This year’s Spotify Wrapped launched on Wednesday. While Weird Al’s Wrapped video message to fans joked that he’d made enough money from 80 million streams on the service to buy a sandwich, a new report from Billboard reveals how lucrative Spotify has been for the service’s top-streamed artist. Swift’s royalties from Spotify are estimated to come to $101 million in 2023.

On Friday night, Dinosaur Jr. kicked off their seven-night residency at Brooklyn’s Music Hall Of Williamsburg. Celebrating 30 years of Where You Been, the indie rock greats brought out the Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser and Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock.

Earlier this week, Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan passed away at 65. Musicians have been sharing tributes for the beloved punk icon, including U2, who paid homage to MacGowan on Friday night at their residency at the Las Vegas Sphere.

On Friday night, Power Trip reunited for a surprise set at Mohawk in Austin. It was the Dallas thrash legends first performance since the death of frontman Riley Gale in 2020.

We had a technical issue accessing last week’s best comments data, plus it was a holiday, so before we get into this week’s Shut Up, Dude I’ve got last week’s roundup for you a week late.

Alabama rap charmer Flo Milli is now popular enough that my daughter is always playing her in the car, and she’s getting ready to follow her 2022 album You Still Here, Ho? with a new one called Fine Ho, Stay. (I sense a theme.) In the past few months, she’s released the singles “Fruit Loop,” “Hot Box,” “Chocolate Rain,” and “BGC.” Today, she’s got another new one, and she’s got help.

Every once in a while, Omaha underground mainstay David Nance will emerge with a new full-length tribute to one of his favorite artists. The latest to get the covers treatment is the Cure. Robert Smith’s catalog is translated into gritty Great Plains home recordings on Nance’s new Shameless Kiss LP. As usual, the song titles are all changed, and there’s no mention of the Cure on Bandcamp beyond a doctored photo of Smith featured on the cover art. Some of the readings are fairly straightforward, like the “Lovesong” cover “You Make Me Feel Like I Am Free Again.” Others transform the material, like “Dinner,” a banjo-infused spin on “Lullaby.” Fans of either artist will find something to geek out about here. Listen below.

Last year, the Memphis rapper GloRilla erupted out of the underground, scoring a couple of massive hits and ending the year with the release of her Anyways, Life’s Great… EP. GloRilla’s been a little quieter this year, though she has come out with a few new singles. And today, GloRilla’s on a new track with the ascendant Chicago MC FendiDa Rappa.

Addy, the musical project of Philly-based Addy Watkins, has a wonderful new EP out today. As Watkins explains in a note to Bandcamp followers, recording for Temperance started in Nashville in the summer of 2021 with Watkins’ co-producer Collin Pastore, known for his work with Lucy Dacus. (Notably, Dacus shot the photo that became the cover art.) It’s full of brisk but tender songs with forceful backbeats tying together gorgeous, delicate arrangements, tracks situated somewhere between folk-rock, alt-country, and indie-pop. It’s a decidedly post-Pinegrove sound, laced with acoustic guitars and pedal steel and conjuring a moody vibe similar to Pennsylvania peers like Slaughter Beach, Dog and Another Michael.

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 weekas picks below and on Stereogumas 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.)

The screamo underground is a communal place. Bands don’t just make split 7″ EPs; they make full-on split albums. A couple of months ago, we got Snag and Coma Regalia’s MMXXIII. Now, New Jersey’s Massa Nera and Los Angeles’ Quiet Fear are getting ready to release Quatro Vientos // Cinco Soles, a new record where both bands will alternate songs and then combine forces on closing track “Nueva llama.”

Drake and his associates are bringing back Luna Luna as an exhibition in Los Angeles this month. Although I’d never heard of Luna Luna before today, this seems like a fairly big deal.

Olly Alexander’s dance-pop project Years & Years released the album Night Call last year, and now Alexander has followed it with “A Very Fun Bad Idea,” a new song for the soundtrack of the British movie Bonus Track. Bonus Track is a queer musical romance, and it stars Alexander’s friend Josh O’Connor, who also wrote the story that the movie is based on. The song is a bright, pulsing, effortlessly pleasant jam. Here’s Alexander describing how it came to be:

Empress Of a the Los Angeles-based project of Lorely Rodriguez a shared a bunch of collaborations this year. She teamed up with Rina Sawayama for “Kiss Me,” joined Lewis OfMan on aHighway,a and sang with Jam City for “Wild N Sweet.” Today, she’s on her own with “Femenine.”

