In a career full of successful years, 2024 has been one of Kendrick Lamar’s best. He dominated the charts and the cultural conversation with smash-hit Drake diss tracks including “euphoria” and “Not...

Tyler, The Creator has had several shifts throughout his career. The Los Angeles based rapper, who started with inflammatory lines laid on top of funky, out-of-left-field beats, has now transitioned to...

When Black Midi frontman Geordie Greep unexpectedly announced that he was breaking up the band, I was shell-shocked. As a huge Black Midi fan who thought that they were just beginning their legend after...

LCD Soundsystem’s entire career has been an exercise in irony. Disgruntled producer and DJ James Murphy, annoyed with the way his music career had stalled in his thirties, wrote the group’s deadpan...

This month, Leeds-based band English Teacher won the Mercury Prize for their debut record “This Could Be Texas”. I missed this one when it came out; it was not until the award that I decided to delve...

Over the past few months, tastemakers and artists on the trendier side of the pop spectrum have become obsessed with reviving “indie sleaze.” Indie sleaze is an aesthetic defined, as far as I can tell,...

Sabrina Carpenter’s sixth studio album, “Short n’ Sweet,” has delivered the musical embodiment of a brazen wink. Throughout the record’s tracklist, which includes smash-hit singles “Espresso”...

Synthpop duo Magdalena Bay’s sophomore album, “Imaginal Disk,” opens with a short burst of mechanical noise, followed quickly by a single word: “Hello,” placidly intoned by vocalist Mica Tenenbaum....

When Taylor Swift announced that her 11th album would be titled "The Tortured Poets Department," fans anticipated a heartbreaking, lyrically profound exposé on the artist's recent emotional turmoil. Swift’s...

Shortly before the release of her new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” Taylor Swift’s marketing team set up a temporary “library” in a shopping mall. The installation consisted of faux-aged...

Beyoncé’s highly anticipated eighth studio album, Cowboy Carter, arrived with all the hallmarks of a major artist release: a TikTok trend, a star-studded feature list and an unfortunate number of unimpressive...

In late October, Taylor Swift released her long-awaited re-recorded album “1989 (Taylor’s Version).” Just three and a half months after the re-release of her 2010 album “Speak Now,” Swift treated...