Elder –“Legend” (Stereogum Premiere)
The psychedelic stoner-doom band Elder have been making music since 2006, and over the course of their existence, they've released a pair of LPs (2008's Elder and 2011's Dead Roots Stirring) as well as...
View ArticleThe Black Market: The Month In Metal – February 2015
At the very end of January, a few days after last month's Black Market was published, Tom interviewed Wes Borland -- the guitar player in Limp Bizkit who dresses like he accidentally went onstage with...
View ArticleThe 50 Best Albums Of 2015 So Far
The amount of great music in the past six months has been almost unfair. As in: How are we supposed to process all this? How can we fully appreciate one major piece of work when there's always another...
View ArticleStereogum’s 80 Favorite Songs Of 2015
One of music's finest qualities is that, for all its unifying power, it strikes different people in radically different ways. There is value in recognizing consensus, in appreciating the work that...
View ArticleThe 50 Best Metal Albums Of 2015
If we're just talking about the music -- and isn't that, like, the thing we're talking about here? -- then 2015 was a great year for metal. That should come as no surprise. The genre (to the the extent...
View ArticleElder –“The Falling Veil”
I follow about 200 skateboarders and skate brands on Instagram, and my absolute favorite thing to do on my phone is scroll through that feed and watch every single skate video that comes up. I love it....
View ArticleThe 5 Best Songs Of The Week
This has been a motherfucker of a week. The upside? It's over. The other upside? We got some pretty great songs. And man, do we need them. More »
View ArticleElder –“Staving Off Truth”
I already penned a lengthy appreciation of Elder's upcoming fourth LP, Reflections Of A Floating World, when we premiered its lead single, "The Falling Veil," a couple weeks ago -- so I'll keep this...
View ArticleAlbum Of The Week: Elder Reflections Of A Floating World
We tend to think of Conan The Barbarian as a big, dumb fucker with a sword. But Conan was something else, too. Robert E. Howard, the great pulp writer, was probably the closest thing to a peer that...
View ArticleThe 50 Best Albums Of 2017 So Far
Lizzy Goodman’s new book, Meet Me In The Bathroom, documents an era in rock music that many of us remember well. It uses oral history to tell the story of the great New York rock boom of the early...
View ArticleThe 50 Best Albums Of 2017
We made it! Well, we mostly made it. The world could well end in the next 25 days. But we've made it through 11 months of this godless year, and for that, we deserve to congratulate each other. It's...
View ArticleStereogum’s 80 Favorite Songs Of 2017
If you've been reading Stereogum for long enough, you may have noticed something about your Stereogum staffers: We don't agree on shit. We argue constantly, in public and in private, and we get behind...
View ArticleThe Best Metal Albums Of 2017
Before we begin our discussion of the fantastic year for underground metal that was 2017, a few orders of business: … More »
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