We're excited to announce that A 3rd Stereogum Christmas Show will take place at Baby's All Right in Brooklyn on Thursday, 12/6. This year's show will be headlined by Priests, with Empath and Nervous Dater opening. All three acts have been (or, cough, will be) featured on our annual list of Best New Bands! In between sets, the Stereogum staff will be spinning some seasonally appropriate tunes. Please...
Predicting the future of music is a dicey bet, even when you extend the footprint back a quarter-century. Ask me now what songs of the past two-and-a-half decades are going to keep getting covered and sampled and versioned and interpolated and otherwise made memetic long after we're gone, and I doubt I'd have a better answer than the one I'd have given back when I was 21 when I thought my generation...
Saturday night was a huge one for Los Angeles sports: Not only were the Dodgers playing for a trip to the World Series, LeBron James played his first home game as a Los Angeles Laker. The baseball game turned out much better for Angelenos, with the Dodgers soundly defeating the Brewers in Milwaukee. Meanwhile, back at the Staples Center, the star-studded Houston Rockets spoiled LeBron's big night,...
Last night, Liam Gallagher listened to Radiohead. He wasn't a fan. The former Oasis singer has talked shit about Radiohead before -- "Them writing a song about a fucking tree? Give me a fucking break!" -- and last night, he went on a lengthy, late-night, nigh-incomprehensible tweetstorm about the band. "The rapping in the middle of the bends taking the piss," he wrote. "How the fuck did these teds...
Tame Impala teamed up with Theophilus London last week to debut new music for their new joint project, Theo Impala. Last night, a few Theo Impala tracks debuted on Virgil Abloh's Beats 1 Show: "Whiplash" and a cover of Steve Monite's Afro-boogie classic "Only You." There have also been rumors about a forthcoming track featuring Ariel Pink. "Whiplash" has yet to be leaked or released, but you can listen...
She was in and out of mental hospitals and drug rehabs constantly. Then she wrote a note about going to join our father in a parallel universe, swallowed a bottle of pills, and killed herself for real this time. --Mark Oliver Everett, Things The Grandchildren Should Know Eventually her breathing began to slow down until it was very, very slow. And then there was one last, slow exhale with no inhale...
When Trent Reznor says he is excited about something he doesn’t actually sound excited at all. He speaks in a measured mutter, choosing his words carefully whenever he’s asked a question that could potentially lead to a headline-grabbing response. The press cycle for his most recent Nine Inch Nails release, Bad Witch, generated some notable quips about Kanye West (“The guy’s lost his fucking...
"Right about now/ The funk soul brother/ Check it out now/ The funk soul brother/ Right about now/ The funk soul brother/ Check it out now/ The funk soul brother/ Right about now/ The funk soul brother/ Check it out now/ The funk soul brother/ Right about now/ The funk soul brother/ Check it out now/ The funk soul brother/ Right about now/ The funk soul brother/ Check it out now/ The funk soul brother/...
When Trent Reznor says he is excited about something he doesn’t actually sound excited at all. He speaks in a measured mutter, choosing his words carefully whenever he’s asked a question that could potentially lead to a headline-grabbing response. The press cycle for his most recent Nine Inch Nails release, Bad Witch, generated some notable…
Lorely Rodriguez writes about love in massive and minuscule ways. She measures it in the stars, she memorializes moments shared on a city stoop. Whether you’re speaking to her in person or listening to her lyrics, Rodriguez is considerate and direct. Both are attributes that she uses to write songs that feel universal and familiar…
Tracking Down is a Stereogum franchise in which we talk to artists who have been out of the spotlight for a minute.…
Sir Babygirl lives up to the excess of her name. Kelsie Hogue, the mastermind behind the fledgling project, admits that her music can be a lot. “I want to do pop escapism,” she tells me at a café in Brooklyn, where she’s recently moved from New Hampshire. She hasn’t really had time to settle into…
Tracking Down is a Stereogum franchise in which we talk to artists who have been out of the spotlight for a minute.…
Tracking Down is a Stereogum franchise in which we talk to artists who have been out of the spotlight for a minute.…
Last time David Nance Group toured through my town, the venue was a laundromat that hosts DIY shows. So opening for Jack White last month was a pretty big deal for Nance and his band of Omaha rock ‘n’ rollers. When I reached him by phone two weeks ago, Nance was still revved up from…
Chan Marshall is trying to remember how her three-year-old son likes his bed made. Having failed to get it right the first time, she strips a set of white sheets and a quilt off of a small futon in the corner of her East Village bedroom while I look on. She starts over, tucking the…
In the late ’90s, musical genres that once felt as separate as continents began to shift into each other like tectonic plates, the great unifier being electronic music. Pick any genre or scene and you’ll find it taking hold due to an increasing interest in technology, which was growing more accessible (and affordable) than ever.
In 2003, Chloë Sevigny would endure the biggest controversy of her career, the Riot Grrrl group Bratmobile would officially break up, and Sheridan Frances “Francie” Medosch would still be in diapers. When I call the 17-year-old via video chat, she is sitting on the floor of her bedroom in Berwyn, PA with her cat named…
When Adrianne Lenker attempts to put a feeling into words, she narrows her eyes and moves her hands around like she’s physically trying to grab onto something. Gesticulation is, of course, a thing that a lot of people do, but the way Lenker does it feels intentional. Like she can see that one crazy feeling…
Back in May, Ryley Walker released his fourth album Deafman Glance. It marked the most significant transformation in an already shape-shifting career, finding Walker miles away from the folk troubadour we once knew as he delved into a battle-scarred sound indebted to Chicago post-rock and perhaps truer to himself than any of his past work.
Tracking Down is a Stereogum franchise in which we talk to artists who have been out of the spotlight for a minute.…
I know this is a big ask because it sounds like a throwaway gag from The Office, but I beg of you, loyal Stereogum reader: Put some respect on the name of “Lackawanna County’s ska-punk scene in 2005.” The Menzingers, Captain, We’re Sinking, and Tigers Jaw all emerged from hardscrabble Scranton and laid the groundwork…
Tracking Down is a Stereogum franchise in which we talk to artists who have been out of the spotlight for a minute.…
