Lorely Rodriguez, the mastermind behind the reflective, bilingual pop project Empress Of, is finally about to follow up her great 2015 debut Me with a new album. It's sequel Us is arriving in a little under a month, and we've already heard two songs from it, "Trust Me Baby" and official lead single "When I'm With Him." Today, she's shared a third. "Love For Me" is another electro-pop gem powered by...
In the wake of a number of sexual misconduct allegations popping up across social media, Børns -- aka Garrett Clark Borns -- is denying these "disturbing" claims, and has posted a statement on Instagram to dispute them. Last week, numerous Twitter users posted detailed accounts of alleged nonconsensual interactions with the 26-year-old "Electric Love" singer. One woman came forward to detail how...
Lil Wayne has finally revealed a release date for his much-delayed album Tha Carter V. In an announcement video, he says that he'll be releasing it on his birthday, which is this Thursday (9/27). A countdown clock on his official website is actually counting down to midnight on Friday (9/28), which I guess is close enough. "Y'all hung in there with me for the past thirty million years anyway, y'all...
Here's something I really like doing: Clicking around Bandcamp and hitting "subscribe" on the pages of every halfway-competent hardcore band I can find. I check the internet for show fliers or hardcore-festival bills, and then I just subscribe to the pages of every band I'm not already subscribed to. That way, every time any one of those bands has something new out, I get the email right away. It reminds...
Back in May, Ryley Walker released his fourth album Deafman Glance. It marked the most significant transformation in an already shape-shifting career, finding Walker miles away from the folk troubadour we once knew as he delved into a battle-scarred sound indebted to Chicago post-rock and perhaps truer to himself than any of his past work. Ranking as one of our favorite albums of the year so far, Deafman...
As a maker of music, Lil Xan remains garbage. As a doer of ridiculous things, he continues to be a golden god. Or at least his insides are golden, owing to Cheeto powder. Xan already brought us some delightful distraction this year via his beef with comedian Jon Daly, which yielded the dis track "I'm Your Dad." ("I 💔 tha smell of ether on my son in the morning," Daly wrote on Instagram at the...
When Adrianne Lenker attempts to put a feeling into words, she narrows her eyes and moves her hands around like she's physically trying to grab onto something. Gesticulation is, of course, a thing that a lot of people do, but the way Lenker does it feels intentional. Like she can see that one crazy feeling hovering somewhere in front of her, like she needs to hold it in her palm in order to accurately...
By 2008, TV On The Radio were already revered. Having emerged from New York's early '00s rock renaissance, the band immediately set themselves apart from their contemporaries and surroundings. While a lot of the big names of the day were favoring retro-leaning post-punk sounds and a devotion to a fading brand of Lower East Side edginess, TV On The Radio always sounded like the future. Here was a multi-racial...
When Adrianne Lenker attempts to put a feeling into words, she narrows her eyes and moves her hands around like she’s physically trying to grab onto something. Gesticulation is, of course, a thing that a lot of people do, but the way Lenker does it feels intentional. Like she can see that one crazy feeling…
Back in May, Ryley Walker released his fourth album Deafman Glance. It marked the most significant transformation in an already shape-shifting career, finding Walker miles away from the folk troubadour we once knew as he delved into a battle-scarred sound indebted to Chicago post-rock and perhaps truer to himself than any of his past work.
Tracking Down is a Stereogum franchise in which we talk to artists who have been out of the spotlight for a minute.…
I know this is a big ask because it sounds like a throwaway gag from The Office, but I beg of you, loyal Stereogum reader: Put some respect on the name of “Lackawanna County’s ska-punk scene in 2005.” The Menzingers, Captain, We’re Sinking, and Tigers Jaw all emerged from hardscrabble Scranton and laid the groundwork…
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Back in the ’90s, Melissa Auf der Maur rose to prominence as the bassist of Hole. But even then, the mechanisms and visibility of being in a major rock band weren’t for her. She signed the contract in search of experience, got it, then walked away. After a brief stint with the Smashing Pumpkins following…
Homeboy Sandman raps; he does not dance. So he was surprised when he found himself with his girlfriend doing the thing he doesn’t do at a party at Queens’ Rockaway Beach. His collaborator Edan was DJing and put on William DeVaughn’s “Be Thankful For What You Got.” Sandman immediately started moving. “I thought y’all were…
When British indie collective Los Campesinos! announced a reissue campaign and North American tour for their first two albums — the brilliant one-two punch of Hold On Now, Youngster… and We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed, which both saw release in 2008 — warm feelings of nostalgia were undoubtedly elicited for anyone who held the…
Tim Kasher is really, really glad to be back in a band. Though the longtime artist put out a solo record, No Resolution, just last year, he hasn’t released anything with his best-known project, post-hardcore stalwarts Cursive, since 2012’s I Am Gemini. But that’s all about to change: Come October 5, Cursive will drop an…
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Yowler debuted in 2015 with the release of The Offer, a short, lush collection of songs that honed in on a very particular strain of sadness. The project started as a songwriting outlet for Maryn Jones separate from the music she worked on with the Columbus-based indie-folk act Saintseneca and her scrappy rock band All…
Kennesaw, a small Georgia town just north of Atlanta, is most famous for two incidents. The first, the 1982 passage of a law mandating gun possession as a largely symbolic rebuttal to a handgun ban in a county three states away, gives you context for the community that would erupt in the second event: the…
There’s a lyric on Thou’s new album that sums up their 11-plus year existence pretty succinctly: “We are vast unknowable beings without the confines of your perception.”
John Rossiter came of age as an emo kid in the Midwest, so it goes without saying that he’s had some formative Saddle Creek experience. But with only the slightest prompt, the Young Jesus frontman is gonna say it anyway: “Album Of The Year is one of my all-time favorite records,” he gushes, describing the…
Tracking Down is a Stereogum franchise in which we talk to artists who have been out of the spotlight for a minute.
1991 is the year alternative rock went mainstream. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden were about to take over the world; Out Of Time and “Losing My Religion” turned R.E.M. into megastars;…
