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 ...

Like some of her best songs—“That Battle Is Over” and “American Coffee” among them—“To be a rose,” from May’s Iris Silver Mist, is an electroacoustic musical bildungsroman.

Over the course of this 10-minute song, the English band Maruja is by turns post-punk, industrial, orchestral, pastoral, pummeling, squalling and droning. One thing it’s not is complacent.

Big Freedia's 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival shows are about both bounce music and gospel. Here's when you can see them.