Earlier this year, Detroit rapper Veeze unleashed his acclaimed debut album Ganger, featuring Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Yachty, Babyface Ray, and more. Today, he’s back with “ATL Freestyle 1” and “ATL Freestyle 2” as well as the announcement of a 2024 tour.

We didn’t get a lot of new breakout rap stars this year, but one person who did make a big jump to a national audience was Sexyy Red. This past summer, Sexyy Red’s freaky but blasA(c) anthems like “Pound Town” and SkeeYee” went from meme-bait to straight-up crossover hit status, and Sexyy put in a scene-stealing appearance on Drake’s For All The Dogs album. Now, Sexyy has put out a deluxe edition of her Hood Hottest Princess album, adding 11 tracks to an album that only had 11 tracks in the first place.

Brooklyn black metal adventurers Krallice release a lot of music, and for the past few years, that music always arrives as a surprise full-album Bandcamp drop. Earlier this year, Krallice came out with their Porous Resonance Abyss, an album that went hard on eerie sci-fi synths. Today, they’ve followed it with two ferocious new EPs, packaged together as a single album.

Avey Tare has been busy this year. In February, Tare released his solo album 7s. Then, in September, Tare’s band Animal Collective came out with Isn’t It Now?, their big return-to-form LP. Today, Avey Tare’s got a new track in the world, and it’s part of a compilation of music for cooking.

Love Actually, the cornball ensemble comedy about a bunch of British people falling into and out of love with one another, is now 20 years old. It endures as meme fodder, if nothing else. As it turns out, the British pop balladeers Keane, who were unsigned at the time, wrote a song called “Love Actually” for the Love Actually soundtrack, but it wasn’t included in the movie. Today, after all these years, the band has released the song, and it sounds exactly like a Keane song written for the Love Actually soundtrack.

Back in September, Harlem underground rap veteran Smoke DZA teamed up with the always-unpredictable production mastermind Flying Lotus to release the collaborative EP Flying Objects. Flying Lotus might be rooted in rap, but he doesn’t make straight-up hip-hop beats too often these days. It was a blast to hear him lock into a kind of psychedelic boom-bap, and it resulted in one of my favorite EPs of the year.

Lenny Kravitz has a new double album called Blue Electric Light on the way, so he’s making the media rounds. That includes a new Esquire feature in which Kravitz airs out his complaints about Black media outlets.

We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.

At the beginning of the month, Codeseven announced their first album in 19 years, Go Let It In, the follow-up to 2004as Dancing Echoes/Dead Sounds. The Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based melodic hardcore group aimed to “write and record a full length that sounds as good, if not better, than the last record.” It’s out now, along with a music video for the track “Rough Seas” from Thursday.

Manchester art-rockers Dutch Uncles have a new tape on the way. Yes, No Hooks, the band’s new compilation featuring rarities and unreleased material, will only be released on cassette. They’ll be selling it at their December shows in Liverpool, Nottingham, Glasgow and Manchester. Dutch Uncles previewed the project this week with a lithe and funky LCD-screen new wave track called “At The Wheel.” Duncan Wallis’ fragile falsetto sings some lyrics that you may also know from the band’s song “Poppin’.”

Early next year, Jason Lytle’s long-running psychedelic pop project Grandaddy will release the new LP Blu Wav, their first since 2017’s Last Place. We’ve already posted first single “Watercooler,” and now Grandaddy has also dropped another one called “Cabin In My Mind.”

Last month, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Make Up The Breakdown, the extremely fun debut album from the dance-happy Canadian post-punkers Hot Hot Heat. Now, Hot Hot Heat are suddenly back. The band went on hiatus after releasing their fifth album, a self-titled affair that came out in 2016. Today, they’ve returned with their first new single in seven years. It’s called “Shock Me.”

Tori Amos has a long history of releasing cover songs that radically reimagine the originals. She’s turned tracks from people like Nirvana, Eminem, and Slayer into tender, exploratory piano pieces, and now she’s done the same for one of Kendrick Lamar’s early hits. We knew this was coming, and the Tori Amos version of “Swimming Pools (Drank)” is now out there in the world.

Earlier this year, BeyoncA(c) collaborated with Travis Scott on “DELRESTO (ECHOES)” as well as with Kendrick Lamar for a remix of “AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM.” Her Renaissance concert film is officially in theaters today, and she used the closing credits as an opportunity to premiere a new song called “MY HOUSE.”

Last month, Org Music announced Moping In Style: A Tribute To Adam Green, a compilation album full of indie greats paying homage to the Moldy Peaches member. We previewed the collection with aThat Fucking Feelinga and “Her Father And Her” by Ben Kweller and now the full LP is out.

