Tom Breihan

In a New York Times interview earlier this year, the Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner said some terrible and revealing things about the way that he regards women and Black artists. Wenner was promoting his book The Masters, a collection of interviews with famous rockers,  » Read More

Last month, the wildly gifted former Alabama Shakes leader Brittany Howard announced plans to release a new album called WHAT NOW and shared its title track. Howard didn’t have any further details on the LP, the follow-up to her much-loved 2019 solo debut Jaime,  » Read More

At the beginning of this year, the endlessly prolific Detroit rap great Boldy James was severely injured in a car accident; Indiana Jones, his excellent album with the producer RichGains, came out a few days later. Stereogum interviewed Boldy James after his accident,  » Read More

You should get excited when you see that title. I shouldn’t even have to type anything here. The title should be all the information that you need. Nevertheless, I’ll use this space and supply some context. New York producer Blockhead is an underground rap veteran who came up collaborating with Aesop Rock more than 25 years ago.  » Read More

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The Body, the restless and adventurous heavy-music duo, love to collaborate. In the past few years, they’ve released team-up projects with fellow travelers like Uniform, BIG|BRAVE, and OAA. Earlier this year, the Body released Earth Triumphant, a previously unheard project that they recorded with the Haxan Cloak producing,  » Read More

“This rap shit done saved my life and fucked it up at the same time.” That’s the kind of insight that a rapper, or even a fan, might reach after months of intensive therapy. It’s also the very first thing that Danny Brown says on his new album. If you’ve been listening to Danny Brown for the last decade-plus,  » Read More

Some of the best and brightest musicians from the hardcore underground have assembled like Voltron to form Sentinel, a band that makes an almighty, towering metal-punk stomp. Mindforce guitarist Mike Shaw seems to be the person who put the crew together, and Mutually Assured Destruction’s Ace Stallings provides the towering bellow. (I know Ace a little bit,  » Read More

When all is said and done, Rob Harvilla will make at least 120 episodes of his podcast 60 Songs That Explain The ’90s. As you might’ve guessed from the title, this was not the plan. Rob’s show is my favorite music podcast in the world, and its willingness to veer outside its own bounds is one of the great things about it.  » Read More