Though they're clearly still going strong, ten years ago yesterday Oklahoma's favorite sons released their ninth and generally speaking most beloved album The Soft Bulletin. It was the Flaming Lips'…   Read Story »

A cappella's been creeping further and further into the indie rock realm: Not necessarily bands who sing without instrumentation behind them, but straight-up college a cappella groups covering Animal…   Read Story »

For the third year in a row, we've turned to master bootlegger team9 to take some of our favorite songs of the year and mash them together. On Stereogum & team9 Present... MySplice III you'll hear…   Read Story »

Before Elton John revisited Yellow Brick Road with Ben Folds and others, Folds revisited The Unauthorized Biography Of Rienhold Messner with his old band. Said performance, which took place at…   Read Story »

Last night Elton John returned to Broadway to perform his classic 1973 double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road start to finish. The event benefited a number of AIDS charitable organizations (tickets…   Read Story »

Last night, while you were resting up from all those winks in the Vice Presidential debate, Regina Spektor joined Ben Folds for a playful version of "You Don't Know Me" on Conan O'Brien. As tipster…   Read Story »

A couple weeks (and change) ago we reported that despite their other projects, Ben Folds Five were reuniting as part of MySpace Music's "Front To Back" series to play The Unauthorized Biography of…   Read Story »

Internet trickster Ben Folds has joined forces with Adult Swim absurdists Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim on a video for "You Don't Know Me." Regina Spektor's not in it, but Eric cross-dresses so…   Read Story »

In the comments section of our post on the "Hiroshima" video, reader sean took a moment to disparage the fake leak of Way To Normal before writing: He's squandered all of his stock-piled Ben Folds…   Read Story »

When we posted a YouTube stream of "You Don't Know Me," Ben Folds's sitcom-ready duet with Regina Spektor, we also linked to a paragraph at Wikipedia that mentioned the "leaked" version of Way To…   Read Story »