American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson has died. The two-time Grammy winning vocalist, known for her distinctive, smoky contralto, passed away in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi today. She was 70.

It's here! It exists! Way back in March 2025, Erykah Badu revealed that she was working on a collaborative album with rap production giant the Alchemist. This was obviously a big deal, since Badu hadn ...

It was a bad week for Bad Wolves. A couple of months ago, the LA metal band released "Paint It Red" and announced Sara "Killboy" Skinner as their new singer. Skinner replaced D.L. Laskiewicz, who left ...

Ella Langley's adorably heartbroken country hit "Choosin' Texas" came out in October 2025, and it's by far the biggest chart hit of the 2026 calendar year. The song first reached #1 on the Hot 100 ...

Last week, Rolling Stone published an extremely troubling bombshell exposé about the comedian and musician Reggie Watts. In that article, a number of loved ones came forward to suggest that Watts ...

Last December, while shockwaves from Geese’s album Getting Killed rippled through the world, that band’s frontman Cameron Winter played what was apparently a momentous solo show at the storied New ...

You're never going to believe this, but another mega-rich music mogul has arrived at the position that the use of generative artificial intelligence in music production is Good, Actually. This time ...

In 2019, the Spook School broke up. Now, the Scottish indie-pop band is reuniting to release a new record titled Like A Heartbeat. The lead single "Falling" is out today. "We really wanted to make ...

Nobody will ever be allowed to say a single rude word about Samira Winter in my presence. She records dreamy shoegaze as just plain Winter, and she's also Stereogum's newest VJ. Earlier this year, I ...

After a surprising turn into noisy guitar chaos on last year's "Hot Slob," Sylvan Esso announced their new album Ow ∞ last month and shared its Sigur Rós-sampling lead single "Concrete Glen." The song ...

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