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I haven't listened to any album this year more than Kevin Morby's LITTLE WIDE OPEN, so it was a privilege to interview him about the full project, song by song. It was an illuminating conversation, and I'm happy to share it today alongside the music.

need Jake Shane to get to the bottom of this

would cop if hospitalized stereogum.com/2498840/supr...

I love Lamb

As Girl Talk, Gregg Gillis’ first two albums were filled with samples of famous pop and rap songs, but Gillis intentionally destroyed them, transforming the original tracks into disjointed, abrasive blurs. ‘Night Ripper,’ which turns 20 years old this weekend, is disjointed, but it’s not abrasive. 👇

ratt summer?

Death Grips’ ‘Bottomless Pit’ and Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop The Feeling!” were released 10 years ago today 🎈🎈

@zachschonfeld.bsky.social spoke with Steven Drozd about his decades in the Flaming Lips, getting fired during addiction treatment, and his upcoming debut solo LP stereogum.com/2497927/its-...

ty Mick for the invite

Gareth said he will respond to questions if you have any! 👉 stereogum.com/2497822/los-...

Peter from Peter Bjorn And John and ‘Interview With The Vampire’ from Anne Rice turn 50 today 🥳

“Their only #1 hit is the one that has ‘#1’ in its title. Makes you think.”

Takumi Digital Archives is teasing new Avalanches 🔜 stereogum.com/2497750/the-...

Bass wizard Thundercat, who played the Modifier in ‘The Book Of Boba Fett,’ told Stereogum Tatooine Correspondent Rachel Brown about some of his favorite ‘Star Wars’ moments. Happy May The Fourth.

You know what day it is… Happy 90th birthday to the King of Romance, Engelbert Humperdinck. 🎂

The best Kacey LP since Golden Hour is also her twangiest since Pageant Material, but it's less a wholesale return to country than an integration of everything she's done well over the years. She sounds like herself again. My review:

There are much better songs on the album, but here are “Crash Into Me” covers from least to most cursed 👇

An investigation stereogum.com/2497471/fred...

and hbd to me 😃

Stereogum fave Allegra Krieger recently landed on our 5 Best Songs Of The Week playlist – with a demo, no less. That was followed by an experimental album under the name gentle boxer. Now she’s road-testing even more new songs. Here’s one from her show at Ridgefield Playhouse last night.

Did you see Rachel joining Hayley onstage in Water From Your Eyes’ Chicago hometown last night? For #tbt here’s an outtake from my video of the future tourmates meeting at Newport Folk last year. Hayley will return to the fest 7/24, and WFYE will be *Djo voice* back in Chicago for Lolla 8/2.

‘Ramones’ and Dessners turn 50 today 🎂

the song “Fat Lip” and the movie ‘Shrek’ — two canonical statements of subcultural defiance — debuted 25 years ago today

By now you, and hopefully @robert.thecure.com, have heard “drop dead.” 🍬 Check out @chrisdeville.bsky.social’s review of Olivia Rodrigo’s 'you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love' lead single… 👉 stereogum.com/2496121/drop...

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

@chrisdeville.bsky.social spoke to Friko about their new John Congleton-produced album ‘Something Worth Waiting For,’ out next week 👉 stereogum.com/2494966/frik...

iconic London exports ‘Aftermath’ and Samantha Fox are 60 years old today

when is the Cyrus expo

Think you mean @blockclubchi.bsky.social :) Aadam is a Chicago legend and it's great he's finally allowing his archives to be preserved and shared digitally!

algo really wants me to know about these men this week [📷: Brooklyn Paper, Book Club Chicago]

🙏 one day I will write one without a typo

which comp are you spending $16.98 on 👇

ego death at hammerstein ballroom 🔪

the Internet was a mistake 👉 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkAaP1KG/

‘Live At The Liquid Room’ is 30. @tddvsss.bsky.social talked to techno legend Jeff Mills about its anniversary tour and first-ever digital release in the latest Crossing Wires column… 👉 stereogum.com/2494034/jeff...

FUCK YES NEW SLIFT slift.bandcamp.com/album/fantasia

your subscription $ at work! stereogum.com/2493961/bob-...

Emily Moales built Star Moles into an indie institution of cerebral and incandescent songwriting. Devon Chodzin talked to the art-pop artist about her incredible new LP ‘Highway To Hell,’ her approach to songwriting, and what she learned by listening to Kate Bush. 👉 stereogum.com/2492899/on-h...

Joe Jackson’s is my favorite of those, but here’s a Van Halen clip instead. Introduction by a 15-year-old China Kantner, the daughter of Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick and Paul Kantner, and MTV’s youngest-ever VJ.

any of you catch Lady Gaga at NYC’s Cutting Room 20 years ago tonight

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Cult UK emo greats Crash Of Rhinos are back after 13 years so I had to get Ian on the case stereogum.com/2492840/cras...

“Cass McCombs is, in my opinion, the greatest singer/songwriter in the world,” said Adam Friedland, introducing the artist in NYC tonight. McCombs made a compelling case for the superlative at LPR, delivering a revelatory two-hour set of psych-folk and indie rock to kick off a North American tour.

Lizzie Mano met up with Cleveland’s Suitor at Superelectric Pinball Parlor to discuss their city’s punk scene politics, college radio tumult, and James Harden. The band’s sick debut LP ‘Saw You Out With The Weeds’ is out tomorrow. Meet Stereogum’s latest Band To Watch: stereogum.com/2490997/band...

yo dawg I heard you like Tesla

ladies of the mushroom kingdom?

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