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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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the only known footage of late singer-songwriter Fred Neil, born 90 years ago today 🤍

Jessie Buckley, however, is a winner

Rzezheads rise up

that clip is not new, but @pattonoswalt.bsky.social recently reshared it and of course I had to research which of his Conan talk show episodes also had a musical guest

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-...

I watched ‘120’ religiously, and then I got to intern there one summer. Artists that came in that I can remember: Oasis, Radiohead, Veruca Salt, Faith No More, Sarah McLachlan, Meredith Brooks. Here are me and Sarah excited to watch the new Squirrel Nut Zippers video.

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Margaret met up with Danny L Harle at his Hackney studio to discuss his new album ‘Cerulean’ and how its collaborations with singers like Clairo, Caroline Polachek, Dua Lipa, and PinkPantheress came together. 👉 stereogum.com/2490451/dann...

how about a Faith No More c. 1984 reunion?

Jeff Buckley recently earned his first Hot 100 hit and his first Rock Hall nomination, and last night his best song got covered by St. Vincent 🙏

Flying Lotus sat under a disco ball with Stereogum aviation correspondent Rachel Brown to discuss his new EP ‘Big Mama,’ Brainfeeder, and more Watch: stereogum.com/2491190/flyi...

the producer Sounwave and the movie ‘Pretty In Pink’ arrived 40 years ago today 🥳

25 years ago today Beyoncé decided to stop doing interviews

@chrisdeville.bsky.social talked to Bill Callahan about writing his excellent new album, collaborating with Noah Cyrus, soundtracking that weird Bob Dylan commercial, (almost) meeting Tom Verlaine, and much more Our latest We’ve Got A File On You: stereogum.com/2489087/weve...

“This, I think, is what we want to sound like,” Nolan Jakupovski says while holding up the Pastels’ 1998 remix album ‘Illuminati.’ For our latest Under The Influence Q&A, cootie catcher share the inspirations behind their rad new LP ‘Something We All Got’ out Friday. 👉 stereogum.com/2489982/coot...

Doing the math and realizing Jimmy Webb was 21 when he wrote "MacArthur Park," and 19 for "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," which feels absolutely impossible. Not like in the prodigious sense — though also kinda that — but what fucking college kid walks around with songs like those in their head???

Choose life. Choose a job. 🍻

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Talk Talk’s ‘The Colour Of Spring’ came out 40 years ago today. 🦋 Here’s the band performing “Life’s What You Make It” on ‘Top Of The Pops’ a few weeks before the album’s release.

A look at the Labi Siffre revival among Gen Z, which explains why my daughter recently decided to learn “Cannock Chase” on guitar 🙏 stereogum.com/2489375/resu...

the soundtrack to FX’s ‘Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette’ didn’t have to go this hard open.spotify.com/playlist/0ou... music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

and happy 50th to the singer Leslie Feist and the first Genesis album without Peter Gabriel

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For Stereogum’s Footnotes series Julia from @ratboysband.bsky.social told @tombreihan.bsky.social the story behind every track on their awesome new album. (Sorry, Ringo.) 👉 stereogum.com/2487128/the-...

every second counts

Post Malone had Grammy weekend’s second best Ozzy tribute

Rain Sounds For Sleeping robbed

In other Moz news, there is one more day to bid on morrissey.com in a new auction at GoDaddy. www.godaddy.com/domain-aucti... Johnny Marr has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Pixies formed 40 years ago this month when Kim Deal answered Black Francis’ ad in ‘The Boston Phoenix.’ She arrived at the audition without a bass since she’d never played one before. Guitarist Joey Santiago picked “pixies” from a dictionary, suggesting Pixies In Panoply as their name. #tbt

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Did you notice Finn Wolfhard’s t-shirt on ‘SNL’ last night? stereogum.com/2485829/snl-...

shoutout 2016 shoutout @whereismuna.bsky.social

do the vampire stereogum.com/2485574/mart...

it’s gonna be yungblud isn’t it stereogum.com/2485230/a-ph...

Judee was a shapeshifter 👉 stereogum.com/2485162/bill...