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Big ups to Damn the Witch Siren though, that is a big show for a local band. They stuck to their guns admirably

and also.. shit just stinks. Nothing wrong with smoking weed, but when other people can't escape the smell it just becomes a nuisance. And it's still smoking indoors which is also always a dick move in a crowded place.

Jesus, people actually died and that is the response of the festival? That's disgusting. This should really be grounds to at least pull back their festival license next year.

This festival has always been extremely interesting to me. I've only been a couple of times (i live 15 minutes away so it's easy) but there's always so much interesting stuff going on. Venues are pretty far away though, so discovery is a little more difficult than you would like.

pretty close to punk though, lets be honest

For anyone who's still interested in sunny indie-pop: the new Cayucas is pretty good. Especially is you aren't familiar with the advance singles yet.

Shit In Your Cut is also very meh imo, but yes the overwhelming majority of songs are good to very good

I think Strangers To Ourselves is a little underrated tbh, for my money there are some great songs on there. A Ground Walks... is fantastic

While apparently packin very little

Film? I remember it as a tv-show. But yeah, it was brilliant and both the Belgian and English versions ran for a long time.

Belgium is seriously underrated as a musical nation. They have a ton of fantastic bands in the indie- and metalscenes.

They're fun, but a very safe festival pick. Not really something you announce as a main act nowadays.

This might be a terrible opinion but I really like the Rick Ross/Skrillex collab from that album

best stereogum-meme since 'all the beaches in the hooooouuuse'

In theory it must be possible to have a billionaire that came to his future due to coming up with a revolution that is much-needed. In practice that has never happened and Musk is sucking his employees as dry as every other billionaire in history

I don't know man, I heard her last single and it has some real anti-semitic lyrics /s, obvs

I'm not either, but I think songs like Danny nedelko and samaritans have very universal messages

That's certainly more than I'm doing with my time

Oppropriating and exploiting past successes again to tap into nostalgia? That has literally always been the pop norm.

Memes in search of meaning is def going to be her next album title now

You can't force others into performing your playlist for you though

Everything I've heard so far has gotten me really intrigued about this record, and I'd never even heard anything from Gentry outside of 'Ode To Billie Joe'. They've gotten some fantastic vocalists to work with them, that's for sure. PS: Van Houten isn't really as well known as a singer here in The Netherlands. People know she sings and she's brought out a pretty decent album a while ago but it's more a ScarJo situation than a Juliette Lewis situation

This is just a natural side product of rap being the new pop. At some point the ability to garner attention is more valuable than skill

It's a free website. I'm sure they'd be happy to hire a technical editor, but with the amount of stuff they throw on here it's pretty much a given not everything'll be spotless

That sounds fun actually? I mean it's very clear they aren't pretending to be beer experts so who cares?

Wait, when has pop music needed a comeback?

She has all the makings of a fucking star. Every song just has at least one, but often more than 1 killer melody. 'High Five', 'Raw', 'Sucker Punch', 'Schedules', 'Don't Kill My Vibes'... She already has more great pop songs than most artists have three albums in

Jameroquai

This rips. Hard

This is awesome. I really hope the new album reaches the hights of songs like Sil Vous Plait because I really need a Le-Tigre-in-overdrive band in my life

That was a giant hit in Europe. At some point I think there were three different versions of this song floating around in the charts, the original being the one that charted the lowest.

Only on Stereogum could a rap column lead to an extensive punthread about Rush. Glad to see nothing's changed

you know who should make something new? Desaparecidos! Strongest protest album of the Trump era imo, and i think it was made before it even began!

IDLES - Joy as an act of resistance Soccer Mommy - Your Dog So I haven't actually written anything about IDLES yet in the album list, but it does deserve some form of a written argument behind it. I kinda struggle with my love for it, since I'm a big fan of complex and weird songwriting and the lyrics in Joy as an act of resistance are kind of... platitudy. There's no discovery in them, what you see is what you get. But goddamnit, they work. This album doesn't slap, it beats you over the head with a frying pan. And then hugs you, and tells you it's going to be alright. I've had the pleasure of seeing IDLES live twice this year. Once when I had no idea who they were and a friend dragged me to go see them at a festival because they were supposed to be great (this was before the new album dropped). That was fun and I liked it. The second time though, I knew the new album front to back and so did everyone in the room with me. It was cathartic in a way I've rarely felt at a live show. I felt it at the Neutral Milk Hotel reunion show, when everyone was feeling overwhelmed just being able to finally sing those songs. And I've felt it here. That's basically it. People's lives were saved by these simple, to-the-point songs about loving and accepting your fellow man and about fighting against everyone who has hate in their hearts. It felt like these guys cut through the confusion every decent person has in these times, a confusion about what's even going on that makes you paralyzed in a way. It's chaotic, it's cathartic and it brings you wisdom with the subtlety of a kick to the face. It's not the best record that came out this year from a musical point of view but it's far and away the album that defined my year and why I fell in love with guitar music in the first place. Oh yeah, and Your Dog is a great fucking song.

Huh, what an odd brain fart. Tbh i almost edclusively listen to music through Spotify these days and only collect music for the sake of collecting so I'm probably less in tune with album titles than I've ever been

1) IDLES - Joy as an act of resistance 2) Snail Mail - Clean 3) Screaming Females - All At Once 4) Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino 5) Mr. Twin Sister - Salt 6) Christine and the Queens - Chris 7) Villagers - The Art of Pretending to Swim 8) Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! 9) Iceage - Beyondless 10) Ben Caplan - Old Stock Bit of a weird list this year, weren't many albums that really stood out for me and the top three is pretty far removed from the rest. That said, one hell of a year for songs and personally a great great year for live shows.

I imagine that title came from people harming themselves after hearing that James Blunt song, but then again I've never actually bothered to listen to it.

Saw them last night opening for The Bronx. Singer was barely-walking-drunk but their songs rip.

Everybody in here talking about TBTBTM and I'm just sad everybody slept on Desperate Ground. That album was like the soundtrack to Conan the barbarians midlife crisis and it was brilliant

Seriously, I saw they were performing near me and immediately bought tickets, only later to find out they're playing a tiny room.incredible