Billy Joel’s MSG residency may be over , but he’s still out there performing intermittent stadium shows. Friday he was in Cleveland at the newly renamed Huntington Bank Field, where he was joined by fellow Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer Rod Stewart for a run through the old Faces
Mark Hoppus has been through a whole lot in his 52 years of life. He wrote “ Dammit .” He kicked cancer’s ass . He may have even helped the US military capture Saddam Hussein . Now, for the literate Blink-182 fans out there, he’s jotting down all his antics in writing with his
Eve, just days from releasing her memoir, is looking back to a long-ago phone call from JAY-Z that contained both praise and a warning not to get her hopes up.
"We'll throw in at no extra cost, anxiety, depression, band breakups, loss of self... and, of course, everyone's favorite: cancer!" he joked about his book, Fahrenheit-182
Asbury Park’s Sea.Hear.Now festival finally nabbed the headliner everyone has been waiting for since the festival began in 2018: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Springsteen’s Sunday evening closing set was more than worth the six year wait: a rarities-filled set that
For a good chunk of the past 12 months, Ben Gibbard, Jimmy Tamborello, Jenny Lewis, and others in the Postal Service fold have been out on the road celebrating the 20th anniversary of the band’s lone album, 2003’s electronic indie-pop sleeper hit Give Up . Gibbard’s main band
Unless we’re talking about something like the Ed Sullivan Show performances, the Beatles’ most famous American concert is their heavily documented Shea Stadium gig in 1965. A year earlier, however, the Beatles played a different Queens venue. In August 1964, during the initial
Last Saturday, Reggaeton singer Nicky Jam endorsed Donald Trump for president at the Republican candidate’s Las Vegas rally. It was weird for a number of reasons, not least of which being that Trump mistakenly referred to Nicky — a cisgender man — as a woman. Nicky was born in
Britpop greats Supergrass broke up in 2010 and reunited in 2019. In their time back together, Supergrass did a bunch of touring, played Kimmel , and released a cover of the Police’s “Next To You.” Two years ago, they played a short set at the Wembley Stadium Taylor Hawkins
Your Joanna Newsom fanposting is about to be so lit. The Unicode Consortium, whose Unicode text encoding standard governs digital text and emojis on devices worldwide, has approved the addition of a harp emoji. It’s expected to be in circulation early next year.
Lil Tjay's attorney has clarified rumors the rapper had got involved in more legal trouble after speculation spread he had been named in a federal indictment.
Prog metal trailblazers Dream Theater will share their huge new 7xLP box set, Dream Theater Vol. 1 , on Sept. 27. Limited to only 2,500 copies, the set collects some of the band’s most coveted albums — and it’s already sold out . Luckily for Stereogum readers, we’re teaming up
Amidst the recent shoegaze revival, many of the genre’s classic bands have gotten back together to tour and to make more music. But Catherine Wheel, a British band who got major burn on American alternative rock radio, have remained dormant ever since the release of their final
Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' video shoot is said to have cost local business owners thousands of dollars in income due to filming shutting a street down.
If you’re of a certain age, your initial response to hearing the music of the Dare might’ve been something along the lines of, “This sounds like LCD Soundsystem.” Despite being born a couple of decades apart, the similarities are obvious: Both Harrison Patrick Smith and his
One of this year’s great pop stories is the fast, astonishing rise of Chappell Roan, the newly crowned pop star who seems deeply ambivalent about her own stardom. In recent weeks, Roan has made headlines by attempting to establish boundaries between herself and her fans. She
The much-ballyhooed reunion of Jane’s Addiction’s original lineup might already have ended — in dramatic fashion. The band had already called off Sunday’s show in Bridgeport after Saturday’s Boston gig ended in a fistfight between singer Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro,
People continue to do some really fucked up things in public. Resurgent global pop icon Shakira has recently been building up to the release of the upcoming single “Soltera,” a collaboration with the Brazilian star Anitta. On Saturday night night, she put in a quick impromptu
2nd Grade, the tremendous Philly power-pop project headed up by Peter Gill, is back today with a trio of amazing songs from a new album coming soon. The LP is titled Scheduled Explosions , and we’ll have all 23 of its songs it in our clutches late next month. In the meantime,
Last night, Bruce Springsteen came back home. Springsteen and his E Street Band headlined the second night of the Sea.Hear.Now festival in their Asbury Park, New Jersey hometown, and they really made a meal of it. Springsteen and the E Street Band played what looks like a
The 76th annual Emmys took place last night at the Peacock Theater (formerly the Nokia Theatre and Microsoft Theater) in Los Angeles. Hacks won for Best Comedy Series, which is sick. Like most awards shows, this one featured an in memoriam segment honoring noteworthy figures
In retrospect, it’s amazing that Morrissey and Johnny Marr were ever able to be in a band together. These days, those guys simply do not like one another. They haven’t liked each other for a long time, but lately Morrissey has gone public with some of his gripes about Marr.
Brian King will consider 2024 a success if Fate & Alcohol is the third-most important thing that happens to him this October. By then, the Japandroids frontman hopes to celebrate one year of sobriety, a milestone as hard-fought as you’d expect for a guy who wrote – and fully
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop
Diddy allegedly threatened to cut J. Cole's throat with a bottle during their infamous fight over Kendrick Lamar's 'Control' at a 2013 VMAs afterparty.