Jazz fusion is the genre that got away with everything. It took jazz’s harmonic language, rock’s volume and rhythmic aggression, funk’s groove, and in some iterations, electronic music’s...
Pepsi has pulled its presenting sponsorship from London’s Wireless Festival, and Diageo, the drinks conglomerate behind Johnnie Walker and Captain Morgan, quickly followed. The cause: the booking of...
Tems performed “What You Need” on The Tonight Show Thursday night, another data point in an ongoing story about Afrobeats and where it lives now. She stood in...
Olivia Rodrigo announced her third studio album on Thursday, and she did it the way pop stars do things in 2026: by painting the words “you seem pretty...
Shoegaze is named for a posture. The musicians stare at their feet, watching the effects pedals rather than the audience, heads down, faces hidden. For a genre built...
Six weeks ago, U2 dropped a surprise six-song collection called Days of Ash with no warning and no press campaign. It felt like a one-off, a band venting....
On March 31, The Strokes did something they rarely do: they communicated directly with fans, and they were deliberately mysterious about it. The band posted a link to...
At the 2025 Grammy Awards, Tems won Best African Music Performance for “Love Me JeJe.” Two weeks earlier, Burna Boy had sold out Madison Square Garden for the...
Olivia Rodrigo waited four years after Guts to let the world know what comes next. Today, on the night of the pink moon, she finally told us: her...
When Blackpink’s Lisa books a Las Vegas residency and becomes the first K-pop artist to do so, that’s not just a business milestone. It’s a signal that the...
When Megan Thee Stallion collapses in the middle of a Broadway performance, it should probably be treated as the emergency it is. Instead, in the court of social...
Indie rock in 2026 is not what it was in 2006, which is either a statement of the obvious or a more complicated observation depending on how you’re...
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