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Not every musical act needs to release a live album. In fact, most shouldn’t. A live album is often entirely unnecessary, an effort to remind the world that you exist or to get money from loyal fans. ...

According to every review that I’ve read, Phoebe Bridgers is putting in some amazing performances on her current arena tour. But unless you go see the show for yourself, you have to rely on secondhand...

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You guys know about horsegiirL, right? Not Horsegirl, the Brooklyn-via-Chicago indie rock band who released the album Phonetics On And On last year. That’s a different thing. Know your horse bands. I’...

“It’s important to make it sound new,” Justin Vernon explained. “It used to be just a G chord on a guitar for many years. The longer I’ve done it, I’ve become interested in a bunch of other sounds, to...

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Do people ever confuse the young Philadelphia shoegaze crew Bleary Eyed for the post-Oasis Liam Gallagher band Beady Eye, or is that just me? For their entire existence, I kept thinking of Beady Eye a...

Chvrches have returned. In the time since the Glasgow indie pop veterans’ last album, 2021’s resounding return to form Screen Violence, Lauren Mayberry ventured out on her own, touring and releasing t...

Nothing about the Australian singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin really screams “Las Vegas,” but that’s where Jacklin shot the video for her new song “If I Had The Hand Of God.” This was a very good decis...

Sometimes, indie rock types write music for dance performances, and it’s usually pretty fair to slot that music into the minor-works category of their discographies. Nobody is like, “Yeah, Illinois is...

Everyone loves Ratboys, including their esteemed indie rock peers. The tuneful, big-hearted Chicago quartet continued their streak of amazing albums with this year’s Singin’ To An Empty Chair, an albu...

When I was talking to Bill Callahan early this year, he slipped me a little scoop: The veteran indie singer-songwriter had recorded a collaboration with Meshell Ndegeocello. Here’s the backstory he pr...

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogu...

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Duncan Sheik has died. The New Jersey-born singer-songwriter, best known for the pop-rock hit “Barely Breathing” and the musical Spring Awakening, passed away last night from organ failure. “Duncan wa...

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Kevin Morby’s Little Wide Open remains one of the best albums we’ve heard this year. When it dropped, Morby told us the story behind every song on the tracklist, but there were some tunes left over wh...

Consider it their debut. And then, when you’ve situated the album that way in your brain, marvel at a band that could come up with this on their first try. Technically Yellow House, released 20 years ...

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It was all so slippery. The way it went down; the way it sounded, too. Just when you thought you had a grip on Frank Ocean, he slid through your fingers and vanished, leaving behind nothing but a clou...

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In the late 2000s, “Young Folks” was like fairy dust. You’d hear that whistling hook wisping down a city block, and a microbrewery and a Whole Foods would spring up around you. Every Discman spinning ...

In December, DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ dropped her highly anticipated four-hour album Fantasy. The prolific London-based electronic artist returned in March with the eight-minute house exploration “He...

It’s been two years since avant-pop musician Remi Wolf released her sophomore album Soup. Even though we haven’t heard any new music from Wolf since, we know she’s been busy: She collaborated with Thu...

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