R. Kelly is in prison after various convictions for federal sex crimes. He has been widely de-platformed within the music industry. Yet somehow, a new R. Kelly release called I Admit It appeared on streaming services today.

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Gareth Evans has created a metal version of Stattogories, an online higher/lower game that tests metalheads' knowledge of songs and their popularity

Look, we didn’t want to get into it. Kanye West’s ongoing downward spiral has been an ugly spectacle and a tragic one. As West digs deeper into reactionary rhetoric and outright fascism, he seems to be begging for attention, and we at Stereogum have been loathe to give him that attention. In the month since various major comp...

Among other throughlines in his career, Sufjan Stevens has long been a patron saint of off-kilter Christmas music. He has recorded more than 100 Christmas songs spread across various EPs, mostly collected on the box sets Songs For Christmas and Silver & Gold; this was the context for a rare interview granted to Vulture’s Craig...