Scott Lapatine

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Twenty years ago today: Turn On The Bright Lights was first released, Shazam launched as a text message service, and Nickelback ended a Portuguese festival set after two songs when the crowd wouldn’t stop throwing rocks at them. 😔  » Read More

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This week we looked at why music festivals seem so chaotic this year. That was before we learned an 18-year-old Lollapalooza security guard was arrested for texting her supervisor a false mass shooting threat in order to get off work early on Friday. And that a phone theft crew was arrested at the fest too.  » Read More

You’re the world’s best music blog community and I know that some of you miss the downvote feature our old comments section had. We intentionally disabled downvoting with the new toolset, but I said we would consider bringing it back if I remembered to run a poll today.  » Read More

Earlier this week, David Crosby responded to some fan art by saying it was “the weirdest painting” of him he had ever seen. A couple of Stereogum’s Instagram commenters suggested making weirder Croz art, so we asked for their submissions:  » Read More

Rage Against The Machine are back and only a little battered. It was actually a big week for long-gestating rock reunion news. Jawbox surprise released their first music in 26 years. Porno For Pyros played “Cursed Male” for the first time in 25 years. Archers Of Loaf shared a song from their first album in 24 years.  » Read More

If Elon Musk doesn’t want Twitter anymore, maybe we can give it to Phoebe Bridgers…  » Read More

Today Stereogum begins a critical phase in our evolution as an independent online music magazine. You are no doubt aware that the era of exclusively advertising-supported media has been coming to an end for a while, as ad revenue alone does not seem to sustain any publication these days. This is especially true for a medium-sized blog like Stereogum that does not have a sales team aside from me.  » Read […]