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

Hard to overstate how obvious this was in Minneapolis. They'd roll around the neighborhood in full gear, doing nothing immigration-related at all, wait for angry crowds to gather, and then attack them with tear gas and pepper spray! It was a violent siege and the feds owe us billions in reparations.

DOM back!

Number Ones on Polo G, a rapper who I was really into for a while there, and on "Rapstar," a song that caught a weird little wave.

"One chilly night in January 2006, I went to Ghostface Killah's 'Back Like That' video shoot..." @tombreihan.bsky.social looks back at the Wu-Tang rapper's glorious, chaotic, critically beloved album 'Fishscale,' released 20 years ago today. 👉 stereogum.com/2492895/fish...

Happy to report that @abbyfjones.bsky.social went full Blogger Mode on this one.

25 years ago today nu metal reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with a song that isn't really nu metal at all. Here's @tombreihan.bsky.social's very fair take on the situation: stereogum.com/2199223/the-...

Wrote about the moment that Ghostface Killah went from cult stardom to critical-darling status, the chaos of that moment's context, and Fishscale at 20.

Wrote about the new Robyn album, which rules.

Alternative Number Ones on Eels' one-hit-wonder-to-cult-artist trajectory and on that one hit, which I really like.

Wrote about "Randy Walters Is A Son Of A Bitch" by Afroman

Wrote about the 20th anniversary of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Show Your Bones, a better album than I remembered.

You ever think about how "The Cross" by Prince is just a song that exists and you can listen to it anytime you want

Number Ones on Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak's pretty-good stylized-Stylistics pastiche "Leave The Door Open."

Guys! GUYS! NAZI HUNTING ROCKABILLY STREET GANGS OF 80s PARIS!

On Monday, our The Alternative Number Ones column reviewed “Down.” “Some people wanted me to delay this column for two days,” wrote @tombreihan.bsky.social. “I am a serious person, and I will not be a party to these silly games.” 🥳 stereogum.com/2491329/the-...

Alternative Number Ones on 311's "Down," a stupid song.

Drums on the Albini Kill Taker sound so crazy.

Wrote a hardcore column about going to see Angel Du$t, one of my favorite bands in the world right now, and about new joints from Terror, NØ MAN, Azshara, A Mourning Star, Latest God, Portrayal Of Guilt, Rejoice, Dry Socket, Holy Dose, & World I Hate.

just finished rewatching this cinematic masterpiece, guess it's time to start it back up again from the beginning

Wrote about HELP(2), an all-star benefit compilation that mostly avoids the snares that bedevil so many all-star benefit compilations. (Seriously, Olivia Rodrigo's Magnetic Fields cover is so good.)

Number Ones on "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)," the one where Lil Nas X gives Satan a lapdance.

They've monetized and incentivized committing crimes against humanity. It's a scandal on par with Pete Rose betting on baseball, if Pete Rose were undersecretary of defense, and baseball was murdering civilians with bombs.

Extremely high recommendation to go see Angel Du$t on the tour that just started. That band always rules but something special is happening this time in particular.

Reviewed the new Bruno Mars, which is both reliable and frustrating in its just-OKness.

I have once again written about everyone's favorite band, the 1975

"Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" hitting exceptionally hard over Walmart speakers this morning.

Some stray thoughts on this year's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees. (My real position is that that HOF is a corporate sham that should not exist, a vain effort to impose top-down order on beautiful chaos. But you make do with what you got.)

Mitski's new album comes out on Friday, and it's really, really fucking good. Wrote about it.

Alternative Number Ones on Pearl Jam's "Who Are Are," a song that I don't remember ever hearing on the radio back in the day.

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

"This world needs great pop stars more than Hollywood does." - @chrisrichards.bsky.social

New hardcore column on a soul-stirring Division Of Mind/Eliminators show and new tracks from Knocked Loose/Denzel Curry, Holder, Crush Your Soul, Unreal City, Killing Pace, Giallo, Loose Leash, Burning Lord, Taker, & Ritual Cross.

"Silent Shout still sounds like a future that we haven't been smart enough to avoid."

Wrote about the 20th anniversary of the Knife's Silent Shout, a truly great album that has not aged one second.

One for the Rev. Jesse Jackson.