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Lately, Steve Albini -- the veteran producer, Shellac frontman, and longtime underground-rock gadfly -- has been saying things about how streaming services are the inevitable next development in the way we listen to music, even going so far as to claim that those services have solved "the problem with music," making labels irrelevant and removing music from the realm of commodity. He made some of

From star-studded guest lists to an audible influence on several generations of bands, Radiohead's fan base has always included quite a few of their fellow rock stars. We polled dozens of notable musicians about their favorite Radiohead songs, and this is how they responded. Ed Droste (Grizzly Bear)"Let Down" (From 1997's OK Computer) Picking a favorite Radiohead song is really really tough. I've

Music is a messy thing. There's too much of it, too many genres, too many ideas, for anyone to make sense out of all of it -- or even to hear all of it. The idea of imposing a narrative on 365 days of music, of making sense of a whole year, is a fool's errand. Still, some years, stories and patterns and commonalities emerge. Trends cut across genre lines and become movements. New voices rise up an

Japanese pop artists rarely come to the US. So when Perfume -- the female vocal trio who've spent the last decade embodying a unique and amazing techno-pop sound and visual presentation, rising to J-pop prominence in the process -- announced that they'd be playing Hammerstein Ballroom (as well as L.A.'s Hollywood Palladium), the response from their US fan base was, basically, hysteria. The members

Infamously cantankerous studio rat/national treasure Steve Albini doesn't like to be called a record producer. He prefers the term "recording engineer." That's a dry, clinical term for what Albini actually does, but it makes sense that he'd prefer to be seen that way. Over the past few decades, Albini has overseen the creation of countless numbers of recorded artifacts. And even though he's been a

Hey, another year-end list! Today, we've already seen Paste and Q name their 50 favorite albums of 2011. Now the British rock mag Uncut also chips in, giving a list that's heavier on doom-and-gloom visions and old-timey sounds than anyone could've expected. The magazine's album of the year, it turns out, is PJ Harvey's Mercury winner Let England Shake, a perfectly defensible choice. And the list,

Stereogum Presents... STROKED: A Tribute To Is This It The Strokes' debut album Is This It was first released on 7/30/01. To help us celebrate this 10th Anniversary, we asked some of our favorite indie bands to cover each track. The resulting collection, STROKED: A Tribute To Is This It, is in the spirit of our previous free tribute albums for Radiohead's OK Computer, R.E.M.'s Automatic For The Pe

"T.O.R.N.A.D.O" looks like a cheer and there's definitely a marching band thing going on here (and Ninja moves into rapid-speed), but ultimately the Go! Team do something darker, less all-over-the-map flamboyant for our first taste of the forthcoming Rolling Blackouts. The Go! Team - "T.O.R.N.A.D.O." (Via P4K) Rolling Blackoutsis out 1/31 via Memphis Industries. It features guest spots from Deerho