Hey, everybody, it's that time again! South By Southwest 2012. Are you ready? How's your hashtag game? Can you feel the early-onset FOMO? As the Austin institution grows larger and larger, with more…   Read Story »

This was a great, great week for music videos. And for some reason, a pattern emerged. To some extent, every one of the videos below is a sumptuous, richly produced vision of things that don't make…   Read Story »

Awesome video alert: Grimes' restless, dazed electro-pop bounce "Oblivion" now has a video, and it's a collection of images of the stylish and surprisingly divisive Montreal iconoclast Claire…   Read Story »

"88" is the latest track from the whip-smart Edmonton rapper/producer (and former critic) Cadence Weapon and the first taste from his forthcoming album Hope In Dirty City. As you might surmise from…   Read Story »

[Welcome to a new feature on Stereogum! Consider it an op-ed: In this space, we'll issue spot, and we'll argue. And so it'll be like every other post, just more specifically engineered to engage you…   Read Story »

In support of her just-released Visions and her new video for "Oblivion," Grimes took over Gorilla Vs. Bear the other day and during that 16-post run, she posted a Visions bonus track from the…   Read Story »

23-year-old Claire Boucher has been generous with her Visions, giving away both "Genesis" and "Oblivion," and now the week before the album's release, Grimes has put the whole skewed-and-looped…   Read Story »

Here it is, the first mix of The Last Year. So far we've had a flood of good music these first few weeks of 2012, which in fairness is probably just the result of bands wisely holding back on…   Read Story »

Haze-pop producers of the world unite! Montreal up-and-comer Grimes has done her own version of "Real Is A Feeling," a song from Denver noise-dancer Pictureplane's strong 2011 album Thee Physical.…   Read Story »

New year, new feature! Welcome to Rank & File, where we track the week's biggest people and stories in easily digestible chart-form. We did this because sometimes it's hard to know what was the…   Read Story »