The end of PC Music is nigh. At the end of the year, the storied London experimental pop label and crew will stop putting out new music. One of the label’s final planned releases is Soft Rock, the debut LP from Thy Slaughter. Thy Slaughter, the duo of producers A. G. Cook and EASYFUN, had only released one track before this year: “Bronze,” a compilation track that came out way back in 2017. But now Thy Slaughter’s full-length is here, and it features some famous friends.

This year’s Spotify Wrapped launched on Wednesday. While Weird Al’s Wrapped video message to fans joked that he’d made enough money from 80 million streams on the service to buy a sandwich, a new report from Billboard reveals how lucrative Spotify has been for the service’s top-streamed artist. Swift’s royalties from Spotify are estimated to come to $101 million in 2023.

On Friday night, Dinosaur Jr. kicked off their seven-night residency at Brooklyn’s Music Hall Of Williamsburg. Celebrating 30 years of Where You Been, the indie rock greats brought out the Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser and Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock.

Earlier this week, Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan passed away at 65. Musicians have been sharing tributes for the beloved punk icon, including U2, who paid homage to MacGowan on Friday night at their residency at the Las Vegas Sphere.

On Friday night, Power Trip reunited for a surprise set at Mohawk in Austin. It was the Dallas thrash legends first performance since the death of frontman Riley Gale in 2020.

We had a technical issue accessing last week’s best comments data, plus it was a holiday, so before we get into this week’s Shut Up, Dude I’ve got last week’s roundup for you a week late.

Alabama rap charmer Flo Milli is now popular enough that my daughter is always playing her in the car, and she’s getting ready to follow her 2022 album You Still Here, Ho? with a new one called Fine Ho, Stay. (I sense a theme.) In the past few months, she’s released the singles “Fruit Loop,” “Hot Box,” “Chocolate Rain,” and “BGC.” Today, she’s got another new one, and she’s got help.

Every once in a while, Omaha underground mainstay David Nance will emerge with a new full-length tribute to one of his favorite artists. The latest to get the covers treatment is the Cure. Robert Smith’s catalog is translated into gritty Great Plains home recordings on Nance’s new Shameless Kiss LP. As usual, the song titles are all changed, and there’s no mention of the Cure on Bandcamp beyond a doctored photo of Smith featured on the cover art. Some of the readings are fairly straightforward, like the “Lovesong” cover “You Make Me Feel Like I Am Free Again.” Others transform the material, like “Dinner,” a banjo-infused spin on “Lullaby.” Fans of either artist will find something to geek out about here. Listen below.

Last year, the Memphis rapper GloRilla erupted out of the underground, scoring a couple of massive hits and ending the year with the release of her Anyways, Life’s Great… EP. GloRilla’s been a little quieter this year, though she has come out with a few new singles. And today, GloRilla’s on a new track with the ascendant Chicago MC FendiDa Rappa.

Addy, the musical project of Philly-based Addy Watkins, has a wonderful new EP out today. As Watkins explains in a note to Bandcamp followers, recording for Temperance started in Nashville in the summer of 2021 with Watkins’ co-producer Collin Pastore, known for his work with Lucy Dacus. (Notably, Dacus shot the photo that became the cover art.) It’s full of brisk but tender songs with forceful backbeats tying together gorgeous, delicate arrangements, tracks situated somewhere between folk-rock, alt-country, and indie-pop. It’s a decidedly post-Pinegrove sound, laced with acoustic guitars and pedal steel and conjuring a moody vibe similar to Pennsylvania peers like Slaughter Beach, Dog and Another Michael.

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 weekas picks below and on Stereogumas 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.)

The screamo underground is a communal place. Bands don’t just make split 7″ EPs; they make full-on split albums. A couple of months ago, we got Snag and Coma Regalia’s MMXXIII. Now, New Jersey’s Massa Nera and Los Angeles’ Quiet Fear are getting ready to release Quatro Vientos // Cinco Soles, a new record where both bands will alternate songs and then combine forces on closing track “Nueva llama.”

Drake and his associates are bringing back Luna Luna as an exhibition in Los Angeles this month. Although I’d never heard of Luna Luna before today, this seems like a fairly big deal.

Olly Alexander’s dance-pop project Years & Years released the album Night Call last year, and now Alexander has followed it with “A Very Fun Bad Idea,” a new song for the soundtrack of the British movie Bonus Track. Bonus Track is a queer musical romance, and it stars Alexander’s friend Josh O’Connor, who also wrote the story that the movie is based on. The song is a bright, pulsing, effortlessly pleasant jam. Here’s Alexander describing how it came to be:

Empress Of a the Los Angeles-based project of Lorely Rodriguez a shared a bunch of collaborations this year. She teamed up with Rina Sawayama for “Kiss Me,” joined Lewis OfMan on aHighway,a and sang with Jam City for “Wild N Sweet.” Today, she’s on her own with “Femenine.”

