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Emily Haines has been releasing music for 21 years, stretching her ineffably gorgeous songwriting across a variety of genres from synth-pop to raw acoustic instrumentation.

Twenty years ago this month, in September of 1997, Capitol Records became the first major label to sell and digitally distribute a single from a…

Next Monday, a unique double-header is coming to LA's Hollywood Bowl: New Order and Goldfrapp. The pairing is an interesting one, New Order being legends…

Welcome to the third installment of "Tracking Down," a new Stereogum franchise in which we talk to artists who have been out of the spotlight…

You ever go to a bad music festival? Not an outright Fyre Festival or Woodstock '99 disaster that merits a post-mortem from dozens of people…

Meet Ghostemane. He's a white kid with dyed-gray hair and the word kybalion, which Google tells me is some kind of ancient hermetic philosophy, tattooed…

Fascism came back. The past year and a half has been a strange time in human history, when voters across Europe and North America showed…

There's always a weird energy worming its way through the Big Apple on 9/11. An ambivalent mixture of melancholy, pride, mourning, hopefulness, leeriness, and togetherness…

There are streets like this all over America. Broad boulevards lined with roadside diners, fast-food outposts that haven’t been updated since the ‘80s, small stores…

This brings me great pleasure to report: You shouldn’t count out the Foo Fighters just yet.

On the surface, its concept bordered on kitsch: a Yale-educated Brooklyn indie rocker was writing an album of "re-imagined" songs from Black Flag’s 1981 debut…

When looking back on a classic album, it's always crazy to consider all the ways the world has changed in the years since its release.

The first thing you see is the cover: a tastefully arranged heap of pulped strawberries that verges on the NSFW, suggesting a Gourmet photoshoot or…

Twin Peaks ended this week, for the second time, and I have no idea whether I liked it or not. Certain scenes were utterly spellbinding;…

Seems like just last week we were talking about Taylor Swift failing to make 5 Best Songs. Actually, it seems like it was three months…