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This was the week we finally got to hear Daft Punk's Random Access Memories . As hosts of the album's official launch party, the town of Wee Waa, Australia was especially excited . We also had a party (of the unofficial, digital kind), at which you guys shared your initial reactions to the set. The LP's on track to top the Billboard charts next week and you can read our Premature Evaluation here . RAM is the topic that dominates this week's Shut Up, Dude, but we had other fun discussions [...]

It's Friday, the weather is finally nice, and we have a lot of great new albums to get more familiar with, namely the National's Trouble Will Find Me , Vampire Weekend's Modern Vampires Of The City , and Savages' Silence Yourself . Add those to recent releases by Deerhunter, Kurt Vile, the Knife, Kvelertak, Waxahatchee, MBV, Yo La Tengo, and others, and it's shaping up to be a really interesting music year. And we haven't even heard Daft Punk yet. Anyway, below are your best and worst comments [...]

Welcome back Neutral Milk Hotel! The E6 heroes have only announced a few fall tour dates , but more are coming . Which is good, because tickets sold out immediately and are pretty pricey on eBay . Speaking of… you've got three more days to bid on that Boards Of Canada Record Store Day 123 . It's currently at $5,500 . Reasonable. This week also saw big news from Vampire Weekend, who played new songs at Roseland and on Jools Holland before releasing the official version of " [...]

Here at Stereogum, in addition to bringing you all the latest Steve Buscemi viral videos , we present weekly longer form features to keep you entertained while you're procrastinating at work. Here's what we had this week: Read More...

Along with a glimpse of Daft Punk's new suits and song titles , this week we finally got to hear " Get Lucky ." Expectations for the full track couldn't have been higher and some of you were disappointed by it. Nevertheless it was a big week for the duo, and for their fellow countrymen Phoenix, whose performance with R. Kelly was a Coachella highlight. Their Bankrupt! is out next week, but you can read our Premature Evaluation now . Also this week we got Jai Paul's debut LP , but [...]

Coachella is here! And comment voting is back! Two reasons to celebrate for sure. Back in my day, Coachella was only one weekend, and bottled water was only a nickel. If you're in Indio, don't forget to drink water. And say hi to Danny DeVito for me. If you're not there, this is a great weekend to hang out at Stereogum.com: in additional to Coachella recaps and photos from Claire and Andrew, we have a new and improved comment voting system. Hover over the thumbs for a comment and you can see how many upvotes and [...]

It's Friday and our comment voting plug-in is still on the fritz. We should have a replacement up and running soon, though. For now we'll have to consider every comment made this week to be the best, and call it a tie. Congrats! In lieu of the list then, here's a look back at the week that was, as told by animated .gifs… Read More...

This week you guys offered a lot of insightful discourse while knowing full well your fellow readers could not validate you with a THUMBS UP or DOWN. Yes, our comment rating tools are still missing (we're working on it, ETA IDK) so there was no highest and lowest rated comments this week. That means this installment of Shut Up, Dude is not a list of comments. Instead, let's … look at some animated .gifs? Animated .gifs in review of the week's biggest stories! That'll do. Check 'em out below, then watch an informative 1995 episode of Computer Chronicles [...]

If you visited here Wednesday afternoon you saw all the post copy on the site replaced with 0s. That was not intentional. It was a malware attack. We've since fixed it, but had to disable comment voting (the plugin has known vulnerabilities we need to patch up). So this week's Shut Up, Dude rankings are based on scores earned Friday to Wednesday. Better than no Shut Up, Dude. Hopefully everything will be back to normal in a few days. Thanks for bearing with us. Here are this weeks winners and losers, pretty much… Read More...

This week's Shut Up, Dude comes to you from SXSW, where bands and brands play nice ( mostly ) for a marathon of free music and open bar. Stereogum's annual Range Life event goes down in a few hours at Hype Hotel - we've got Sky Ferreira, Youth Lagoon, Kitty, METZ, Hundred Waters, Bleeding Rainbow, and MC Lakutis - and I gotta head there to set up, so we're gonna launch this column a little early and skip the weekly link dump of what went up on the site this week. Hopefully you've been paying attention. Below are [...]

