Rock Gossip

Lizzo was the musical guest on last night’s Saturday Night Live, filling in as a replacement for Yeah Yeah Yeahs as Nick Zinner recovers from pneumonia. It was her third appearance on the show after her debut in 2019 and her stint pulling double duty this past spring. She brought along a seasonally-appropriate cover of […]

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.

LA’s Rotting Out are true hardcore cult heroes, and they make muscular stomp-around music as well as anyone. More than most of their hardcore peers, Rotting Out bring a whole lot of ’90s Californian skate-punk influence to their sound, and they’ve long carried the flame for fellow SoCal band Pennywise. In 2010, for instance, Rotting […]

Yo La Tengo have an annual tradition. Every year, the New Jersey indie lifers play eight back-to-back Hanukkah shows at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. (The shows used to happen at Maxwell’s in Hoboken before that club shut down.) For their Hanukkah shows, YLT bring out surprise guests and play unexpected covers, and the whole affair […]

Last year, the Wrens broke up messily. The band had been working for nearly 20 years on their follow-up to the beloved 2003 album The Meadowlands, and co-leader Kevin Whelan got sick of the process. He took many of the Wrens songs that he’d written and released them under the name Aeon Station. Earlier this […]

Terry Hall, longtime lead singer for British ska greats the Specials, has died. The band announced Hall’s passing on Instagram, writing that Hall recently died “following a brief illness.” No cause of death has been revealed. Hall was 63.

Bob Dylan doesn’t do too many interviews these days, but he still can still hit us with a memorable quote whenever he wants. To promote his new book The Philosophy Of Modern Song, Dylan recently answered some questions from The Wall Street Journal, and it sure seems like he was just filling out a questionnaire. […]

We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.

Earlier this month, something truly silly happened. A Pavement-themed musical called Slanted! Enchanted! had a three-day run in New York, and it left our critic Arielle Gordon fairly nonplussed: “Maybe the awkwardness is the point. Maybe it’ll all make sense in the context of some forthcoming Pavement mockumentary.” Well, Gordon must be psychic. There is […]

STEREOGUM READERS’ TOP 10 SONGS OF 2022 10. Destroyer – “June” 9. Fontaines D.C. – “Jackie Down The Line” 8. Beyoncé – Break My Soul” 7. Braxe + Falcon – “Step By Step” (Feat. Panda Bear) 6. Black Country, New Road – “Concorde” 5. Alex G – “Runner” 4. Ethel Cain – “American Teenager” 3. […]