In 2001, Tori Amos released a fascinating conceptual covers album called Strange Little Girls. On that LP, she took on songs written and originally performed by men — songs that seemed extremely masculine in one way or another — and remade them in her own meditative way. The songs came form all over the map: […]
Twen – “B.Y.O.B. (It’s Christmas Time)” & “Yuletide Moon”
One album that just barely missed our list of the year’s best was Twen’s extremely fun and catchy indie rock compendium Fate Euphoric. We already told you we like it, but the release of two new Christmas songs by the Nashville duo today offers me a chance to let you know that. A-side “B.Y.O.B. (It’s […]
The 10 Best Electronic Albums Of 2025
In 2025, the rave was not defined by a cohesive trend. Over my first complete year writing a column for Stereogum, the mood was noticeably scattered. Dubstep shifted in smart directions; soundscapes found new ways to mutate; club behemoths unveiled celestial epics. The memorable albums were those that forged their own path. There is no […]
Paul Thomas Anderson And Benny Safdie Filmed Last Night’s Cameron Winter Show At Carnegie Hall
Almost exactly one year ago, Geese frontman Cameron Winter released Heavy Metal, his solo debut. That album quickly became a cult sensation, and the energy right behind that record led us right into Geese’s Getting Killed, our favorite album of the year. On Thursday night, Winter played a solo gig at Carnegie Hall, in his […]
Timothée Chalamet Won’t Say Whether He’s Really EsDeeKid
There’s this UK rapper named EsDeeKid, right? White kid from Liverpool. Always wears a mask. Thick accent. Raps over the glitchy, twitchy UK underground beats that are currently picking up all kinds of buzz online. EsDeeKid hasn’t been making music for a long time, but he makes a lot of it. In his videos, he’s […]
Sassy 009 – “Mirrors” (Feat. yunè pinku)
Right now, there’s a lot of pop music that’s been scattered and refracted to hell and back. You know what I’m talking about — vocals fed through 19 layers of Auto-Tune, beats that sound like the vibrating thing inside a PS5 controller. That music is often interesting, but it rarely touches my soul. The Norwegian […]
Roger Daltrey Knighted
Life is crazy. One day, you sing a song where you’re like, “Hope I die before I’m knighted in the king’s birthday honours list,” and then bam, decades later, you’re knighted in the king’s birthday honours list. As of yesterday, the Who frontman Roger Daltrey is now the Who frontman Sir Roger Daltrey. As The […]
Watch The Trailer For Charli XCX’s Brat Mockumentary The Moment
Besides recording a soundtrack album for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights, Charli XCX has quite a few onscreen film roles coming up. But the Charli XCX movie is The Moment, a new mockumentary sending up her experience during the Brat album cycle. The Moment was first announced as an A24 movie “based on an […]
Fatboy Slim’s Rolling Stones Mashup Released After 27 Years
Records show that way back in 1998, during a set he was DJing in Ibiza, Norman Cook spun a track called “Satisfaction Skank” — a mashup of his big beat Fatboy Slim hit from that year, “Rockafeller Skank,” with the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” He discussed the track in a 2024 video […]
Taylor Swift Can’t Even Pick Her Top Five Taylor Swift Songs
Taylor Swift is embarrassing. Her greatest fans will concede that Taylor Swift is a fundamentally embarrassing person. Sometimes, it’s part of the appeal. Sometimes, it’s just something that you have to work through. Do you know how embarrassing it is to be the person who likes the Taylor Swift album that everyone else hates? It […]