We sure “Break the Simulation” isn’t already the title of a Muse album?

Holy shit thank you

Fred Durst and Wes Borland = Bad & Bougie

This isn’t gonna be a popular opinion, but…maybe Torres isn’t good or interesting enough to justify the marketing dollars that 4AD dropped on her last album’s rollout, and they decided to cut their losses.

I think you’re underestimating how incompetent people are as a rule

YAAAAAAAS I’LL TAKE THAT OVER A GRAMMY ANYDAY, FUCKING EAT IT BRUNO MARS.

1) Vince is one of the only rappers I trust to speak well about social issues any more.
2) Vince is one of the only musicians I’m interested in seeing interviewed any more.

And yes, I will continue to bring this up in every R. Kelly article–every single one–until someone from The Other Site comments publicly on their decision to have him headline the 2013 Other Site Music Festival. Upvote me or downvote me–I don’t care.

Even though The Other Site doesn’t have a comment section and likely never will, I’m sure there are people that work here who used to work there and vice-versa, I’m sure you occasionally read each other’s work and go through the comments, and I’m sure some of you are friends with each other. So, at least one of their current or former staff members is bound to read my at least one of my comments at some point or another. I know I don’t have much power as a lowly commenter, so all I can do is make this as awkward as possible for all of you until somebody does the right thing and says something.

Also, I will continue to laugh theatrically and light up the comment section whenever either site posts a #woke thinkpiece asking “is it still okay to like [artist] in light of [x]?” if x is anything short of sexual assault and/or human trafficking.

You know it’s wrong to promote him, you know it’s wrong to endorse him even implicitly, and you know it completely flies in the face of your sites’ editorial stances with regard to rape culture, sexism in the music industry, #MeToo, etc.

This is not just about that one video, that one girl, and that one trial. As Jim DeRogatis put it: “This is a trail, two and a half decades long, of dozens of young African-American women whose lives have been ruined by R. Kelly. This is not Jerry Lee Lewis marrying his cousin or Elvis and Priscilla, or Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and Lori Maddox. This is different. It is a horrifying document of a rape in real time.”

Please, please take a stand and speak out against this dirtbag.

That’s a lot of ego being simultaneously squirted into the universe. I can’t fucking wait.

Every music blog turning into America’s hot new hip hop, and every music critic on twitter trying to one up each other on the praise of the new shitty pop star album has consequences.

lolol, WORST album cover of the 00s/10s whenever/all time!

Yeah if Malkmus had no melodic sense whatsoever.

Nice try. Hope that doesn’t deter others with a similar intent.

Question a man of color’s stardom? Stereogum is literally Hitler.

Shut the fuck up, undergroundspoon

A couple weeks ago there was a commenter “Doris” on a Deadspin thread, using our beloved Doris Montgomery’s profile pic, who said: “I don’t know about this but what I do know is that Deafheaven’s Sunbather is the best album of the decade.” This was said commenter’s first post in four years. There was a collective “WTF” from the Deadspin commentariat; I replied, “Doris, this is YBB. Let’s get you back to Stereogum and get you a nice cup of hot cocoa.”

And then I posted this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAhua9HWmwk