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In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The column is no...

People showed up to the festival in polka dots. The polka dots took many forms. Homemade T-shirts. Facemask hoodies. A pretty decent number of kids who painted themselves white and then added the blac...

Plus: the best new hardcore tracks of the month.

These ten books are not a poptimist syllabus, but they represent some of the best music writing of the 21st century on pop music.

In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...

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In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The column is no...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...

A few months ago, This Is Lorelei cured my hangover. You have to really work hard to get excessively drunk in Salt Lake City, a place where beer has a strict alcohol-by-volume cap and bartenders can’t...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...

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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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In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The column is no...

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In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...

Let’s be clear: Sorry’s new song “Tom Will Smack Your Ass” is not about me. At least, I’m pretty sure it’s not. I have never knowingly met any of the members of Sorry, and I certainly have not smacked...

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You need a particular kind of brilliance to take sounds and elements the ideas that we have heard a million times and to make those things feel visceral and exciting and new. Westside Cowboy, a very n...

The headline up above? It’s a lie. The pit is always for you. It’s for everyone. One of the cool things about a hardcore show is that there is absolutely no barrier to participation. (I mean that both...

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The column is no...

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I laughed exactly once while watching Green Day’s new movie Nimrods, which is dubiously billed as a comedy. It quacks like a comedy, anyway. Characters make outlandish, insanely dumb decisions that re...

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Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation

When you see Ceremony live, they take you on a ride. At this point, Ceremony are a punk institution, but the word “institution” implies a certain level of stasis. Ceremony keep changing. When the band...

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The column is no...

I was worried about this one. On her endless, overlapping press tours to promote the Wicked movies, Ariana Grande seemed eager to leave pop-music royalty behind, to throw herself into the kind of thea...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This colum...

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