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Last weekend I was at Pitchfork Music Festival and this weekend I’m at Newport Folk Festival, which means I get to see Mdou Moctar twice this week.  » Read More

The Newport Folk Festival is underway, and Stereogum has a presence at Fort Adams State Park. Not only is Margo Price at the festival controlling our Instagram stories right now, our fearless leader Scott Lapatine is onsite taking in the tunes. This afternoon, he captured footage of the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn joining Slaughter Beach,  » Read More

Listen: Travis Scott has come unstuck in time. Travis has gone to sleep a washed-up pariah and awakened on the day that his McDonald’s meal came out. He has walked through a door in 2023 and come out another one in 2019. He has gone back through that door to find himself in 1971.  » Read More

Ticketmaster and Live Nation, the gigantic corporations that merged in 2010 and now dominate the US ticketing and live events industry, have been widely hated for years. Recently, the US government has been turning up the heat on them. The Taylor Swift ticketing fiasco had senators quoting song lyrics during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in January,  » 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

Sotheby’s announced this week that a jewel-encrusted, crown-shaped ring once belonging to Tupac Shakur, worn during the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards, had sold for $1,016,000, making it the “most valuable hip-hop artifact ever sold at auction.” As TMZ points out, Drake has now revealed himself as the buyer. On Instagram today Drake posted a photo of the ring in a story promoting Travis Scott’s Utopia album and his own […]

A legal battle that lasted for nearly a decade is finally over. Way back in 2015, Pandora agreed to pay millions in back royalties to record labels for songs recorded before Feb. 15, 1972, when the United States first protected copyrights on sound recordings. The agreement did not settle every detail related to music from that era,  » Read More

Shamir has shared a video for his new song “The Beginning,” which is the fourth and final single to be released from his upcoming album Homo Anxietatem.  » Read More

Glen Hansard is releasing his fifth solo album All That Was East Is West Of Me Now and has shared a music video for a new song “The Feast of St. John” featuring Warren Ellis.  » Read More