Stereogum

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Stereogum is a music website created by Scott Lapatine in 2003. Lapatine serves as Editor-in-Chief, and his full-time staff includes Amrit Singh, Jim Jazwiecki, Brandon Stosuy, and Angela Williams. Updated daily, the site features fully legal mp3 downloads, video premieres, artist tour dates, concert reviews, and music-related news and gossip. Weekly columns include Band To Watch (past honorees include Arcade Fire, Lily Allen, and Beirut), Video Hangover (in which writer Jon McMillan mocks music videos of yesteryear), Premature Evaluation (knee-jerk reviews of leaked pre-release LPs), and Quit Your Day Job (in which Stosuy interviews rising artists about how they make ends meet). In August 2007, Stereogum launched The 'Gum Drop, a weekly e-mail newsletter that premieres one never-before-released mp3 and includes a rock music related sweepstakes.

Stereogum has hosted live music events since 2005, when it presented a showcase at South by Southwest featuring Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Rogue Wave (band), and Thunderbirds Are Now!. At the next SXSW, Stereogum joined with The Fader to host Meat Puppets' reunion concert.

That month The Austin Chronicle ran a profile of Lapatine, "arguably the blogosphere's most influential music tastemaker." The article said in part:

"Last year this Brooklyn-based fanatic was name-dropped in Entertainment Weekly, Forbes, Newsweek, The New York Times, and wound up on The Wall Street Journal's Moguls of New Media power list. Heady stuff, but well-deserved: Stereogum's accuracy in next-big-thing prognosticating and prerelease MP3s makes it the rare music blog worth visiting daily."

In July of 2007, Stereogum released OKX, a 10th anniversary tribute to Radiohead's OK Computer. Cover songs were solicited from fourteen Indie rock artists including Doveman, Vampire Weekend, John Vanderslice, David Bazan, Cold War Kids, My Brightest Diamond, Marissa Nadler, Chris Funk of The Decemberists, and Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie. The album can be heard free of charge at http://www.stereogum.com/okx.