Still Here: What It Means When a Dead Artist Shows Up on a New Album
Mac Miller has been dead since September 2018. He was 26. This week, he appeared on a new Thundercat album, performing on a funk groove called “She Knows...
Long-form essays on the albums, artists, and moments that shaped music history.
Mac Miller has been dead since September 2018. He was 26. This week, he appeared on a new Thundercat album, performing on a funk groove called “She Knows...
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Mac Miller has been dead since September 2018. He was 26. This week, he appeared on a new Thundercat album, performing on a funk groove called “She Knows...
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Pitchfork is running their Sunday Rites treatment on the 1978 Generation X debut this week, and it’s a good occasion to think about an album that has been...
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There is a version of Bully that works. It is somewhere inside the actual album, flickering in and out of view between the undercooked two-minute tracks and the...
There is a long tradition of rock musicians making political statements from the stage. Most of them don’t mean much. The crowd cheers, the energy spikes for a...