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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:…

Tracking Down is a Stereogum franchise in which we talk to artists who have been out of the spotlight for a minute.…

Certain days, my favorite Mountain Goats song is "Woke Up New," the one where John Darnielle imagines himself as someone who is, for reasons unexplained,…

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958,…

Nestled deep in the mountains of West Virginia, there is a creek that runs through a mountain. Over hundreds of millions of years the water…

Breaks With Tradition is a new Stereogum column that examines a certain song that’s been frequently sampled and how that song has been used through…

In pop history, there have been all sorts of shocking transformations. Bands who began in a logical place relative to their time and scene and…

I've been really in the weeds with work lately. Just completely buried in it. Call It Freelancer Syndrome: I just say yes to everything. Recently…

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958,…

The Stereogum staff is headed to Basilica SoundScape in Hudson, NY for the weekend. We look forward to dressing up in black robes and communing…

I spent last night at the gory and ridiculous new Predator movie, and yet the most disturbing piece of body horror I saw all week…

Based on their early aesthetics alone, Passion Pit arrived at exactly the right time. 2008 was a moment when rainbow-hued, fizzy, synthy indie rock reigned…

"America was (and still is) impervious to the Manics' charms. Probably seen as an English 'haircut band' by tight-arsed lo-fi pundits or too plain weird…

When Marilyn Manson's Rock Is Dead tour came through the Landmark Theater in Syracuse in the fall of 1998, I went down to see the…

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958,…