Into The Music
Sublime’s New Album and the Question Legacy Bands Can Never Quite Answer
Sublime announced this week that Until the Sun Explodes, their first album since 1996, will arrive on June 12 via Atlantic. The lineup is Jakob Nowell on guitar...
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Long-form essays on the albums, artists, and moments that shaped music history.
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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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Paul McCartney’s ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’ and the Art of Looking Back
Paul McCartney announced a new album this week, and the details landed with a particular kind of weight. The Boys of Dungeon Lane is set for release on...
The Last Record: Lee Scratch Perry, Mouse on Mars, and the Meaning of Spatial No Problem
Lee Scratch Perry died in August 2021 at the age of 85, leaving behind one of the most unpredictable and productive careers in the history of recorded music....
Springsteen, the No Kings Rally, and the Long History of Artists Who Show Up
On Saturday, March 28, Bruce Springsteen is set to perform at a No Kings rally in Minnesota. This is a small fact that tells a big story. Springsteen...
Forty Years of the Pixies and the Loud-Quiet Formula Still Holds
The Pixies announced their 40th anniversary U.S. tour this week, a run of September dates that will bring them through Greenville, Louisville, Santa Fe, and a couple of...
All Five Members of Radiohead Are Going Solo at Once, and It Might Be Their Most Interesting Era Yet
In 2026, Radiohead is five solo projects wrapped in a shared history. Ed O’Brien has a new album, Blue Morpho, arriving May 22nd. Jonny Greenwood has Ranjha, a...
Bully, Finally: What Kanye West Long-Delayed Album Says About Where He Is Now
Kanye West’s twelfth studio album has arrived after years of delays, false starts, shifting tracklists, and the kind of pre-release chaos that has come to define how he...
Why the Roots Picnic Is the Most Important Hip-Hop Festival in America Right Now
Roots Picnic 2026 is headlined by Jay-Z performing with The Roots as his backing band, with Erykah Badu as second headliner. Kehlani, Brandy, and T.I. are below them...
Ed O’Brien Was Done With Radiohead. Then He Wasn’t. What That Actually Means.
Ed O’Brien was done with Radiohead. He has said so now, plainly, in a new interview with Rolling Stone. By the end of the 2018 tour, he had...