Part of the experiment in considering Queen, Nicki Minaj's latest album and the follow-up to 2014's The Pinkprint, is ignoring the five-month promotional cycle that preceded it. In…
Hive Mind suggests conformity and homogeneity, but the title of the Internet's latest album is more concerned with the emotional range of the musicians behind the moniker.
Consciously or unconsciously, Body/Head’s latest is indisputably an album for or about summertime, a No Wave mirror held up to our present, perspiring moment. It…
Not until the last two years of his life did John Coltrane really stop performing jazz standards. He began to focus on ecstatic group improvisations (Ascension…
Damon Albarn's long-running, genre-hopping Gorillaz project has typically taken its time between releases in the past, so it's reasonable to approach The Now Now—Gorillaz's sixth…
Florence Welch possesses a supernatural voice—the kind that can summon long-buried ghosts, and then obliterate them fully with a gale-force roar. But despite this vocal…
In a post-Soundcloud rap scene that identifies as emo, Rico Nasty is assuredly its riot grrrl. Since 2016, she’s fine-tuned her brash, sour-then-sweet persona invoking…
For three decades and counting, Los Angeles has been home to historic hip-hop dynasties that have changed pop culture. Without question, Compton has had the…
