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The year-end list is locked in and news is slow, so now I get to ignore new music for a minute and spend the morning bumping Songs in the Key of Life for no reason. Gotta do this more often.
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The year-end list is locked in and news is slow, so now I get to ignore new music for a minute and spend the morning bumping Songs in the Key of Life for no reason. Gotta do this more often.
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A better world is within reach
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A better world is within reach
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Wrote about the continuing sonic adventures of Pink Siifu
Album Of The Week: Pink Siifu 'ONYX'!'
I’m of two minds when it comes to Pink Siifu. On one hand, the Alabama-born rapper and musical adventurer deserves a massive glow-up. He’s consistently kicked out ambitious albums that reward in-depth...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Wrote about the continuing sonic adventures of Pink Siifu
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Number Ones on "Positions" and the moment that newly anointed movie star Ariana Grande went into horny coasting mode.
The Number Ones: Ariana Grande's "Positions"
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. As Scott explain...
stereogum.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Number Ones on "Positions" and the moment that newly anointed movie star Ariana Grande went into horny coasting mode.
One for Jimmy Cliff.
Jimmy Cliff Recording The Harder They Come In Studio Session
YouTube video by Perry Henzell
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November 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
One for Jimmy Cliff.
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Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all
One for Mani.
Run DMC - What's It All About
YouTube video by zielonycd
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November 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
One for Mani.
Alternative Number Ones on rain on your wedding day, a free ride when you've already paid, the good advice that you just didn't take, man who woulda thought, it figures, etc.
The Alternative Number Ones: Alanis Morissette's "Ironic"
In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
stereogum.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Alternative Number Ones on rain on your wedding day, a free ride when you've already paid, the good advice that you just didn't take, man who woulda thought, it figures, etc.
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The idea is to run this feature in the fall every year, not as a part of year-end list season, but with the relaunch we didn't get around to it until kinda late.
Anyway, here are some good new bands ("new" and "bands" are flexible terms here).
Anyway, here are some good new bands ("new" and "bands" are flexible terms here).
The 40 Best New Artists Of 2025
What do Tame Impala, Haim, Chance The Rapper, and Addison Rae all have in common? Though they’re arguably superstars now, in the past they were all featured among Stereogum’s annual roundups of the ye...
stereogum.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The idea is to run this feature in the fall every year, not as a part of year-end list season, but with the relaunch we didn't get around to it until kinda late.
Anyway, here are some good new bands ("new" and "bands" are flexible terms here).
Anyway, here are some good new bands ("new" and "bands" are flexible terms here).
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Taxes on high earners are too low bsky.app/profile/popc...
Kim Kardashian shares her frustration in a new TikTok after failing the California bar exam, calling out psychics who told her she’d pass.
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Taxes on high earners are too low bsky.app/profile/popc...
Wrote the first Album Of The Week review of Stereogum's new redesign/paywall era, and I did it on the new Home Front, which whips serious ass.
Album Of The Week: Home Front 'Watch It Die'
Home Front figured something out. The Edmonton band started out as a studio project from two guys. Singer Graeme MacKinnon used to lead the Wednesday Night Heroes, a fired-up street-punk band that beg...
stereogum.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Wrote the first Album Of The Week review of Stereogum's new redesign/paywall era, and I did it on the new Home Front, which whips serious ass.
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Stereogum is an invaluable part of the music media ecosystem, and they've adapted brilliantly to an increasingly hostile landscape for decades now. Please consider giving them a little of your money if you don't already. (And if you do, make sure your payment details transferred over; mine didn't.)
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Stereogum is an invaluable part of the music media ecosystem, and they've adapted brilliantly to an increasingly hostile landscape for decades now. Please consider giving them a little of your money if you don't already. (And if you do, make sure your payment details transferred over; mine didn't.)
