Seven years in digital exile stranded Yasiin Bey’s fourth studio album in the bureaucratic nowhere between existence and recognition. The Ecstatic disappeared from major platforms like Spotify and Apple Music a decade after Downtown Records originally released it under his former Mos Def moniker in 2009. The Brooklyn MC later…
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Former NFL punter and current podcasting star Pat McAfee is branching out into music with The Diary of a Polarizing Figure, an album so named even though it is not very personal and the only controversy seems to be to what extent AI was involved. How did this happen? Well, The…
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It takes a lot of nerve to place Martin Scorsese, John Cale, and Marc Jacobs on the cover art for a new album called Music, Fashion, Film. It’s three titans of three mediums that permeate our culture, and not a single frame of Charli xcx herself. The absence is the tell.…
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A quarter-century after their breakout debut, The Strokes are in an interesting stage of their career. Over the past 25 years, the New York City quintet have gone from rock music messiahs to absent icons to TikTok’s favorite indie band, thanks in large part to the creative refresher that was…
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Gracie Abrams wields quite the instrument. The singer and songwriter, now 26 and a touring vet, sounds better than ever on her new album Daughter from Hell. She’s got range: soaring soprano melodies and booming belts, intimate whispers and delicately-sung meditations cracking through like the morning sun. She’s got a very…
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Ahead of his new album, The Real Me, Future released the soul-searching single “Radio.” Throughout, he proclaims the song in fact isn’t for radio; instead, it serves as a moment of heavy introspection. “A lot of n****s want the spot when I don’t even want the crown/ Already legendary and never…
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What do listeners expect from a Rolling Stones album in 2026? More than 60 years on from their formation in 1962, the English icons’ place in the rock ‘n’ roll canon is as secure as any guitar group in history — hell, as any non-guitar group in history too. They…
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Madonna’s Confessions on a Dance Floor didn’t need a sequel. The original 2005 album, helmed with producer Stuart Price, was a landmark presentation of dance pop in its purest, most majestic form; it was created in conversation with Madonna’s own career, serving as a distillation of the dance-forward stylings she’d been…
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“Lost Boys” is the lead single off Phoebe Bridgers first new album in six years, Lost Weekend, and the 31-year-old who made her name with achingly sad folk songs is showing a different side of herself: more upbeat, more humorous, and more, well, pop. Get Phoebe Bridgers Tickets Here It’s…
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Can puppy love really tear you in two? That’s the question Olivia Rodrigo aimed to answer with her first two albums, 2021’s SOUR and 2023’s GUTS. Chiefly, Rodrigo held a torch for anyone who got caught in the web of youthful attachment and infatuation. Now 23 years old, Olivia Rodrigo…
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