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Hunter Biden Finally Breaks His Legendary Silence About Fakemink

Stereogum — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:06:58 +0000

Perhaps you saw fakemink — one of our favorite new artists of last year — at Coachella earlier this month. If not, perhaps you saw photos of Hunter Biden — son of former US President Joe Biden — hanging out with the London rapper backstage during the festival's second weekend. When those photos went viral, a lot of people thought they were AI-generated, considering the 56-year-old lobbyist/businessman is not the type of person you might expect to enjoy an off-kilter cloud rap set at Coachella. But fakemink associate Christian Thomas-Irving, aka CTi, confirmed to Stereogum that the encounter did in fact happen, and TMZ confirmed that it was real, too. Now, Biden himself has broken his legendary silence on the matter.

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Foo Fighters Bring Your Favorite Toy Live Debuts To SNL UK

Stereogum — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:59:07 +0000

Foo Fighters released their new album Your Favorite Toy last Friday, and they celebrated the release with a musical guest appearance on the latest episode of SNL UK. They performed the live debuts of early single "Caught In The Echo" as well as "Child Actor."

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Vince Staples – “Blackberry Marmalade”

Stereogum — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:43:05 +0000

Vince Staples’ Dark Times was one of the most important rap albums of 2024. While his Netflix series The Vince Staples Show was canceled early this year, he’s been busy gearing up for his new independent era. Staples recently launched a private Discord server for his fans and today he shared new music – a…

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Olivia Rodrigo Debuts New Song With Weyes Blood At Secret LA Show

Stereogum — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:54:41 +0000

Before his Coachella headlining set, Justin Bieber held intimate, invite-only shows in LA and no phones were allowed. Last night, Olivia Rodrigo did something similar at LA's The Echo and brought out Natalie Mering aka Weyes Blood to debut what appears to be the next single from you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love.

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Amaia Played A Chair Flute On Tiny Desk

Stereogum — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:08:16 +0000

Last year, Turnstile made Tiny Desk history by being the first performer to stagedive. Now, Amaia is making history by being the first to play the chair flute (chlute?). The Spanish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist mostly performed tracks from last year's Si Abro Los Ojos No Es Real at the NPR office.

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Orphan Donor Announce New Album Ailments: Hear “Show Me The Way”

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:05:11 +0000

Way back in 2021, Orphan Donor dropped their frantic sophomore album Unraveled. Since then, the Pennsylvania metallic screamo band have not released much music. There was a noisy, guttural one-off single last year called “Vomit In The Cathedral Of Nous,” but until today, that was it. Now a whole new Orphan Donor LP is on…

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Pupil Slicer & Tayne – “W.N.”

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:25:31 +0000

London metal experimentalists Pupil Slicer dropped their album Fleshwork last year. Today they’ve teamed up with the industrial noise pop act Tayne, also from London, on a single called “W.N.” It’s a hefty industrial track with eerie vocals, a compulsively listenable synth loop, and unhealthy amounts of of searing bombast. The B-side for “W.N.” is…

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PARTYOF2 – “2 NIGHTS IN LA”

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:03:07 +0000

PARTYOF2 are not new to this. I remember hearing about Swim and Jadagrace when they were part of the band grouptherapy., which formed in 2019 and was originally four members including TJOnline and Rhea. The latter two artists went their separate ways, and in 2024, PARTYOF2 was born. They released their debut album AMERIKA’S NEXT TOP PARTY last…

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Bedouine Shares New Benefit Single “Canopies” For Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:15:55 +0000

Bedouine’s first album in five years, Neon Summer Skin, will arrive at the top of June. The early singles “Long Way To Fall” and “Always On Time” have been as thoughtful and tender as we’ve come to expect from Azniv Korkejian. Today, she’s released a third song from the album under special circumstances. Today is…

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The 5 Best Songs Of The Week

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:06:14 +0000

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.)

