Long-form essays on the albums, artists, and moments that shaped music history.
BTS released Arirang this week and the sales numbers broke records that had stood for over a decade. The obvious story is about those numbers: 641,000 copies in...
The announcement last week that Bandcamp physical sales will now count toward UK chart positions for the first time sounds like a bookkeeping fix. It is more than...
When James Blake asked to be removed from the production credits on “This One Here,” the closing track of Kanye West’s long-delayed album “Bully,” he was making an...
When Turnstile took the stage at Tecate Pa’l Norte this past weekend in Monterrey and opened with “Never Enough” to a moshing crowd at the festival’s second stage,...
Melissa Etheridge has always made music from inside the wound. It is one of the things that made her so compelling in the early nineties, when she arrived...
Trap did not invent the hi-hat. But trap made the hi-hat strange again, and in doing so, it changed what rap could sound like and then what pop...
Country music has been the most commercially dominant genre in America for the better part of a decade. That sentence should probably generate more conversation than it does....
When Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson walked out at the Juno Awards in Hamilton, Ontario Sunday night, they did something they had not done in over a decade....
The expanded 40th anniversary edition of Van Halen’s 5150 arrived on March 27, 2026, with remastered audio, 90 minutes of previously unreleased live recordings from August 1986, a...
When André 3000 released New Blue Sun in 2023, an album of flute-led ambient music that contained no rapping and no verses and no concession to his existing...
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