Listening 2 Daft Punk: Discovery
On their second album Discovery, Daft Punk fully lean into the artificial – singing through robotic vocoders that correspond with their now-iconic robot helmets.
Listening 2 Daft Punk: Homework
On their first album, Homework, Daft Punk stretched the boundaries of electronic music and began wiring the circuits that would become their robot alter-egos, asking a fundamental question: where does the human end and the machine begin?
The Jonas Brothers' Yacht Rock Revival
Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas channel Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, and The Doobie Brothers
From Westeros-techno to trance metal: Eurovision 2023
It’s May, and that can only mean one thing: it’s time for the Eurovision Song Contest.
BTS goes solo together
BTS has entered a new musical chapter with a seemingly endless array of new solo releases.
This Generation's Caroline Polachek
For Caroline Polachek, "desire" takes many abstract forms on her latest record
The Shakira Conspiracy
Shakira is back on the Billboard Hot 100 and it is all because of a pop music conspiracy
100 gecs and the new sound of hyperpop
Unpacking the eclectic scuzz-rock of the duo’s latest record
Modern Classics: Seal - Kiss From a Rose
Why Seal's masterstroke resonates almost thirty years later
Chartbreakers: Jersey Club, Complicated Country, and 50s Crooners
Triumphs, fumbles, and oddities on the Hot 100
Five years later, the legacy of Nipsey Hussle's "Victory Lap"
Journalist Justin Tinsley joins to consider Nipsey Hussle's legacy
“Flowers” and the art of the response song
“Flowers” by Miley Cyrus is a disco-country track has gotten people talking for a few reasons, but most notably, Cyrus invokes Bruno Mars’ classic “When I Was Your Man” in both lyrical and melodic allusions.
The L.A. guitar shop that reinvented indie folk
This sound, and the mythos of the rubber bridge guitar, has turned Reuben Cox into a local celebrity and put Old Style at the center of Los Angeles’s indie music scene.
