Stereogum — On Friday, Lorde released her new album Virgin and debuted every song live in a surprise Glastonbury set. The new album is great, but it’s got some fans pissed off for a reason that has nothing to do with the music. Lorde is selling a number o... more info

Stereogum — Glastonbury’s been going down in the UK with surprise appearances from Lorde and Lewis Capaldi, a politics-free performance from the 1975, some drama about Neil Young’s set (which will now stream after all), and more. Yesterday (June 27) also ... more info

Stereogum — It wouldn’t be a Lorde album release without all the glamor and the trauma and the fucking melodrama. Today, Lorde released her new album Virgin and then performed the entire thing in a surprise Glastonbury set. It’s a great record. Lorde re... more info

Stereogum — Today, Lorde released her much-anticipated fourth album Virgin , and guess what: It’s fucking great! Good job, Lorde! She has been building up to that release for a long time, but she hasn’t really been performing live, unless you count lip-s... more info

Stereogum — A year after we entered global isolation due to COVID, Ella Yelich-O’Connor resurfaced to tell us she’d stopped taking calls. On 2021’s polarizing Solar Power , she threw her cellular device in the ocean, began healing under the sun’s UV ... more info

Stereogum — Blood Orange’s last release was 2022’s Four Songs , but Dev Hynes has stayed busy scoring the Broadway play JOB , joining Nathy Peluso’s Tonight Show performance, and collaborating with acts like Turnstile and Lorde. Now he’s finally back... more info

Stereogum — Lorde will release her new album Virgin in just a couple of days. After streaming the album in full for fans earlier this week at Brooklyn’s Baby’s All Right (the same venue she name-dropped on lead single “What Was That”), she stopped by ... more info

Stereogum — Lorde’s new album Virgin is out this Friday. She’s been rolling out a few tracks from it already, including “Man Of The Year,” last week’s “Hammer,” and the lead single “What Was That,” which she debuted at an impromptu listening... more info

Stereogum — Last night (June 20) Dua Lipa performed the first of two sold‑out shows at London’s Wembley Stadium. The pop star has been surprising her tour audiences with covers of artists from the cities and countries she’s singing in, like AC/DC and Na... more info

Stereogum — We’re one week away from the release of Lorde’s Virgin , one of this summer’s most eagerly anticipated new albums. After releasing the early tracks “What Was That” and “Man Of The Year,” Lorde is back with one last single before the... more info