Managing Editor, @stereogum Posting indie nostalgia at @suchgr8heights Buy my debut book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS, out now via @StMartinsPress, at link below
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My debut book is OUT TODAY!
'Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion' is about how indie rock changed the mainstream and the mainstream changed indie rock in the 21st century.
Buy it and let me know what you think: read.macmillan.com/lp/such-g…
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Spoon, a band with a robust and near-flawless discography, playing before Interpol, a band with .75 good albums… complete bullshit
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Played “Taxes” for my family in the car and my daughter said, “Dad, I have a sudden headache.” Wife: “The singing is objectively bad, right?” Back to Kpop Demon Hunters.
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Imagine being able to tell your grandchildren you saw RTJ and Mitski open for Lorde nitter.app/lorde/status/915575352…
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This album means more to me than almost any other. I tried to explain why: stereogum.com/2222860/vampir…
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This week's column tackles the surprising goodness of "Bad Things" and the inevitable superstardom of Camila Cabello stereogum.com/1925840/bad-gi…
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Arguably the greatest indie band of their era and when I see them live THIS is the song I'm always waiting for
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Pleased to announce @scottgum is buying back Stereogum from Billboard/THR and we will be an independent site going forward, with Scott as CEO billboard.com/articles/news/…
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One of those bands that nailed its aesthetic from the start and had nowhere to go but down, but when they hit, THEY HIT. Also maybe the loudest concert I ever attended.
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It's official: Cardi is Dad Famous nitter.app/JoshSobo/status/983886…
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They may have better songs, but none of them sell the idea of Beach House more effectively
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Wrote about one of the greatest rock albums, one of the greatest indie albums, one of the greatest pivot-to-ugliness albums, one of the greatest albums recorded by Steve Albini, one of the greatest Ohio albums, one of the greatest albums in general stereogum.com/2171206/cloud-…
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Grammy nods my annual reminder that I'm living completely insulated from anyone who listens to Jacob Collier
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Not sure I could have written my book without information from the Wayback Machine. It's the last bastion of so much history that has already been officially deleted.
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: change.org/p/defend-the-inte…
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ALT Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit. Sign our open letter on change.org
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the Actual Facts about Built To Spill: everything since Y2K is just OK, the live shows are often awful... however, the There's Nothing Wrong With Love -> Perfect From Now On -> Keep It Like A Secret run cemented Doug's status as a genius and prevents any "overrated" designation
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This week's column is on one of my favorite new pop stars, Camila Cabello, who has become such a big deal that I sometimes forget she used to be in Fifth Harmony stereogum.com/1977612/welcom…
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MJ Lenderman swung this race stereogum.com/2306154/mj-len…
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My book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion is now available for pre-order! Out 8/26 via @StMartinsPress.
Pre-orders are so important for a book’s success, and I’m so appreciative for the early support.
➡️➡️➡️ read.macmillan.com/lp/such-g…
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At the Vampire Weekend show and “You’ve got the luck of a Kennedy” hits different tonight
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New albums from Arcade Fire, Kendrick Lamar, [Radiohead-adjacent], and Wilco [2xLP] in May.
My people (dads/music critics) are eating good.
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'WE' is the best Arcade Fire album since 'Funeral.' I love it so much. bit.ly/3vHpIhN
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SNAIL SZN APPROACHING stereogum.com/2160715/snail-…
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Sometimes good things happen
Surprise — Katie and Allison Crutchfield's new band with MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook is called Snocaps, and their debut album is out now:
stereogum.com/2328283/katie-…
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Wrote about the album I love so much I made it my avatar, one of the best, weirdest, most exhilarating indie-rock records of all time stereogum.com/2061698/dismem…
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Listen. stereogum.com/2215112/songs-…
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Wrote about one of the best nighttime albums, one of the best marriage albums, one of the best Yo La Tengo albums stereogum.com/2069583/yo-la-…
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lol a blogger called on Taylor Swift to denounce white supremacy and instead Swift threatened to sue the blogger stereogum.com/1970645/aclu-b…
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My nine-year-old daughter voluntarily put on D-Plan "You Are Invited" in the car this week, and now she's playing old Vampire Weekend songs around the house theonion.com/cool-dad-raisin…
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The thought of listening to even podcasts at increased speeds makes my chest tense up
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Damn imagine getting the press Lizzo's been getting and then reacting this way to one less-than-glowing review nitter.app/lizzo/status/112019621…
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This album rules. I wrote about the many reasons why: stereogum.com/2211289/ted-le…
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Wrote about BLACKPINK taking over the world by bringing back early '10s Kesha/Nicki/Skrillex bombast stereogum.com/2038765/blackp…
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Iconic video but the proper way to listen to this song is with no visuals, on compact disc, in a 1988 Toyota Camry with automatic seatbelts
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Stereogum relaunched today on the same platform used by Defector and other great subscription-based sites. We are excited to keep surviving and thriving as an independent music blog in the 2020s. @scottgum has a very informative post about all the changes: stereogum.com/2478838/stereo…
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Gotta give credit where it’s due, @tylerrjoseph accurately predicted that Utah would crush Oregon
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Geese is real! Geese is real! I'm not kidding, Geese is actually real! I'm not kidding this time. I think Geese is actually for real. Geese is real! Geese is actually real! Geese is real! I wouldn't joke about this! I'm not kidding this time! stereogum.com/2323412/premat…
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Wrote about one of the best guitar hero albums / best pop-rock albums / best indie-goes-major albums / best albums period stereogum.com/2026996/built-…
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Honestly probably Being There but I can't fault anyone who says Summerteeth or A Ghost Is Born.