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Sugar World – “Terra Incognita”

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:44:35 +0000

LA’s Sugar World are releasing new album supercassettevision later this year on Sunday Records. They’ve already teased the follow-up to their 2022 debut with the single “Red Heart On Fire” and “In Magazines.” Yesterday, they returned with another called “Terra Incognita.” “Terra Incognita” has propulsive big beat energy. It reminds me a bit of Fatboy Slim’s…

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Rosco P Coldchain & Nicholas Craven Share Collaborative Album Play With Something Safe

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:14:40 +0000

If you were a big Clipse/Neptune fan in the ’00s, then perhaps you remember Rosco P Coldchain, the verbose, gravelly Philly rap hardnose who always seemed like he was poised for a breakout moment. Coldchain had some vivid, memorable verses on Neptunes tracks, but his completed Star Trak debut Hazardous Life was shelved. In 2008,…

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Latto – “GOMF” (Feat. GloRilla)

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:38:19 +0000

There’s a decent single that the 2007 ringtone-rap anthem “Yahhh!” is the greatest contribution that Soulja Boy ever made to society. Over a maddening one-finger keyboard riff, Soulja and his associate Arab bellowed gibberish at fans who approached them. It was fantastically bratty, and it would get stuck in my head for weeks on end.…

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Mina Tindle – “My Light” (Feat. Sufjan Stevens)

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:14:11 +0000

French folk artist Minda Tindle released her lovely album Compass Rosa last November. A few songs on it featured Sufjan Stevens, including the single “Heaven Thunder.” Today, Tindle released an expanded version of the album with three new songs, “Ladies,” “Chant Andalou,” and “My Light.” The latter features Stevens teaming up with Tindle again. Tindle…

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Che – “Tell U Sum” & “Nosferatu”

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:05:17 +0000

In the past few years, the 19-year-old Atlanta rapper Che has emerged at the forefront of the post-Playboi Carti rage-rap wave. He does the fried, chaotic bleepy-staticy thing better than pretty much anyone else, and he finds room for tiny, achy melodies in the midst of all his noise. In 2025, Che made it onto…

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Rostam – “Back Of A Truck”

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:02:27 +0000

Rostam officially announced his new album American Stories a little over a month ago. It’s coming out at the beginning of May. He shared the lead single “Like A Spark,” and today he’s back with the follow-up single “Back Of A Truck.” It comes with beautiful video directed by Antony Muse, starring Milo Cassidy and…

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Love Remain – “Paris, Forever”

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:43:08 +0000

London dance producer Love Remain specializes in music that’s hard and physical but that’s also trapped deep in its own memory. His mixtape With Every Cloud came out last fall, and he followed it with the single “Steppa” earlier this year. Yesterday, Love Remain released “Paris, Forever,” a new track that pairs a sweaty breakbeat…

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Skepta Is Making House Music Now

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:32:00 +0000

The world of UK grime is way more rooted in club culture than US rap is. Grime evolved directly out of the rave and pirate radio scenes, and plenty of UK rappers have had their biggest pop successes on EDM tracks — Dizzee Rascal on “Bonkers” and “Dance Wiv Me,” Wiley on “Wearing My Rolex,”…

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The Homesick – “Esperanto”

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:26:55 +0000

Dutch art-pop trio the Homesick (Elias Elgersma, Jaap van der Velde, and Erik Woudwijk) are back with a quirky little single “Esperanto.” The new song arrives alongside the announcement that they signed to independent Austrian label Siluh Records. “Esperanto” is wacky in a new wave/Devo way. It has rubbery synths and bouncy vocal shouts. The…

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Action Bronson – “Triceratops” (Feat. Lil Yachty & Paul Wall)

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:04:18 +0000

“Tadow, Queens be the birthplace/ Turn you to a fuckin’ cheeseburger at a children’s birthday/ Yeah, I deserve a mermaid/ So I could buy my bitch fake Hermes.” It’s Bam Bam! No rapper other than Action Bronson would write those lines in a million years or deliver them with such casual panache. That’s the Action…

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Daughn Gibson – “Quang Nam”

