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Alternative Number Ones on Tracy Bonham's "Mother Mother," a pretty-fun time capsule song with an accidentally bleak legacy
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The Alternative Number Ones: Tracy Bonham's "Mother Mother"
In The Alternative Number Ones, Iām reviewing every #1 single in the history of theĀ BillboardĀ Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
https://stereogum.com/2483107/the-alternative-number-ones-tracy-bonhams-mother-mother/columns/the-alternative-number-ones
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God bless the Cleveland Browns.
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Number Ones on āWillowā and Taylor Swiftās Evermore era, which is not an era.
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The Number Ones: Taylor Swift's "Willow"
In The Number Ones, Iām reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chartās beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. As Scott explain...
https://stereogum.com/2482727/the-number-ones-taylor-swifts-willow/columns
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hell yeah baby bring it
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DISCLOSURE DAY | Official Trailer | Amblin
YouTube video by Amblin Entertainment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVh0KnnGW_s&t=1s
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One for Rob Reiner.
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Storybook Love
YouTube video by Mark Knopfler - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxx9lRrUO_E
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Alternative Number Ones on the Cranberries' "Salvation," the one where she's like "SAL-VEHH-SHAWWN SAL-VEHH-SHAWWN SAL-VEHH-SHAWWN IS FREEAAY! UH HAH-AH! UH HAH-AH! UH HAH-AH! UH HAH-AH!"
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The Alternative Number Ones: The Cranberries' "Salvation"
In The Alternative Number Ones, Iām reviewing every #1 single in the history of theĀ BillboardĀ Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
https://stereogum.com/2482422/the-alternative-number-ones-the-cranberries-salvation/columns/the-alternative-number-ones
16 days ago
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Wrote about my favorite hardcore albums of 2025, the year I really fell off from covering hardcore.
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The 10 Best Hardcore Albums Of 2025
One band absolutely dominated the hardcore conversation this year, and they did it by working way, way harder than anyone else. Affable Boston bruisers Haywire spent 2025 playing sweaty, cathartic, ex...
https://stereogum.com/2482312/the-10-best-hardcore-albums-of-2025/lists/year-in-review/2025-in-review
20 days ago
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This is absolute fuckin lunacy.
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Number Ones on BTS's "Life Goes On," a hit that managed to be a historic landmark without actually leaving any detectable cultural impact over here.
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The Number Ones: BTS' "Life Goes On"
In The Number Ones, Iām reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chartās beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. As Scott explain...
https://stereogum.com/2481221/the-number-ones-bts-life-goes-on/columns/the-number-ones
23 days ago
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Wrote about candy.
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Doing that real hard-hitting journalism today.
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Miley Cyrus Hates Paper
The headline at the top of this blog post is not a figure of speech. Itās not an exaggeration. Itās not the olā Stereogum Fake News machine kicking into gear. It is the simple truth: Miley Cyrus hates...
https://stereogum.com/2482083/miley-cyrus-hates-paper/news
26 days ago
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Wrote about the 20th anniversary of Tha Carter II, an album that means something to me.
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Lil Wayne's 'Tha Carter II' Turns 20
I couldnāt take Tha Carter II home. That wasnāt how it worked. The labels wanted their records to get reviews in glossy music magazines, which still existed then, but they were worried that critics wo...
https://stereogum.com/2480834/lil-wayne-tha-carter-ii-turns-20/reviews/the-anniversary
26 days ago
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Quinn Yeargain
27 days ago
it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.
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Karl Bode
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these are all terrible options, and if we lived in a functioning democracy with working regulators we'd think nothing of putting a blanket end to pointless media consolidation these deals are always terrible for product quality, consumers, art and labor, but this is always downplayed in coverage.
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Paramount throws in more cash in bid for Warner; Comcast wants to combine assets with NBCUniversal
Jockeying for HBO-owner Warner Bros. Discovery has intensified as the auction appears to enter its home stretch.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-12-02/paramount-warner-bid-saudi-money-comcast-wants-to-combine-with-nbcu
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Sean T. Collins
29 days ago
boy was it stupid to nominate this person for president!
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Helped pick the records and wrote some blurbs on Stereogum's list of the year's best albums. I think we did a good job on this one, but then I always think that.
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The 50 Best Albums Of 2025
Things are looking different around here these days. Not long ago, Stereogum moved to a new platform and a revamped membership system ā changes that had to be made in a landscape where Google AI is ch...
https://stereogum.com/2480469/the-50-best-albums-of-2025/lists/year-in-review/2025-in-review
29 days ago
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Alternative Number Ones on a 10.
