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Two of Stereogum’s Bands To Watch from recent years, the San Jose emo band awakebutstillinbed and the Columbus screamo unit For Your Health, are teaming up for a split EP called hymns for the scorned. It’s dropping next month, but today one song from each act is out there for your consumption. I recommend consuming them!

Mura Masa has announced a new album, demon time, the UK producer’s follow-up to 2020’s R.Y.C.. It’ll be out in September and it features guest spots from Lil Yachty, Slowthai, Channel Tres, Erika de Casier, Leyla, and more. Over the past few months, he’d dropped two tracks that’ll show up on it — “2gether” and “bbycakes,” which rounded up Lil Uzi Vert, PinkPantheress, and Shygirl for the same song. And today he’s back with a new single, “blessing me,” which features Jamaican dancehall artist Skillibeng and the British rapper Pa Salieu. Check it out below.

In November of last year, Momma released a new song, “Medicine,” their first new music since their 2020 sophomore album Two Of Me. Since then, they’ve released singles “Rockstar” and “Speeding 72,” all of which will be on Momma’s new LP Household Name. Now, the Brooklyn duo have shared a moody new track: “Lucky,” which also has a music video directed by Emma Penrose and Zack Shorrosh.

Last month, Lorely Rodriguez returned with a new Empress Of song called “Save Me.” Turns out that is the title track and opener of a new EP, billed as a transitional work between 2020’s I’m Your Empress Of and whatever Rodriguez has in store next. It’s out in late June.

Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa and producer Boom Bip unveiled their new project Belief at the start of this year with “I Want To Be,” and they have a debut full-length on the way. Over the past few months, they’ve shared some more tracks from it, including “Ulu” and “Jung,” and today they’re back with another single, “Art Of Love,” which has already had a Vanishing Twin remix that was released on a remix EP last month.

RAY Liotta, the brilliant actor who made his name in Martin Scorsese's crime classic Goodfellas, has passed away. The star died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic, where he was filming Dangerous Waters, according to Deadline. There were no signs of foul play or anything suspicious about the death,...

Elvis made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival Wednesday night. Outside the Palais, the stars walked the red carpet as Elvis Presley hits like “Hound Dog” and “Jailhouse Rock” greeted guests. And inside the Palais, fans loved the Baz Luhrmann movie. First, here’s how...

Rise up! Gather round! Rock this place to the ground! Def Leppard, all-time masters of glammed-out stadium-level riffage, are back to active duty. Tomorrow, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Famers will release Diamond Star Halos, their first new album in seven years. Presumably, when Def Lep showed up on Jimmy Kimmel Live, they were there to promote that record. But the band’s regular on-air performance has not yet appeared on the Kimmel YouTube channel. Instead, we will have to content ourselves with a clip of Leppard cranking out three glorious arena bangers back-to-back-to-back. I suppose we’ll make do.

Earlier this year, the great Buffalo rapper Conway The Machine, one third of the core trio behind Griselda Records, released his excellent album God Don’t Make Mistakes. Conway got intense and personal on that record, and it was Conway’s first solo album for Shady Records. But Conway always maintains a sort of strange balance between his mainstream and underground material, and he’s always releasing new music. Today, there’s a new Conway EP out on the world, and it definitely does not have a major-label stamp on it.

The last we heard from Gordi, she was teaming up with Troye Sivan for a new song called “Wait.” That was tied to the movie Three Months, but now Gordi is back with her own project: a six-song EP called Inhuman. It’s out in mid-July. Along with...

In March, Chance The Rapper returned with a new song called “Child Of God.” It was billed as a sort of “interdisciplinary” art piece, with a video featuring Chance alongside footage of Gabonese artist Naïla Opiangah painting the single’s cover art. Today, he’s back with another new song and a similar premise.

For the last couple months, MUNA have been rolling out their new self-titled album. So far, we’ve heard a couple songs from it, including “Anything But Me” and “Kind Of Girl.” (Their 2021 Phoebe Bridgers collab “Silk Chiffon” is also on the album.) Today, they’re back with another.

The San Antonio band Amygdala makes vast, epic hardcore punk that sounds like worlds exploding. Amygdala’s 2019 album Our Voices Will Soar Forever was my favorite hardcore album of that year. The band hasn’t released a full-length since then, but they got together with Richmond’s Listless to release a truly awesome split LP last year. Today, Amygdala have announced a new two song single that’s coming out next month, and they’ve shared the first of those songs.

Calvin Harris is about to bless us with the sequel to Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1, his exceptional, star-studded summertime party record from 2017. After spending the spring teasing Vol. 2, the Scottish DJ/producer is kicking off Memorial Day weekend with the new album’s lead single, a collaboration with Dua Lipa and Young Thug called “Potion.” Built around a Rhodes riff and accented with rhythmic guitar jabs and smooth bass, it taps right back into the first volume’s fun beachside vibe. Listen below.

Back in December, we kicked off our live podcast Callin Me Maybe with an episode previewing our big year-end list of 2021’s best albums. Well, time’s inexorable march tumbles forward and we are already nearly halfway through 2022. On this week’s episode, Chris DeVille and I will take a look at the year in music thus far and preview our mid-year album list a bit. If you’re like us, you may be surprised to be reminded of just how much has already come out since January — Dawn FM, that was this year! Tune in here tomorrow (a little earlier than normal) at 11AM eastern.

Right now, Baltimore’s End It are one of the most exciting bands in all of hardcore. They play blisteringly fast, muscular, anthemic tracks that work as delivery systems for the giddy rants of larger-than-life frontman Akil Godsey. Godsey is straight-up insanely fun to watch. This past weekend, I saw End It play Richmond’s Big Takeover fest, and they might’ve had the best set in the weekend, partly because of the way Godsey began everything by singing the living hell out of Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” — he’s got a great voice — before the band launched into their first song. I love these guys.

Back in March, Orlando Higginbottom announced he’d released the first Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs album in 10 years, When The Lights Go. So far, we’ve heard two songs from it: “Blood In The Snow” and “Crosswalk.” Today, he’s back with another one. Higginbottom’s...

Sonagi are a band out of Philadelphia that formed a couple years ago. They’re fronted by Ryann Slauson, who also heads up the fearsome hardcore band Closer, who are two for two with Albums Of The Week with their 2018 debut All This Will Be and last year’s Within One Stem. Today, Sonagi — which is Slauson alongside bandmates Harim Jung, Michael Englisis, and Keean Mansour — are announcing their debut album, Precedent, which will be out this summer, and they’re sharing its blistering, pummeling lead single “Ambivalence.” Check it out below.

Barely 10 days ago, Strange Ranger founding member Isaac Eiger released a new song under his Hollow Comet moniker. The delicate “Waiting For Today” followed Eiger’s 2019 self-titled Hollow Comet album and a 2020 Strange Ranger-curated benefit comp for Bernie Sanders. Now, Eiger is back with another Hollow Comet song. The piano-led “Right Now” is a quiet, hazy breakup ballad (“You said my shirt’s the same color as the sky/ The sun can set on this too/ It’s setting on me and you”) reminiscent of The Glow, Pt. 2-era Microphones. Listen below.

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Right around 1997, a whole lot of American record-label people and journalists were very into...