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.
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Muna’s Must Hear Album Makes the Dire World a Little More Manageable
Plus: “Leeds’ premier and pre-eminent Xenofeminist crisis-energy rock duo.”
C2C Is Now One of New York’s Most Necessary Festivals
The long-running Italian fest finds its footing Stateside with a night of gloriously freaky beats, noise, and sex.
Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew on Making a Band of Friends Last Forever
An all-encompassing interview about the Canadian collective’s first new album in nearly a decade—and why their music means so much to me.
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.
Heavensouls Has Yet to Meet a Genre He Can’t Awesomely Dismantle
Inside the mind of Chidi Obialo, an omnivorous 20-year-old prodigy forging music’s future
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.