Touring behind her well received album Conatus, Zola Jesus stopped by the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, and filled the hall with haunting vocals amongst the bisons and dioramas. With…   Read Story »

My two favorite music videos this week were slow, lyrical depictions of combat sports full of squalid shots of slovenly audience members and slow-motion images of gladiators at work. So, a note to…   Read Story »

Today, Erika M. Anderson, the woman who made my favorite album of 2011, releases her "Take One Two" single, a benefit for the anti-bullying nonprofit Jamie Isaacs Foundation. And there's also a…   Read Story »

Having already revealed Your Top 10 Tracks and Your Top 10 Music Videos, next box to be punched on the Gummys' advent calendar is the Top 10 New Acts Of 2011 category, and, unlike the Grammys,…   Read Story »

For its Take Away Shows video series, the French website La Blogothèque records artists performing acoustically, without microphones, in locations around Paris. For the latest entry in the series,…   Read Story »

EMA's digital single of the harrowing Past Life Martyred Saints track "Marked" is out today, and the B-side is a stomping pill-addled howler named "Angelo." Oakland rapper MzGorjis adds a slurry…   Read Story »

EMA has pretty impeccable taste in covers: Robert Johnson, Danzig, Nirvana, "Crimson And Clover." And on her recent covers, she's been making like Ethan Hawke in Reality Bites and covering the…   Read Story »

We actually got a ridiculous number of strong, visually striking music videos this week: everything on this week's list is pretty much must-see. And it does my heart good to see that two of them come…   Read Story »

"Marked" is almost certainly the most intense song on EMA's very intense -- and fucking incredible -- debut album Past Life Martyred Saints. The track now has a video, and unlike EMA's previous…   Read Story »

Last year, right around the time summer turned to fall, we at Stereogum published our list of the 40 best new bands of the year. The idea of a "new" band is a pretty nebulous one, since many of the…   Read Story »