Lists Archives - Stereogum https://stereogum.com/category/lists/ The world's best music blog. Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:30:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://lede-admin.stereogum.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/64/2022/02/stereogum-site-icon-192x192-1644917357.png?w=32 Lists Archives - Stereogum https://stereogum.com/category/lists/ 32 32 245057171 The 5 Best Songs Of The Week https://stereogum.com/2491366/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-616/lists/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:29:58 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2491366 Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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]]> 2491366 The 5 Best Songs Of The Week https://stereogum.com/2490571/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-615/lists/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:40:51 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2490571 Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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]]> 2490571 The 5 Best Songs Of The Week https://stereogum.com/2489920/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-614/lists/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:42:33 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2489920 Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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]]> 2489920 The 5 Best Songs Of The Week https://stereogum.com/2489092/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-613/lists/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:24:38 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2489092 Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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]]> 2489092 The 5 Best Songs Of The Week https://stereogum.com/2488104/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-612/lists/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/ Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:46:16 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2488104 Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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]]> 2488104 Super Bowl Commercials 2026: Here’s What Pop Stars Are Shilling This Year https://stereogum.com/2487732/super-bowl-commercials-2026-heres-what-pop-stars-are-shilling-this-year/lists/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:46:57 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2487732 Bloomberg reports that a 30-second ad during Super Bowl LX comes with a price tag of $10 million. But that record-high rate hasn't stopped brands from cashing in on coveted commercial time, or recruiting some of the year's most marketable pop stars to help them out.

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]]> 2487732 Ranking The Performances At The 2026 Grammys https://stereogum.com/2487721/ranking-the-performances-at-the-2026-grammys/lists/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:45:09 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2487721 Is there any such thing as a great Grammys telecast? One where you're just completely locked in through the whole thing, like "let's all celebrate music together"? No, right? The worst Grammys telecast is a never-ending parade of self-congratulatory bullshit and boring balladry. The best Grammys telecast is a surprisingly OK experience.

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]]> 2487721 The 5 Best Songs Of The Week https://stereogum.com/2487167/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-611/lists/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:42:05 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2487167 Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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]]> 2487167 The 5 Best Songs Of The Week https://stereogum.com/2486326/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-610/lists/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:19:50 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2486326 Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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]]> 2486326 The 5 Best Songs Of The Week https://stereogum.com/2485592/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-609/lists/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:38:31 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2485592 Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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]]> 2485592 The 10 Best Bob Weir Songs https://stereogum.com/2484882/the-10-best-bob-weir-songs/lists/10-best-songs/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:08:46 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2484882 According to legend, back in 1968, Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh fired Bob Weir and Pigpen from their positions in the Grateful Dead. Or maybe it was that Garcia and Lesh tried to fire Weir and Pig… or they asked the band's manager, Rock Scully, to fire those guys… anyway, long story short, the band failed to fire anybody. Pigpen died in 1973. Jerry passed in 1995. Lesh left us in 2024. Weir, meanwhile, was on stage at Golden Gate Park with Mickey Hart and John Mayer less than six months ago, celebrating 60 years of the Dead.

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]]> 2484882 The 5 Best Songs Of The Week https://stereogum.com/2484628/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-608/lists/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:25:12 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2484628 Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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]]> 2484628 Our 100 Most Cursed Headlines Of 2025 https://stereogum.com/2483873/cursed-headlines-2025/lists/year-in-review/2025-in-review/ Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:32:58 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2483873 Around this time of year I usually publish a ranking of the highest rated comments on Stereogum articles from the past 12 months. However, in November we relaunched on a new platform, and its commenting software no longer gives me this information. Maybe this list will kick off a different annual tradition.

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]]> 2483873 The 200 Most Anticipated Albums Of 2026 https://stereogum.com/2483786/2026-albums-release-list/lists/album-list/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:11:16 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2483786 And now we turn our attention to 2026 with Stereogum's annual preview of what we're excited to hear next year. This time, I've broken the list into sections to provide context around which inclusions are realistic. The usual ground rules apply: no reissues, deluxes, live albums, EPs, or maxi-singles (even if they have 11 tracks).

