If you think of Bruce Hornsby only as a mulleted late-‘80s smooth-rock lifer, making music somewhere off the coast of Sting’s solo career, then you haven’t…
Repeatedly, in interviews during his later career, Scott Walker said that the thrust of his lyrics defined his approach to writing music. "The lyric dictates everything…
This week, to mark what would have been Townes Van Zandt's 75th birthday, Fat Possum Records released Sky Blue, a posthumous album of previously unreleased recordings from…
They came from Soundcloud. They came from the Spotify recommendation algorithm. They were the breakout artists that weren't, the crossover stars who didn't, the A-listers who could've…
No escape could last long enough in 2018, a year when the odds—political, social, environmental—seemed more daunting with each passing day. Still, there was music…
Across publications, tastemakers, even members of our own staff, there was little consensus about who made the best music of 2018. Reliable superstars were either…
As 2018 draws to a close, we're looking ahead to new music arriving in 2019. Here are 40 albums we hope to be listening to next year—some with officially announced…
The year 1998 began with the revelation of the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal in January, and ended with impeachment proceedings against the president in December.
It’s late July already, so let’s review: Pusha T’s razor-sharp Daytona led Kanye West’s Wyoming summer of G.O.O.D Music, while Valee became the label’s bonafide…
