Within the hardcore world, there's a maxim that the best moshers also make the best lead vocalists, that any band looking for a leader should simply recruit their scene's hardest limb-flailer who ...

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 ...

It's always cool when a band is willing to release a song that's just straight-up called "sex." LA's untitled (halo) have a new one that doesn't even seem to be about sex, but it's called "sex" anyway ...

Hey, Cameron Winter! I was just talking about that guy! I saw Geese play Richmond’s Iron Blossom Festival on Sunday, and that got me reflecting on the nature of hype. Meanwhile, frontman Winter ...

As the years pass, it gets harder and harder to believe that Mark Sandman was a real guy — that he made the music that he did, that he looked like that, that he was actually named Mark Sandman, and ...

Philly's prolific TAGABOW are back. Last year's LOTTO made #8 on our list of the 50 best albums of the year, and #3 on our list of the 10 best shoegaze records of the year. Now, they're announcing a ...

Back in 2022, the grand pop diva Céline Dion went public about her battle with a rare neurological disease known as Stiff Person Syndrome, which affects one out of about a million people and which ...

Santa Monica's inaugural Ocean Way Festival has been canceled. The event had been slated for Sept. 26 and 27 with headlining performances from the Killers and Olivia Dean, but it will no longer take ...

Sometimes, you just need to sing about how you've seen a million faces and rocked them all. Nashville battleship Eric Church is one of our most restless and exploratory mainstream country stars, as he ...

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have been working on a movie with Kendrick Lamar for a while now. There's been few details about the project, other than the working title for the ...

The great Indianapolis indie poppers Wishy were a Stereogum Band To Watch back in 2023, and they've already made good on their potential a few times over. About a month from now, they'll release their ...

The New Zealand-based sisters Clementine and Valentine Nixon are the two members of the dreamy duo Purple Pilgrims. They grew up between New Zealand and Hong Kong, and they've been making music ...