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]]> 2483786 The 10 Best Experimental Albums Of 2025 https://stereogum.com/2483207/the-10-best-experimental-albums-of-2025/lists/year-in-review/2025-in-review/ Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:12:18 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2483207 Once again, here are my personal picks for the year's best in abattoir jazz, diaristic field recordings, audio Rothkos, ambient epics, electroacoustic cinema, marathon improv, and backroom electronica.

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]]> 2483207 The 10 Best Shoegaze Albums Of 2025 https://stereogum.com/2482752/the-10-best-shoegaze-albums-of-2025/lists/year-in-review/2025-in-review/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:42:11 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2482752 It’s easy to pinpoint when trends in music begin: People rally around a specific band or album, a new scene forms around a shared sensibility, or a particular sound permeates the zeitgeist. It’s more difficult to determine when something ends. After years of slowly creeping back into the fore, shoegaze’s popularity exploded in 2023 due to a confluence of new fans, new bands, and fresh energy. That's the year I locate as the formal beginning of a new shoegaze era, and it’s safe to say that we’re still living through that same period even as 2025 comes to a close. Some of the revival’s most crucial bands have evolved away from shoegaze proper (Wednesday, Hotline TNT, Greet Death), and many of the new-jack fans who never engaged with the genre beyond Deftones TikToks have predictably dropped out, but if you look at the numbers, the fervor around shoegaze music remains at a fever pitch. 

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]]> 2482752 In Memoriam: Bands We Lost In 2025 https://stereogum.com/2483126/in-memoriam-bands-we-lost-in-2025/original-videos/in-memoriam/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:42:47 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2483126 This is my 17th annual Oscars-style tribute to all the bands who broke up in the past year, and every year it gets more difficult to figure out which acts are really over. I put plenty of research into it, but already some of the groups from last year’s montage — REO Speedwagon, Mr. Big, METZ — have reunited, even if just for one night. Doesn’t anybody stay apart anymore?

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]]> 2483126 The 10 Best Country Albums Of 2025 https://stereogum.com/2483029/the-10-best-country-albums-of-2025/lists/year-in-review/2025-in-review/ Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:20:00 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2483029 This year's best country albums list is once again presented in partnership with Don't Rock The Inbox, the amazing country music newsletter run by Stereogum contributors Marissa R. Moss and Natalie Weiner. Check it out and consider buying a subscription.

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]]> 2483029 The Top 40 Pop Songs Of 2025 https://stereogum.com/2482594/the-top-40-pop-songs-of-2025/lists/year-in-review/2025-in-review/ Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:20:16 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2482594 Every year, the bounty of pop music grows more and more (my apologies to the 2,637 songs in my inbox as of time of writing that I haven't gotten to yet, out of you don't want to know how many). Singling out the top 40 pop thrills of the year only gets harder; maybe that's why the actual Top 40 doesn't even bother to be comprehensive.

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]]> 2482594 The Gummy Awards: Your Top 10 Albums And Songs Of 2025 https://stereogum.com/2482950/the-gummy-awards-your-top-10-albums-and-songs-of-2025/lists/gummy-awards/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:35:23 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2482950 The votes are in. We've counted up your ballots and are happy to present the top 10 albums and songs of 2025 according to Stereogum readers. As usual, your choices align with our staff picks somewhat while diverging in fun and interesting ways. Check it out below, and congratulate yourselves on another year of great taste.

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]]> 2482950 The 5 Best Songs Of The Week https://stereogum.com/2482750/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-607/lists/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:40:42 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2482750 Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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]]> 2482750 The 10 Best Electronic Albums Of 2025 https://stereogum.com/2482546/the-10-best-electronic-albums-of-2025/lists/year-in-review/2025-in-review/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:12:53 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2482546 In 2025, the rave was not defined by a cohesive trend. Over my first complete year writing a column for Stereogum, the mood was noticeably scattered. Dubstep shifted in smart directions; soundscapes found new ways to mutate; club behemoths unveiled celestial epics. The memorable albums were those that forged their own path.

