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Earlier this year, PinkPantheress brought out memorable guests at her Coachella set, including Zara Larsson, who took the stage solo to perform her own song "Midnight Sun." Shortly after, she released a remixed version of the track with PinkPantheress. Today, at the stacked All Points East festival in London, the pair finally performed together. The post Zara Larsson & PinkPantheress Finally Perform Together For The First Time At All Points East appeared first on Stereogum.

On Aug. 21, 2025, BigXthaPlug was arrested for marijuana possession of less than two ounces, and unlawful possession of a firearm just hours before his album came out. On Aug. 21, 2026, BigXthaPlug was arrested again, this time for driving while intoxicated, marijuana possession of less than 2 ounces, and unlawful possession of a firearm. The post BigXthaPlug Arrested On One-Year Anniversary Of Last Arrest, Misses Festival Set appeared first on Stereogum.

Everyone's talking about The Odyssey these days, but more people should be talking about the Odyssey Cult. The band is headed up by Ethan Miller (Comets On Fire, Howlin Rain, Heron Oblivion, etc.), who has assembled some serious firepower from the underground rock ranks to bring his expansive, fuzzed-out visions to life. The first two Odyssey Cult LPs, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, were Miller solo joints, and they both materialized in 2017. Nearly a decade later, the project is back as a sprawling psych s

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to subscribers on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.) The post The 5 Best Songs Of The Week appeared first on Stereogum.

For a long time, the producers of Michael, the Michael Jackson biopic that came out earlier this year, reportedly planned to include a story arc about one of the many children who accused Jackson of sexual abuse. After filming an entire third arc about Jackson's decision to settle out of court with the family of Jordan Chandler, the 13-year-old boy who first sued Jackson for abuse in 1993, the producers reportedly had to scrap that part of the movie, which showed Jackson as "the naïve victim of

The prolific Los Angeles underground rap staple Rhys Langston was a Stereogum Artist To Watch in 2022, and he has made a whole lot of playful, verbose, layered music since then. Langston released the album Pale Black Negative last year, and he teamed up with R.A.P. Ferreira and nahhphet on "Sound Of Horns" earlier this summer. Now, he's preparing to release a new LP called to live and die in E.U.L.A., and he's got two more songs out in the world. The post Rhys Langston Announces New Album to li

Huge news out of Tennessee: There will be no Bonnaroo in 2027. The longstanding music festival announced today that it will be taking "a much-needed year off," with plans to return in 2028. The post Bonnaroo Taking “A Much-Needed Year Off” In 2027 appeared first on Stereogum.

Montreal musician Ruby McKinnon makes gauzy, dreamy music under the name Flower Face, and she became a Stereogum Artist To Watch on the strength of her 2024 album Girl Prometheus. Now, she's back with a hazy, glamorous, awfully pretty new song called "Bad Dream." If Mazzy Star recorded a song specifically for the Drive soundtrack, it might sound a bit like this. Here's what McKinnon says about it: The post Flower Face – “Bad Dream” appeared first on Stereogum.

Last weekend was Sound And Fury weekend, the moment for the gigantic Los Angeles festival that remains the biggest annual item on the hardcore calendar. We're deep in the afterglow. Haywire and God's Hate have both dropped new music since playing Sound And Fury, and now that list also includes the fiery Tampa straight-edge crew Contention. The post Contention Share Awesome New Surprise EP Nuclear Summer appeared first on Stereogum.

Courtney Love is now employed by Slayyyter. Well, only metaphorically. For Triple J's Like A Version, the Midwestern pop artist covered "Violet" from Hole's 1994 opus Live Through This. Love responded on social media with praise: The post Slayyyter Nails Hole Cover, To Courtney Love’s Delight appeared first on Stereogum.

Knapsack were '90s emo pioneers who reunited last year. This post is not about them. It's about Napsack, the countrified indie rockers from Cleveland. The post Napsack Announce New Album More Mountains: Hear “If I Could Write” appeared first on Stereogum.