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The Alternative Number Ones: Oasis' "Champagne Supernova"
In The Alternative Number Ones, Iām reviewing every #1 single in the history of theĀ BillboardĀ Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
https://stereogum.com/2480318/the-alternative-number-ones-oasis-champagne-supernova/columns/the-alternative-number-ones
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Gillian Branstetter
about 1 month ago
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
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fraudsters stick together
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Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/us/politics/trump-david-gentile-commutation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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The year-end list is locked in and news is slow, so now I get to ignore new music for a minute and spend the morning bumping Songs in the Key of Life for no reason. Gotta do this more often.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn
about 1 month ago
A better world is within reach
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Chris DeVille
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Wrote about the continuing sonic adventures of Pink Siifu
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Album Of The Week: Pink Siifu 'ONYX'!'
Iām of two minds when it comes to Pink Siifu. On one hand, the Alabama-born rapper and musical adventurer deserves a massive glow-up. Heās consistently kicked out ambitious albums that reward in-depth...
https://stereogum.com/2480437/album-of-the-week-pink-siifu-onyx/reviews/album-of-the-week
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Torsten Kathke
about 1 month ago
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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Number Ones on "Positions" and the moment that newly anointed movie star Ariana Grande went into horny coasting mode.
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The Number Ones: Ariana Grande's "Positions"
In The Number Ones, Iām reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chartās beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. As Scott explain...
https://stereogum.com/2479931/the-number-ones-ariana-grandes-positions/columns/the-number-ones
about 1 month ago
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One for Jimmy Cliff.
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Jimmy Cliff Recording The Harder They Come In Studio Session
YouTube video by Perry Henzell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHAbj1pIT4g
about 1 month ago
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Jason Kirk
about 1 month ago
Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesnāt like you as much as he likes this guy who didnāt bow at all
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One for Mani.
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Run DMC - What's It All About
YouTube video by zielonycd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-sbJlkUKQk
about 1 month ago
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Alternative Number Ones on rain on your wedding day, a free ride when you've already paid, the good advice that you just didn't take, man who woulda thought, it figures, etc.
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The Alternative Number Ones: Alanis Morissette's "Ironic"
In The Alternative Number Ones, Iām reviewing every #1 single in the history of theĀ BillboardĀ Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
https://stereogum.com/2479415/the-alternative-number-ones-alanis-morissettes-ironic/columns
about 1 month ago
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Chris DeVille
about 2 months ago
The idea is to run this feature in the fall every year, not as a part of year-end list season, but with the relaunch we didn't get around to it until kinda late. Anyway, here are some good new bands ("new" and "bands" are flexible terms here).
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The 40 Best New Artists Of 2025
What do Tame Impala, Haim, Chance The Rapper, and Addison Rae all have in common? Though theyāre arguably superstars now, in the past they were all featured among Stereogumās annual roundups of the ye...
https://stereogum.com/2476155/the-40-best-new-artists-of-2025/lists/best-new-artists
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Adam Serwer
about 2 months ago
Taxes on high earners are too low
bsky.app/profile/popc...
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Wrote the first Album Of The Week review of Stereogum's new redesign/paywall era, and I did it on the new Home Front, which whips serious ass.
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Album Of The Week: Home Front 'Watch It Die'
Home Front figured something out. The Edmonton band started out as a studio project from two guys. Singer Graeme MacKinnon used to lead the Wednesday Night Heroes, a fired-up street-punk band that beg...
https://stereogum.com/2479176/album-of-the-week-home-front-watch-it-die/reviews/album-of-the-week
about 2 months ago
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AUgetoffmygold
about 2 months ago
Stereogum is an invaluable part of the music media ecosystem, and they've adapted brilliantly to an increasingly hostile landscape for decades now. Please consider giving them a little of your money if you don't already. (And if you do, make sure your payment details transferred over; mine didn't.)
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Number Ones on SoundCloud-era genre blur, TikTok hits becoming radio hits, and "Mood," a giant hit that already feels like a relic of a different time/
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The Number Ones: 24kGoldnās āMoodā (Feat. Iann Dior)
In The Number Ones, Iām reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chartās beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat:...
https://www.stereogum.com/2328814/the-number-ones-24kgoldns-mood-feat-iann-dior/columns/the-number-ones/
about 2 months ago
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Stan Oklobdzija
about 2 months ago
There needs to be trials and there needs to be people sent to die in a prison cell. Consequences must fall on the people who issued the orders and those who carried them out. We must make the punishment of these people a national spectacle that will be remembered for generations.
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Alternative Number Ones on "1979," and it's long as shit because it's the only time that Smashing Pumpkins will be in the column.
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The Alternative Number Ones: Smashing Pumpkinsā ā1979ā
In The Alternative Number Ones, Iām reviewing every #1 single in the history of theĀ BillboardĀ Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
https://www.stereogum.com/2328547/the-alternative-number-ones-smashing-pumpkins-1979/columns/the-alternative-number-ones/
about 2 months ago
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Number Ones on "Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)," a bad song with an exceedingly complicated backstory.
