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"There are no big bands doing anything as interesting as us." This Matt Healy heat check was plastered on the cover of Billboard…

On the cover of Some Rap Songs, the latest album from the enigmatic and reluctant rap star Earl Sweatshirt, there’s a shaky photograph of an…

Ten years ago, Mariah Carey began her eleventh album, E=MC², with a series of cascading, a capella banshee wails, a shameless…

Though not quite as drastic as Phil Collins’s transformation from a time signature-juggling prog drummer to schmaltzy pop megastar, the late Chris Cornell went through…

When the Smashing Pumpkins followed up 1995’s 10 million-selling opus Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness with Adore—one of those shoegaze-y electro-rock albums…

After a misguided detour into atmospheric rock on 2015’s Wilder Mind underperformed critically and commercially, Mumford & Sons could have returned to the acoustic singalongs…

In this era of cross-listed, audience-consolidating joint rap albums, it was only a matter of time before R&B entered the market. Longtime collaborators Ty Dolla…

NAO begins her second album with a wish: "I hope you find your way." While it's meant as a cordial farewell…

Since the release of her last album, 2010's Body Talk, Robyn has been through a lot—the death of a creative partner, a breakup,…

As goofy-ass indie rock videos go, Cloud Nothings’ "Modern Act" remains uniquely memorable for the sole fact of debuting on November 9, 2016. Frontman Dylan…

By all units of measurement, Pinegrove spent the first half of 2017 nearing the level of fame most indie bands dream of. The seven-piece New…

In their modern era, the mark of a dynamic Fucked Up record could be its ability to evoke confusion: What is going on? But mostly, how…

Wealthy and cool enough to maintain a reputation on the sweet fragrance of thirty years’ worth of fumes, Nile Rodgers nevertheless wanted a new Chic…

Bands who wouldn’t make a politically charged album about the state of America without an engraved invitation have more or less gotten one in the…

How can the reality of something ever live up to the legend? Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V—released on Friday after a half-decade of…