For paste’s best songs list, I blurbed about [deep inhale] caroline, Maria Somerville, Annahstasia, Rochelle Jordan, oklou, Amaarae, jim legxacy, Dexter in the newsagent, aya, MAVI, Wednesday, Greg Freeman, and Rosalía

Today, on Heat Death! An 8,500 word sneak peak of my in-progress book for paying subscribers. Don't tell anyone 🤫

Hear Djrum's new ambient track "Come Find Me"

streaming is a reality. but truly – just moving those streams from spotify to literally any other platform? like, it actually matters WRAP THAT, IT'S REAL los campesinos! forever stereogum.com/2481865/los-...

I don't miss Twitter especially because of what it has become but this might've been my greatest tweet

I'm learning so many new words in spanish and all of them are slurs

Here are the worst albums of the year www.drwoodhouse.com/worst-of-2025

I remember as a little kid listening to "Pepper" by the Butthole Surfers and thinking "I don't really understand what's going on in this song I bet it's messed up grown up stuff I'll understand later" and now I'm nearly 40 and still have no idea what the song is supposed to be about.

absolutely tickled to see JJJJJerome come up on my feed

A fisherman, to be precise

thanks Joey in the Stereogum Discord for telling me about this Sloshy lyric

Sonitus Missarum – Burning Echoes release featured on Bandcamp's Nov Best Experimental Music. Big thnks to Marc Masters daily.bandcamp.com/best-experim... #freejazz #freenoise #metaljazz @bandcamp.com #bestexperimentalmusicbandcamp

Currently on this, I'm enjoying it. Less pure drone, more doom/drone. Droning doom? Dooming drone? tekarradoom.bandcamp.com/album/great-...

Wrote about the continuing sonic adventures of Pink Siifu

Kidz Bop Dead Flag Blues:

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

make bad art!!! it's better than making no art!!!

This is art

*DEATH GRIPS VOICE*

I shared this with a group chat and instantly got dogpiled by a bunch of burnt out gen xers on how dumb it was. 10/10 great job @sonraw.bsky.social (legit though)

this is one of the coolest thought exercises I've ever seen in the music press ever

'Northern Spring' (1969) Brent Wong

Was just re-reading my old Garden of Delete review yesterday, while I’ve been thinking about the new OPN album—had no idea that G.O.D. was turning 10 today. Always liked this review, still have vivid memories of writing it. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Learning about Kamaru more thanks to the archival work his grandson #KMRU -- an amazing found sound/ambient artist in his own right, go to kmru.bandcamp.com for his work -- has done has been a real treat this year.

jason colgin, arizona, supposing batman listens to cage or stockhausen or coleman or coltrane or sun ra

For years, advertising has been how Stereogum made money to pay its writers. While we made progress moving away from that model, Google AI search has decimated the business almost overnight. Today we relaunch with a greater focus on subscription. We’d love your support: stereogum.com/2478838/ster...

Round Theseus and Minotaurs

Yeah if you were chattin "oh this is just smoke they won't cave" maybe don't post for the next rest of your life about politics

and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in pitchfork that i got mad.

A perfect video to post today

UNMUTE. And look after your people. You have neighbors who might be struggling? Show up like “help I made too much bread, would you like some, I won’t use it all in time” Invite the next door kids over to help you make cookies, feed them lunch while they’re there.

IT ME

I just want to remind everyone that it was my dumbass/dumbeyes that mistook Asher's original Mothman drawing as Mothman holding a 12-gage shot gun

If you need some suggestions for your fright night playlists, we've got you covered over @aquariumdrunkard.com

Nicola Alesini & Pier Luigi Andreoni :: Marco Polo aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/28/n... Lush and minimal, layered and discreet, with assists from Japan’s David Sylvian, Pierrot Lunaire’s Arturo Stalteri, Roger Eno (keyboards, percussion), David Torn (guitar), and Harold Budd (percussion).

CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag? KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag. CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this? KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable. KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

I wrote a feature on musicians with OCD for Uproxx. Give it a read if you’ve time

New, on Heat Death! While going through some Texan paleontology archives, I stumbled across a scrapbook. The result is a kind of time capsule of early 20th century paleontology pop culture in poems and (mostly) cartoons. 🧪🦖

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

Is this a safe space to voice my opinion that Whole Lotta Red is Actually Bad?

The hole in a guitar is traditionally used to store soft cheeses and dried meats which are fed to the drummer when he does a good job

Also the astonishingly pretty "Airs" by Loren Connors deserves to be seen as an ambient and guitar classic: recitalprogram.bandcamp.com/album/airs

I don't think there's any better proof that English press has to expand to Latin America more than Gustavo Certai. "Bocanada" is on par with all of Massive Attack's work and adds U2-sized grandeur (without all the ego) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb2k...