Ashley is correct. This confusion drives me nuts. In my book, I argue that the emergence of stomp-clap was a big factor in hipsters going all-in on pop, rap, R&B, electronic, basically getting as far away from a Mumford/Lumineers style as possible. read.macmillan.com/lp/such-g…
look, i'm not humorless so i can get behind jokes looking back on the hipster era just as much as the next girl who spent too much money at american apparel. But people have GOT to stop associating that scene with stomp clap lumineers shit. it's inaccurate!
look, i'm not humorless so i can get behind jokes looking back on the hipster era just as much as the next girl who spent too much money at american apparel. But people have GOT to stop associating that scene with stomp clap lumineers shit. it's inaccurate!
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I love this article about "iPod brain" because it breaks down how technology decisions created an almost insatiable desire for diversity & breadth. Most tech we've seen since has been about narrowing in our filter bubbles; iPods were for breaking them.
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i woke up one morning and i thought to myself, 'there's nothing stopping you from declaring the deftones album better than most everything that came out this year' vulture.com/article/best-alb…
it's december! life is sometimes bleak! here are my 100 favourite songs, and a man's fumbling swerves about why he loves them so much.
ALT illustration of a night-blowing cereus (a scary, large yellow flower, with tendril-pettings) and the words SAID THE GRAMOPHONE, BEST SONGS OF 2025.
I'm getting killed by a pretty good year (musically speaking). Wrote blurbs for Rosalía, Agriculture, Water From Your Eyes, Bad Bunny, Ryan Davis, and Shallowater: stereogum.com/2480469/the-50…
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…