Sean McVerry - STEVE (2025)

If you’ve been plugged into the W.A.S. socket this last year, you’re blissfully familiar with Sean McVerry, New York’s most dangerous song-slinger and frequent W.A.S. collaBOYrator. But you may have missed a couple of critical recent facts, and this is a fact-flinging newsletter first and foremost, so check this out: Sean’s new album, Steve, is out June 26, and one of its many marvelous songs drops today as a single. That song is “Better,” and it’s a good enough tune that we’ve added it to the Great Apes series, which puts Sean in league with Sarah McLachlan, Bruno Mars, REM, Pavement, and Don Henley — incidentally the five artists he credits with his “sound.”