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Levitation Festival is slated for Sept. 10-13 in Austin, and now the full lineup is out. Some acts announced last month include Angine de Poitrine, Molchat Doma, Die Spitz, and Smerz, and today American Football and Bikini Kill were revealed as…

UK producer Derwin Schlecker has been making inventive, invigorating electronic music as Gold Panda for the better part of two decades now, and he’s not about to stop.…

If John Wayne Gacy had been an asshole, a lot of nightmarish things might’ve never happened. The notorious serial killer tortured, raped, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys after luring them into his house.…

An exclusive double-episode of The Simpsons is coming to Disney+, and it has Tegan And Sara and Laufey visiting Springfield. The indie-pop duo and jazz-pop Icelandic-Chinese singer are billed as musical guests on Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition, which…

Pearly Drops are getting ready to play Lollapalooza this summer, after which they’ll be joining Slayyyter on the much-hyped WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA fall tour.…

The mysterious TikTok gods have smiled upon She & Him. Eighteen years ago, the indie film star Zooey Deschanel started making music with the indie music star M. Ward.…

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight.…

Paul McCartney is 83 years old, and he is awfully active right now. Back in March, McCartney announced his new album The Boys Of Dungeon Lane, which includes his first-ever duet with his old bandmate Ringo Starr.…

Bb trickz is tearing it up. Last week, the Spanish musician released her first single on Columbia Records, “Le Le,” produced by Hudson Mohawke. Today, she’s already back with a follow-up: “A La Mala,” also produced by Hudson Mohawke.…

Ever since Donald Trump announced he was renaming the Kennedy Center after himself, the pushback has been relentless. Philip Glass, Renée Fleming, Chuck Redd, and Kristy Lee were among many acts to cancel events at the “Trump-Kennedy Center,” and the…

You may have previously noticed Catskills singer-songwriter Keenan O’Meara on the periphery of this website, listed in passing as an opener for Zach Bryan’s stadium tour or directing a video for fellow Upstate New York folkie Hannah Cohen.…

Doug Shaw, a veteran of New York’s underground indie scene, has died. His Gang Gang Dance bandmate Lizzi Bougatsos confirmed his death on social media today, in addition to fellow indie musician Angel Deradoorian, who wrote on Instagram, “Our music…

This summer the proud nation known as the United States Of America will officially celebrate its 250th birthday. Donald Trump is doing his very best to turn this into a celebration of his own magnificence, and the proceedings will include a UFC event on…

Lindsay Minton and Mercy Harper are members of the Houston emo band Football, etc., and they’re also in Hew, a relatively new band that’s set to release their debut album Your Version this summer.…

For the past two years, Lauren Morgan, formerly of the TikTok-viral indie band SALES, has been releasing excellent indie-pop under the name Lorg.…

Jesus Is The Path To Heaven is a musical trio led by singer-songwriter Jordan Hoban alongside bandmates Thommy Underhill and Zach Jordan. A band name like that one leads me to expect music loaded with spiritual and emotional tension, and on their new…

When not stealing valor from seven-footers like Victor Wembanyama and our own Tom Breihan, the so-called Tallest Man On Earth continues to release lovely user-friendly folk-rock.…

Downtown Boys are getting ready to release Public Luxury, their first LP since 2017’s Cost Of Living. So far the Providence punks have unleashed “No Me Jodas” and “You’re A Ghost,” and now they’re back with “Sirena.” “‘Sirena’ brings together both earthly…

Melbourne-based Dylan Young is the mind behind Way Dynamic, the latest signee to vaunted American indie label Jagjaguwar. Last fall, Way Dynamic released Massive Shoe, an album that broke through to streaming success in our nightmare landscape on the…