Just yesterday we got the news that French pop gods Phoenix had set a date for their return, and today, we get their first announced US date: at New Orleans Jazz And Heritage Festival. The Jazz…   Read Story »

Every year, the Village Voice polls a shit-ton of music critics, ex-critics, part-timers, and bloggers for its annual Pazz & Jop music critics' poll, soliciting top-10 lists of albums and singles.…   Read Story »

Frank Ocean orchestrates an OutKast reunion of sorts with this remix of "Pink Matter," one of Channel Orange's most melancholic tracks. While the song already featured a bleak-toned verse from André…   Read Story »

AlunaGeorge unveiled more music from their debut album, Body Music, today on BBC 1Xtra Live Lounge. Take a taste of the album's title track below, as well as the band's upbeat rendition of Frank…   Read Story »

Throughout the course of my life I have not been what you would call an R&B listener. A brief history of my dabbling: I owned a cassette copy of Boyz II Men's II because who didn't? A year later I…   Read Story »

Frank Ocean, the man behind your favorite album of the year, wrote a song for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained but it didn't make the soundtrack. Here's what the director said about it in a…   Read Story »

Two weeks ago, we crowned Fiona Apple with the honor of Stereogum's Top Album Of 2012. Today, you guys gave your award, the vaunted Best Album Gummy, to another. We could have seen it coming, given…   Read Story »

GUMMYS WEEK CONTINUES. So we're all on the same page, let's recap the results to date. Your Best Track is Japandroids' "House That Heaven Built," your Best Video is M.I.A. and Romain Gavras's "Bad…   Read Story »

Frank Ocean continues to own our soul. Last Thursday, the man played a short set at a press conference for Spotify. And during that set, he broke out a minute-and-a-half cover of Radiohead's 1995…   Read Story »

Frank Ocean has had a pretty good year, and he's closing it out in style, cleaning up on year-end lists and now, being nominated for Grammys in six categories: Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year,…   Read Story »