One minute, he’s serenading a love interest over 808s, bass, and finger snaps while sounding like rap game Snagglepuss; the next, he’s crooning about missed connections over New Edition-style R&B or hitting double-time flows over minimal sexy drill
“A writer told me my work was like background music in a restaurant. Like something you don’t really listen to, it’s just there. It was extremely traumatizing, but it also changed my whole writing. I’m actually really grateful for that awful moment.”
In which we consider the pluses and minuses of relocating to Jessie Ware's rich-bitch disco nirvana
"The zaps are so alien and weird, but absolutely necessary. It’s one of those songs that I blast on my Bluetooth speaker while biking, which makes me go dangerously fast."
Lila Downs and Snow Tha Product's “Cambias mi mundo” is a powerful cumbia devotional, but there’s a deeper message—about womanhood, about protecting self and community, about maintaining your dignity and values in the face of adversity
What can I say: Lana Del Rey's creep-out ode to her gator-loving husband goes directly onto my personal playlist of the singer's greatest hits
“Maybe I’m getting the majority of my money through Spotify, but I’m finally in a position to be able to live and to pay my bandmates and the people that record my music and make my videos. Is it really selling out for me to be able to pay my friends?”
While you can and should dance to Muna's "Dancing on the Wall," which sounds like it could have played on the radio alongside Lionel Richie in the ’80s, it’s more of a crying-in-the-club anthem than a wedding staple
The newly formed duo GENA, composed of Texas-born singer-songwriter Liv.e and Detroit producer Karriem Riggins, speak on love, comfort, the relationship between jazz, rap, and soul, and their debut album 'The Pleasure Is Yours'
Discussed on the new episode of our subscribers-only podcast Waste or Taste: Lana Del Rey's gator-loving husband, Jessie Ware's Ennio Morricone samples, Angine de Poitrine's polarizing costumed math-rock
I’ve often wondered if the constant creation of new Mitskis is in part a reaction to fans’ demand for more information; instead she gives them a whole new world to explore each time
“A visiting writer told me my work was like background music in a restaurant,” says Horn. “Like something you don’t really listen to, it’s just there. It was extremely traumatizing, but it also changed my whole writing.”
Brooklyn indie rocker Hudson Freeman went viral with a mesmerizingly despondent song about how online life is nothing but an illusion that tricks us into thinking we know each other, and ourselves. The irony is not lost on him.
For me, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘝𝘦𝘪𝘯 meant that there was another world out there, one where pain and frustration with your surroundings could be mythologized and thus conquered, where supervillains might be felled by the stroke of a spraypaint can
Hip-hop is constantly mired in discussions about importance, significance, and, yes, substance. But if you come up for air, you’ll feel it all around you. Read Dylan's thoughts on the latest version of this age-old convo
There are protest songs for now and protest songs for forever. With its themes of anguish and intractability, this one feels like it could resonate at almost any point in human history
The guitarist looks ready to lead a shadowy cult ceremony, the bassist like an elaborately vandalized Easter Island head. "Oh god," you might think to yourself, "this looks like some real Burning Man shit."
The best you could say for 'Wuthering Heights' is that it serves as a successful pivot point for Charli—into film scoring, but perhaps more importantly, a post-Brat reality
Chatting with her, you’d never guess that she’s in possession of a rich, husky alto that deepens every emotion she sings about. Or that she is a 23-year-old musician who, if she wants to, could probably become a big star
A good update on a bad situation: Casey Wasserman is selling his agency.
This week on our podcast Waste or Taste, we're asking: Do you remember Lady Sov? Are straight people allowed to listen to Slayyyter? Is Xaviersobased the future of rap?
Despite the familiar harmonies, this isn’t New Jack Swing redux; Jaymin sounds totally contemporary with his church-honed, copper-penny tenor, which sounds piped in from a hyperbaric chamber (or a breezy seaside bedroom)
On the biggest U.S. stage, Bad Bunny showed why he is so massive, and why his Grammy-winning love letter to his homeland, 𝘋𝘦𝘣𝘪́ 𝘛𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘴 𝘍𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘴, resonates across the world—from Latin America to Palestine to China to Switzerland
Brain-breaking club artist Zora Jones is your favorite producer’s favorite producer for a reason.
Barely a few seconds ever pass in 𝘚𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘴 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘴 𝟤.𝟢 without a blast of low-end that seems to tear through not just the mix but the fabric of existence as you know it
I couldn’t help but also notice how 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦 Bad Bunny looked in the Grammys audience, seemingly the only person sitting at his table right up front. It’s a lot of cultural weight for one person to bear. He carried it with grace.