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The Smile's debut is the best non-Radiohead album Thom Yorke has ever released (and not coincidentally sounds a lot like a Radiohead album) stereogum.com/2185355/the-sm…
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Wrote about the most exciting indie rock Event Album in quite some time stereogum.com/2174234/big-th…
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Wrote about one of the best albums ever stereogum.com/2170992/the-no…
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Wrote about getting older, settling down, and the Dismemberment Plan, who (obviously) mean the world to me stereogum.com/2164673/the-di…
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I've enjoyed the big dumb Big Thief discourse but it's a pale substitute for my true craving: Insufferable The 1975 discourse
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I would argue that Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes precipitated the "stomp clap ho-hey" music and that Edward Sharpe was a transitional step in that direction. In fact, I DID argue something like that in my book that's coming out this month: read.macmillan.com/lp/such-g…
everyone is conflating this with “stomp clap ho-hey” music but in reality Edward Sharpe were, by proximity in fanbase and music industry, closer to acts like Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes than The Lumineers or Of Monsters and Men
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Moving pro sports teams is cruel and should be illegal
Statement from the A’s:
ALT Statement from Oakland A's: The A’s have signed a binding agreement to purchase land for a future ballpark in Las Vegas. We realize this is a difficult day for our Oakland fans and community. For more than 20 years, the A’s have focused on securing a new home for the Club, and have invested unprecedented time and resources for the past six years to build a ballpark in Oakland. Even with support from fans, leaders at the city, county, and state level, and throughout the broader community, the process to build a new ballpark in Oakland has made little forward progress for some time. We have made a strong and sincere effort to stay here. We recognize that this is very hard to hear. We are disappointed that we have been unable to achieve our shared vision of a waterfront ballpark. As we shift our focus to Vegas, we will continue to share details about next steps.
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The indie infrastructure and the pop infrastructure had been cozying up to each other for a long while by this point, but Lorde might be the demarcation point where they really and truly overlapped
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Made my @nytimes debut writing about the blokes nytimes.com/2025/07/02/arts/…
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Crazy how "Espresso" turned out to be a Trojan horse for an awesome Kacey Musgraves album
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I wrote about David Berman dying on my birthday, about being too basic to fully appreciate Silver Jews when I was younger, and about aging into a deep reverence for albums like Tanglewood Numbers, which turns 20 years old tomorrow stereogum.com/2326515/silver…
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I wrote about ALLIGATOR, two decades later stereogum.com/2303762/the-na…
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Panda Bear x Cindy Lee alert stereogum.com/2283928/panda-…
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Wrote about subjects including wild family dogs, fuckin' people over, the stars projectin' this life down to this planet Earth stereogum.com/2087064/modest…
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I wrote about the legacy of In The Aeroplane Over Sea Sea: a masterpiece, a myth, and a genre unto itself stereogum.com/1981443/in-the…
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Hadn't listened to this album for many years until editing this piece. Was surprised to find out how hard some of it rocks. stereogum.com/2284165/elliot…
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I know I am "bias" as the stans say, but culture criticism is a creative discipline in its own right and at its best it has set my soul on fire as often as any other artform
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I've probably listened to the new @vampireweekend album 50+ times straight through and am obsessed with it so here's my "Premature Evaluation" aka deeply considered dissertation stereogum.com/2037803/vampir…
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How great would it be if the next Father John Misty album was called COWBOY with lead single "Nobody"
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Wrote about Insignificance with an enthusiasm that would surely repulse Jim O'Rourke stereogum.com/2167529/jim-or…
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Happy 50th birthday to this man
ALT Sufjan Stevens performing at Pitchfork Music Festival 2016
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Making my kids listen to Crooked Rain in the car instead of Barbie songs and Zara Larsson. Happy Fathers Day.
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if you've never listened to BRAT with your wife and children while riding shotgun on a deserted Kansas highway, blogging about MJ Lenderman from an iPhone hotspot, barreling toward the Colorado border, have you even lived
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I was worried about the new Tame Impala album. I should not have been worried about the new Tame Impala album. stereogum.com/2070221/tame-i…
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Wrote about applying childlike wonder to grownup love, the thin line between embarrassment and exhilaration, and Animal Collective turning into something (a rock band, sort of).
Don't be afraid to catch Feels: stereogum.com/2325837/animal…
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Wrote about Wednesday, the best band stereogum.com/2218236/wednes…
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