Stereogum

Art-rock overlord Peter Gabriel has had a seismic effect on a lot of genres of music over the decades. But up until now, Gabriel has mostly interacted with rap music in the most indirect ways, like the " Sledgehammer " sample on 3rd Bass' " Pop Goes The Weasel ." So it's fun to be able to say that the 76-year-old Gabriel sings the hook on a new collaboration with Maryland rapper IDK.

The Banana Man thing really broke containment, and it seems like it had a heavy effect on the lives of all the people involved. Earlier this month, the Baltimore hardcore band End It played in Toronto on the final night of their tour with Terror, Pain Of Truth, and Start Today. There was a guy at that show in a banana costume, and that kind of look-at-me whimsy really doesn't go over well in certain corners of the hardcore community. End It were not amused.

In 2024, London-based experimental singer-songwriter Martha Skye Murphy released her riveting debut album Um , which featured composer and guitarist Roy Montgomery on the beautiful single " Need ." Today, the pair is announcing a joint LP called Nebular . The enrapturing lead single "Cloudburst" it out now, and it's a sprawling seven and a half minutes.

Fuming Mouth frontman Mark Whelan really did cheat death. In 2021, Whelan was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia . He went through chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, and he made it out the other side. Fuming Mouth returned to the stage in 2022, and the Massachusetts hardcore/death metal band released their album in 2023. Next month, they'll release another LP, and it opens with a song called "Cheat Death."

With 2024's , Beabadoobee stuck mostly to the alt-pop sound she's known for. Now it looks like the English singer-songwriter — who turned 26 earlier this month — is pivoting to emo. Today, she's announcing her fourth studio album Pylon , and it features major alternative names like Hayley Williams, Matty Healy, Chino Moreno, Brendan Yates, and George Daniel, as well as low-key legends like Title Fight's Shane Moran and Pinegrove's Evan Stephens Hall.

A couple weeks ago, Stereogum's VJ Winter was on the red carpet of the Songwriters Hall Of Fame Induction at New York's Marriott Marquis Hotel. She talked with legends like Brandi Carlile, Kenny Loggins, and even Billy Corgan, who gave her an update on Zwan, his long-dormant supergroup with Jimmy Chamberlin, Matt Sweeney, David Pajo, and Paz Lenchantin. It turns out, the long-promised reissue is finally on the way, along with a lot more.

The Finnish screamo band Alas have spent this decade accumulating a spotless catalog, full of searing, dynamic, abrasive post-hardcore that stays true to its genre while still appealing to those of us who merely dabble in that life. That streak continues with "Epäsymmetriaa," a new Alas song out this week as part of a split 12" with Karnabahar. It's being released by an enormous number of different record labels in various territories worldwide, and it sounds expansive on that global scale. Listen below.

In 2024, Dean Blunt and Joanne Robertson released the joint album Backstage Raver , and the track "repeat offenders" featured Iceage's Elias Rønnenfelt. Now, the three musicians have reunited to somewhat officially share a new album via MediaFire. It features A$AP Rocky, Jeremih, Vegyn, Wraith9, evilgiane, and the Last Artful, Dodgr.

I miss Ovlov. The shoegazy indie rock crew hasn't released much since 2021's great Buds , though they shared some demos of those tracks last year. Frontman Steve Hartlett releases solo music occasionally, and now drummer Theo Hartlett is playing guitar in Gouge Away. But today we get Mannequin Pussy covering Ovlov, which is awesome.

In 2024, Morrissey complained that he was being erased from the Smiths' origin story, and now he's angry about it again. In a since-deleted Morrissey Central post titled "The Art Of Forgery," the singer said he was not invited to take part in the process of a forthcoming BBC Smiths documentary, and that it's critical of him while painting Johnny Marr, his longtime foe, as an "angel." In the lengthy screed, he says that Marr "has intentionally divided the Smiths audience into Marr or Morrissey factions."