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happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day
Number Ones on SoundCloud-era genre blur, TikTok hits becoming radio hits, and "Mood," a giant hit that already feels like a relic of a different time/
The Number Ones: 24kGoldn’s “Mood” (Feat. Iann Dior)
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. Book Bonus Beat:...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Number Ones on SoundCloud-era genre blur, TikTok hits becoming radio hits, and "Mood," a giant hit that already feels like a relic of a different time/
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There needs to be trials and there needs to be people sent to die in a prison cell. Consequences must fall on the people who issued the orders and those who carried them out. We must make the punishment of these people a national spectacle that will be remembered for generations.
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
There needs to be trials and there needs to be people sent to die in a prison cell. Consequences must fall on the people who issued the orders and those who carried them out. We must make the punishment of these people a national spectacle that will be remembered for generations.
Alternative Number Ones on "1979," and it's long as shit because it's the only time that Smashing Pumpkins will be in the column.
The Alternative Number Ones: Smashing Pumpkins’ “1979”
In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
www.stereogum.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Alternative Number Ones on "1979," and it's long as shit because it's the only time that Smashing Pumpkins will be in the column.
Number Ones on "Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)," a bad song with an exceedingly complicated backstory.
The Number Ones: Jawsh 685, Jason Derulo, & BTS – “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)”
In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
www.stereogum.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Number Ones on "Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)," a bad song with an exceedingly complicated backstory.
Wrote a quick consideration of the "no rap songs in the top 40" situation.
There Are No Rap Songs In The Top 40 For The First Time In 35 Years
Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: On last week’s Billboard Hot 100, there were no rap songs in the top 40. T...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Wrote a quick consideration of the "no rap songs in the top 40" situation.
If only Stereogum had a "this is so stupid" tag like Defector.
The Bruce Springsteen Movie Is Totally Inaccurate With Regard To His Feelings About Mustard
The pretty bad but fun-to-watch new biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is in theaters now, and it mostly seems pretty factually faithful to Springsteen’s experience recording the album Nebras...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
If only Stereogum had a "this is so stupid" tag like Defector.
Alternative Number Ones on "Wonderwall," a song you might've heard once or twice.
The Alternative Number Ones: Oasis’ “Wonderwall”
In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
www.stereogum.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Alternative Number Ones on "Wonderwall," a song you might've heard once or twice.
I profiled Turnstile, my favorite band, for The Guardian, my favorite newspaper.
‘Pepper-spraying a 15 year old is cowardly’: Turnstile on hostile cops, playing through pain and taking hardcore punk global
The Baltimore band have built a vast fanbase with their explosive live performances, but an incident at a recent show laid bare the challenges they face as they ascend to superstar status. Can they ma...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I profiled Turnstile, my favorite band, for The Guardian, my favorite newspaper.
Number Ones on Travis Scott, Young Thug, and M.I.A.'s "Franchise," which is definitely a real song that everyone remembers.
The Number Ones: Travis Scott’s “Franchise” (Feat. Young Thug & M.I.A.)
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. Book Bonus Beat:...
www.stereogum.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Number Ones on Travis Scott, Young Thug, and M.I.A.'s "Franchise," which is definitely a real song that everyone remembers.
Wrote about Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, which I had a great time to watch even though it's probably a bad movie.
The Bruce Springsteen Biopic Is Clumsy, But It Gets The Job Done
About halfway through Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, writer/director Scott Cooper’s noisy new Bruce Springsteen biopic, I got restless. My seat was uncomfortable. I was hungry. I could see just...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Wrote about Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, which I had a great time to watch even though it's probably a bad movie.
Wrote about the 10th anniversary of Julien Baker's Sprained Ankle, an album that killed me dead.
Julien Baker's 'Sprained Ankle' Turns 10
She was a kid. That’s the first thing I think when I see the Sprained Ankle album cover today. It was probably the first thing I thought when I first saw that album cover in 2015. Baker was 19 years o...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Wrote about the 10th anniversary of Julien Baker's Sprained Ankle, an album that killed me dead.