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:01:36 +0000

After bringing debut album All Hell back online a few months back, Daughn Gibson is now rolling out Lake Mary not mysterious, his first digitally available album in over a decade. (He released the limited-edition physical-only The Bergundy Daughns in 2024, but you didn’t hear that one, did you?) This week brings the second single…

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Purelink & Rainy Miller – “Barrons Hotel (I, To, Thee.)” & “Yellow Bones”

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:33:32 +0000

Faith, the latest album from NYC ambient electronic trio Purelink, was one of the best records anyone released last year, and this week they released a couple more incredible tracks. For “Barrons Hotel (I, To, Thee.)” and “Yellow Bones,” the group teamed up with Rainy Miller, an artful young British singer-songwriter whose atmospheric, post-Blonde aesthetic…

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Anthony Kiedis’ Girlfriend Pens Vogue Column About Dating Someone More Than Twice Her Age

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:30:42 +0000

Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman and cold brew innovator Anthony Kiedis has a long history of dating women much, much younger than him. He's been doing that ever since he was young. At 24, for instance, Kiedis was involved with the 16-year-old movie star Ione Skye, and his 2004 memoir Scar Tissue is full of disturbing stories like that. Today, Kiedis is 63 years old. His current girlfriend is at least an adult, but she's less than half of his age. She's writing about it, too.

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Watch Wednesday Cover Big Star With Patterson Hood

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:09:15 +0000

Wednesday have been covering Big Star's "September Gurls" here and there on tour, and Wednesday night they did so with old pal Patterson Hood. The band has previously collaborated with Hood, frontman for their beloved Drive-By Truckers, and since they were at Revolution Hall in his home base of Portland, they welcomed him onstage to join them for the Alex Chilton-penned classic. (Remember when they did Chris Bell's "I Am The Cosmos" on their stellar covers album?)

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GENER8ION & Yung Lean’s “Storm” Video Is Incredible

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:47:20 +0000

Romain Gavras. You should really know the name. If you don’t, you have a treat ahead of you. Romain Gavras is the son of the hugely celebrated political thriller director Costa-Gavras, and he has a pretty amazing cinematic legacy of his own. Gavras directed the hallucinatory French crime movies Our Day Will Come and The…

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Vines Shares Ambient “Teenage Dirtbag” Cover With Wheatus’ Brendan Brown

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:45:21 +0000

A month ago we learned about Covers I, the self-explanatory new EP from ambient composer Vines. She shared a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Silver Springs” with Helado Negro upon announcing the project, and now she’s offered up a cover of Wheatus’ immortal “Teenage Dirtbag” featuring Wheatus guy (and Stereogum comments section OG) Brendan Brown. Lots…

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The Afghan Whigs – “Duvateen”

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:22:04 +0000

Four decades in, the Afghan Whigs have still got it. The darkly soulful rock greats are heading out on a 40th anniversary tour with Mercury Rev this weekend, and they recently promoted it with their first song in four years, “House Of I.” This week they’ve got another new track, “Duvateen.” According to a press…

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Lucy Dacus – “Planting Tomatoes”

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:18:16 +0000

It’s sorta unbelievable that Lucy Dacus dropped her fourth studio album Forever Is A Feeling last March. That does not feel right. Either way, since its release, Dacus has been pretty busy releasing the companion album to Forever Is A Feeling, performing at Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral inauguration, appearing as a Jeopardy answer a couple months…

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Michael Stipe Debuts New Song “The Rest Of Ever” And Discusses First Solo Album On Colbert

Stereogum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:14:22 +0000

Last night, Michael Stipe showed up on Stephen Colbert‘s Late Show with a sick beard. He sat down for a fun little interview and then performed a new unreleased song “The Rest Of Ever” for the first time live. Stipe performed with the Late Show‘s house band Louis Cato and The Great Big Joy Machine. He…

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Oscar Isaac Discusses Playing With Hot Chip In Beef, Juliana Madrid Explains Her Cameo

Stereogum — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:54:07 +0000

The second season of the Netflix comedy-drama series Beef is here, and it has some musician cameos: Finneas (who wrote, produced, and composed the original soundtrack), Benny Blanco, and Hot Chip, who perform "Over And Over" with Oscar Isaac.

