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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...
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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...
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U2 in 2026: Two EPs, Brian Eno, and a Band Actually Trying
U2 have released two EPs in 2026 and they have done it quietly, without a stadium tour announcement or a Sphere residency or any of the infrastructure the...
Generation X Were Punk’s Most Honest Harbingers. Nobody Wanted to Hear It.
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...
The Rules Are Different for Women: Chappell Roan, Zara Larsson, and the Double Standard That Will Not Die
Chappell Roan told a paparazzo to stop following her. Then, a few weeks later, a bodyguard who works for her asked someone to step back. Neither of these...
BTS Came Back. Now What? Arirang and the Weight of the Impossible Return
BTS came back. All of them, together, for the first time since 2022, out of mandatory South Korean military service, reunited and ready to make the next chapter...
Sturgill Simpson and the Art of Burning It Down and Starting Over
Sturgill Simpson’s restlessness has always been the most interesting thing about him. He arrived in country music in the early 2010s with a voice so good it made...
Jack White and the Architecture of Independence
Jack White dropped two new songs Thursday, “G.O.D. and the Broken Ribs” and “Derecho Demonico,” both available now on streaming and hitting vinyl Friday at Third Man Records...
The Mother Mary Soundtrack Is Doing Something Smarter Than You’d Expect
The idea of a movie about a pop star is nothing new. What makes Mother Mary, the A24 film arriving in limited theaters on April 17, worth paying...
Kanye’s ‘Bully’ and the Question Nobody Has a Clean Answer To
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...
When Rock Gets Political: What Springsteen Kicking Off His 2026 Tour Actually Means
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...