On their first two albums, 2020’s Pagan Rhythms and 2022’s Deathwestern. Stu Folsom’s Las Vegas punk-metal crew SpiritWorld explored the darker, grimier side of the cinematic myth of the American West ...

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 ...

One of the most ridiculous movies that I watched last year was Brats, Andrew McCarthy’s documentary about what it was like to be part of the young actor crew known as the Brat Pack in the ’80s.

I didn’t expect to laugh this hard at the Waterboys’ new single. Scottish musician Mike Scott’s long-running big-rock project has always had a certain level of theatricality to it, but I don’t ...

Runnner forayed into ambient music with his albums Starsdust and Dust 2. Today, Noah Weinman is returning to his indie-rock ...

Lowertown’s Olivia Osby and fellow NYC musician Sean Henry debuted a new project called Child Star with the scrappy, ...

Julia Michaels and Maren Morris were two of my favorite figures to emerge within the mid-2010s mainstream machine. Michaels, best known as a songwriter, had some real nice tracks of her own as a solo ...

Former Little Mix member Jade Thirlwall made quite the impression with her debut solo single “Angel Of My Dreams,” which was recognized in these pages as not just one of 2024’s best songs but the very ...

In a little over a week, we’ll get to hear the posthumous Balloonerism, an album Mac Miller recorded over a decade ago. Though it’s been leaked online for quite some time now, its official release ...

Los Angeles is currently facing the worst wildfires in the city’s history after a blaze broke out in the Hollywood Hills this ...

Last year, the jazz saxophonist James Brandon Lewis teamed up with the Messthetics, the experimental trio that features Fugazi’s former rhythm section, to release a breathlessly acclaimed ...

The closest to God I ever felt/ When we held each other on the bed/ You weren’t even my lover then/ Just a friend and still a friend.” ...