Things are getting weirder. Besides the president and almost everyone in his orbit testing positive for coronavirus, and his delirious, cough-heavy phone interviews, we’re witnessing music careers derail in real time due to poor health precautions.…

When someone like President Donald Trump tests positive for the novel coronavirus, you just have to, uh...think about the best new music released this week instead! On so many occasions this year, the national news vortex has crowded out any music…

On top of everything else this week, I’ve been increasingly bummed about the grim outlook for live music. Although we’ve known for months how doomed the industry looks without federal assistance, Vice’s Josh Terry detailed the dire prognosis for…

Early in the pandemic, it was easy to forecast a kind of worst case scenario for the music industry. With touring on hold, album delays, and streaming down, you couldn’t imagine a way forward that looked anything like the before times. More than six…

Bandcamp day! SZA back! You can’t help but latch onto the only two good things to happen in the past 24 hours. After years of label frustrations, the R&B star returned with the Ty Dolla $ign-featuring “Hit Different,” her first new single as a lead…

It was another week of overwhelming velocity, trauma, and confusion. Kenosha police shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times, leading to paralysis from the waist down and a fiery string of protests in the city. Seventeen-year-old militia member Kyle…

One afternoon, in June 2013, Kanye West was wandering through a Rick Owens exhibit in Basel, Switzerland, when he decided to throw a listening party. He sent a few cryptic emails and booked a yawning gallery space in the Messeplatz, five minutes…

Lana Del Rey has spent a career and five studio albums musing over the promise of the American Dream; her focus is not money or success but romance—the expanse of Western highways, the nostalgia of rock and roll, Malibu’s star-studded beaches. And,…

Lana Del Rey unveiled her third album, Honeymoon, on Friday, and it's everything the 30-year-old singer's fans want from their cool, vintage queen — persistent melancholy and a mood that says she has zero fucks to give.  Honeymoon, cowritten with…

"If you're gonna be me you need a manifesto," M.I.A. sings on the title track to her finally-released new album, Matangi. You get the feeling that she means the line sincerely. While the album is great, it shows Maya herself floundering without…