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]]> 2482546 The 10 Best Hardcore Albums Of 2025 https://stereogum.com/2482312/the-10-best-hardcore-albums-of-2025/lists/year-in-review/2025-in-review/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:52:01 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2482312 One band absolutely dominated the hardcore conversation this year, and they did it by working way, way harder than anyone else. Affable Boston bruisers Haywire spent 2025 playing sweaty, cathartic, extremely fun live shows in every VFW Hall and skate park from sea to shining sea. Within 12 months, they rocked venues in all 50 states, no exaggeration. Their sets, captured and broadcast by whoever was brave enough to hold up cellphones in high stagedive-density areas, only grew bigger and wilder. Along the way, Haywire got really, really good at performing their exceedingly simple basher anthems,. They are a grassroots sensation, a legend in the making. But Haywire's debut full-length Conditioned For Demolition came out last year. Their only 2025 record was Shirts Vs. Skins, a split EP with No Guard. So this is a Chappell Roan 2024 situation. I can't salute Haywire's golden moment on this list, and this list is missing something without them. 

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]]> 2482312 The 10 Best Rap Albums Of 2025 https://stereogum.com/2481985/best-rap-albums-of-2025-see-our-columnists-list/lists/year-in-review/2025-in-review/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:10:22 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2481985 This past fall, for the first time since 1990, there wasn’t a single rap song in the Billboard Hot 100's top 40. Megan Thee Stallion briefly shifted the disappointing mark with a new single shortly afterwards, but that’s besides the point. There was plenty of good rap this year — you just needed the taste and imagination to discover it.

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]]> 2481985 The 10 Best Metal Albums Of 2025 https://stereogum.com/2481824/the-10-best-metal-albums-of-2025/lists/year-in-review/2025-in-review/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:15:00 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2481824 I didn't think too hard about dedicating the second-ever edition of this column to Ragne Wahlquist. The late Heavy Load frontman left an indelible mark on heavy metal, in his native Sweden and beyond, so writing about him after learning he'd died unexpectedly at the age of 69 just made sense. I stand behind that column. It contains the only major interview that Ragne's brother and bandmate, Styrbjörn Wahlquist, has done since Ragne's death. I got a few luminaries of today's Swedish metal underground to talk about what Heavy Load meant to them. A few readers even told me that my column had convinced them to check out Death And Glory and Stronger Than Evil, which was all I could have asked for. By late summer, when I had weighed and decided against a half-dozen other memorial columns, it became clear that the Ragne Wahlquist tribute would be a one-off. Metal legends were dying with such frequency that, if anything, Breaking The Oath needed an obituaries desk.

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]]> 2481824 19 Acts Who Pulled Their Music Off Spotify This Year https://stereogum.com/2482225/19-acts-who-pulled-their-music-off-spotify-this-year/lists/year-in-review/2025-in-review/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:01:12 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2482225 2025 will likely go down in history as a particularly bad PR year for Spotify. We've known for seemingly ages now that the world's most popular streaming platform pays artists fractions of pennies, but that rift between artists and the company's head honchos grew exponentially this year after news broke in June that Spotify CEO Daniel Ek had invested nearly $700 million via his own venture capital firm into Helsing, a German company that develops AI military software. (Ek is also the chairman of Helsing.) As if that wasn't enough, in October Spotify also began running ICE recruitment ads for listeners on their free subscription tier, and addressed the backlash by saying that it did not violate their company advertising policies. 

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]]> 2482225 The 10 Best Jazz Albums Of 2025 https://stereogum.com/2481697/the-10-best-jazz-albums-of-2025/lists/year-in-review/2025-in-review/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:30:00 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2481697 So... what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp, saxophonist Art Pepper, pianist Oscar Peterson, drummer Dom Um Romão, and all-around performer Sammy Davis, Jr. Haynes almost lived to see it; he died last year at 99. The others died years ago. But if you've never listened to Haynes' Out Of The Afternoon, or Ammons' Boss Tenor, or Pepper's Meets The Rhythm Section, it's never too late to catch up.

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]]> 2481697 The 5 Best Songs Of The Week https://stereogum.com/2481948/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-606/lists/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:53:08 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2481948 Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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]]> 2481948 Staff Picks: Our Other Favorite Songs Of 2025 https://stereogum.com/2481686/staff-picks-our-other-favorite-songs-of-2025/lists/year-in-review/2025-in-review/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:15:52 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2481686 Year-end festivities are well underway here at Stereogum. We've published our lists of 2025's best albums and songs, and we launched our annual readers' poll, the Gummy Awards. Now it's time to get personal.

