Category: Music

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week (the eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight). This week’s countdown is below, and you can listen to a playlist of all our 5 Best Songs on Spotify. We hope you’re all enjoying your Save Stereogum covers compilation! To…… Continue reading The 5 Best Songs Of The Week

The Flaming Lips just released their new album American Head yesterday. And last night, they went on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform one of its songs. They did a Kacey Musgraves-less version of “God And The Policeman,” and just like they did on Colbert a few months ago, each member of the…… Continue reading Watch The Flaming Lips Perform “God And The Policeman” In Plastic Bubbles On Fallon

Wade Allison, guitarist of the Texas thrash band Iron Age, has died, Metal Injection reports. 20 Buck Spin, the label that reissued Iron Age’s The Sleeping Eye last year, confirmed the news on Instagram, writing, “RIP Wade. So very grateful to you for giving me an opportunity to be a small part of the @realironage…… Continue reading R.I.P. Iron Age’s Wade Allison

Phoebe Bridgers released her very good new album Punisher a few months ago. Earlier this week, she played a Tiny Desk (Home) Concert for NPR, performing “Kyoto,” “Moon Song,” and “I Know The End” in front of a greenscreened image of the Oval Office. And today, she went on CBS This Morning, clad in her…… Continue reading Watch Phoebe Bridgers’ CBS This Morning Session And Tiny Desk Concert

Remember Blackpool grime? Back in 2016, Noisey released a documentary about a sort of hilarious new grime scene in the seaside English town of Blackpool “mostly populated by adolescent MCs who constantly and viciously send for eachother’s mums in thick Lancashire accents.” One of the central figures of the original doc was a girl named…… Continue reading Remember Blackpool Grime? It Now Soundtracks The Most Popular TikTok Of All Time.