Carly Rae Jepsen is making moves right now. Earlier this week, we got the confirmation that she's working with Lena Dunham on a new stage-musical adaptation of 10 Things I Hate About You, set to open on Broadway next year. At the same time, we're about a month away from the release of Jepsen's new double album Day And Night. It's shaping up beautifully. The post Carly Rae Jepsen – “Motivation” appeared first on Stereogum.

The Divine Feminine was one of the best and most important albums of Mac Miller's career. With 2015's GOOD:AM, the Pittsburgh native was already redefining himself as a soulful, melodic sonic adventurer, a fixture of a burgeoning Los Angeles hip-hop scene alongside some of the brightest talents from the orbits of Odd Future and TDE. By the time he followed it up with a concept album about women's secret energy, featuring Kendrick Lamar, Anderson .Paak, and Miller's then-girlfriend Ariana Grande,

It has been two decades since Sheryl Crow first serenated Lightning McQueen, Mater, and the other sentient automobiles in the town of Radiator Springs. In the opening scene of the 2006 Pixar motion picture Cars, Owen Wilson's young hotshot racer Lightning McQueen pulled some reckless moves in his quest for the Piston Cup, and Crow's song "Real Gone" played over the soundtrack. "Real Gone" hasn't become as synonymous with the Cars franchise as Rascal Flatts' take on "Life Is A Highway," but it's

Creativity is infinite. Music is infinite. Hardcore is infinite. Turnstile is infinite. The ground-breaking, expansive Baltimore band announced an all-star take on their 2025 Grammy Award-winning album NEVER ENOUGH. It's not a remix album. It's not a covers album. Maybe it's a testament to creativity's limitlessness. Either way, you will never be able to guess who is on it. It's the most Turnstile thing ever — an expected unexpected – and it’s out in one week. The post Turnstile Reimagine Never

For days now, the music world has held its collective breath over the brewing beef between young hyperpop acts Bassvictim and daine. The young hyperpop artist daine will release their debut album In Endless Awe & Agony later this year, and London duo Bassvictim dropped a remix of daine's single "PQC" last month. In a recent Instagram live session, Bassvictim member Ike Clateman claimed that daine's team were "hitting us up over and over again to do a remix" and that "the offer just kept getting

Things haven’t gotten easier for Squirrel Flower’s Ella O'Connor Williams, and that’s not a bad thing. I first interviewed Williams over six years ago, as an Artist To Watch, before she became an established Chicago-based musician, put out three albums on Polyvinyl Records, and led an important boycott against one of the industry’s biggest music festivals. As a musician, her writing has only gotten stronger, her voice more dynamic, her vision more expansive. But in terms of artistry, not much ha

One of Hollywood's proudest traditions is nominating big-deal songwriter Diane Warren for the Best Original Song Oscar and then not giving her the award. Last year, Warren broke an Academy record, racking up 17 nominations and zero wins, which means our ranked list of Oscar-nominated Warren songs is woefully out of date. Warren's last nomination was for "Dear Me," a Kesha-sung ballad from a documentary called Diane Warren: Relentless. That film's title has been conclusively proven true, since Wa

If you've seen a Vampire Weekend, Paramore, or Hayley Williams show in recent years, Brian Robert Jones was the guitarist onstage with the big afro. When not playing sideman for some of the best alt-leaning pop-rockers in the biz, Jones has been working on a behemoth project of his own. The post Brian Robert Jones Shares Comedic Musical Theater Album About The Louisiana Purchase (And Hayley Williams Is On It) appeared first on Stereogum.

The music industry is facing a moral and existential crisis as AI-generated music becomes increasingly prevalent. The latest development in streaming platforms’ response is that Apple Music will begin labeling AI-generated songs. According to The Hollywood Reporter, an email sent out yesterday announced that AI labels on songs will arrive "later this year," confirming reports from back in March. The post Apple Music Will Also Now Label AI-Generated Songs appeared first on Stereogum.