Have you heard of this singer Adele? British lady? Decent voice? No? Well, she's singing the new Bond theme, "Skyfall," and it just hit the Interwebs, a few hours before its scheduled premiere time.…   Read Story »

The A.V. Club's Undercover video series, which matches up bands with unlikely covers, has really hit on something great with its latest installment: Reunited emo pioneers the Promise Ring enlisting…   Read Story »

Blur's big festival-circuit reunion tour came three years ago, and the group has mostly been inactive since then, though co-leaders Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon did get together to debut new song…   Read Story »

Barely 24 hours before this year's Grammy Awards ceremony began, Whitney Houston, a woman who'd once seemed like a cyborg engineered to win as many Grammys as possible, was found dead in a Los…   Read Story »

It's the 2012 Grammys! The Stereogum crew is over at my house, there may or may not be pizza and beer involved, and on the off chance you are experiencing something similar at yours, we have decided…   Read Story »

Every year, venerated New York weekly newspaper The Village Voice tallies up votes from hundreds upon hundreds of music critics for its Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll and comes up with a…   Read Story »

Plenty of magazines are willing to let you know their picks for the year's best albums. But as far as we know, only one rag regularly runs its list of the worst. Entertainment Weekly's year-end issue…   Read Story »

Today we begin rolling out the results of this year's Gummy Awards: The only set of lists which are perfectly impervious to comment section backlash as they are voted upon by you, the esteemed Shut…   Read Story »

Here's a fun one! Rolling Stone, everyone's uncle's favorite magazine, has just unveiled its year-end top-50 albums list, and there's a lot to pick through here. The magazine named Adele's 21 as its…   Read Story »

Adele's "Someone Like You" is my shit - a gigantic, stormy ballad in which the young singer reveals the full operational power of her voice and, at the same time, navigates the interpersonal dynamics…   Read Story »