Courtney Barnett has released her third studio album, Creature of Habit, and it arrives like she already knew what she was doing. Produced by John Congleton and featuring...
Dream pop is one of those genre labels that sounds like it should be imprecise but actually describes something quite specific. It names a set of aesthetic priorities...
Dua Lipa is expanding her portfolio in ways that actually feel earned. Pitchfork reported this week that the pop star is set to appear in A24’s upcoming comedy...
Neo-soul has never really had a defining moment. No single album or year or scene made it what it is. It arrived somewhere in the mid-1990s, stayed, got...
Robert Smith asked them to play his band’s songs, and Manic Street Preachers did not just show up and phone it in. The Welsh group took the stage...
Power pop is the genre that never sounds like what its name implies. The “power” part suggests something heavier than it usually is, and the “pop” part suggests...
Kanye West premiered his long-awaited album Bully at a Los Angeles listening event on Friday, streaming it live before pulling the video from YouTube the following morning. As...
Something shifted in how the world thinks about Afrobeats sometime around 2019 or 2020, and the shift has only accelerated since. The genre went from being a niche...
Britney Spears returned to Instagram on March 27, posting a video of herself dancing with her 19-year-old son Jayden Federline. It was the first time she had spoken...
Bedroom pop was never supposed to last this long. It arrived as an aesthetic of necessity: young artists with laptops and cheap microphones making music in their actual...