Stereogum — FireAid, the massive benefit concert for those affected by the LA wildfires, reportedly raised an estimated $100 million. The concert — which featured a surprise Nirvana reunion with St. Vincent and Joan Jett, massive pop stars like Lady Gaga an... more info

Stereogum — After making a big splash at Coachella and coming to Brazil back in the spring, Lady Gaga launched her global Mayhem Ball tour at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Wednesday night. The career-spanning set had a little bit of everything for Little Monste... more info

Stereogum — Bruno Mars has had a weirdly successful few years in the pop music sphere. Following 2021’s An Evening With Silk Sonic, he’s only released collaborative singles, including the morbid ballad “Die With A Smile” with Lady Gaga, the chronicall... more info

Stereogum — Tudum, Netflix’s annual global fan event, got a bit of an upgrade this year. For the first time since its first edition right before COVID-19, the event was broadcast as a special on Netflix, having previously been livestreamed on YouTube. And i... more info

Stereogum — The Honduran-born, Montreal-based pop mutant Isabella Lovestory cites Lady Gaga and Kim Gordon as influences, and she pushed reggaeton into freaky places on her 2022 debut album Amor Hardcore. Since then, she’s written for K-pop stars LE SSERAFI... more info

Stereogum — Lady Gaga now holds the record for the highest-attended concert by a female artist after drawing over 2 million people to a free show at Rio De Janiero’s Copacabana Beach on Saturday (May 3). Promoting her new album Mayhem , she beat the record... more info

Stereogum — The way Cole Haden commands a stage, you might not guess the band he fronts sounds anything quite like Model/Actriz. The Brooklyn quartet broke through with their 2023 debut Dogsbody, a haunting, gnarly update on aughts dance-punk replete with pie... more info

Stereogum — In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hit... more info

Stereogum — Last month, Lady Gaga unveiled her new album Mayhem and told us all about it. On Friday (Apr. 11), she brought some of its tracks to her extravagant Coachella performance in Indio, California. more info

Stereogum — Earlier this year, the ultra-raunchy St. Louis rap star Sexyy Red teamed up with a resurgent Bruno Mars for the single “Fat Juicy & Wet,” and I wrote that the song was “about to be so huge.” Well, I was wrong. “Fat Juicy & Wet” made a ... more info