Into The Music
When Rock Musicians Find Jazz, Something Old Is Usually Pulling Them Back
When André 3000 released New Blue Sun in 2023, an album of flute-led ambient music that contained no rapping and no verses and no concession to his existing...
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Long-form essays on the albums, artists, and moments that shaped music history.
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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...
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Paul McCartney Is Writing About Where He Came From, and It Matters
Paul McCartney announced a new album this week, and the announcement itself is worth sitting with before we even get to the music. The Boys of Dungeon Lane,...
Duffy Is Telling Her Story. The Music Industry Should Listen.
Duffy disappeared. That is the only accurate way to describe it. In 2008 she was one of the biggest pop stars in the world. “Mercy” was everywhere, “Rockferry”...
K-Pop After BTS: How the Genre Outgrew Its Own Origin Story
When BTS announced their hiatus for mandatory South Korean military service, the international music press wrote a lot of pieces about what it would mean for K-pop. Would...
How Indie Bands Fill Arenas Now, and What That Actually Means
When Weezer announced their 2026 North American tour, officially called The Gathering, the thing that caught attention was not the tour itself. It was the supporting acts. The...
AI in Music Is Not the Crisis. What Comes After Is.
Kanye West claimed this week that his new album Bully was made with significant AI assistance. Then, three days later, he said it was not. The reversal was...
The Partial Comeback: What We Are Actually Asking For When We Ask for a Reunion
Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello played back-to-back at Ultra Miami on Saturday night. Two thirds of Swedish House Mafia, without Axwell, in the city where their legend was...
Lee Scratch Perry’s Final Album and the Legacy of a Mind That Never Stopped Moving
Lee “Scratch” Perry died in August 2021, and the music world lost someone it did not fully understand while he was alive and probably still does not fully...
Why the Teenage Cancer Trust Shows Work When Other Charity Concerts Do Not
Robert Smith curating this year’s Teenage Cancer Trust shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall is not simply a booking decision. It is a statement about what charity concerts...