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Though thwarted by a few delays, Adele has spent a good chunk of the past couple of years performing at her residency at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. She’s been doing a lot of shows elsewhere, too; Munich even erected a new stadium just for her. Understandably, she wants to relax now!  » Read More

You may have heard that Lana Del Rey has a new man. The singer doesn’t only date musicians — she dates former cops, too! — and so it didn’t seem too out of pocket when, a few days ago, rumors of her dating an alligator tour guide began to spread.  » Read More

The rumors are true: Oasis have announced reunion shows in the UK and Ireland next summer. And as you might expect of one of the most unlikely reunions in recent rock memory, the ticket-buying process was nothing short of chaos for many. Ticketmaster was spewing error messages left and right.  » Read More

The Police are celebrating the 40th (well, technically 41st) anniversary of their final album Synchronicity with a deluxe anniversary box set, and Stereogum is giving away a copy of the limited edition 4xLP Super Deluxe Edition to one lucky reader.  » Read More

It’s been nearly seven years since we lost Tom Petty, but the man’s music remains consistently present. This year, Petty’s song “Love Is A Long Road” soundtracked the ultra-viral Grand Theft Auto VI trailer. Country stars like Dolly Parton and Chris Stapleton covered Petty’s songs for the tribute LP Country Petty,  » Read More

In June 2013, the professor and programmer Mark Sample debuted the Twitter bot @mobydickatsea. Every two hours, the account would tweet a randomly selected fragment of text from Herman Melville’s 1851 masterpiece, without context and in no predetermined order. Entries could be humorously elliptical (“swallowed down and thrown up by a whale”) or rich with accidental meaning (“the hideous rot of life should make him easier to harvest.”).  » Read More

“Dream Brother,” the epic penultimate track on the late, great Jeff Buckley’s lone studio album Grace, is not a song I would have ever selected for an electronic dance remix. But that’s why they pay Zedd the big bucks.  » Read More

There are few things that music journalists like less than the online countdown clock, building up to the big announcement. The existence of such a clock means that you have to stop whatever you’re doing and switch your schedule around so that you can stare at a few numbers ticking down, just so that you can be there when the big unveiling happens.  » Read More

My Wonderful Boyfriend are a new-ish NYC indie rock band informed by the classics. In promo materials, the band claims influences such as “Pavement, Big Star, Blur, Wilco, and Vampire Weekend,” and I hear a lot of that in “My New Shirt,” the new single from their forthcoming EP Mr. Authenticity Speaks.  » Read More