The kids are bringing back early-’00s metalcore. I didn’t see this development coming, but it’s been very fun to watch. There’s a whole scene that’s developed around Ephyra, a Connecticut-based label that only came into existence in 2022. Bands like Balmora, Since My Beloved, Azshara, and Blow Up The Outside World are fully steeped in the complicated song-structures and bone-deep …

Remember Sports haven’t released an album since 2021’s Like A Stone, though there was an EP called Leap Day in 2022. Still, when new album The Refrigerator drops next February on the band’s new label home Get Better Records, it will essentially mark the Philly indie mainstays’ first new music in half a decade. That’s reason to rejoice, and new …

Mexican businessman Raúl Rocha, the president of the Miss Universe Organization, has addressed the controversy with Miss Mexico. The post Miss Universe President Raúl Rocha Calls Out Miss Thailand Director After Controversy appeared first on Remezcla.

Next Month, the Liverpool Band To Watch King Hannah will release a new limited edition 7″. “This Hotel Room” b/w “Look At Miss Ohio” follows this year’s “Leftovers,” which itself was an outtake from last year’s Big Swimmer. The B-side is a Gillian Welch cover. Today we hear A-side “This Hotel Room,” a smoldering folk-rock slow jam buoyed by powerful …

With the release of their recent album Big city life, the Copenhagen/Oslo duo Smerz jumped right to the top of a recent class of sherp, exploratory Scandinavian underground pop scientists. Copenhagen in particular has been a hotbed of that stuff lately, and Big city life fits right in alongside recent records from peers like Erika de Casier and ML Buch. …

In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This column is a companion piece to The Number Ones, and it’s for members only. Thank you to everyone who’s helping to keep Stereogum afloat.

New York City has elected its first Muslim and South Asian mayor — 34-year-old state assemblyman and Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani — marking one of the most significant political shifts…

Financial technology company Chime is turning up the volume on financial literacy, proving that money does not equal style with the return of its reimagined content series, “Ball on a…

A UPS MD-11 cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport on Tuesday, sending a massive fireball and thick black smoke across the sky for miles,…

Democratic candidates across the country delivered milestone wins Tuesday night, marking a seismic shift in power and representation of identity in major U.S. cities and states. CNN reports a wave…