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Machine Gun Kelly Seemingly Disses Yungblud On New Fred Durst Collab “Fix Ur Face”

Stereogum — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:40:36 +0000

The two cringiest dudes in "rock" music are apparently feuding. Despite previous collaborations together, MGK and Yungblud may no longer be friends after the former rapper's new collab with Fred Durst seemed to diss the British star.

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Check Out FACS & Chimers’ New Split Single

Stereogum — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:46:34 +0000

Chicago noise-rock/post-punk greats FACS will tour Australia next month with Chimers, a likeminded Aussie duo from Wollongong. Ahead of the shows, the two bands have released a split 7″. FACS bring their usual beautiful clamorous tension to “Parallel Lives,” which builds to a properly rocked-out finale then dissolves into static. Chimers offer up “Red Chair,”…

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Jim Ghedi – “The Hungry Child”

Stereogum — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:25:59 +0000

The English folk musician Jim Ghedi told us all about his album Wasteland upon its release last year. Today, he has followed it up with something darker and heavier. New single “The Hungry Child” delves into the Lankum zone, steering ancient folk sounds into haunted, shadowy realms. I’m also picking up a bit of Murder…

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I DidnTimber Timbre’s Taylor Kirk Dead At 44I Didnt Hate Michael

Stereogum — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:43:25 +0000

I did the "whoo."

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I DidnTimber Timbre’s Taylor Kirk Dead At 44I Didnt Hate Michael’t Hate Michael

Stereogum — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:37:40 +0000

Taylor Kirk, singer for the Canadian indie band Timber Timbre, has passed away. According to Exclaim!, a Kirk representative confirms that he died "suddenly" last week. No cause of death has been reported. Kirk was 44.

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Lemonade Turns 10

Stereogum — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:55:00 +0000

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Hannah Frances – “Beholden To The Birds Murmuring Above” (Feat. Mary Lattimore)

Stereogum — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:41:44 +0000

The Chicago-reared, Vermont-based folk singer-songwriter Hannah Frances released her stunning album Nested In Tangles last fall. Today she’s back with the deluxe edition, headlined by a new collaboration with harpist Mary Lattimore, who adds layers of beauty to the meditative instrumental “Beholden To The Birds Murmuring Above.” Also in the bonus tracks: an acoustic version…

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Geese Announce Getting Killed Again North American Tour

Stereogum — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:12:51 +0000

Things have been going pretty well for Geese since they released Getting Killed, the best album of 2025. You might even say the psyop is working. These days, they're winning awards and walking in runway shows and debuting new songs and shit. They just made a very high-profile Coachella debut, covering Justin Bieber for an audience that included Sabrina Carpenter and Jack White. Courtney Love has gone from "Geese-curious" to singing their song on Instagram. It's a good day for Geese to announce another North American tour.

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Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Announces New Album Mirage, Art Basel Event

Stereogum — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:57:29 +0000

In the five years since Daft Punk announced their breakup, Thomas Bangalter has kept himself busy by scoring films, soundtracking contemporary dance performances, teaming up with young artists like Lil Nas X and Fred again.., and composing music for ballets. His first solo album, in fact, was 2023's Mythologies, an orchestral work for Angelin Preljocaj's eponymous ballet that didn't sound very much like Daft Punk at all. Today Bangalter has announced his next ballet endeavor, Mirage, which is billed as "a vast and atmospheric piece of electronic minimalism." That doesn't sound much like Daft Punk either, but it's closer!

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Duran Duran – “Free To Love” (Feat. Nile Rodgers)

Stereogum — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:32:11 +0000

Duran Duran and Chic legend Nile Rodgers go way, way back together. When they first started, Duran Duran described their own sound as Chic meets the Sex Pistols, and they scored their first #1 hit in the US when Rodgers remixed their 1984 single “The Reflex.” Rodgers and Duran Duran went on to work together…

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