The North London-based rapper Little Simz knows her worth. She may be an introvert, but she isn’t faint-hearted, and on “Gorilla” she’s keeping score: “Name one...
Ab-Soul is back and he hasn’t missed a single beat. The Los Angeles rapper has always been a wordsmith at the top of his game, but...
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When Run The Jewels released its fourth full-length, RTJ4, in the spring of 2020, the country was in turmoil over the police murder of George Floyd....
It’s official: 2023 is the year of magenta. That’s according to the Pantone Color Institute, the authoritative consultancy that’s christened an “it color” every year for...
Many of the biggest hits in pop music used to have something in common: a key change, like the one you hear in Whitney Houston’s “I...
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The mysterious U.K. group SAULT surprise-dropped five new albums this week that are as sonically diverse as they are ambitious in their breadth and scale. From...
In a 1997 documentary about Björk, U2 frontman Bono spoke of the Icelandic pop star’s voice as a weapon. “The girl has a voice like an...
As frequently as music fans tend to point to the early 2000s as the dawn of our digital enlightenment, consider the ways those first few years...