Earlier this year, Detroit rapper Veeze unleashed his acclaimed debut album Ganger, featuring Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Yachty, Babyface Ray, and more. Today, he’s back with “ATL Freestyle 1” and “ATL Freestyle 2” as well as the announcement of a 2024 tour.

We didn’t get a lot of new breakout rap stars this year, but one person who did make a big jump to a national audience was Sexyy Red. This past summer, Sexyy Red’s freaky but blasA(c) anthems like “Pound Town” and SkeeYee” went from meme-bait to straight-up crossover hit status, and Sexyy put in a scene-stealing appearance on Drake’s For All The Dogs album. Now, Sexyy has put out a deluxe edition of her Hood Hottest Princess album, adding 11 tracks to an album that only had 11 tracks in the first place.

Brooklyn black metal adventurers Krallice release a lot of music, and for the past few years, that music always arrives as a surprise full-album Bandcamp drop. Earlier this year, Krallice came out with their Porous Resonance Abyss, an album that went hard on eerie sci-fi synths. Today, they’ve followed it with two ferocious new EPs, packaged together as a single album.

Avey Tare has been busy this year. In February, Tare released his solo album 7s. Then, in September, Tare’s band Animal Collective came out with Isn’t It Now?, their big return-to-form LP. Today, Avey Tare’s got a new track in the world, and it’s part of a compilation of music for cooking.

Love Actually, the cornball ensemble comedy about a bunch of British people falling into and out of love with one another, is now 20 years old. It endures as meme fodder, if nothing else. As it turns out, the British pop balladeers Keane, who were unsigned at the time, wrote a song called “Love Actually” for the Love Actually soundtrack, but it wasn’t included in the movie. Today, after all these years, the band has released the song, and it sounds exactly like a Keane song written for the Love Actually soundtrack.

Back in September, Harlem underground rap veteran Smoke DZA teamed up with the always-unpredictable production mastermind Flying Lotus to release the collaborative EP Flying Objects. Flying Lotus might be rooted in rap, but he doesn’t make straight-up hip-hop beats too often these days. It was a blast to hear him lock into a kind of psychedelic boom-bap, and it resulted in one of my favorite EPs of the year.

Lenny Kravitz has a new double album called Blue Electric Light on the way, so he’s making the media rounds. That includes a new Esquire feature in which Kravitz airs out his complaints about Black media outlets.

We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.

At the beginning of the month, Codeseven announced their first album in 19 years, Go Let It In, the follow-up to 2004as Dancing Echoes/Dead Sounds. The Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based melodic hardcore group aimed to “write and record a full length that sounds as good, if not better, than the last record.” It’s out now, along with a music video for the track “Rough Seas” from Thursday.

Manchester art-rockers Dutch Uncles have a new tape on the way. Yes, No Hooks, the band’s new compilation featuring rarities and unreleased material, will only be released on cassette. They’ll be selling it at their December shows in Liverpool, Nottingham, Glasgow and Manchester. Dutch Uncles previewed the project this week with a lithe and funky LCD-screen new wave track called “At The Wheel.” Duncan Wallis’ fragile falsetto sings some lyrics that you may also know from the band’s song “Poppin’.”

Early next year, Jason Lytle’s long-running psychedelic pop project Grandaddy will release the new LP Blu Wav, their first since 2017’s Last Place. We’ve already posted first single “Watercooler,” and now Grandaddy has also dropped another one called “Cabin In My Mind.”

Last month, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Make Up The Breakdown, the extremely fun debut album from the dance-happy Canadian post-punkers Hot Hot Heat. Now, Hot Hot Heat are suddenly back. The band went on hiatus after releasing their fifth album, a self-titled affair that came out in 2016. Today, they’ve returned with their first new single in seven years. It’s called “Shock Me.”

Tori Amos has a long history of releasing cover songs that radically reimagine the originals. She’s turned tracks from people like Nirvana, Eminem, and Slayer into tender, exploratory piano pieces, and now she’s done the same for one of Kendrick Lamar’s early hits. We knew this was coming, and the Tori Amos version of “Swimming Pools (Drank)” is now out there in the world.

Earlier this year, BeyoncA(c) collaborated with Travis Scott on “DELRESTO (ECHOES)” as well as with Kendrick Lamar for a remix of “AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM.” Her Renaissance concert film is officially in theaters today, and she used the closing credits as an opportunity to premiere a new song called “MY HOUSE.”