Scott Lapatine

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Scott Lapatine@scott· 28d

R.I.P. Ian Curtis you would’ve loved Geese

Scott Lapatine@scott· 29d

Eclectic folk-rockers Styrofoam Winos last night, bringing recent Stereogum Album Of The Week ‘Any River’ to their first NYC headline show. Here’s “Somebody Wants To Send You A Message,” a song about pornbots. They also covered a Michael Hurley tune that’s not even on their Michael Hurley covers LP.

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jul 14

Charley Crockett just dropped Phil from his tour 😢 stereogum.com/2505185/phil...

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jul 13

inglorious bonus beats

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jul 11

I’m told the Morrissey singer (who actually ran for this committee but was defeated in the primary last month) is the son of the same Will Thilly Sr who invented Apple Jacks. I have not been able to confirm. This is a developing story. stereogum.com/2504792/cran...

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jul 6

Fun fact from Margaret’s interview with Mary In The Junkyard: Clari Freeman-Taylor’s great-great-uncle was Robert Wadlow, the tallest person in recorded history stereogum.com/2503693/band...

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jul 3

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Scott Lapatine@scott· Jul 2

Happy Synesthesia Awareness Day to those who celebrate

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jul 1

towel is stained

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 29

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Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 29

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Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 25

the first Jay-Z album and the first ‘Independence Day’ movie debuted 30 years ago today

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 24

“I was thinking a lot about Joan Baez, and how she never had to advertise 'Diamonds & Rust' on Instagram” stereogum.com/2503219/gord...

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 20

Bob Dylan's 'Blonde On Blonde' was released 60 years ago today. A few years back, Stereogum asked dozens of musicians to choose their favorite Dylan song, and naturally, several picks came from this landmark double album. 👉 stereogum.com/bob What’s your favorite track from ‘Blonde On Blonde’?

“It’s a very mysterious song. You can’t really put your finger on it. It’s a brilliant lyric. I love ‘Inside the museums/ Infinity goes up on trial.’ It’s almost like you’ve gathered all the evidence to see whether infinity exists. His voice has a very smoky, late-night feel to it as well. Where he talks about a person and he says, ‘He’s sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all.’ I love the addition of ‘and all’ at the end of the line, it makes it kind of casual in a way. It’s a corny thing that’s often said about Dylan, but he changed the popular song to where it could become more abstruse and it didn't have to be so direct.”

RICHARD BUTLER (PSYCHEDELIC FURS)

“It’s the perfect blend of ridicule and empathy. ‘You know it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine’ is genius. He’s calling her out for doing something that doesn’t make any sense, but he’s not acting like he doesn’t understand. We’re all performing, predictably, all the time, and in the most obvious ways. There’s not really an air of superiority in his commentary here, in my opinion. He’s just gifting us with an opportunity to recognize our own culpability and laugh at ourselves.”

SAMIA

“It’s one of those songs where everything he’s learned pushing past a decimal point comes back and gets applied to what's a more traditional pop song form. At some point Bob said he was trying to move away from being a topical songwriter. He used to refer to the political songs he wrote in that period as ‘finger pointing songs.’ Some of his emotional songs, his relationship songs, are finger pointing songs too. ‘Just Like A Woman’ is talking about her, and it’s about the end of a relationship, but it also talks about him a little bit, and how he feels. I’ve heard women argue about which songs of mine are about them, and the truth is they’re all about me.”

STEVE EARLE

“Something changed in me as a songwriter when I reached the end of Blonde On Blonde. This titan of a song began to so unassumingly, so gradually, but determinedly unfold around me and expose a world filled with wonder, an edgeless landscape that left room for me as a songwriter to contribute to the world of music. In this way, the song is not the masterpiece we traditionally think of —monolithic? no — but instead an ever-changing, breathing, and generative thing. It is an enveloping type song like a breaking wave that spins and twists. Forever setting into motion everything in its path and the fact that it does this in a 3/4 time signature at a snail’s pace is all the more impressive.”

GEORGE LEWIS JR. (TWIN SHADOW)

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 19

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 18

playlist for Brandi

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 17

run the juleps

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 17

Last week, the National Music Publishers’ Association announced landmark deals with Udio and KLAY, giving members the option of getting paid for licensing their songs for AI training. Against that backdrop, we spoke with Goo Goo Dolls’ John Rzeznik about the proliferation of AI-generated music.

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 13

Stacey Q’s “Two Of Hearts” and the Olsen twins were released 40 years ago today 🎂

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 12

I called WICB the first time I heard this song to ask what it was, what a jam 🩵 📸

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 12

UPDATE: shoegaze does exist

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 12

please sign our change.org

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 11

We recently revealed Stereogum’s 50 Best Albums Of 2026 So Far… stereogum.com/2500311/the-... …and at Kilby Block Party, Winter and I asked performers for their picks. There was some overlap! Shoutout ZZ Top.

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 10

I looked into the supposed Angine de Poitrine imposters touring Russia, which didn’t sound quite right 🔺 stereogum.com/2501879/no-t...

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 8

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 6

Happy 80th birthday to the Stick man and the Knicks

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 6

tonight the Cure played “Mint Car” for the first time in a decade 🥹

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 6

#fbf HOLLYWOOD - JUNE 01: (L-R) Actors Paris Hilton and Kimberly Kardashian attend the premiere of HBO's "Entourage" at the Cinerama Dome on June 1, 2006 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Stephen Shugerman/Getty Images)

Scott Lapatine@scott· Jun 5

This week, ‘Six Feet Under’ turns 25 and Death Cab For Cutie release ‘I Built You A Tower.’ Seems like a good time to revisit Claire and her friends’ AMT trip. #tbt