Barely 24 hours before this year's Grammy Awards ceremony began, Whitney Houston, a woman who'd once seemed like a cyborg engineered to win as many Grammys as possible, was found dead in a Los…   Read Story »

It's the 2012 Grammys! The Stereogum crew is over at my house, there may or may not be pizza and beer involved, and on the off chance you are experiencing something similar at yours, we have decided…   Read Story »

Every year, venerated New York weekly newspaper The Village Voice tallies up votes from hundreds upon hundreds of music critics for its Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll and comes up with a…   Read Story »

Plenty of magazines are willing to let you know their picks for the year's best albums. But as far as we know, only one rag regularly runs its list of the worst. Entertainment Weekly's year-end issue…   Read Story »

Today we begin rolling out the results of this year's Gummy Awards: The only set of lists which are perfectly impervious to comment section backlash as they are voted upon by you, the esteemed Shut…   Read Story »

Here's a fun one! Rolling Stone, everyone's uncle's favorite magazine, has just unveiled its year-end top-50 albums list, and there's a lot to pick through here. The magazine named Adele's 21 as its…   Read Story »

Adele's "Someone Like You" is my shit - a gigantic, stormy ballad in which the young singer reveals the full operational power of her voice and, at the same time, navigates the interpersonal dynamics…   Read Story »

Mercifully, Kanye and Jay-Z took the MTV VMA stage about 20 minutes into the broadcast to perform "Otis." Daddy-to-be Hov and 'Ye walked down a long runway replete with American imagery, bypassing a…   Read Story »

MTV has released the nominations list for this year's VMA's, and those three faces -- Adele, Katy Perry, Kanye, are amongst the leaders across the board. Also notable: "Yonkers" up for Best New Video…   Read Story »

This year's shortlist for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize Album of the Year was announced in London this morning. A group of industry experts will select the winner, who will be announced in a ceremony…   Read Story »