When Stereogum first saw Fool's Gold open for Cat Power a little over a year ago, Amrit noted the LA collective's “love for benga (Kenya-based), juju (rooted in Nigeria), and the Congolese genre…   Read Story »

Sad news about the passing of Memphis rock icon Alex Chilton via commercialappeal.com: The singer and guitarist, best known as a member of '60s pop-soul act the Box Tops and the '70s power-pop act…   Read Story »

If you needed new reasons to join us at Range Life down at SXSW, you're welcome. First and foremost is this engrossing and gently saxophoned(!) keyboard-centric track from twangy Baltimore dreamers…   Read Story »

UPDATE: Sweepstakes is over. Congrats to our winner @johnkrueger! See you in Austin. // Nice job on rushing the Range Life RSVP, you guys. It's true, our party's guest list is totally closed at…   Read Story »

South By Southwest is nearly upon us, and as you may have expected, we're in the mood to celebrate. We even got a new outfit for the occasion. Or really, got an occasion for the new outfit: After…   Read Story »

NYC's a snow globe at the moment, so this list of every official evening showcase over SXSW's five day run this March couldn't come at a better time. Grab a pen, think taco, and get started.   Read Story »

Enigmatic Swedish crew jj has signed with SC (in conjunction with Scandinavian home Sincerely Yours) for its followup to the acclaimed jj nº 2. nº 3's out 3/9 stateside, two weeks before jj's first…   Read Story »

It's not just you -- SXSW's attempt to drum up excitement by revealing this initial list really is coming earlier every year. 2009's list didn't come until this year started; 2010's comes before…   Read Story »

If Twitter's good for anything (probably not), it could be the realization that most rock stars live lives primarily built of small moments just as routinely mundane as ours. Except for when they're…   Read Story »

Microblogging service Twitter has signed up countless celebrities in recent months, and among them are some of our favorite musical artists: Trent Reznor! Colin Meloy! Ed Droste! Diddy! Stereogum…   Read Story »