We’ve got new items at the Stereogum merch booth for the holidays, including a pint glass and our two most popular t-shirts now on Comfort Comforts. ICYMI in the Discord, there’s a Member-exclusive discount code you can use for 25% off any order before Tuesday. Enter GNX at checkout!

Happy 50th birthday to God-fearing patriot Chad Kroeger.

It’s been a week. Feel free to discuss the election, the Grammys, or neither in the comments.

This week Mk.gee got an SNL booking, Wishy got a Sims sync, Alvvays got sampled by Lil Uzi Vert, and Magdalena Bay got a TV debut and a Grimes remix and Rosalia’s Halloween costume. You love to see it.

This week Halsey made her The Number Ones debut and today she releases the new album The Great Impersonator.

Does Sabrina Carpenter wear a wig onstage? Even Sabrina Carpenter doesn’t know…

Stereogum is in Vegas (baby) for Best Friends Forever festival. We’ll be chatting with a bunch of the bands in video interviews so if you have any pressing questions about second wave emo lmk.

This week we published interviews with LL Cool J, the Blood Brothers, Blood Incantation, Alan Sparhawk, Raphael Saadiq, Balance And Composure, Geordie Greep, and Yasmin Williams. Read them, there will be a quiz.

This week we saw beefs between Journey and Avenged Sevenfold and between Peter Frampton and Megadeth. I wish I had a third example right now but we may have to wait until some band picks a fight with Grand Funk Railroad at ACL. Your final best comments of September are below!

This week’s #6/#5 arrangement is 🤌. Great work from you all heading into Moo Deng Autumn.

Have a great Purge everyone.

New Linkin Park singer got milkshake ducked real fast. Hope you have a better weekend than them.

There was a lot of teasing of reunion announcements this week. After clues at Reading and Leeds festivals, on Tuesday morning Oasis confirmed news of their first shows in 16 years, and they might even include Bonehead. The big reunion led to a lot of memes and Noel Gallagher’s unplanned first interview about it when a fan’s kids interrogated him in a Stone Island store.

The 2024 DNC had Jason Isbell and Lil Jon, but not Beyoncé. Rare miss, TMZ.

There was no new music this week. Here are politicians talking about Bob Seger.

Chappell Roan drew Lollapalooza’s largest daytime crowd ever and in the days following got covered by Blink-182 and Jonas Brothers and co-signed by SZA, Noah Kahan, Hayley Williams, Selena Gomez, and IKEA.

Happy birthday Charli!

The Olympics Opening Ceremony went down in Paris today. IDGAF but my job as Stereogum team captain requires me to tell you that Gojira rocked out with Marie Antoinette and Céline Dion returned to the stage, but didn’t duet with Harley Quinn. Snoop Dogg, Pharrell Williams, and BTS’ Jin were among those carrying the torch earlier in the day. Birthday boy Mick Jagger was spotted cheering on Team GB. And Ariana Grande was there too, doing some Wicked promo. Somewhere Snoop is practicing his 200m while Flavor Flav is practicing his t-shot. Soon: breakdancing! Good luck, America.

I don’t know what Ozzy‘s talking about. Britney’s Instagram is perfect.

This week Faye Webster, Jessica Pratt, and Sublime made their late night TV debuts and Wand played a Chicago morning show. Do you watch TV? Lmk if I should start season three of The Bear or just stop now.

She went Houdini:

Yesterday Dave Davies found his lost Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame trophy and today is Ray Davies’ 80th birthday. The Killers just covered “Come Dancing” in Dublin. It would be sick if the Kinks finally reunited/worked it out on the remix. Until then, check out your best comments of the week.

This week we talked to Colin Meloy, Water From Your Eyes, Yhapojj, Doubt, and a bunch of folks in the live music industry, and we forgot to ask all of them if they’ve seen Challengers. I bet Anthony Mason would’ve remembered.

Your most julia comments of the week are below.

Were you expecting a list of this week’s best comments? That’s on you because we are of course still having a tech problem that prevents me from pulling the data. But it really is close to being fixed. A developer named Tim told me so today! As soon as that happens we will have proper Shut Up, Dude again, along with some upgrades to the site. (Any comments made during this downtime will still be counted for our year-end comments list, by the way, in case anyone with an incredible comment was worried.) Please bear with us since next week we will publish a countdown of the 50 best albums of 2024 so far. 👀 What should be #1?

Happy for Kendrick, but back to back “Fortnight” and “Not Like Us” weeks might mean “Espresso” missed its shot at #1. In any case, Sabrina Carpenter will be on SNL tomorrow…

Hello hi. OpenWeb fucked up again and we don’t have the data for this week’s best comments. Sorry. Maybe tomorrow. So here’s an editor’s choice and tell us your favorite shoegaze song in the comments. 👇

“Am I battlin’ ghost or AI?” Kendrick Lamar asked Drake on “Euphoria,” and he wasn’t the only one disappointed by our new non-reality this week. FKA twigs testified in a Senate committee hearing about how the AI industry needs regulation while Youth Lagoon slammed Washed Out for using Sora to make a music video. On the other hand, today Randy Travis used voice-cloning tech to release his first song since a stroke took away most of his speech, so I don’t think the AI discourse is ending anytime soon. As far as I know all the comments on this site are written by humans and you can read the best ones below.

We released a code update so you should no longer have to click to log in to read Shut Up, Dude if you’re already logged in. Lemme know if it worked!

This week Grimes apologized to Coachella and Evan Dando apologized to Jawbreaker but where is Taylor Swift’s apology to music bloggers for releasing a surprise album at 2AM? Happy for Charles Otto Puth Jr. though.

I’m seeing the Boss tonight, but sad to be missing all these exciting Coachella billboards:

Tonight I’m seeing Ratboys and Ducks Ltd., tomorrow I’m seeing Olivia Rodrigo and the Breeders, and Sunday I’m seeing Summer Walker and Bronchitis. 😷

Stone Temple Pilots and Live announced a Purple/Throwing Copper 30th anniversary tour, Moby announced a Play 25th anniversary tour, and Drive-By Truckers announced a Southern Rock Opera 23rd (?) anniversary tour. Sure, would go to all. But I’m really looking forward to the Tigers Blood one month anniversary tour. What are you listening to today?

Stereogum is at Austin’s Cheer Up Charlies right now presenting performances by Narrow Head, the Armed, Horse Jumper Of Love, and many more great bands — plus we just added sets by Scowl and Glare! The free, all-ages party started at 12:04 PM, right after we spun “Archie, Marry Me,” and will end after 2AM. See you there!

This week French Montana’s Mac & Cheese 5 debuted far below projections despite having 126 tracks, 26 more than expected:

If you’re salivating over the second wave emo fest lineup but concerned about spending a lot of money, I have good news. Many of you are about to get refunds for your Flavortown Fest ’24 tickets. See you in Vegas.