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In 2019, the Spook School broke up. Now, the Scottish indie-pop band is reuniting to release a new record titled Like A Heartbeat. The lead single "Falling" is out today. "We really wanted to make ...

Nobody will ever be allowed to say a single rude word about Samira Winter in my presence. She records dreamy shoegaze as just plain Winter, and she's also Stereogum's newest VJ. Earlier this year, I ...

After a surprising turn into noisy guitar chaos on last year's "Hot Slob," Sylvan Esso announced their new album Ow ∞ last month and shared its Sigur Rós-sampling lead single "Concrete Glen." The song ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hey, remember when the two main members of Operation Ivy started a new band together? What's going on with that? Berkeley ska-punk heroes Operation Ivy famously started in '87 and ended in '89, and ...

Back in the early days of 2020, underground rap all-star Denzel Curry and big-deal producer Kenny Beats joined forces for Unlocked, a brief energy-bomb of a collaborative album. The duo recorded it in ...

Eight tracks in, the new L’Rain album explodes. Like so much of Taja Cheek’s work thus far, fata morgana is largely a procession of meticulously constructed layers, moods, and vibes. It’s an ...

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 ...

Last year, before releasing the hauntingly beautiful album New Radiations, Marissa Nadler joined forces with Seattle musician Milky Burgess for a collaborative EP called The Bloody Gardener. Burgess ...

We already posted Czarface and Frankie Pulitzer's single " Brothers Grimm." Yesterday, they shared another song, "All It Takes Is One Bad Day." Inspectah Deck and Esoteric both go in over the bright, ...