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Rock Hall asked me which imminent inductees Stereogum would want to interview and now We’ve Got A File on the legend Kim Thayil.

Check out his trip down memory lane with @chrisdeville.bsky.social…

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Japanese Breakfast & Magdalena Bay Cover MGMT At ACL @aclmusicfestival Mind = 🤯 @Japanese Breakfast ♬ original sound – ACL Music Festival

Watch @magdalenabay.music-social.com join Japanese Breakfast for an MGMT cover

Bill Orcutt Announces New Album 'Another Perfect Day': Hear "A Natural Death" Back in the spring, Bill Orcutt teamed up with fellow experimental guitar virtuosos Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish as the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet for the revelatory album HausLive 4...

Experimental guitar virtuoso @billorcutt.bsky.social announces new album 'Another Perfect Day' — hear "A Natural Death"

Sabrina Carpenter Brings Out Shania Twain And Arrests Djo At ACL Fest The first weekend of Austin City Limits 2025 is well underway at Austin’s Zilker Park, and on Saturday night Sabrina Carpenter, Man’s Best Friend herself, held court as headliner. She brought along so...

At Austin City Limits, Sabrina Carpenter brought out Shania Twain and arrested Djo

Doja Cat And 'KPop Demon Hunters' Huntr/x Make Their 'SNL' Debuts Saturday Night Live kicked off its 51st season Saturday night with an episode heavy on pop stars. Newly announced Super Bowl Halftime Show headliner Bad Bunny, a regular around Studio 8H lately, was b...

Doja Cat and Huntr/x from 'Kpop Demon Hunters' made their 'SNL' debut in the Bad Bunny-hosted Season 51 premiere

Which is your favorite of these albums released 20 years ago today? 💿

The model Scarlett White, making her parents do TikToks

'Broken Social Scene' Turns 20 In which the social scene started to seem a lot more coherent.

Also turning 20 today is Broken Social Scene's self-titled LP, part of a massive indie rock groundswell in the mid-2000s…

Van Halen’s final concert was 10 years ago today at the Hollywood Bowl

Robber Robber, Asher White, Dirt Buyer, Scarlet Rae, & More Contribute To Big Hug Benefit Comp New stacked compilation alert! Big Hug Records got Robber Robber, Asher White, Dirt Buyer, Scarlet Rae, Starcleaner Reunion, My Wonderful Boyfriend, Margaux, villagerrr, and more indie faves to contri...

Robber Robber, Asher White, Dirt Buyer, Scarlet Rae, and more have tracks on a new Big Hug comp benefitting New Alternatives, a NYC resource center that helps transgender homeless youth and young adults transition out of the shelter system

My Morning Jacket's 'Z' Turns 20 My Morning Jacket almost didn’t make it this far. In 2004, while touring their milestone 2003 album It Still Moves, the band fragmented. Two members quit, including keyboardist Danny Cash and guitaris...

'Z,' the masterful pivot point in My Morning Jacket’s career, also came out 20 years ago today…

Lola Young Takes Legal Action Against Producer Claiming Songwriting Credits Earlier this week, Lola Young announced she’s “going away for a while” after she collapsed onstage during her All Things Go festival performance. Now, she’s taking legal action against one of the prod...

Lola Young is taking legal action against a co-producer of her hit “Messy”

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Fiona Apple's 'Extraordinary Machine' Turns 20 “I got mad questions for you,” said Kanye West. Fiona Apple said, “No.” Apple was supposed to be asking the questions. This was the whole thing. The two artists had never spoken before, and she’d neve...

We took a look back at Fiona Apple's stunning third album 'Extraordinary Machine,’ released 20 years ago today…

Short-Lived Underground Band Via Releasing Sole Recordings 38 Years Later In the late ’80s, Via only played two shows before disbanding. The group is made up of Thalia Zedek (Come, Live Skull, Uzi), Jerry di Rienzo (Cell, Nuclear Theater), James Apt (Six Finger Satellite), ...

In 1987 the band Via (featuring members of Come, Live Skull, Six Finger Satellite, and Cell) played two shows, then disbanded before releasing any music. Now their long-lost EP is coming out 38 years later.

Watch Philly Emo Band Marietta Reunite For First Show In A Decade The emo reunions continue: Marietta performed their first show since 2015 last night at the Ukrainian American Citizens’ Association in their hometown of Philly. It was as cathartic as you’d expect.

The Philly emo band Marietta reunited for their first show in a decade

weekend plans: ‘Can’ by Can and a few small beers

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It’s Geese season. For #fbf here’s some of our earliest live footage of the band, performing their debut single in NYC when they were goslings. 🪩

The first Deftones album and the actress Ayo Edebiri were released 30 years ago today 🥳

Future Ruins, Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross' Film Composer Music Festival, Is Canceled The Nine Inch Nails guys are canceling their film composer music festival. Back in May, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, now known for their Oscar-winning movie scores as much as their NIN pursuits, ann...

The @nin.com guys have canceled Future Ruins, their music festival devoted to film composers

Sean “Diddy” Combs Sentenced To 50 Months In Prison In New York City today, federal judge Arun Subramanian sentenced Sean “Diddy” Combs to four years and two months in prison. The verdict comes a few months after a jury found the rap mogul guilty of tw...

Before being sentenced to four years and two months of prison time today, Sean "Diddy" Combs had booked speaking engagements in Miami for next week, which prosecutors called "the height of hubris"

Sean “Diddy” Combs Sentenced To 50 Months In Prison In New York City today, federal judge Arun Subramanian sentenced Sean “Diddy” Combs to four years and two months in prison. The verdict comes a few months after a jury found the rap mogul guilty of tw...

Sean "Diddy" Combs has been sentenced to 50 months in prison

Megadeth Detail Final Album, Share "Tipping Point" Megadeth announced in August that they were prepping one last album and a farewell tour. At the time, there were no specifics about when we might expect that all to play out, but now Dave Mustaine and...

Megadeth have detailed their self-titled final album and shared its lead single, "Tipping Point"

The 5 Best Songs Of The Week Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogu...

Starring Chanel Beads, Split System, and more...

Stereogum’s only recommendation for RSD Black Friday 2025

Daphni Shares New Single "Josephine": Listen Lately, Caribou mastermind Dan Snaith has been releasing new tracks under his Daphni guise. Today, he’s shared the new single “Josephine,” which might not be technically new if you’ve been to one of h...

Check out Dan Snaith's latest Daphni track

I love the spiritual sound of ecstatic black metal by the band Agriculture and they love Alex G.

Our Under The Influence Q&A

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Queens Of The Stone Age Play New Song "Easy Street" And Live Rarities At Catacombs Tour Opener Queens Of The Stone Age are one of the world’s hardest hitting rock bands, a status they affirmed when I watched them rock my city’s downtown amphitheater this past summer. But in the recent concert f...

@qotsa-official.bsky.social debuted "Easy Street" and played a bunch of older songs for the first time in years at the first show of their acoustic 'Catacombs' tour

Fiona Apple's 'Extraordinary Machine' Turns 20 “I got mad questions for you,” said Kanye West. Fiona Apple said, “No.” Apple was supposed to be asking the questions. This was the whole thing. The two artists had never spoken before, and she’d neve...

Wrote about frayed expectations, false narratives, triumphant comebacks, and Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine, an album I really love, at 20.