Can we do one more? www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0GX...

One for Anthony Head.

Wrote about Power Ballad, which is what would happen if Lurker was a gentle '90s Mirimax comedy.

I was at AEW Dynamite last night, my first wrestling show in I don't even know how long, and this main-event end-run stretch was just beautiful insane shit.

Wrote about a bunch of records for Stereogum's list of the best albums of the year thus far.

Let @tombreihan.bsky.social ride

Alternative Number Ones on Live's "Lakini's Juice," an absolutely ridiculous song.

“In a 2020 interview with SiriusXM, Noel finally said what everyone already knew: The song is nonsense. Noel said that he'd sometimes ‘drift off’ while playing ‘Champagne Supernova’ live, wondering if it ever actually meant anything.” @tombreihan.bsky.social:

The guy from Real McCoy who says “I tawk tawk, I tawk to you” in “Another Night” had announced on Instagram that he will no longer be participating in the America 250 concert

Number Ones on "Permission To Dance" by BTS, a song that does not exist.

One for Rob Base.

This is blogging.

Love to feel like I'm at the Village Voice website reading my favorite blog, Status Ain't Hood

Wrote about the 20th anniversary of Lil Wayne's Dedication 2 and how it felt to watch greatness take shape in real time.

Does Bing still work

Wrote about Drizzy Drake.

Wrote about a great weekend at Kilby Block Party, the closest thing that we have to a Pitchfork Music Festival right now.

Shout out to everyone at Kilby Block Party for putting on an extremely cool show and giving me and my Stereogum people tons of access. There will never be another Pitchfork Music Festival, but if any annual US thing is gonna become an annual music-critic hang, allow me to suggest that one.

Alternative Number Ones on U2's "Discothèque" and on 1997, the year that "electronica" was supposed to break.

man my posture is fucked up

For their new LP, Show Me The Body brought together the unlikely production duo of Kenneth Blume and Klas Åhlund. The two hit it off, and now Weezer have SMTB to thank for that same pairing on their own next album. The NYHC band told Stereogum’s @tombreihan.bsky.social how the collab came together.

I was on the jumbotron multiple times during Turnstile tonight. Wasn't sure what to do so I just held a pose and they kept cutting back to me. I have no idea whether this is cool or not.

Wrote a monthly hardcore column about a beautiful thing that I saw at a Drug Church show and about new joints from Show Me The Body, RISK, Ceremony, Stingray, Engine, Prisonnier Du Temps, Killing Me Softly, 100 Demons, Hundreds of AU, & Forced Order.

Number Ones on "Butter" and the time that I ran afoul of the BTS Army, an experience that I did not enjoy.

It's Friday

We have to proceed from the premise that no Republican claim to power anywhere at any level is legitimate in any way. Every bill, every law, every proclamation, every ruling, all of it is fouled, none of it should be held binding on either moral sensibilities or legal standing, all must be reversed.

Wrote about the 20th anniversary of Girl Talk's 'Night Ripper', a jagged and chaotic pop collage that I like more today than I did in 2006.

My friend Bryan is a 50-year-old neighborhood dad with a good career and a kid in college, and he did his first-ever stagedive at Drug Church last night. Human beings are amazing creatures.

is she gonna drive or what

This statement is meant to be left-punching, but notice that the most popular left-wing candidates (Bernie, Mamdani, AOC) are superb at plain-spokenness, and it is the moderate wing that usually offers language that has been optimized and focus-grouped to death

Alternative Number Ones on Garbage's unlikely saga, the entire overwhelming 'Romeo + Juliet' experience, and "#1 Crush."

A message to the Canadian rap dude who called me out when I wrote an angry article about a certain three-letter South Korean boy band and their chart tactics in 2021: can you @ me real quick? We talked on here a few months ago but i can't find it.

Oh hey it's a Japanese hardcore cover of "Simon Says" by Pharoahe Monch

Number Ones on winning a breakup, the nature of authorship, the chaotic revival of Warped Tour emo, and Olivia Rodrigo's "Good 4 U," a great song.

I reviewed 'Michael', a cursed and evil cultural object that's also a fun time out at the movies.

Alternative Number Ones on the Bush/Steve Albini connection and on "Swallowed," a song that, I'm forced to admit, kind of rocks.

Reviewed 'Mother Mary', a preposterous movie that I really wanted to like.

Reviewed 'Mother Mary', a preposterous movie that I really wanted to like.

Wrote a new hardcore column about my marathon weekend at United Blood and new tracks from Drug Church, Gouge Away, Balmora, Fentanyl, Knumears, Screaming Fist, Big Ass Truck, Rainswept, A Knife In The Dark, and Stand Tall.

Number Ones on the Weeknd and Ariana Grande, two singers who make a lot of sense together, and on the "Save Your Tears" remix, which is pointless superstar event-pop done right.

Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not.

I feel the same as Tom about this band + this album. Some killer lines in his review as always.

I never fucked with WU LYF the first time around, but their reunion album knocked me on my ass, so I wrote about it.

Alternative Number Ones on Sublime, a sad story, and on "What I Got," a happy song.

Never met Bo Lueders, but I loved him anyway, and I will miss him terribly.

It's a crazy fucking music news day, but don't sleep on @chrisdeville.bsky.social's epic report from the motherfucking Modest Mouse cruise.

Haven't done one of these in a while but QUARTERLY REPORT Favorite new albums I heard on Q1 2026: 1. Ratboys - Singin' to an Empty Chair 2. Angel Du$t - Cold 2 the Touch 3. Robyn - Sexistential 4. Neurosis - An Undying Love for a Burning World 5. Mitski - Nothing's About to Happen to Me...

Had occasion to tell my lil Dillinger Four story.

Poor JD Vance. He looks at Catholicism, he thinks anti-abortion, Magdalene convents, rampant child molestation, Long Island: "Finally, a religion for me!" Then along comes Woke Chicago Pope