Tom Breihan

Frankie Rose cut her teeth as a member of indie bands like Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls, and Crystal Stilts. On her own, she makes gauzy, gothy '80s-style synthpop. She has toured as an opener for bands like the Jesus And Mary Chain and Swervedriver, and she'll open for the Charlatans on their North American run next month. Around the same time, she'll also release her new LP

One of Hollywood's proudest traditions is nominating big-deal songwriter Diane Warren for the Best Original Song Oscar and then not giving her the award. Last year, Warren broke an Academy record, racking up 17 nominations and zero wins, which means our ranked list of Oscar-nominated Warren songs is woefully out of date. Warren's last nomination was for "Dear Me," a Kesha-sung ballad from a documentary called Diane Warren: Relentless . That film's title has been conclusively proven true, since Warren is now back in the Oscar race.

For days now, the music world has held its collective breath over the brewing beef between young hyperpop acts Bassvictim and daine.

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 album . It's not a remix album. It's not a cover album. Maybe it's a testament to creativity's limitlessness. Either way, you will never be able to guess who is on it. It's the most Turnstile thing ever — an expected unexpected.

It has been two decades since Sheryl Crow first serenated Lightning McQueen, Mater, and the other sentient automobiles in the town of Radiator Springs.

Carly Rae Jepsen is making moves right now. Earlier this week, we got the confirmation that she's working with Lena Dunham on a new stage-musical adaptation of 10 Things I Hate About You , set to open on Broadway next year. At the same time, we're about a month away from the release of Jepsen's new double album . It's shaping up beautifully.

Last weekend was Sound And Fury weekend, the moment for the gigantic Los Angeles festival that remains the biggest annual item on the hardcore calendar. We're deep in the afterglow. Haywire and God's Hate have both dropped new music since playing Sound And Fury, and now that list also includes the fiery Tampa straight-edge crew Contention.

Montreal musician Ruby McKinnon makes gauzy, dreamy music under the name Flower Face, and she became a Stereogum Artist To Watch on the strength of her 2024 album Girl Prometheus . Now, she's back with a hazy, glamorous, awfully pretty new song called "Bad Dream." If Mazzy Star recorded a song specifically for the Drive soundtrack, it might sound a bit like this. Here's what McKinnon says about it:

The prolific Los Angeles underground rap staple Rhys Langston was a Stereogum Artist To Watch in 2022, and he has made a whole lot of playful, verbose, layered music since then. Langston released the album last year, and he teamed up with R.A.P. Ferreira and nahhphet on " Sound Of Horns " earlier this summer. Now, he's preparing to release a new LP called to live and die in E.U.L.A. , and he's got two more songs out in the world.

For a long time, the producers of Michael , the Michael Jackson biopic that came out earlier this year, reportedly planned to include a story arc