It happened. Last night, Donald Glover, in his Golden Globes acceptance speech, thanked Migos for making their single "Bad And Boujee," calling it "the best song ever." And today, we learn that the ridiculously catchy and quotable Lil Uzi Vert collab has made it all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, supplanting Rae Sremmurd's "Black Beatles," another infectious and viral Southern rap hit. As...
The Panorama Festival -- the New York festival, put together by Coachella promoters Goldenvoice -- held its inaugural event last year. And this summer, the festival will return to New York, bringing a pretty impressive lineup with it. This time around, the show's three headliners are Tame Impala, Frank Ocean, and Nine Inch Nails, the latter of whom are playing their first announced live show since...
At last night's Golden Globe Awards, Pharrell Williams was nominated for co-writing the score for the movie Hidden Figures, the historical-drama hit about the black women who helped develop the NASA space program. But Jenna Bush Hager, the Today host and the daughter of a former president, evidently got that movie's title tangled up with that of another movie with a predominantly black cast. Talking...
U2 released their classic album The Joshua Tree back in March 1987, which means it's about to turn 30 years old. In celebration of that fact, the band have officially announced their previously teased The Joshua Tree 30th Anniversary tour, which will, as rumored, include a headlining set at Bonnaroo. They'll play the album in full every night. Oh, and the Lumineers, Mumford & Sons, and OneRepublic...
Donald Glover's FX show Atlanta, which is great, just won the Golden Globe for Best Television Series - Musical Or Comedy at tonight's ceremony in Beverly Hills, beating out Transparent, Black-ish, Veep, and Mozart In The Jungle. In his acceptance speech, Glover thanked the cast, director Hiro Murai, the city of Atlanta, and Migos -- "not for being on the show, but for making 'Bad And Boujee.'" Watch...
The Golden Globes are going down at the Bevery Hilton Hotel tonight. Host Jimmy Fallon opened things up with an elaborate, star-studded musical parody of frontrunner La La Land featuring Justin Timberlake, Tina Fey, Amy Adams, Nicole Kidman, Ryan Reynolds, and the award show mainstays that are the kids from Stranger Things, who proved that Eleven isn't the only one of the gang who can rap. Watch below. #GoldenGlobes:...
I once had a college professor who gave a whole class on how important the opening sentence of a novel is. A great opening line works like a fishhook, and also like a thrown gauntlet. It pulls you immediately into the story, ideally, but it can also work as a challenge. It can jerk you away from whatever you're doing and force you into the headspace of the book you're just starting to read. "Call me...
When Marc Bolan appeared on the BBC show Top Of The Pops in March 1971 to perform his smash hit "Hot Love," he launched a pop revolution not only with his music, but with his look. He appeared in bright yellow satin pants and a shiny black shirt with green and red fringe, his hair frizzed out into a wild halo of curls that shimmied with every cock of his head. But the ultimate piece of fashion and...
Julie Byrne is one of the chosen few who can genuinely say she’s from “all over.” Byrne has led a nomadic existence since leaving her hometown of Buffalo at 18, and is part of a network of artists known nationally for existing neither here nor there, setting up “home” wherever it feels right for a…
Over the last few years, Charli XCX has become one of the most exciting and idiosyncratic pop stars of our time. She’s had a hand in some massive hits, but rather than skyrocketing to household-name and festival-headliner status, she’s continued to skirt the fringes, making forward-thinking, genre-agnostic pop music as if trying to recalibrate the…
We’ve started a little tradition here at Stereogum: each year, I call Wayne Coyne and ask him about a bunch of the big stories from the last 11 or so months. Sometimes this is detritus, like funny internet ephemera or goofy trends. Sometimes it’s the music or pop culture that dominated the year’s conversation, or…
Joseph D’Agostino keeps apologizing for all the negativity. Reclining on couches in a Brooklyn Heights bar that, for whatever reason, has a bocce court in the back, he and Matt Whipple are musing on the status of their band, Cymbals Eat Guitars. This has recently been a recurring conversation for them: the feeling like they…
At Iceland Airwaves 2014, I accidentally saw Fufanu. I had no idea who they were, but followed two English friends to a venue in downtown Reykjavik called Gaukurinn — which is essentially a dive-y metal bar, which is also how you can describe a fair number of the bars in Reykjavik. They didn’t even have…
Everything changes and nothing stands still. Fred Thomas’ new album, Changer, is about the constant nature of transformation, in the same way his music — both his solo work and as part of Saturday Looks Good To Me — has always been about harnessing the power of specific memories to figure out how they relate…
“In my country, and in a lot of countries, people still go to the well to get their water,” Vagabon’s Laetitia Tamko explains to me as she begins to reveal the metaphorical crux of one of her new songs. Tamko grew up in Cameroon before moving to New York in the early 2000s, and she…
Back in the summer of 2014, Casper Clausen, Rasmus Stolberg, and Mads Brauer of Efterklang, and their touring drummer, Finnish percussionist Tatu Rönkkö, were invited to present a special collaboration at Finland’s Our Festival. The idea was: They spend 10 days in a cottage in the Finnish countryside, writing new music together, and present their…
Margaret Glaspy has had a big year. You could maybe even call it a huge year. The New York-based musician recorded her debut full-length, Emotions And Math, in her bedroom, fully intending to self-release it. Instead, she got picked up by ATO Records, put out the album, and has been touring throughout the US and…
Upstairs At Eric’s is an apartment and photo studio in midtown Manhattan owned by photographer Eric Johnson. It’s not necessarily named for the Yazoo album; Johnson just liked the name. There are platinum album plaques for Lauryn Hill and Maxwell scattered about, industrial lights in the corner and a gray Bengal house cat named Cooley…
Shirley Collins is living history. The 81-year-old artist is best known as one of England’s premier folk singers of the ’60s revival, but her contributions extend far beyond that. Collins is a writer, lecturer, oral historian, and perhaps most importantly: a song collector. …
Every now and then, you look at a lineup for Bonnaroo or Panorama or some other mainstream festival, and tucked amidst all the expected indie and pop and rap names is the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. It’s one of the more curious narratives in our little pocket of the music landscape — that this group,…
The year Bonnie Raitt turned 40, she became a pop star. …
Like any flailing twenty-something, Oakland-based Australian Hazel English feels an anxiety-inducing lack of control. The kind you feel when relocating over 12,000 miles across the globe, knowing all but no one in your new home. The “out of control” that exists when building a music career in foreign territory, relying on musicians you meet at…
Appropriately enough, Kero Kero Bonito got their start on the internet. In 2013, school friends Gus Lobban and Jamie Bulled posted an advertisement on an ex-pat message board in hopes of finding a Japanese singer in London who wanted to be in a band. They met their match in Sarah Perry, then a fellow university…
