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 »

Portland home-recording type Casey Dienel has carved out a niche for herself making evocative, elliptical music as White Hinterland. This makes her basically the opposite of Katy Perry, whose…   Read Story »

This was not an opinion shared by some on Twitter, as I found out while searching around for reactions shortly after the show aired at 12AM on Saturday (I wasn't near a TV because I was out,…   Read Story »

It's a full-on revolution down at Occupy Wall Street right now; the contingent seems to be growing every day, with no sign that it will be relenting any time soon. People are pissed and enacting…   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 week we've got new videos from Diamond Rings, Katy Perry, The Dø, and directing team DANIELS. There are some cool tricks to some of these videos -- SixToes stretches a seven-second shoot to…   Read Story »

Here's a quick stopgap track from the Das Racist crew, whose mixtape muscle flexed from from Dudes II Men last year, and are some number of tracks into their proper full-length debut apparently…   Read Story »

Passion Pit's Michael Angelakos tackles Smashing Pumpkins melancholy, melodramatic "Tonight, Tonight" for Levi's Pioneer series. Previously we heard Dirty Projectors cover Dylan, and The Shins do…   Read Story »

"If We Ever Meet Again"'s video is complicatedly plotted -- like an episode of Mr. Ocean's 11 or Pierce Brosnan's The Thomas Crown Affair featuring awkward dancing in front of a Kmart photo…   Read Story »