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Sometime after the British-Australian singer-songwriter Hana Stretton released her album Soon last year, she was booked to open for Mount Eerie in Melbourne.

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week's picks below and on Stereogum's Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

Happy for Kendrick, but back to back “Fortnight” and “Not Like Us” weeks might mean “Espresso” missed its shot at #1. In any case, Sabrina Carpenter will be on SNL tomorrow…

Olivia Rodrigo is currently on her massive GUTS tour. Last month, the pop star brought out Jewel on stage for “You Were Meant For Me” in New York; last night, she was joined by Lily Allen for “Smile” in London.

Yesterday was the first day of the Hangout Music Festival. Lana Del Rey headlined the Alabama event, and the singer brought out Jelly Roll for a performance of “Sweet Home Alabama” to close her set.

Last year, Feist released her sixth LP Multitudes , which was our Album Of The Week . Today, the indie-pop musician and Broken Social Scene member is celebrating 20 years of her breakthrough record Let It Die

Sabrina Carpenter was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live last night, working late 'cause she's a singer. She of course did her meme-able hit “Espresso,” and she also performed “Feather” with an SNL -specific “Nonsense” outro. Carpenter also played Daphne in a gory, pre-taped Scooby-Do parody.

This past week, Joanna Newsom has been performing as part of a Los Angeles residency, and she's been playing some new songs. On Saturday afternoon, she had a matinee show with a setlist that was advertised as “not only suitable for children, but specifically designed with them in mind.” That ended up including covers of “Teddy Bears' Picnic,” Michael Hurley's “Slurf Song,” and two tracks from the Jim Henson extended universe, “Tadpole” and “The Frogs In The Glen.” Newsom had some puppeteers on stage with her throughout all this. At the matinee show, she also debuted a new song of her own called “Rovenshere.” Check out video of some of the covers and that below.

On Friday night, Lenny Kaye and friends performed as part of the celebration surrounding the 50th anniversary of the Nuggets compilation, which Kaye started putting together in 1972. The show took place at The Cut in Gloucester, MA, and a bunch of musicians were around to help out to cover songs that appeared on the compilation and some that didn't. Ted Leo, Peter Buck, Jon Wurster, and Kaye did a cover of MC5's “Kick Out The Jams” during the set. (Dennis Thompson, the last surviving MC5 member, passed away earlier this month.)

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