Moby made an offhand comment in The Guardian this weekend and accidentally lit a small fire. In the paper’s Honest Playlist column, the DJ and electronic musician revealed...
Dave Grohl has been through a lot in the last four years. Taylor Hawkins died onstage in Bogota in March 2022. His mother followed four months later. Then...
Willie Nelson is 92 years old. Bob Dylan is 84. This week, news broke that Nelson’s 156th – yes, one hundred and fifty-sixth – album includes a co-write...
R&B has always been the genre most willing to say the difficult thing plainly. Where rock often reached for the mythological and hip-hop for the rhetorical, R&B has...
Electronic music has a genre problem, which is really a genre abundance. The taxonomy has proliferated to the point where genre tags function less as descriptions than as...
Hip-hop is 50 years old, depending on how you count, and is currently the most commercially dominant music genre on earth. It is also, by any serious measure,...
Every five years or so, someone writes the obituary for rock music. The numbers are usually cited – streaming share declining, rock radio formatting out, guitar-based acts underrepresented...
Two major Jay-Z announcements landed within days of each other this week, and together they paint a picture of an artist doing something relatively rare at his level:...
Saturday Night Live landed in the UK this week, and the producers made an excellent choice for the inaugural musical guest: Wet Leg, the Isle of Wight indie...
No announcement. No lead single. No press campaign. Just Neurosis, a surprise-released album, and a statement that reads like it was written at 3am after a long, hard...
In a series of voice memos sent directly to her fans this week, Lorde announced something that would send most artists into a cold sweat: she’s now a...
You knew this was coming. After two years of mandatory military service scattered across seven men, BTS made their full-group return this week in a way that only...