The members of New York's suddenly-awesome underground rap scene aren't exactly the most conventionally attractive group of dudes on the face of the earth, but they do know how to look cool. And the…   Read Story »

Katy Goodman's La Sera project has another record due out later this spring, from which we previously heard (and saw the video for) lead single "Please Be My Third Eye." Today she another…   Read Story »

Barely 24 hours before this year's Grammy Awards ceremony began, Whitney Houston, a woman who'd once seemed like a cyborg engineered to win as many Grammys as possible, was found dead in a Los…   Read Story »

It's the 2012 Grammys! The Stereogum crew is over at my house, there may or may not be pizza and beer involved, and on the off chance you are experiencing something similar at yours, we have decided…   Read Story »

Whitney Houston, one of the biggest pop stars of the '80s and '90s, has died, as ABC News reports. The cause and location (UPDATE: location was the Beverly Hilton Hotel) of her death haven't been…   Read Story »

When M.I.A. held up her middle finger during Madonna's Super Bowl Halftime Show last weekend, she dominated blog chatter for a few days and incited a few minor cable-TV debates. She could have to pay…   Read Story »

Yesterday, Lana Del Rey sang Born To Die songs at a jam-packed Amoeba Records as rumors swirled about her upcoming tour (the NY Post claimed that the tour had been cancelled because of the…   Read Story »

Last night, Jay-Z played a benefit for United Way of New York City and The Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation at NYC's Carnegie Hall -- he plays again tonight -- and though most of the public was…   Read Story »

The biggest story to come out of last night's Super Bowl was this: In a repeat of their historic 2008 victory, the New York Giants won a dramatic come-from-behind victory over the favored New England…   Read Story »

Well, look at this: Maya has her swagger back. The video for her new single "Bad Girls" is an early contender for video of the year; it sends up all sorts of rap-video clichés by transposing them to…   Read Story »