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 »

Stereogum40 alum Grimes was already primed for a busy year, with a new album and a tour on the way, but she stands to be even busier after signing with 4AD. Soon after this announcement, she hit the…   Read Story »

Name: Grimes Progress Report: Claire Boucher -- aka Grimes --talks about the magic and madness behind her forthcoming new album, Visions. The term “otherworldly” gets tossed around an awful…   Read Story »

We're on the other side of CMJ now, which you could probably tell by the uptick in the music news cycle, or by some bloggers' (could be any bloggers, no way to know who I am talking about) bleary…   Read Story »

The Montreal avant-pop artist Claire Boucher, who records as Grimes, has a new album called Visions coming out early next year. That pretty-awesome image you see above is the cover art. Below, we've…   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 »

You've already heard indie song of the summer contender "Eyes Be Closed." Now you can hear two more shimmering cuts from Ernest Greene's forthcoming post-chillwave full-length below. Washed Out -…   Read Story »

Here are some pictures from the Lykke Li & Grimes tour stop in Los Angeles, compliments of Graeme Flegenheimer. It features Stereogum-favorite Grimes in portrait mode (make sure to check her split…   Read Story »

That Darkbloom split's great, though Grimes' side tends to overpower her Montreal cohort d'Eon's half. It's not your fault d'Eon: When we posted Laurel Halo's remix of "Heartbeats," I mentioned…   Read Story »

I really like the clean pop-star swerve Claire Boucher, aka upcoming Lykke Li tourmate Grimes, took on "Vanessa," a great track from Darkbloom, her split EP with Montreal compatriot d'Eon. Of course,…   Read Story »