Xiu Xiu have announced a new covers album: Xiu Mutha Fuckin’ Xiu: Vol. 1 is out January 16 via Polyvinyl. Below, listen to Jamie Stewart, Angela Seo, and David Kendrick’s takes on the Runaways’ “Cherry Bomb” and Daniel Johnston’s “Some Things Last a Long Time.” Elsewhere on Xiu Mutha Fuckin’ Xiu: Vol. 1, Xiu Xiu…
A few months ago, the Houston band Shallowater released God’s Gonna Give You A Million Dollars, a sort of intense, countrified slowcore LP. It’s awesome, and it’s one of our 50 favorite albums of the year. (It’s #50, but still.) Today, Shallowater have a new collaboration Jordan Raf, an experimental LA pop artist who last…
Lily Allen will tour North America for the first time in seven years in April 2026. The dates behind her viral-famous divorce album West End Girl include shows in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Toronto. Billed as Lily Allen Performs West End Girl, the tour will feature full-length renditions of the album, in sequence….
The headline at the top of this blog post is not a figure of speech. It’s not an exaggeration. It’s not the ol’ Stereogum Fake News machine kicking into gear. It is the simple truth: Miley Cyrus hates paper. She can’t be around the stuff. She says it’s a phobia. She doesn’t like Christmas because…
On his follow-up to 2022’s Learn 2 Swim, Redveil takes the reins as both rapper and producer to craft the exact type of sound he hears in his head. Sankofa is built atop jazz rhythms, soulful harmonies, and some intentionally blown-out production, meshing his influences to form an impassioned and eclectic listen. Leading the LP…
The Beatles’ cinematic universe is expanding. Each member is getting their own Sam Mendes-directed biopic, slated for release in April 2028, with Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison. A couple months ago, we learned that their wives would be played…
Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Slovenia have all withdrawn from the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) declined to hold a vote on Israel’s participation in the competition during its general assembly meeting today (Thursday, December 4). The Eurovision organizer had postponed an earlier planned vote after Israel and the Palestinian…
Even though Israel is not technically in Europe, the country has competed in the annual Eurovision Song Contest since 1973. Israel has won the contest four times, most recently in 2018. In recent years, Israel’s ongoing campaign of Palestinian genocide has made its participation in Eurovision more and more untenable. After the European Broadcasting Union,…
Jane Remover has shared a new EP titled ♡. The surprise new project features four of the fan-favorite singles they dropped throughout 2024—“Magic I Want U,” “How to Teleport,” “Flash in the Pan,” and “Dream Sequence”—alongside two new tracks, “So What?” and “Music Baby.” Listen to ♡ below. In a press statement, Jane Remover described…
Last night, alt-pop hitmakers Portugal. The Man played at Brooklyn’s Music Hall Of Williamsburg, and the show ended in an appealingly chaotic way. The group brought two of the all-time great musical comedians, “Weird Al” Yankovic and the Lonely Island’s Jorma Taccone, to the stage, and they all covered Rage Against The Machine together. Look,…
