Christopher R. Weingarten, Stereogum

Christopher R. Weingarten

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Past:
  • Stereogum
  • Rolling Stone
  • The Guardian

Past articles by Christopher R.:

The 10 Best Experimental Albums Of 2022

Oneohtrix Point Never produces the Weeknd, A.G. Cook links up with Beyoncé, and Rosalía, well, sounds like Rosalía. Pop music sizzles with electronic noise, R&B holds the most wave-making avant-garde around, and contemporary rap music stretches rhythm like a putty no longer anchored to a pocket. All of which begs the question, “What exactly counts as Experimental Music in 2022?” The answer is,… → Read More

Tom Petty's 50 Greatest Songs

His hits have defined rock radio since the Seventies, and he never stopped writing great music. Here’s the definitive guide to his best songs → Read More

David Bowie's Best Songs, Essential Songs

From “Ziggy Stardust” to “Lazarus,” we survey the catalog of the late, great art-pop shapeshifter → Read More

Springfield of Dreams: 150 Best ‘Simpsons’ Episodes

From monorails to Mr. Plow, our favorite fraction of the show’s legendary 30-year run → Read More

'The Simpsons': 150 Best Episodes

From monorails to Mr. Plow, our favorite fraction of the show’s legendary 30-year run → Read More

Mötley Crüe on Summer Tour With Def Leppard, Poison: 'We Missed Being in a Band Together'

“There is a lot of people that still think of the Eighties as a mockable decade,” Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott says at press conference. “And we’re about to prove that it… → Read More

Gang Starr’s First Album in 16 Years is a Gift to Old-School Rap Fans

Featuring previously unheard vocals from Guru, who died in 2010, ‘One of the Best Yet’ has an anachronistic sound that’s a huge part of its appeal → Read More

25 Songs That Are Truly Terrifying

As Halloween approaches, feel free to ignore “Monster Mash” in favor of this handful of more austere chillers: Vintage murder ballads, dissonant classical spine-tinglers, psychedelic freak-outs, shock-rock creep-outs, Southern gothic alt-rock gloom, art-noise desolation and more. → Read More

(Most Of) Wu-Tang Clan Close Out Desert Daze With '36 Chambers,' Khruangbin

2019 should, for all intents and purposes, be the best year the Wu-Tang Clan has had in a long, long time. They have not one, but two TV shows and are touring → Read More

Ween Serve Their Gloriously Demented 'Chocolate And Cheese' To Desert Daze

Behold the insane power of Ween's enduring, dedicated following. On Saturday at Desert Daze, the band used most of their two-hour set time to perform an → Read More

Flaming Lips Play 'The Soft Bulletin' At Desert Daze Festival: Concert Review

By accident or influence, California's Desert Daze is picking up a lot of the threads that All Tomorrow's Parties left untied after they called it quits in 2016 → Read More

Brockhampton’s ‘Ginger’ Is the Omnivorous, Vaguely Alienated Work of a Group That’s Perfectly Built for the Internet

The 13-member “boy band” zips between sounds, signifiers and moods, usually staying on the surface but sometimes showing real depth → Read More

Rick Ross is the Don We Know and Love on ‘Port of Miami 2’

He pisses Moet, rocks a cheetah mink in summer and isn’t entirely happy with the state of the American health care system → Read More

WTF Is Pornogrind?

After the shooter in Dayton, Ohio, was reported to be in a Pornogrind band, many were left with questions about the heavy metal subgenre → Read More

Future’s Freewheeling EP ‘Save Me’

The king of the vocoder blues rappers delivers a surprisingly experimental release. → Read More

Beyonce, Jay-Z at GLAAD Awards: ‘To Choose Who You Love Is Your Human Right’

Superstar couple dedicate Vanguard Award to Beyonce’s uncle who died from HIV → Read More

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beck Flaunt L.A. Pride at Woolsey Fire Benefit

Malibu Love Sesh show also featured an acoustic St. Vincent set and a Jack Black cameo → Read More

Best of ’88: Biz Markie on the ‘Dead Real’ Stories of ‘Vapors’

The Inhuman Orchestra says the stories about unrequited romance, a lost job opportunity and a crew snub were all facts: “I didn’t know how to write no other way” → Read More

Best of ’88: MC Lyte’s Machismo-Slaying Anthem ‘Paper Thin’

Lana Moorer wrote her 1988 takedown of a cheating partner when she was just 12 or 13, before she’d ever had a boyfriend. It was still convincing, became an iconic hip-hop hit → Read More

Review: Meek Mill’s ‘Championships’ Places Him Up There With the Greats

The Philly rapper’s latest takes on racism, beefs and the wages of success while still leaving room for bangers. → Read More