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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When Allison and Katie Crutchfield announced Snocaps, the questions arrived before the music did. Would this be a Waxahatchee side project? A Palehound side project? A supergroup in...
Willie Nelson just announced dates for the 2026 Outlaw Music Festival, and the lineup looks the way it usually does: Wilco, Sheryl Crow, The Avett Brothers, artists who...
Lily Allen announced this week that her West End Girl tour is expanding into North American arenas, with a run beginning at Madison Square Garden in September and...
When David Byrne, Flying Lotus, and Alice Coltrane’s son Ravi speak about her legacy in the same breath, you start to understand the unusual position Alice Coltrane occupies...
Country music spent a long time pretending it had fixed borders. Nashville, twang, specific narratives about trucks and small towns and a version of America that was recognizable...
Ty Herndon came out publicly in 2014, and the country music industry did not collapse. That fact is worth sitting with for a moment, because for most of...
Synth-pop turned fifty this year, depending on how you date it. If you start the clock at Kraftwerk’s Autobahn in 1974, you’re already past it. If you start...
Lindsey Buckingham posted a video to Instagram this week that contained the kind of careful, hedged language that makes entertainment journalists lean forward in their chairs. Speaking about...
The reissue industrial complex has a complicated relationship with legacy. At its worst, it is an exercise in monetizing nostalgia, a label and an estate cashing in on...
The announcement that Ace Records is releasing a Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan tribute compilation in May, with nineteen artists covering songs they had a hand in writing,...
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