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The Number Ones: Jawsh 685, Jason Derulo, & BTS ā āSavage Love (Laxed ā Siren Beat)ā
In The Alternative Number Ones, Iām reviewing every #1 single in the history of theĀ BillboardĀ Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
https://www.stereogum.com/2328191/the-number-ones-jawsh-685-jason-derulo-bts-savage-love-laxed-siren-beat/columns/the-number-ones/
about 2 months ago
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Wrote a quick consideration of the "no rap songs in the top 40" situation.
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There Are No Rap Songs In The Top 40 For The First Time In 35 Years
Yesterday, Billboard deputy editor and Stereogum buddy Andrew Unterberger published a piece with some confusing implications: On last weekās Billboard Hot 100, there were no rap songs in the top 40. T...
https://www.stereogum.com/2328218/there-are-no-rap-songs-in-the-top-40-for-the-first-time-in-35-years/columns/sounding-board/
2 months ago
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If only Stereogum had a "this is so stupid" tag like Defector.
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The Bruce Springsteen Movie Is Totally Inaccurate With Regard To His Feelings About Mustard
The pretty bad but fun-to-watch new biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is in theaters now, and it mostly seems pretty factually faithful to Springsteenās experience recording the album Nebras...
https://www.stereogum.com/2328144/the-bruce-springsteen-movie-is-totally-inaccurate-with-regard-to-his-feelings-about-mustard/news/
2 months ago
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Alternative Number Ones on "Wonderwall," a song you might've heard once or twice.
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The Alternative Number Ones: Oasisā āWonderwallā
In The Alternative Number Ones, Iām reviewing every #1 single in the history of theĀ BillboardĀ Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
https://www.stereogum.com/2327906/the-alternative-number-ones-oasis-wonderwall/columns/the-alternative-number-ones/
2 months ago
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I profiled Turnstile, my favorite band, for The Guardian, my favorite newspaper.
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āPepper-spraying a 15 year old is cowardlyā: Turnstile on hostile cops, playing through pain and taking hardcore punk global
The Baltimore band have built a vast fanbase with their explosive live performances, but an incident at a recent show laid bare the challenges they face as they ascend to superstar status. Can they ma...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/26/turnstile-band-interview-music-never-enough-brendan-yates-glow-on
2 months ago
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Number Ones on Travis Scott, Young Thug, and M.I.A.'s "Franchise," which is definitely a real song that everyone remembers.
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The Number Ones: Travis Scottās āFranchiseā (Feat. Young Thug & M.I.A.)
In The Number Ones, Iām reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chartās beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat:...
https://www.stereogum.com/2327198/the-number-ones-travis-scotts-franchise-feat-young-thug-m-i-a/columns/the-number-ones/
2 months ago
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Wrote about Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, which I had a great time to watch even though it's probably a bad movie.
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The Bruce Springsteen Biopic Is Clumsy, But It Gets The Job Done
About halfway through Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, writer/director Scott Cooperās noisy new Bruce Springsteen biopic, I got restless. My seat was uncomfortable. I was hungry. I could see just...
https://www.stereogum.com/2327453/bruce-springsteen-biopic-deliver-me-from-nowhere-movie-review/reviews/movie-review/
2 months ago
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Wrote about the 10th anniversary of Julien Baker's Sprained Ankle, an album that killed me dead.
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Julien Baker's 'Sprained Ankle' Turns 10
She was a kid. Thatās the first thing I think when I see the Sprained Ankle album cover today. It was probably the first thing I thought when I first saw that album cover in 2015. Baker was 19 years o...
https://www.stereogum.com/2326923/julien-baker-sprained-ankle-turns-10/reviews/the-anniversary/
2 months ago
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Alternative Number Ones on "Glycerine," the biggest and best Bush song.
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The Alternative Number Ones: Bushās āGlycerineā
In The Alternative Number Ones, Iām reviewing every #1 single in the history of theĀ BillboardĀ Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
https://www.stereogum.com/2327084/the-alternative-number-ones-bushs-glycerine/columns/the-alternative-number-ones/
2 months ago
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Number Ones on BTS ascending to pop-sensation status in the US and on "Dynamite," a song that's both ridiculous and consequential.
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The Number Ones: BTSā āDynamiteā
In The Number Ones, Iām reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chartās beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat:...
https://www.stereogum.com/2326421/the-number-ones-bts-dynamite/columns/the-number-ones/
2 months ago
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Damon K
3 months ago
Memorable line by
@tombreihan.bsky.social
: āMy immediate emotional reaction is basically the same as the time I found a bug in my cereal.ā
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Chris got bars off on this one.
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Alternative Number Ones on the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who are apparently immune to failure, and on "My Friends," the big and not-terrible ballad that they pulled out of their ass during a rough stretch.
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The Alternative Number Ones: Red Hot Chili Peppersā āMy Friendsā
In The Alternative Number Ones, Iām reviewing every #1 single in the history of theĀ BillboardĀ Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...
https://www.stereogum.com/2326129/the-alternative-number-ones-red-hot-chili-peppers-my-friends/columns/the-alternative-number-ones/
3 months ago
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