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 column is a companion piece to The Number Ones, and it’s for subscribers only. Thank you to everyone who’s helping to keep Stereogum afloat. […]
Animal Hospital – “Fuselage”
Boston project Animal Hospital — aka Kevin Micka — once released three LPs in the 2000s. Those were 2005’s Self Titled, 2009’s Good Or Plenty, Streets + Avenues, and the same year’s Memory. Since then, Micka has been guitar teching for Yo La Tengo and engineering for local Boston bands. But Micka’s been releasing music […]
Diddy Announces First Solo Album In 17 Years With Dramatic Trailer Featuring Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, & More
Sean “Diddy” Combs has announced a new album, The Love Album: Off the Grid, which will be out on September 15 via his own Love Records. It’s his first solo album in 17 years following the release of 2006’s Press Play, though he did put out the Diddy-Dirty Money album Last Train To Paris in […]
Watch Bad Bunny In The Trailer For Queer Pro Wrestler Biopic Cassandro
Bad Bunny loves pro wrestling. He’s proven this time and again. Benito has used his overwhelming popularity to get into wrestling itself, working a few WWE matches over the past few years. (In May, he won a shockingly great street fight against Damian Priest at the San Juan pay-per-view Backlash.) Bad Bunny is also just […]
Lingua Ignota Is Now Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter
For the past six or so years, Kristin Hayter has been making music under the name Lingua Ignota, but last year she announced that she would be bringing an end to that project in 2023. Today, Hayter has announced her new moniker: Reverend Kirstin Michael Hayter. In October, she’ll release a new album, SAVED!, recorded […]
Squirrel Flower – “Alley Light”
Last month, Squirrel Flower announced a new album, Tomorrow’s Fire, and introduced it with two singles, “Full Time Job” and “When A Plant Is Dying.” Today, the Chicago musician is back with another track from it, “Alley Light.” “This song is about the man in me, or a man who I love, or a man […]
Bob Dylan Announces North American Fall Tour
Bob Dylan loves the road. We know this. Dylan has already toured the US behind his great 2020 album Rough And Rowdy Ways. Dylan and his band have spent a huge chunk of this year playing shows in Europe and Japan. (They’ve covered Grateful Dead and Van Morrison songs.) Today, Dylan has announced another round […]
The Chemical Brothers – “Skipping Like A Stone” (Feat. Beck)
Next month, the Chemical Brothers are releasing a new album, For That Beautiful Feeling, which includes a number of the singles they’ve dropped over the past couple years: “The Darkness That You Fear,” “No Reason,” and, most recently, Live Again.” Today, the duo is back with a new single, “Skipping Like A Stone,” which features […]
Concertgoer Abducted Outside Brooklyn Mirage, Venue Connected To Two Killings This Summer
In the early morning hours on July 22, 32-year-old Michael Bautista, an ophthalmologist and cataract surgeon from Norwalk, Connecticut, was allegedly abducted outside of the Brooklyn Mirage, a Bushwick music venue currently linked to two cases where concertgoers died in suspicious ways after leaving. After leaving the Mirage, Bautista was allegedly kidnapped by Bronx resident […]
Britney Spears Shares Statement On Divorce From Sam Asghari
Britney Spears has shared a statement following the news that she and husband Sam Asghari would be divorcing. Posting to Instagram, Spears wrote on Friday: “As everyone knows, Hesam and I are no longer together … 6 years is a long time to be with someone so, I’m a little shocked but … I’m not […]