Charli XCX and the Meaning of Rock Music
Plus podcast takes on “Hacks” actor Meg Stalter’s pivot to music and the new single by a band called the Rolling Stones.
171 articles
Muna’s Must Hear Album Makes the Dire World a Little More Manageable
Plus: “Leeds’ premier and pre-eminent Xenofeminist crisis-energy rock duo.”
Don’t Stop ’Til You Rewrite History
The Michael Jackson estate’s campaign to un-cancel the King of Pop is all about what they let you see.
The London Beatmaker Flipping YouTube Freestyles Into High Art
Plus: The existential debut of a rising Dominican pop star.
Lucy Dacus Makes More Than Just Sad Music
The singer-songwriter gets back to what she does best on a new single.
How Kehlani Does R&B Nostalgia Right
Plus: Kooky, cheeky art-rock and dreamy experimental pop from a med student.
Katseye—Pop Progressives or Soulless Shills?
It’s time to put new tracks by Olivia Rodrigo, Katseye, and Yaya Bey through the Waste or Taste gauntlet.
Find Trent Reznor in the Club
Plus 1970s Congolese funk that sounds like it went through a meat pulverizer!
The Most Expansive Pop Minds Working Hit the Desert for a Jam Sesh
Dijon's eight-man band takes Coachella. Plus: a low-key rapper/producer with more lore than a Greek myth.
Girlhood at the Epicenter of Alternative Music’s Mainstream Moment
Hole’s Melissa Auf der Maur looks back lucidly on her 1990s in “Even the Good Girls Will Cry,” as I seek out memoirs by levelheaded women artists from the generation before mine.