Washington's Sasquatch! Festival took place over the weekend, a heavy-hitting four day lineup featuring people like Jack White, St. Vincent. Bon Iver, Beck, Sanitgold, the Shins, Feist, Metric and…   Read Story »

When M.I.A. held up her middle finger during Madonna's Super Bowl Halftime Show last weekend, she dominated blog chatter for a few days and incited a few minor cable-TV debates. She could have to pay…   Read Story »

The last time that Korallreven, those Sweden-based Balearic bliss mongers behind the Victoria Bergsman-featuring "Honey Mine," excerpted a forthcoming mixtape of theirs with a promotional MP3, it was…   Read Story »

A man named Nostradamus Lou Barlow once sang: "Started smoking pot / Thought things sounded better slow / much slower." Witch house provocateurs SALEM heeded his advice -- and "Justin Bieber 800%…   Read Story »

This week we've got new videos from Death Cab For Cutie, Teams vs. Star Slinger Staring Problem, and Britney Spears, among others. It was a pretty hard week to find videos, but I'm happy with these,…   Read Story »

Once upon a time that thing that's pictured up there happened. It was not really one of the The Worst Super Bowl Halftime Performances. But it does mark a turning point after which Super Bowl…   Read Story »

Following in the footsteps of Lily Allen, All-American Rejects, Fall Out Boy, Ladyhawke, and thousands of teens on YouTube, the boys in Franz Ferdinand have put a debonair spin on Britney's…   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 »

Did you watch Britney Spears' For The Record "documentary" a few weeks ago? The pop star came off sad and confused like a character in a Christopher Guest movie ("People shave their heads all the…   Read Story »

The Hood Internet has mashed "No One Does It Like You" and "Womanizer" into the first Britney song you can't dance to. Don't try to front, you know you wanna hear it.   Read Story »