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The long, strange, delightful story of Lil Nas X's run at #1 has finally ended. Three weeks ago, Lil Nas X and Billie Ray Cyrus' "Old Town Road" blew past all possible precedents, breaking the record for most weeks at #1. And after 19 weeks, we finally have a new #1 single: Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy." Duh. As Billboard reports, "Bad Guy" ascends to #1 after nine weeks at #2. If "Bad Guy" had been stuck...
Jay-Z's Roc Nation signed a deal last week to advise the NFL on its live music productions and social justice issues. This was immediately contentious, and unconfirmed reports that Jay-Z will become the owner of an NFL franchise have only intensified the debate. Ever since the NFL seemed to blackball Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the national anthem at games in protest of racial injustice and...
Neil Young released his most recent album, The Visitor, back in 2017. His last LP with his Crazy Horse band, Psychedelic Pill, came out in 2012. This October, he will release a new Crazy Horse album, COLORADO. And according to the Neil Young Archives website, the first single is out next month. The song is called "Rainbow Of Colors" and it's one of ten new songs "ranging from around 3 minutes to over...
Today is Clairo's 21st birthday and she's spending it on tour opening for Khalid. Yesterday, Khalid gave her an early surprise. He wore a giant Elmo costume. In a video posted to Twitter, he and three friends — dressed as Bert, Ernie, and Cookie Monster — sit silently as Clairo enters the room and completely loses it. "You're scary," she says. Elmo Khalid calls for a group hug and the Sesame Street...
"In 2009, you kind of need to know some C++ just to talk about bands," Brian Howe wrote in the Pitchfork review for Antlers' breakthrough third album, Hospice, a bulwark of starlit indie rock against scuzzy gutter punks like Wavves, UUVVWWZ and Nodzz. The AV Club likewise leveraged Antlers' earnest ambitions against shitgaze and chillwave and remarked that frontman Peter Silberman seemed, "unconcerned...
The first review of The Center Won't Hold, Sleater-Kinney's new album, was the most damning, and the most important. It was only 17 words long, and it came from inside the band: "The band is heading in a new direction and it is time for me to move on." When Janet Weiss announced her departure from Sleater-Kinney last month, 23 years after she first joined the band, that was all the explanation she...
Stereogum will be there when Raleigh's widely beloved Hopscotch Music Festival kicks off a few weeks from now with a typically fantastic lineup topped by the likes of Sleater-Kinney, James Blake, Jenny Lewis, Chvrches, Little Brother, Dirty Projectors, Kurt Vile, Snail Mail, Raphael Saadiq, and Deerhunter. Not only is our whole staff traveling to Raleigh, we'll be helping to get Hopscotch 2019 started...
Screaming Females are releasing a rarities compilation called Singles Too, which collects the band's early singles, digital B-sides, and cover songs in one convenient place. The New Jersey rock titans have seven albums under their belt already, including last year's All At Once, and now they'll have another collecting all the ephemera they've built up over the years. Singles Too will feature 11 tracks...
Caroline White has been releasing hushed reveries as Infinity Crush for the better part of the decade. The musician and poet’s songs are consistently revelatory in how much they do with so little. They are suggestive, her words have a precious, unfiltered intimacy. They’re loaded with imagery that takes on a kind of dream logic,…
We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.
There are some legacy artists that exist in a funny place. They became famous off a couple hits once upon a time, they…
Over the past year, Jake Ewald’s tastes have evolved, man. The Slaughter Beach, Dog mastermind has found himself drawn towards music with nuance and a little more space to breathe — things the 26-year-old can respect “now that my attention span’s gotten slightly longer.” His newfound appreciation for the slow build shows in the way…
Industry showcases are an odd thing. Some record company gathers together label people, media types and maybe some radio people together in a venue, and gets their artist to play their latest stuff live. Hopefully, you’ll buzz about it. I once had a job where it was all but mandated I attend these things, and…
“Pitchfork Condé Nast Music Festival!” JPEGMAFIA exclaimed. “Look at it. And they’re letting me up here with a live microphone. Mistake.”
There’s a song on Glitterer’s official debut album, Looking Through The Shades, called “The News.” Unlike the other 13 tracks on the record, which are all speckled with synths and/or propelled by a thumping drum machine, “The News” is just Ned Russin singing a simple melody over an equally rudimentary bassline. “Saw my face up…
In April of last year, Frightened Rabbit’s landmark, breakthrough sophomore album The Midnight Organ Fight turned 10. It was cause for celebration: This was the album on which the band came into its own, featuring some of Scott Hutchison’s most enduring songwriting, the album that fans would latch onto in their times of need and…
I have to constantly remind myself that Maxo Kream is a little less than two years older than me. Besides the black-and-green Supreme jersey, everything about the 29-year-old rapper emanates an OG persona. When he comes downstairs to a Flatiron District hotel lobby, he gives the type of hard handshake that makes you aware you’re…
We’ve Got A File On You is a new reboot of an old-school Stereogum franchise. Once called Annotated Media Guide, these are interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.…
The first time I saw Anthony Naples, he was shrouded in fog. He was DJing his residency at the Ridgewood, NY club Nowadays, lighting the misty dancefloor up with thorny techno and scrappy house. I saw an artist in full control of his craft as a DJ, unconcerned with appearances as a “performer.” Now, Naples…
We’ve Got A File On You is a new reboot of an old-school Stereogum franchise. Once called Annotated Media Guide, these are interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.…
“Where do you go when you just wanna go? Where do you go when you let it all go?” Emily Sprague asks on a song from Florist’s third album, which was written as an escape — from life’s external pressures, from the constant buzzing inside your own mind. It’s an album that’s constantly looking for…
“Method Man,” the lead single of Detroit-based rock musician Stef Chura’s new album, Midnight, paints a picture of a dude whose condescension is dreadfully magnetic. Driven by an fervor and fixation similar to that that fuels the type of relationship it describes, Chura’s vocals and the accompanying instrumentals speed up and intensify as the song…
Carlos Santana has a lot to celebrate in 2019. It’s the 50th anniversary of his band’s self-titled debut album, which was released on August 30, 1969. Two weeks before that, the band gave a legendary performance at the Woodstock festival in upstate New York. They’d been a popular live act in San Francisco, but their…
The rain can force us into unexpected places. Sometimes, it’s for the better. Such is the case when I meet Welsh musician and novice furniture maker Cate Le Bon in New York City during a torrential downpour. We take refuge in the Guggenheim, as our expected coffee shop has been overtaken by others also finding…