It's been a great couple of days for ambitious music videos, with highly stylized clips from Phoenix , Beach House , and the Knife all arriving towards the end of the week. (Not to mention our most popular story of the week was a Biffy Clyro video .) In addition to posting all of those, we ranked Modest Mouse's discography and the Notorious B.I.G.'s 10 best songs . We gave Album Of The Week honors to Waxahatchee's Cerulean Salt and Backtracked Mirah's Advisory Committee [...]

This week we announced the lineup to Range Life 2013 , our annual event during SXSW. If you'll be at the fest, please join us for free Taco Bell. If you'll be stuck in a cubicle somewhere, Morrissey will probably have some beef for you. In addition to Moz, we had plenty to write about since the last Shut Up, Dude. We launched two new columns: Backtrack and The Black Market . We ranked the weirdest U2 crafts , the best Rilo Kiley songs , and the Rolling Stones' discography . [...]

Bonnaroooo . I've already booked my plane tickets and am looking forward to seeing "Weird Al" for the first time. Maybe of some of you are too. The Tennessee fest's lineup reveal was our most popular post in a week that also brought a new tune from Phoenix , reviews of Atoms For Peace and Nick Cave , beefs between Moz and Staples Center and Patrick Carney and Justin Bieber fans , and anniversary celebrations of the Postal Service's Give Up and Radiohead's Pablo [...]

We kicked off this week with a comment party for the Grammys, a pretty tame ceremony from which we managed to find 10 least boring moments . We heard new songs from Tyler, The Creator , the Postal Service , and the Strokes . We ranked the Who's discography and Tegan And Sara's 10 best songs . We gave Pissed Jeans Album Of The Week . And we deconstructed villainizing musicians. Here are the best and worst things you had to say about it all. Read [...]

Superblizzard Nemo is upon us, and hopefully you are reading this from someplace warm and dry, ears wrapped in My Bloody Valentine's tremendous return, m b v . That was our must-hear album for a busy week that brought news from Beyoncé , Vampire Weekend , and James Blake . We also ranked Sleater-Kinney's discography , deconstructed the Mars Volta , listed Les Savy Fav's 10 best songs , and defended Mumford & Sons , who may have a big Grammy night ahead of them. We'll [...]

This week we Deconstructed the festival industry and the postage hike's impact on indie . We talked with Robyn Hitchcock , Waxahatchee , Autre Ne Veut , and Brendan Benson . We listed the 10 weirdest Prince crafts and the 10 best OutKast songs . We heard new songs from the Strokes , Iron And Wine , and Depeche Mode . But as exciting as all that was, we never got a new MBV LP . Maybe next week. While you wait, check out the highest [...]

This week's Shut Up, Dude comes from lovely, almost-sunny Los Angeles, where last night we brought Merchandise to Sonos Studio . This year's Coachella lineup was released within minutes of the band's first song so it was a pretty buzzy evening. Are you going to Coachella? Are you so stoked for the reunited Stone Roses and Postal Service? Do you know who the Stone Roses are ? Did you realize Phoenix were so popular? Do you remember when Red Hot Chili Peppers were cool? And speaking of cool, how about that bananas Knife song ? [...]

This week's big comeback story was the return of Kris Kross . We didn't post about that, though, so instead please welcome back Justin Timberlake . Missed u JT. "Suit & Tie" was our most viewed post of the week. But even more controversial were our Album Of The Week selection and rankings of the Flaming Lips discography and Beck's 10 best songs . Lots of insightful comments on those, everyone. Good job. Now it's time to grab a drink, slip into your full body Bowie sweater , and relive the get-fresh [...]

This week we welcomed the return of David Bowie , who will release a new album in March. Too bad he won't play Coachella , even though someone wants us to think he will . We also ranked the Smiths discography ; reviewed albums from Yo La Tengo , Christopher Owens , and Dropkick Murphys ; and heard new songs from Iceage , Devendra Banhart , and Destiny's Child . We looked at the 10 weirdest Joy Division crafts on Etsy and listed the Walkmen's 10 best [...]

And we're back. It's the first Shut Up, Dude of the year, and the first post of the day because something happened to our server last night. I don't know what, exactly, but we looked into the node rebuild status (?) and things are stable again. Thanks for bearing with us. Anyway. Earlier this week we surveyed the year in comebacks , the creative potential of domestic bliss , and the economic plight of the working musician . We heard new tunes from AlunaGeorge , Local Natives , and Skrillex . We played d-J [...]