My first introduction to Ruel was his song “Dazed and Confused.” My brother put it on while we were driving,…
Troye Sivan began his career as a YouTuber in the 2010s and rose to mainstream success as a singer on…
SZA, American singer and songwriter, has reeled fans and other celebrities back into her pop and RnB atmosphere with the…
The College Dropout, confusingly, is an album best understood from the perspective of its final song, “Last Call.” “Last Call”…
In a tale as old as time, Broadway Record’s new studio concept album tells the story of fated enemies becoming…
In relation to In Rainbows, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke said the album was about “that anonymous fear thing, sitting in…
1000 Gecs and the Tree of Clues is the latest release from experimental pop group 100 Gecs, and is a follow-up to last year’s 1000 Gecs album, which was one of the most forward-thinking, idiosyncratic, well-conceived, and tightest pop albums not of the year, not of the decade, but of all time…
Napalm Death was on my shortlist of music to find—like an archeologist digging their way toward an ancient tomb. In September of 1989, I finally struck treasure when I pulled a vinyl copy of Mentally Murdered from the racks, holding it up, exposing it to sunlight for the first time…
In 1977, the Germs set out to destroy the detached, artificial tone of pop. The popular music of their time corresponds with sadly predictable accuracy to what lives on the radio today—like what is propelled like a cannonball from passing SUV windows or crawls from cell phones with the nasal tremors of a vengeful mosquito. Punk rock music, by contrast, was especially vibrant because it was performed by human beings in modest recording studios…and it spoke to the origins of American folk music.