Boygenius

Mitski, Yo La Tengo, Sufjan Stevens, and more It was a great year for charming guitar bands, confessional singer-songwriters, post-punk revivalists, power poppers, and roots rockers. Artists and bands we’ve been loving for a while made big leaps forward (in fact, our top album is by a band that made such a big leap they ended up releasing their long-awaited debut on a major-label). Beloved stars made capstone classics, and a ton of great new voices made themselves heard.…

A banner year for indie rock supergroup boygenius continues with a stripped-back version of Shania Twain’s 1997 hit, “You’re Still The One.” The trio consisting of Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus performed the classic single during a recent appearance on BBC Radio 1.  On the soulful track, Bridgers and Baker accompany the group’s harmonies with their guitar and mandolin (the instrument that was featured in the original version), respectively. Bridgers and Dacus each took a verse, with Baker taking…

Once upon a time, Dave Grohl hit snooze instead of joining boygenius in the studio. Phoebe Bridgers (and her bandmates) recently spoke to NME and revealed that the Foo Fighters frontman and the trio had a “missed connection” when they were making The Record. “There was this missed connection where Dave was actually going to come to the studio and play on ,” Bridgers told the outlet. “Then he slept through it or whatever, and we didn’t end up meeting.” In the interview, Bridgers reflected on her and her…

Where do songs come from? For now, they come from us — from our needs, our wants, our regrets, our scorn. Next year, they might come from a box brought to near-sentience by all the songs that came before. Here, in descending order of greatness, are our picks for the 50 best of 2023, followed by 50 more bangers in alphabetical order. (And scroll to the bottom for the 100-song playlist.) Our critics and reporters select their favorite TV shows, movies, albums, songs, books, theater, art…

Catherine Marks had just graduated with her master’s degree in architecture, but before launching that career she wanted to take a stab at another passion: music. So the Australian took off for six months, moved to London and got a job at a recording studio. “I started making tea there,” she says with a light laugh. Fast-forward nearly 20 years, and it’s clear Marks made the right decision. She trained and worked alongside Grammy-winning creatives Flood and Alan Moulder, and went on to work with Alanis…

Indie rock supergroup covered the Scottish traditional "The Parting Glass," with proceeds going to the Aisling Project Phoebe Bridgers has released her annual holiday cover — this time with the help of her boygenius bandmates. This year’s choice is “The Parting Glass,” a traditional Scottish song covered by everyone from Sinéad O’Connor, who is featured on the track’s cover art, to Hozier. Just like all of Bridgers’ holiday songs, proceeds will be donated, this year to the Aisling Project, an…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. One week before Coachella, earlier this spring, the team behind New York City-based jewelry maker Catbird started working on a special last-minute custom project. The result: a set of yellow gold lapel pins for boygenius — a.k.a., the supergroup featuring Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus. After donning the custom pieces on the road, the pins, which are…

During his second stint as host of Saturday Night Live, Timothée Chalamet portrayed a wide range of musicians, from Willy Wonka during his singing monologue to the godawful SoundCloud rapper Smoke Chedda Tha A$$ Getta during a “Rap Roundtable” sketch. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, he popped up in a tank top as pop star and The Idol actor Troye Sivan. The sketch opens with Bowen Yang’s doctor interviewing his patient, played by Sarah Sherman, about why she can’t sleep at night and suffers from sleep…

It was a very musical Saturday Night Live this week, as host Timothée Chalamet celebrated the end of the 118-day actors’ strike by singing a portion of his opening monologue as Willy Wonka and then brought back his obnoxious SoundCloud rapper Smoke Chedda Tha A$$ Getta during a “Rap Roundtable” sketch honoring hip hop’s 50th anniversary.   Trending Taylor Swift Changes ‘Karma’ Lyric in Sweet Nod to Boyfriend Travis Kelce…

After the governor of Tennessee tried and failed to ban public drag shows in the state, Boygenius performed in drag Sunday during the group’s Nashville concert.The indie-rock band played the Great Lawn in Centennial Park less than a month after a federal judge struck down a law criminalizing drag performances in Tennessee — the first law of its kind in the United States. U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker determined that the legislation was “unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad” after Tennessee Gov. Bill…