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Maybe it’s different in Canada. From my Midwestern American vantage point, Constantines were not mythologized into the indie rock canon anywhere close to the extent of their more successful peers, so it’s easy to forget how amazing they were — so easy that I almost did not remember to write a 20th anniversary tribute to the band’s sophomore LP Shine A Light,  » Read More

Here’s the important thing, the thing that you need to know before anything else: You cannot buy coverage on Stereogum. That’s not the way this website works. That’s not the way any halfway-reputable music-based media outlet works. Stereogum will sometimes partner up with music festivals. We accept advertising, though I don’t have anything to do with that,  » Read More

Seattle punks Filth Is Eternal announced their new album Find Out this summer with the fast and nasty “Crawl Space.” Today they’ve followed it with another nasty outburst called “Pressure Me.” Over a metallic riff that reminds me of Megadeth’s “Symphony Of Destruction,” Lis Di Angelo gets loud and guttural,  » Read More

Flo Milli broke through with the 2020 mixtape Ho, Why Is You Here? and proved her staying power with last year’s ridiculously fun You Still Here, Ho? Soon she’ll complete the trilogy with Fine Ho, Stay? Today we get another taste of the album in “Hot Box,”  » Read More

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 Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music,  » Read More

For my money, Chicago’s Polo G does melodic, emotive rap better than just about anyone else. (I was apparently the only person who thought that Polo’s last album, 2021’s Hall Of Fame, was an instant classic.) Next month, Polo will release his new album Hood Poet.  » Read More

Sometimes, I worry that the world is taking Shamir Bailey for granted. Shamir has been living in Philadelphia and making DIY indie-pop bangers for so long that their electro-pop past now feels like a distant memory. Shamir also makes a lot of music; their new album Homo Anxietatem is their ninth.  » Read More

Skrillex has been a busy guy this year. He formed a tight unit with Fred again.. and Four Tet, and those three guys sold out Madison Square Garden, headlined the second Coachella weekend as last-second replacements for Frank Ocean, and released the single “Baby Again.” Skrillex also released two collab-heavy albums,  » Read More

Welcome to the 25th Songs of the Week of 2023. Songs of the Week was on hiatus for the last month because Wendy and I were on a much needed vacation to England and Iceland. I received several reader emails worried we had killed Songs of the Week, but have no worries, it’s back. As well as a regular Songs of the Week,  » Read More