A seven-minute-long alt-country dirge, let’s go. “Portal To The Past” is the newest single from Lily Seabird’s highly ...

You might think of Massive Attack’s glimmering, perfect 1998 song “Teardrop” as the lead single from their classic album Mezzanine or as the theme of the TV show House. I think of “Teardrop” as the ...

Twin Temple, the musical duo comprising married couple Alexandra and Zachary James, make Satanic doo-wop. That’s their brand.

Taylor Swift once penned “It’s a love story, baby just say ‘Yes.'” And now, her art has become reality. The massive pop star got married on July 3 to NFL player Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden.

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 ...

Magic is real, and we know this because science could never replicate the process that gave us Getting Killed. A bunch of talented Brooklyn teenagers emerge from the pandemic with a promising ...

Earlier this year, New York Times pop critic Jon Caramanica wrote a piece about pop's Summer Of Smooth, about how many of this year's big warm-weather crossover hits were soft and breezy and ...

I don’t envy anybody who decided to put out an album within the 12 months succeeding Brat Summer, Manning Fireworks Fall, and “Not Like Us” — especially considering that 2025, broadly speaking, did ...

Stereogum started off as an indie rock-focused website, and that's still our bread and butter. But it's getting harder and harder to define "indie rock," both as a genre and as a web of associations.

It's not just the Black Keys. Why are so many big tours selling poorly? Josh Anderson has been a Black Keys fan for over a decade. He fell in love with the band as a high schooler in 2007. But in ...

In December last year, Björk revealed that she was working on the followup to 2022's Fossora. Earlier this week, the Icelandic avant-pop artist performed a surprise DJ set at the Venice Biennale. Clad ...

In a year when it's largely been impossible to see live music, a major source of discovering new artists has been eliminated. But music finds a way and plenty of acts have emerged over the last 12 ...