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No one likes AI more than musicians with bad goatees and comically large hats. On the @stereogum.com homepage right now:

One of my strongest-held opinions is that the “track listing” section should be higher on the Wikipedia page for an album.

Good on Middlesbrough for recognizing that MLS players are EXTREMELY undervalued on the world market.

monitoring the situation in ann arbor, where they hired a good football coach who may not understand the job www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-f...

This statement by UEFA on FIFA attempting to sell off the World Cup gave me goosebumps, what a statement - the beautiful game deserves no less “As so long as Europe has a voice, it will never be for sale.”

Infantino out!

If you need a reason to get a @stereogum.com subscription (which I would argue is one of the most worthwhile subscriptions on the entire Internet), yesterday's Alternative Number Ones column by @tombreihan.bsky.social is one of the best he's ever written.

I got interviewed for my local paper. (Yes, that's a Schopenhauer T-shirt.) bigforkeagle.com/news/2026/ju...

Does avant garde music have a place in the West? Bigfork's Philip Freeman thinks soSince moving to Bigfork from New Jersey in 2023, Freeman has established the lone outpost in the West for the genre-bending music that pushes the boundaries of conventional sounds.bigforkeagle.com

I think Poch is a good coach, but under him we lost a tournament we'd won 3x under Berhalter (Nations League), played like minnows in the Gold Cup final, and suffered our worst World Cup lost in at least 20 years – arguably 36. And did so at home vs. a team we could've beaten on a good day.

not only is he right about this, he wrote a book in which he's right about a whole bunch of stuff

Such Great HeightsAN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe definitive history of twenty-first-century indie rock—from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and...us.macmillan.com

Some extremely good writing by Stereogum's Margaret Farrell. The new album rules!

Good review!

This review is fantastic. Must read.

Theoretically Nick Hakim makes soul music, but I CAN SEE is more like visiting spirit music. I wrote about one of the best albums of the year:

Album Of The Week: Nick Hakim 'I Can See'Theoretically, Nick Hakim makes soul music, but it’s more like visiting spirit music. The Queens-based polymath, a trusted collaborator for figures as disparate as Adrianne Lenker and Lil Yachty, can ...stereogum.com

I don’t know how to convince anyone of this, but the hundreds or thousands of words many publications run below the headline aren’t decorative. Often they contain nuance that doesn’t fit into ten words.

At a certain point, once you recognize the destruction of the middle class in one aspect of your life, you kind of can't stop recognizing it in all aspects of your life

An MLS game postponed by smoke? That’s football heritage. #Crew96

"As an animator you’re always exaggerating things. Somebody kicks a ball and you have the leg go way up. They would say – well, ‘a child could never kick a ball that hard.’ Like, it’s a freaking soccer dog, dude. It is a cartoon dog!” An instant Pablo Maurer classic.

Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable

they are paying more for this fucking thing than for a real-live teacher