Tom Breihan

Winter hasn’t officially arrived yet, but at least where I live, it’s really fucking cold out there this morning. That means it’s perfect Panopticon weather. Panopticon, Austin Lunn’s cult-beloved one-man band, specializes in a form of grand-scale black metal that’s inspired by the icy, intimidating beauty of Lunn’s rural Minnesota landscape. Today,  » Read More

Charli XCX did not let this particular good one go. Today, Charli announced her engagement to George Daniel, best-known as the drummer for the 1975. Daniel is also a producer, and he’s worked with Charli a bunch of times in the past two years. Charli and Daniel went Instagram-public as a couple last year,  » Read More

The wordy, club-centric UK duo Real Lies were a Band To Watch in 2021, and they released their LP Lad Ash last year. A few weeks ago, Real Lies dropped their single “Shirley Road” and announced plans to release a new EP called Sinking Suburb.  » Read More

The Kelly Clarkson cover song is back like it never left. The Kelly Clarkson Show, now a daytime-TV institution, resumed production after the writers’ strike ended, and Clarkson resumed her custom of singing a different song at the beginning of every episode. In the past month, she’s done songs like Olivia Rodrigo’s “  » Read More

In his long career, broadcasting lifer Howard Stern has taken exactly one major motion picture acting role, in the 1997 film Private Parts. If memory serves, he was at least halfway believable in the role of “Howard Stern.” Today, Stern revealed that he turned down a second big role —  » Read More

David Letterman created the CBS institution known as The Late Show, and he hosted it for 22 years before retiring in 2015. Stephen Colbert is Letterman’s immediate successor, and he’s been hosting the show for seven years now. In that time, Letterman had never been back to visit his old show or his studio until last night.  » Read More

Taylor Swift currently has the #1 song in America, once again, and that feels like small potatoes for her. At this point, Swift is basically bigger than popular music these days, and everything she does is a cultural event. Taylor Swift shows up in Brazil, and they turn the Christ The Redeemer statue into a damn Swiftie.  » Read More

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.  » Read More

Together, the duo of Daryl Hall and John Oates were one of the biggest hits machines of the early ’80s, and they remain a huge draw on the nostalgia circuit. But Hall and Oates have apparently been going through some kind of mysterious behind-the-scenes legal issue lately, and the dispute has evidently gotten bad enough that Hall now has a restraining order against Oates.  » Read More