Into The Music
The Black Keys and the Eternal Pull of the Blues
The Black Keys have announced Peaches!, their fourteenth studio album, due on May 1, 2026. The album is a covers record, a collection of ten blues songs performed...
Deep Dives
Long-form essays on the albums, artists, and moments that shaped music history.
Snocaps and the Particular Power of a Reunion That Does Not Look Back
When Allison and Katie Crutchfield announced Snocaps, the questions arrived before the music did. Would this be a Waxahatchee side project? A Palehound side project? A supergroup in...
The Outlaw Music Festival at Ten: Willie Nelson and the Argument That Never Stopped Being Necessary
Willie Nelson just announced dates for the 2026 Outlaw Music Festival, and the lineup looks the way it usually does: Wilco, Sheryl Crow, The Avett Brothers, artists who...
Lily Allen Has Been Right This Whole Time
Lily Allen announced this week that her West End Girl tour is expanding into North American arenas, with a run beginning at Madison Square Garden in September and...
Alice Coltrane and the Sound That Would Not Stay in a Box
When David Byrne, Flying Lotus, and Alice Coltrane’s son Ravi speak about her legacy in the same breath, you start to understand the unusual position Alice Coltrane occupies...
Country Music Has a New Crossover Moment. It Has Always Had Them.
Country music spent a long time pretending it had fixed borders. Nashville, twang, specific narratives about trucks and small towns and a version of America that was recognizable...
Country Music Has Always Had Queer Artists. It Just Spent Decades Pretending Otherwise.
Ty Herndon came out publicly in 2014, and the country music industry did not collapse. That fact is worth sitting with for a moment, because for most of...
How Synth-Pop Rewired the Entire Idea of What a Pop Song Could Be
Synth-pop turned fifty this year, depending on how you date it. If you start the clock at Kraftwerk’s Autobahn in 1974, you’re already past it. If you start...
What Lindsey Buckingham Is Actually Saying About Stevie Nicks
Lindsey Buckingham posted a video to Instagram this week that contained the kind of careful, hedged language that makes entertainment journalists lean forward in their chairs. Speaking about...
Queen II at 52: What the New Collector Edition Finally Makes Clear
The reissue industrial complex has a complicated relationship with legacy. At its worst, it is an exercise in monetizing nostalgia, a label and an estate cashing in on...