It’s Friday afternoon, and that means it’s time to take a look at all the wonderful and terrible comments that have been posted on Stereogum over the past week. Today’s edition of S...
Lil Wayne has a knack for taking other rapper’s hits and repurposing them for his use — see “John” which borrowed heavily from Rozay’s “I’m Not A Star”...
Visual News reports the existence of a website called PopSpots, where the real estate agent Bob Egan figures out the exact New York locations where various classic album-cover shots were taken. And E...
MetalSucks compiled 50 yearbook photos of stars from metal and rock, so if you’re into seeing pics like Maynard James Keenan’s army photo and Danzig in high school, you’ll be in hea...
I have no idea how it’s even possible to enforce something like this — or where one would get a Slash T-shirt in the first place — but NME reports that fans weren’t allowed to...
Here’s the clip for Cali six-piece Family Of The Year’s “Diversity,” a light-hearted video where the band’s diarama/stage platform gets raided by some other folks —...
We don’t know too much about the mysterious synthpop duo Sunless ’97, but we do know that they’ll soon release their new single “Body Weather” b/w “Azul.” An...
Hot Chip stopped by Zane Lowe’s BBC 1 show for a live session recently, performing tracks from their forthcoming In Our Heads as well as covering Prince’s 1987 hit “If I Was Your Gi...
A couple of years ago, Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier went solo with her album The Trip, and now she’s getting set to follow it up with a new one called Silencio! The first taste we’ve...
Having performed with the Buzzards the night before, Jack White strutted out the Peacocks for the final show of his two night sold out run at the Wiltern in support of his number one album Blunderbus...
Canadian dream poppers Young Galaxy will put out a 7” next week, and today we’ve got a cut from that release called “Youth Is Wasted On The Young.” It’s a Smiths-y slab ...
Last week, we skipped this list so that we could run our list of the 25 best videos of the year thus far. So I’ll just take a moment to point out that last week’s list, if we’d done...
As suggested by the slew of recent live dates that featured new material, London’s the xx will put out their second album, Coexist — the follow-up to 2009′s beloved self-titled debu...
NYC improv rockers Blues Control’s new video for their jazzy jam “Love’s A Rondo” features a dancer named Tarik, who goes by Allstar the MTA Mime when he performs on NYC’...
When the Flaming Lips linked up with Erykah Badu for their all-collaborations album The Flaming Lips And Heavy Fwends, they recorded a cover of the old folk song “The First Time Ever I Saw Your...
Later this month, L Magazine returns with its ever-strengthening North Williamsburg-based Northside Festival. And for the first time, Stereogum will represent with a showcase. Congratulations to all ...
Next week, the endlessly prolific and aggressively relaxed New Orleans rapper Curren$y will release his latest full-length The Stoned Immaculate — an actual major-label album this time, not a m...
The snappily-dressed British postpunker Eugene McGuinness has already shown a serious visual flair; we’ve posted his stark and striking videos for “Lion” and “Shotgun.” ...
Usually, younger bands are supposed to pay tribute to older, legendary, seminal-type bands, often by covering their songs on tribute albums. That’s just how it works. But in an inversion of the...
Fucked Up guitarist Ben Cook — who sometimes dabbles under the Young Governor moniker — recently switched up his sideproject’s name to Young Guv And The Scuzz as he preps for a new ...
Merrill Garbus’s unhinged yawp turns out to be just about ideal for Afrobeat. The Red Hot Organization and the (RED) initiative are currently teaming up to release (RED) Hot + Fela, a new fundr...
Earlier this morning, we posted a track from Secret Seven Records’ forthcoming In A Cloud II: New Sounds From San Francisco, a Ty Segall ripper called “Swag.” And now here’s a...
The dancey, new-wavey, intermittently Francophonic Brooklyn BTW Slowdance will soon release a new 7″ single, and we’ve got the A-side for you to download. “Boyfriend” is an ai...
You’d figure someone like Ty Segall would be the last to unironically co-opt “Swag,” but, here we are. The hard-charging ripper is for a compilation called In A Cloud II: New Sounds...
The Black Keys’ “Gold On The Ceiling” is probably the most unstoppable rock anthem on their new album El Camino, and it already had a completely straightforward music video. So I...
New York rap bruiser Meyhem Lauren got together just about everyone cool in underground rap to record his forthcoming mixtape Respect The Fly Shit over a few days at SXSW, and we’ve already pos...
It’s not like Bruce Springsteen has to learn a song about Berlin just because he’s playing Berlin, but that kind of dedication and attention to detail is what makes him probably our great...
Lately, Sufjan Stevens has been playing a series of Planetarium concerts with composer Nico Muhly and the National’s Bryce Dessner, the three of them playing compositions inspired by the planet...
Here’s a one-off joint from murky production specialist Balam Acab, a track called “Ass Pop” that rides a shifty, goofy pulse while finding plenty of room for the requisite Lex Luge...
For a recent competition called the Music Video Race, artists were coupled with a director and challenged to shoot a video within 48 hours. So WATERS — the current outfit of Port O’Brien ...
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