Into The Music
Deep Dives
Long-form essays on the albums, artists, and moments that shaped music history.
Madonna, Sabrina Carpenter, and the New Pop Pulse
Madonna has never been one to follow the rules of a graceful exit, and her latest single, “Bring Your Love,” is a defiant middle finger to the concept...
The Silence and the Storm: The Legacy of Sun Kil Moon
The cancellation of a Sun Kil Moon show in Halifax this week might have seemed like a localized story, but it reflects a much larger, ongoing tension in...
The Silence and the Storm: The Legacy of Sun Kil Moon
The cancellation of a Sun Kil Moon show in Halifax this week might have seemed like a localized story, but it reflects a much larger, ongoing tension in...
The Dance Floor Is Dead: Charli XCX and the Death of the Pop Safety Net
“I think the dance floor is dead,” Charli XCX told British Vogue. “So now we’re making rock music.” That sentence will mean different things to different people. For...
The Dandelion Effect: How Ella Langley is Redefining Country Excellence
Ella Langley is rewriting the rules of the country music charts, and she is doing it with a pedal steel and a broken heart. Her sophomore album, “Dandelion,”...
Ghosts in the Desert: The M.I.A. and Diplo Reunion
Coachella has always been a place of ghosts, a desert stage where past and present collide in the heat of the Indio sun. But when M.I.A. walked onto...
The Cockroaches’ Gambit: Why The Rolling Stones Still Matter in 2026
The Rolling Stones have spent the last sixty years proving that “retirement” is a concept they simply do not recognize. With the teasing of Foreign Tongues and the...
Justin Bieber Headlined Coachella and the Crowd Showed Up. Now What?
Justin Bieber headlined Coachella on Saturday night, and the reports coming out of the desert were consistent: the crowd was enormous, the guests were well-chosen, the set worked....
Hardtekk, Looksmaxxing, and the Pipeline Nobody Fully Planned
Hardtekk has a piep kick. If you have spent time on TikTok in the last six months and felt something violent and oddly satisfying happen to your nervous...