Reviews of Black Country, New Road’s recent music often feel like eulogies for a previous incarnation of the band. Its first two albums, recorded with singer-guitarist Isaac Wood, are rightfully hailed...

“Dead Channel Sky,” the latest full-length album by Southern California hip-hop trio clipping., is not only the trio's most eclectic release but also its best. Since releasing debut mixtape “midcity”...

Just six days after releasing her smash hit album “Short n’ Sweet,” Sabrina Carpenter announced the bonus song “Busy Woman,” limiting its access to her online store. While the duration of obtainability...

“Crispy Skin,” the first song on Squid’s new album “Cowards,” is one of the most elegantly composed pieces of music about eating people that I’ve ever heard. Its crystalline synth intro is...

Music, maybe more so than any other popular medium, is staggering in terms of not only the quality but also the quantity of work produced each year. The Tiger’s list of the best songs of 2024, compiled...

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”...