Bloc Party's new album Anatomy Of A Brief Romance arrives this Friday. The internet was not a fan of the band's latest single "Pigwigs," which is certainly not Bloc Party at their best. Nevertheless, ...

It's a beautiful day here in Stereogum world: The War On Drugs released a new single. Around these parts, that's cause for celebration, especially when they pile on the sonic splendor like this.

She's just being "Miley" now. Miley Cyrus, one of her generation's defining pop stars, has a new album on the way, and she has dropped the "Cyrus" from her name. This feels like an implicit rebuke of ...

Sean Ragon, founder and frontman for the goth- and punk-rooted psych-folk band Cult Of Youth, has died. "It is with a heavy heart that I say, Sean Ragon has left this mortal coil," reads an ...

British new wave legends Squeeze are currently on a North American tour with fellow '80s veterans Adam Ant and Haircut 100, but they had to cancel last night's Vienna, Virginia show for tragic reasons ...

Last month, Elephant 6 greats the Olivia Tremor Control announced their first new album in 27 years, The Same Place. The idiosyncratic psych-pop outfit shared "The Same Place" and "Garden Of Light" as ...

Within the independent music world, there's been a growing enthusiasm this year for Historic New Jersey, a recording collective and/or record label in Philadelphia making retro-tinted pop-rock, ...

It was a bad week for Bad Wolves. A couple of months ago, the LA metal band released "Paint It Red" and announced Sara "Killboy" Skinner as their new singer. Skinner replaced D.L. Laskiewicz, who left ...

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Aldous Harding’s music makes sense the way a dream does: not logically, not cleanly, but with that strange internal certainty where everything feels right even if nothing quite adds up. You don’t ...

Eight tracks in, the new L’Rain album explodes. Like so much of Taja Cheek’s work thus far, fata morgana is largely a procession of meticulously constructed layers, moods, and vibes. It’s an ...

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, and working my way up into the present. The column is ...