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We’ve been grooving to tunes from Joshua Idehen’s debut album I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try since last fall. Today the Stockholm-based performer has another relentlessly positive jam to go along with “It Always Was” and “Don’t Let It Get You Down.” The new “This Is… The post Joshua Idehen – “This Is The Place” appeared first on Stereogum.

Back in 2014, when Chuck D was the official ambassador for Record Store Day, the Public Enemy firebrand met Doors drummer John Densmore on an RSD panel. As the story goes, a year later Chuck emailed Densmore the following: "You’ve got the beats, I’ve got the rhymes, let’s make doPE." The name was intended as a combination of the Doors' lowercase logo and the common Public Enemy abbreviation PE. Now the collaboration has finally come to fruition: Under the band name doPE, Chuck D and John Densmore made an album together. The post Chuck D And The Doors’ John Densmore Launch New Project doPE appeared first on Stereogum.

In 1976, Brian Wilson returned to the Beach Boys after a period of prolonged absence, even joining the group’s touring lineup for the first time since 1964. With Wilson back in his sonic-mastermind role, the Beach Boys released the cult-favorite 1977 album The Beach Boys Love You, and they planned to follow it with a… The post After Almost 50 Years, The Beach Boys Are Finally Releasing Adult/Child appeared first on Stereogum.

Next week, the '80s pop giant Phil Collins will turn 75. In the past few years, there's been some talk about new music from Collins, who hasn't released any original songs since he did the soundtrack for the Disney film Brother Bear in 2003. In a MOJO interview last year, however, Collins said that he's been having health issues that have prevented him from making music: "I keep thinking I should go downstairs to the studio and see what happens. But I'm not hungry for it anymore. The thing is, I've been sick. I mean, very sick." Now, Collins has more to say about his health and about the possibility that he's not done yet. The post Phil Collins Details Health Struggles, Contemplates First New Music In Decades appeared first on Stereogum.

In the late 1940s, a young woman named Connie Converse moved to New York City with aspirations to become a professional singer-songwriter. When that didn’t work out as she’d hoped, she moved to Ann Arbor, MI and took up a job as managing editor of an academic journal. Burned out and deeply unfulfilled, Converse disappeared… The post Connie Converse’s How Sad, How Lovely Getting Third Man Reissue: Hear Previously Unreleased “House” appeared first on Stereogum.