CHE has unveiled a deluxe edition to his chest-rattling 2025 album REST IN BASS. “FUCKIT IM STEALIN XMAS,” the Atlanta rapper wrote on Instagram. REST IN BASS: ENCORE features 14 unreleased tracks, including “WHIPPIN” with OsamaSon, the follow-up to their REST IN BASS breakout “Hellraiser.” You can listen to the Christmas Day drop and see…
For the past three years, Father John Misty has performed a Big Sur Park School Benefit at Sunset Cultural Center in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA. In the past, he’s uploaded the live shows to Bandcamp by each Christmas. The annual (((folkYEAH!)) event took place this past Thursday and Friday. The sets were mostly the same except for…
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The column is now biweekly, alternating with The Alternative Number Ones on Mondays. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits…
Say it with me now: Refused are fucking dead. Again. The veteran Swedish post-hardcore wreckers played their final concert Sunday at Väven in their hometown, Umeå, concluding a protracted farewell that made them just barely eligible for this year’s In Memoriam video. It’s been almost two years since the band announced their final Swedish festival…
Lady Gaga had a big hit with Mayhem this year, earning her seventh #1 album and seven Grammy nominations. But for her new concert film, the pop star is turning the clock back to her Joker: Folie à Deux era. Harlequin Live: One Night Only was filmed in September 2024 at LA’s Belasco Theatre in…
Some Lamb Of God fans were likely somewhat disappointed to discover that the band was in fact not performing in Spartanburg, South Carolina last week. The confusion was at the hands of StubHub, who’ve apologized for erroneously promoting a Christian Christmas concert as a concert by the heavy metal veterans. The event scheduled for December…
It’s a good day to be Bob Vylan. Months after the British rap-punk duo faced a swarm of backlash for leading their Glastonbury crowd in a “death to the IDF” chant back in June, UK police have announced that they’re ending their criminal investigation against them and “no further action” will be taken. “We have…
New Year’s Day also marks Public Domain Day, when the copyrights for thousands of published works expire, allowing anyone to freely record, perform, or interpolate them. This time around that means musical compositions (music and lyrics, not recordings) copyrighted in 1930, and the list includes classics like “Georgia On My Mind” (music: Hoagy Carmichael, lyrics:…
Every year since 2009, the impressively consistent Sondre Lerche has premiered a just-recorded contemporary cover song on Stereogum around Christmastime. (The first one was a take on Animal Collective’s “Bluish.”) Last year the Norwegian musician did a Ryuichi Sakamoto-inspired interpretation of Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!,” and today, he’s shared his cover for 2025: Lady…
“Can we end my roughest gambling year on a good note??,” Drake asked on Instagram over the weekend while announcing three nights of Kick livestreams with creator BenDaDonnn, his last of 2025. (Over the summer the rapper revealed that he lost $8 million in just a month.) “I am officially the brokest Stake streamer currently,…