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]]> 2481686 The Gummy Awards: Vote For Your Favorite Music Of 2025 https://stereogum.com/2480935/the-gummy-awards-vote-for-your-favorite-music-of-2025/lists/gummy-awards/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:00:21 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2480935 It's that time of year. We at Stereogum have shared our picks for the year's best albums and songs. Now, as per tradition, it's time for you to offer up your own. The 2025 Gummy Awards are live.

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]]> 2480935 The 50 Best Songs Of 2025 https://stereogum.com/2480811/the-50-best-songs-of-2025/lists/year-in-review/2025-in-review/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:10:26 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2480811 What makes a song great? Is it craftsmanship or passion? Defying expectations or masterfully executing a time-tested formula? The intense personal connection we forge with music tailored directly to us, or the way some tunes become so ubiquitous that they loom large over culture as part of some grand communal language? The answer, obviously, is yes. 

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]]> 2480811 The 50 Best Albums Of 2025 https://stereogum.com/2480469/the-50-best-albums-of-2025/lists/year-in-review/2025-in-review/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:45:20 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2480469 Things are looking different around here these days. Not long ago, Stereogum moved to a new platform and a revamped membership system – changes that had to be made in a landscape where Google AI is choking the revenue out of small, independent websites like ours. The music world is also looking different. AI is threatening to replace everything over there, too. Artists from abroad are having a harder time touring the US. The mere act of using Spotify requires a certain level of moral calculus. Things are bleak, except where they are not. It's pretty hard to stay pessimistic when you hear some of the actual music that came out in 2025.

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]]> 2480469 The 5 Best Songs Of The Week https://stereogum.com/2480313/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-605/lists/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:43:27 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2480313 Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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]]> 2480313 The 5 Best Songs Of The Week https://stereogum.com/2479744/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-604/lists/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:10:21 +0000 https://stereogum.com/?p=2479744 Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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]]> 2479744 The 40 Best New Artists Of 2025 https://stereogum.com/2476155/the-40-best-new-artists-of-2025/lists/best-new-artists/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:20:27 +0000 https://lede-v2.stereogum.com/?p=2476155 What do Tame Impala, Haim, Chance The Rapper, and Addison Rae all have in common? Though they're arguably superstars now, in the past they were all featured among Stereogum's annual roundups of the year's Best New Artists (fka Best New Bands). We don't claim to have any clairvoyant skills around here. We just have good taste. And with the end of the year fast approaching, it's now time for us to tell you the Best New Artists Of 2025.

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]]> 2476155 80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Neil Young Song https://stereogum.com/2476602/80-artists-pick-their-favorite-neil-young-song/interviews/80-for-80/ Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:15:48 +0000 https://lede-v2.stereogum.com/?p=2476602 When I was a kid first getting into classic rock, Neil Young was “the weird one.” The Beatles, the Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin, they all had their legions of fans. Young, did, too. But they were the loners, the wanderers. My elders would quip about his voice, or the darkness simmering underneath his writing. For every beautiful, enduring folk-rock hit, he had a whole array of gnarled music unafraid to lean into some harrowing adult shit — not foreign amongst his peers, but rarely conveyed with so much unflinching honesty. Out of all the Boomer icons, Young was the dark horse.

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]]> 2476602 The 5 Best Songs Of The Week https://stereogum.com/2476599/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-603/lists/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:48:46 +0000 https://lede-v2.stereogum.com/?p=2476599 Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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]]> 2476599 The 5 Best Songs Of The Week https://stereogum.com/2476013/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-602/lists/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/ Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:14:00 +0000 https://lede-v2.stereogum.com/?p=2476013 Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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]]> 2476013 Our Annual Rundown Of Christmas Releases Continues To Haunt Your Halloween https://stereogum.com/2475881/our-annual-rundown-of-christmas-releases-continues-to-haunt-your-halloween/lists/ Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:59:00 +0000 https://lede-v2.stereogum.com/?p=2475881 The ads have already started airing. Every year, the Christmas industrial complex encroaches earlier into autumn, and thanks to climate change, we're now subjected to holiday fare before some of us have even pulled our coats out of the closet. The promo blitz extends to the music industry, where new yuletide tracks and albums start materializing basically as soon as school returns to session.

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]]> 2475881 The 5 Best Songs Of The Week https://stereogum.com/2327480/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-601/lists/ Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:03:17 +0000 https://www.stereogum.com/?p=2327480 Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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