Tom Breihan

2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Tom Breihan |Craig Brewer

It is motherfucking Turnstile season right now. Last week, they dropped their new album Never Enough, and it smacks. Thus far, all the live shows that they’ve played behind the album have been absolute events. They kicked things off with a gigantic free hometown gig at the Baltimore park where I used to walk my dog, and I’ve been kicking myself for not making the three-hour drive up since it happened.

2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Tom Breihan |Hayley Williams

For many years, the Portland, Maine singer-songwriter Lisa Victoria has been making music under the name Lisa/Liza. Breaking And Mending, her most recent album, came out in 2023. Later this month, she’ll follow that record with Ocean Path, a new cassette EP that collects her early home recordings. You can really feel the hum of room sound in the spectral, hypnotic opening track “Summer’s Dust,” the first thing that we get to hear from the EP.

2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Tom Breihan |Hayley Williams

Over the past few years, we’ve seen increasingly blurred boundaries between Caribou, Dan Snaith’s main project, and Daphni, his dance music alter-ego. Last year, Caribou released the dance-focused album Honey. This past weekend, he played the opening festivities for the Primavera Sound Festival, and my co-workers who didn’t miss their flights said that he was in full dance mode. Now, Snaith is back with a new single under the Daphni name. See if you can tell the difference.

2 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Tom Breihan |Craig Brewer

Before last night’s BET Awards, there was some question about whether the show could go on as scheduled. In Los Angeles, near the site of the show, hundreds of Marines were deployed to shut down the protests against ICE and Donald Trump. The broadcast went on as planned, but ascendant phenom Doechii, winning her first BET Award, took a moment to acknowledge what was happening and to make a statement in solidarity with the protesters. Last night, Doechii won the award for Best Female Hip-Hop Artist.

3 weeks ago | stereogum.com | Tom Breihan

Two days from now, Turnstile will release their hotly anticipated, widely debated new album Never Enough. We just ran our Premature Evaluation review. I think Eli Enis did great work on that, even though I like the album a lot more than he does. It’s immediately right up near the top of my own personal album of the year race, alongside Pulp’s More, another album that drops Friday.