Hello hi. OpenWeb fucked up again and we don’t have the data for this week’s best comments. Sorry. Maybe tomorrow. So here’s an editor’s choice and tell us your favorite shoegaze song in the comments ..read more

Jonny Greenwood has composed the original score for the last five Paul Thomas Anderson movies, dating back to There Will Be Blood way back in 2007. Unsurprisingly but delightfully, he’s about to make it six straight. A new profile of Greenwood in The Guardian pegged to his new eight-hour organ piece “268 Years Of Reverb” confirms that the Radiohead and the Smile member is doing the music for Anderson’s Licorice Pizza follow-up ..read more

We’ve posted about the Danish metallic screamo band Demersal several times over the years. Today they’re back with a new self-titled LP, billed as their sophomore effort by label home Tomb Tree Tapes. The record comprises 12 hard and heavy shapeshifting tracks. Sometimes it captures glimpses of freaked-out, basement-ready post-hardcore. Other times it gives off the essence of grotesque, punishing death metal. Every once in a while, the clouds part and some absolute beauty shines through. And on closing track “Som Et Barn Mod Dit Bryst,” majestically rising post-rock morphs into… an electronic ..read more

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 ..read more

The UK singer Mabel has a brash new single out today. For “Look At My Body Pt. II,” she teams with Artist To Watch and Charli XCX/Troye Sivan tour opener Shygirl for a hard, trap-infused pop song about “questioning the male gaze and the power of the divine feminine ..read more

UK rock legend Paul Weller, formerly of the Jam and the Style Council, is preparing to release 66, which is somehow his 17th solo album. The man never goes away! We’ve already posted first single “Soul Wandering,” and now Weller as also shared a lush, jazzy track called “Nothing.” On this one, Weller sings soulfully over pillowy strings and saxophones, and it feels like one of the most grown-up records that an ex-punk has ever made. Listen below ..read more

Jenny Gillespie Mason has been rolling out her new Sis album Vibhuti, inspired by 20th century Indian mysticism. She’s shared the singles “Center Of The Heart” and “Mother’s Grace,” and today she adds a tight, funky, hypnotic groove called “Bow To Your Wilderness ..read more

Wednesday, after news of Steve Albini’s death broke, the social accounts for Nirvana, the legendary recording engineer’s most famous client, recirculated the letter Albini wrote the band in late 1992, when they were considering hiring him to record 1993’s In Utero. That’s the one where Albini famously rejected producer royalties, writing, “I would like to be paid like a plumber: I do the job and you pay me what it’s worth.” Other than that tribute, the surviving members of Nirvana had yet to comment on Albini’s death until Thursday night ..read more

Tanya Donnelly spent time in Throwing Muses and the Breeders before forming her own trio Belly, and that resume is enough to establish her as one of the greatest alt-rockers of the ’90s. Last year, she released Swan Song Series (Vol. 1), an EP of collaborations. Today, she’s teamed up with the LA-based Brazilian musician Gabi Lima to release a new song called “Golden Cut ..read more

Last time we heard from Jordana Nye, the oft–collaborating LA indie-pop artist, she was teaming with Dent May on his immensely charming “Coasting On Fumes.” Today she has another collab for us ..read more