Into The Music
The Hologram Concert Is Here. Now What?
A Charlie Daniels hologram is set to perform at a Fourth of July concert at Fort Campbell military base in Kentucky. The announcement came this week from Daniels’...
Deep Dives
Long-form essays on the albums, artists, and moments that shaped music history.
The Pop Star Goes to Hollywood: What It Means When Musicians Chase Acting Careers
Dua Lipa has joined the cast of Peaked, an A24 comedy film, and the announcement was met with approximately the level of surprise you would expect: not much....
Gnarls Barkley Came Back After Eighteen Years and Made a Final Album That Earns the Goodbye
Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy was number one in the UK for nine weeks in 2006. It was the first song to reach that position based solely on download sales....
The Case for Releasing Music Without Warning
Actress and Suzanne Ciani released Concrete Waves last week with less than twenty-four hours’ notice. No press cycle. No singles. No rollout. Just: here it is. That approach...
Paul McCartney Announces a New Album and Raises the Question of What We Want From Artists Who Have Already Given Everything
Paul McCartney is 83 years old and he just announced a new album. The Boys of Dungeon Lane is out May 29 on MPL/Capitol, produced with Andrew Watt,...
Ross The Boss Friedman Played on Both Sides of Rock History
Ross “The Boss” Friedman died on March 27 at age 72, after a battle with ALS that he had disclosed publicly just two months earlier. He was known...
When James Blake Asked to Be Removed from Kanye Bully, He Was Making a Point About Who Owns a Song
When Kanye West released Bully on March 28, James Blake did something that almost no collaborator in pop music ever does. He publicly asked for his credit to...
Tribute Songs Almost Always Get It Wrong. Here Is Why.
When Zakk Wylde released Ozzy’s Song this week as part of Black Label Society’s new album Engines of Demolition, it landed the way these things usually land: as...
Pulp Never Ran Out of Things to Say. The New Single Proves It.
Pulp came back from the dead in 2011, toured extensively, reminded everyone why “Common People” is still the definitive class-anxiety anthem in the British rock canon, and then...
What Happens to Music When You Remove the Friction
The conversation about artificial intelligence in the recording studio has been happening for long enough now that we’ve moved past the initial panic and into something more complicated:...