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This year, Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” displaced Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” as the dominant #1 hit of the holiday season, but plenty of other Christmas standards are waiting in the wings. One of them is Wham!’s 1984 classic “Last Christmas,”  » Read More

Wilco have announced the lineup for their Solid Sound festival, taking place from June 28-30 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. As part of tradition, the Chicago indie band will playing several sets.  » Read More

This year’s Gummy Awards winners are in. It’s our 19th (!) annual Stereogum readers’ poll highlighting the year’s best albums and songs.  » Read More

Anytime a Southern rap legend does a Tiny Desk Concert, that’s appointment viewing. Did you see the one that Juvenile did with Mannie Fresh? Glorious. Now, Houston eminence Scarface, arguably the greatest rapper who has ever lived, has stopped by the Tiny Desk, and his set an absolute joy to behold.  » Read More

In early 2023, an 18-year-old college student decided to make her first-ever shoegaze song. Her friend sent her a “beat,” a grungy shoegaze instrumental crafted by the producer grayskies, and she spent two hours recording herself singing over it into her phone, using her everyday Apple earbuds as a microphone. No guitars were strummed,  » Read More

London-based collective PREGOBLIN played their final show of 2023 in Third Man Records’ Blue Basement venue over the weekend and Under the Radar photographer Anna Yorke was there to capture the highlights.  » Read More

Isn’t it great when crazy ideas turn out to be the best ideas? Juliana Hatfield wasn’t the first artist to think, “Hey, I’m going to make an album of covers of just one artist!” Most of those plans fade with the hangover in the morning. Hatfield however stuck to it and has done it three times now.  » Read More

Up to this point a CD-only reissue label, this is Iconoclassic’s first vinyl release and as ever, they knocked this one out of the park. This is an expanded edition of a career-spanning 1984 live album from the legendary former Small Faces and Humble Pie frontman Steve Marriott.  » Read More

​The Darkness brought their ‘Permission To Land’ 20th Anniversary tour to Nottingham’s Rock City for an action packed night of certified bangers, Radiohead covers and Christmas classics.  » Read More