There was a moment not all that long ago — maybe summer of 2012, between the releases of Tha Carter IV and Based on a…

The Swedish-American pop/production trio of Andrew Wyatt, Christian Karlsson, and Pontus Winnberg have amassed a formidable backlog of pop bangers over the last decade. As…

All of Sheer Mag's bite-sized, fire-starting collections of road-dog rock over the last few years have been mixed at producer Hunter Davidsohn’s Business District studio…

Even though the pummeling and altogether bleak aesthetic of metal suggests a moribund nihilism, there's a recent resurgence of forward-pushing bands who have captured…

Arcology, the sophomore album from Thug Entrancer (a.k.a. Denver sound-clasher Ryan McRyhew), is very nerdy. Look at the song titles alone! "ROM" likely stands for read-only memory, "Arrakis" could…

Kendrick Lamar didn’t have to do this. Not even a year has passed since he released his grand statement, To Pimp a Butterfly, an intimidating epic…

For most legendary artists, there comes a point when the past eclipses the future. It’s a time for reissues of classic albums, for B-sides and…

The first two months of 2016 have been dominated by something that in most years doesn’t show up until much later: star power. In January,…

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"I understand now that you can’t go from a record that has a chorus on every song [Proper], and then deliver a follow-up that has…

Kendrick Lamar surprise-released (well, almost) a new project on Thursday night called untitled unmastered. Despite its brevity (the collection features just eight tracks) and in-progress aesthetic…

All due respect to Iggy Azalea (which isn’t much), but you can’t just throw around the phrase "new classic" and not expect to look…

Two people whom there will never be a consensus on are Kanye West and Macklemore. Their very artistic existence represents the division that imbalances us…

If the laws of the physical universe as we currently understand them (and well, Alien’s oft-quoted tagline) are right — that in space no one…

The unifying factor in every release of Charlotte Aitchison's still-young career — aside from the oft-stunning expertise in songwriting and boundless level of confidence on…

Few pop stars know more about the trials of consumerism than Santi White, a.k.a. Santigold. She began her career in the '90s as an A&R;…

In 2013, on the occasion of Devendra Banhart’s then-new album Mala, the New York Times surveyed the tumbleweed-strewn scene once known as freak-folk. Animal Collective…

As one of American indie’s premier songwriting projects, Cincinnati-based five-piece Wussy have set high standards of consistency over their decade-and-change career, patiently amassing a hefty…

The 1975 are driving a hard bargain. The shapeshifting Manchester band’s recent singles scan like ambitious blockbusters not made for a clear audience: too smart-aleck…

At 83, Yoko Ono is still cooler (and probably more subversive) than you — not to mention most indie artists a quarter her age. And…