love You,” Brighton-based musician Opal Mag has posited herself as a promising new voice of the ’90s indie rock revival. Right now, there are tons of artists making the type of noisy, hooky guitar music Opal Mag does, but not all of them successfully find the …

In the midst of all of her other recent cinematic endeavors, Charli XCX contributed a bunch of songs to the soundtrack of writer/director Emerald Fennell’s new Wuthering Heights adaptation. The movie has Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as its stars, and Charli’s music has been pretty central to its marketing. Earlier this week, Charli gave us our first taste of …

A couple of months ago, Massive Attack announced that they were joining the massive wave of artists removing their catalogs from Spotify, citing CEO Daniel Ek’s investment of $700 million in the AI military startup Helsing. At the time, the duo wrote, “The economic burden that has long been placed on artists is now compounded by a moral & ethical …

Last year, the Softies released their long-awaited reunion album. The duo of Tiger Trap’s Rose Melberg and Pretty Face’s Jen Sbragia started making hushed, intimate music together in 1994, and they released a handful of LPs before breaking up in 2000. Last year, the duo returned with The Bed I Made, their first album in 24 years. The record fits …

Look at those adorable young men up there. That’s the version of Drive-By Truckers that existed in 2003, when the band released the classic 2003 album Decoration Day. Back then, a very young Jason Isbell was in the band. He was one of their three songwriters. Isbell didn’t write anywhere near as many Decoration Day songs as Patterson Hood or …

The New York musician Wendy Eisenberg is a big part of the improvisational avant-garde world. She leads the band Editrix. She’s one third of Squanderers, a supergroup with veterans Kramer and David Grubbs. She’s in claire rousay’s live band, and she’s got plenty of other ventures and collaborations going. Somewhere in there, Eisenberg also releases her own solo music. Earlier …

If you are not familiar with the Toronto duo PONY, I strongly urge you to get familiar. Sam Bielanski and Matt Morand make shimmery, catchy, extremely fun crunch-pop. It’s sleek and hooky, but it always feels charmingly homespun. If PONY have ever made a bad song, I haven’t heard it. The band release their sophomore album Velveteen in 2023, and …

What do Tame Impala, Haim, Chance The Rapper, and Addison Rae all have in common? Though they’re arguably superstars now, in the past they were all featured among Stereogum’s annual roundups of the year’s Best New Artists (fka Best New Bands). We don’t claim to have any clairvoyant skills around here. We just have good taste. And with the end …

Avalon Emerson made her name as a dance DJ and producer long before she decided to try making actual songs, and then she turned out to be really good at that. Partially inspired by Jeff Tweedy’s book How To Write One Song, she started Avalon Emerson & The Charm, a project that exists on some strange continuum between thumping club …

Tobias Jesso Jr. came out of nowhere, and he disappeared back into the background nearly as quickly. In 2015, the tall, bushy-headed Canadian became a low-key sensation with his debut album Goon, a set of piano-led pop songs that tapped into a ’70s singer-songwriter zeitgeist that was percolating in indie music at the time. The post Tobias Jesso Jr.’s Second …