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Stream Björk Utopia

Utopia is Björk's proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Having plumbed the depths of sorrow on 2015's Vulnicura, on her new LP she…

Chris DeVille | November 24, 2017 - 12:00 am

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Premature Evaluation

Battles Gloss Drop Premature Evaluation

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Stereogum | February 20, 2015 - 10:03 am

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Stream Godmode’s Common Interests Were Not Enough To Keep Us Together Comp

My friend Nick Sylvester was, in my opinion, one of the best music critics in the world a few years ago, but he's largely quit…

Tom Breihan | February 14, 2014 - 11:46 am

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Deconstructing

Deconstructing: Big Sean, 2 Chainz, And The Racial Politics Of Punchline Rap

Big Sean is one of hip-hop's worst misnomers, and not just because the guy is only five-foot-eight. Everything about the Detroit rapper screams "twerp." In…

Chris DeVille | September 12, 2013 - 12:19 pm

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The 5 Best Songs Of The Week

This week, we saw two bizarre-yet-totally sensical collabs from !!! with Main Attrakionz and Icona Pop and Zebra Katz, and they are talking points, for…

Stereogum | August 30, 2013 - 2:50 pm

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10 Best Songs

The 10 Best Le Tigre Songs

Le Tigre was a band that was never supposed to be. What was initially founded in 1998 as a backing band for riot grrl legend…

Claire Lobenfeld | August 30, 2013 - 2:40 pm

Nine Inch Nails – “Everything”

At one point in Nine Inch Nails' latest offering "Everything," Trent Reznor sings "I have become something else" and while it has its own meaning…

Claire Lobenfeld | August 19, 2013 - 3:59 pm

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Interview

Q&A: Kathleen Hanna On The New Julie Ruin Record, The Legacy Of Riot Grrl, And The Illness That Derailed Her Entire Life

If you've been paying attention to music and/or pop culture for the past couple of decades, then Kathleen Hanna hardly needs an introduction. As a…

T. Cole Rachel | August 19, 2013 - 2:40 pm

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Premature Evaluation

Premature Evaluation: Earl Sweatshirt Doris

I'd been waiting for this moment for literally years: Earl Sweatshirt's triumphant return to the stage after being shut away in a Samoan reform school…

Tom Breihan | August 19, 2013 - 12:24 pm

The 5 Best Songs Of The Week

This week we heard two major rap releases from each primary coastal city: Earl Sweatshirt's Doris representing L.A., and New York showing up via A$AP…

Stereogum | August 16, 2013 - 6:08 pm

Counting Down

Foo Fighters Albums From Worst To Best

The Foo Fighters' career has been a series of improbabilities. There is the first, and most obvious hurdle: The idea that any member, let alone…

Ryan Leas | August 16, 2013 - 1:05 pm

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Straight To Video

The 5 Best Videos Of The Week

It's pretty hard to carry on Stereogum business as usual on the day that Amrit Singh, the guy who brought me to the site and…

Tom Breihan | August 16, 2013 - 12:56 pm

Brown Man Says Goodbye To Stereogum, Heads To Television, Wants To Thank You

A note to future departing music bloggers: Listening to Sigur Rós while writing a goodbye post is probably a bad choice. A note…

Amrit Singh | August 16, 2013 - 10:03 am

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Grimes Denies Trolling Boiler Room

As GQ reports, yesterday, at superstar house producer Richie Hawtin's house in Ibiza, Grimes played a special DJ set for Boiler Room, one that was…

Tom Breihan | August 15, 2013 - 9:35 am

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Yuck – “Middle Sea”

Yuck frontman Daniel Blumberg quit the band earlier this year, but the young British fuzz-rockers aren't going to let that slow them down. Last month,…

Tom Breihan | August 14, 2013 - 11:28 am