The Texan-born multi-instrumentalist mari rubio, who records as more eaze, had an awfully busy year in 2025. She teamed up with Lynn Avery to form the duo Pink Must, and they released their self-titled debut. She and claire rousay released the collaborative EP no floor and collaborated with Grumpy. She remixed Friendship. It looks like […]
Monster Rally Announces First Non-Instrumental Album Feat. Jordana, TV Girl, Toledo, Mei Semones, & More
For the past decade and a half, the producer Ted Feighan (formerly of LA, now based in Cleveland) has been releasing instrumental records under the name Monster Rally; we premiered his single “Sunflower” way back in 2014. Today, Feighan announces plans to follow his 2022 album Botanica Dream with a new one called Echoes Of […]
Monster Rally Announces First Non-Instrumental Album Feat. Jordana, TV Girl, Toledo, Mei Semones, & More
For the past decade and a half, the producer Ted Feighan (formerly of LA, now based in Cleveland) has been releasing instrumental records under the name Monster Rally; we premiered his single “Sunflower” way back in 2014. Today, Feighan announces plans to follow his 2022 album Botanica Dream with a new one called Echoes Of […]
Album Of The Week: Theo Bleak Bargaining
Full Gloom 2025 As Theo Bleak, Glasgow-based musician Katie Lynch makes delicately woven folk songs and plush bedroom pop, fashioned with shivering vocals. She released her debut EP Fragments in 2022, quickly followed by a run of EPs — For Seasons, Illiad, Pain — and demo collection Heaven.Wav. Most recently, she released Bad Luck Is Two […]
Album Of The Week: Theo Bleak Bargaining
Full Gloom 2025 As Theo Bleak, Glasgow-based musician Katie Lynch makes delicately woven folk songs and plush bedroom pop, fashioned with shivering vocals. She released her debut EP Fragments in 2022, quickly followed by a run of EPs — For Seasons, Illiad, Pain — and demo collection Heaven.Wav. Most recently, she released Bad Luck Is Two […]
Joe Ely Dead At 78
The hard-touring Texan country-rock singer-songwriter Joe Ely has died. According to a Facebook statement from his family, Ely passed away from complications of Lewy Body Dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and pneumonia on Monday. At the time of his death. Ely was surrounded by family, at home in Taos, New Mexico. Ely was 78. Earle Rewell Ely […]
Yo La Tengo Cover Spinal Tap And Bring Out Built To Spill’s Doug Martsch At NYC Hanukkah Show
Did you rewatch This Is Spinal Tap last night? I did. It just seemed like the thing to do. Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found murdered on Sunday. Their son Nick has been arrested, and Donald Trump has done his best to make it all about him. It’s all so […]
“She’s A Bad Mama Jama” Singer Carl Carlton Dead At 73
Carl Carlton, the R&B singer best known for 1974’s top 10 single “Everlasting Love” and the Grammy-winning 1981 hit “She’s A Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked),” has died. His son, Carlton Hudgens II, announced his death in a Facebook post Sunday: “RIP Dad, Legend Carl Carlton singer of She’s a Bad Mama Jama. […]
Elias Rønnenfelt – “The Orchids” (Psychic TV Cover)
“The Orchids” first appeared on post-punk greats Psychic TV’s 1983 album Dreams Less Sweet as a sparse, elegant ballad with a scrappy punk sensibility. It came to me via Califone’s dreamier experimental folk-rock cover from 2005’s Roots And Crowns, and revisiting that cover now, I’m reminded that we as a society simply don’t talk about […]
The Gummy Awards: Your Top 10 Albums And Songs Of 2025
The votes are in. We’ve counted up your ballots and are happy to present the top 10 albums and songs of 2025 according to Stereogum readers. As usual, your choices align with our staff picks somewhat while diverging in fun and interesting ways. Check it out below, and congratulate yourselves on another year of great […]