John Keek is an LA-based producer and multi-instrumentalist who’s got a lot of credits on other people’s records, especially those from Dijon, Mk.gee, and that whole crew. Dijon and Mk.gee justifiably get a lot of press, and it’s cool to hear them working on much smaller, quieter releases from their regular collaborators. Last month, for…
The post John Keek Shares New Single “somuchlove” With Mk.gee & Andrew Aged appeared first on Stereogum.
In 2009, Nick Cave published The Death Of Bunny Munro, a darkly comic novel about a sex-addicted salesman. I read it for work, and I hated it. When The Death Of Bunny Munro first came out, Cave and his frequent collaborator Warren Ellis scored the audiobook. Now, The Death Of Bunny Munro has been adapted…
The post Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Release <em>The Death Of Bunny Munro</em> Soundtrack appeared first on Stereogum.
The emotive Baltimore punks Pinkshift released their album Earthkeeper earlier this year, and the followed it by releasing the single “Authority Problem” and a live cover of Slipknot’s “Eyeless.” Now, we’re getting one last Pinkshift track before the year is out. It’s a pretty, shimmery, largely acoustic song called “Snow.” I don’t know whether it…
The post Pinkshift – “Snow” appeared first on Stereogum.
Allow me to pull the curtain back on the way that this particular website operates during the holidays. Once we finalize all our year-end lists, things tend to get way slower around here, and Scott lets us take most of late December off. But someone is always working. Scott is always working, pretty much for his entire life, and one writer per day handles the blog posts. We just divide all of them up among us. Even on Christmas day, someone is posting away. And I have to tell you: On the days when I’m working, I really look forward to blogging about whatever happened at the previous night’s Yo La Tengo Hanukkah show.
The post Yo La Tengo & Norah Jones Cover Randy Newman & Bob Dylan At Hanukkah Show appeared first on Stereogum.
Once again, here are my personal picks for the year’s best in abattoir jazz, diaristic field recordings, audio Rothkos, ambient epics, electroacoustic cinema, marathon improv, and backroom electronica.
The post The 10 Best Experimental Albums Of 2025 appeared first on Stereogum.
Every year, the Recording Academy hands out a handful of Lifetime Achievement Grammys. Some of the recipients are alive to get the award, and some are not. The Academy has unveiled the list of next year’s honorees, and it includes legendary figures like Fela Kuti, Paul Simon, Cher, Chaka Khan, and Whitney Houston.
The post Recording Academy Announces Lifetime Achievement Grammys For Fela Kuti, Paul Simon, Cher, More appeared first on Stereogum.
Jack Chatham, the forward-thinking British dance producer who records as Jam City, released the album Jam City Presents EFM in 2023. On that record, he worked with artists like Aidan, Empress Of, and Wet. Today, Jam City follows that LP with a new two-song single called death of an english high street. This time, he’s…
The post Jam City – “star 2” & “angels” appeared first on Stereogum.
It’s easy to pinpoint when trends in music begin: People rally around a specific band or album, a new scene forms around a shared sensibility, or a particular sound permeates the zeitgeist. It’s more difficult to determine when something ends. After years of slowly creeping back into the fore, shoegaze’s popularity exploded in 2023 due to a confluence of new fans, new bands, and fresh energy. That’s the year I locate as the formal beginning of a new shoegaze era, and it’s safe to say that we’re still living through that same period even as 2025 comes to a close. Some of the revival’s most crucial bands have evolved away from shoegaze proper (Wednesday, Hotline TNT, Greet Death), and many of the new-jack fans who never engaged with the genre beyond Deftones TikToks have predictably dropped out, but if you look at the numbers, the fervor around shoegaze music remains at a fever pitch.
The post The 10 Best Shoegaze Albums Of 2025 appeared first on Stereogum.
Indie rock legends Yo La Tengo are now one third of the way through their annual Hanukkah residency at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. The band’s Hanukkah shows always feature cool covers and surprise guests, and this year’s shows have been especially action-packed. In the first few nights, they paid tribute to. Ace Frehley and Spinal Tap, and their guests included Built To Spill’s Doug Martsch and former SNL star Ana Gasteyer. On Wednesday, the band’s night-four show ended with an all-star cover of a Patti Smith classic.
The post Watch Yo La Tengo Cover Patti Smith With Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Matt Berninger, & Lenny Kaye appeared first on Stereogum.
Two years ago, St. Vincent covered David Bowie’s 1975 classic “Young Americans” at the Love Rocks NYC benefit. But if you wanted to enjoy her version of the song, you had to settle for cell-phone footage from fans. That is no longer the case. Last night. Annie Clark brought her version of “Young Americans” to Stephen Colbert’s Late Show.
The post St. Vincent Covers David Bowie’s “Young Americans” On <em>Colbert</em> appeared first on Stereogum.