L.A.’s The Internet might be the most excitingly off-kilter group to emerge from the ever-adventurous hip-hop collective Odd Future. Their name is well-fitting, as the music seems removed…
Rappers typically devote great energy to devising monikers that convey how hard, cool, rich, or otherwise incredible they are. Compton’s Simmie Sims III has taken a decidedly different approach, choosing to go by…
Massachusetts singer-songwriter Lori McKenna has country songwriting down to a science. It’s no surprise that she has won two Grammys for “Best Country Song.” As a wife and…
Avant-garde electric guitar duo Body/Head is the brainchild of indie icon Kim Gordon, formerly of Sonic Youth, and prolific improvisational fixture Bill Nace. Their 2012 duo “Coming Apart”…
Dirty Projectors is the singular, ever-evolving musical project of enigmatic auteur Dave Longstreth. What started as a solo effort grew into a full band, which underwent lineup changes and radical…
Today, it is the norm for rappers to sputter sporadic, indecipherable syllables of nonsense, spontaneously shift into bizarre singalongs, and let out occasional guttural noises, all the while swimming in a sea of…
Canadian rapper Drake is surely one of today’s biggest names in hip-hop — that is, if you exactly consider him hip-hop. He has alternated between raging on the…
Florence and The Machine is often carelessly labeled with numerous descriptions, such as indie rock, art rock, and baroque pop. The latter might be the most accurate, as the group are…
Gorillaz, the brainchild of Blur’s Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, have been something of an enigma ever since they emerged with their 2001 self-titled debut. A “virtual band,” comprising…
Kanye West’s five-in-a-row album streak has finally reached its climax, with an album from R&B starlet Teyana Taylor. It marks a departure for Kanye, as the other four…
Bebe Rexha has written songs for such disparate artists as David Guetta, Selena Gomez, Iggy Azalea, Tinashe, and Nick Jonas. Among her compositions is Eminem and Rihanna’s grammy-winning “The Monster.”…
Nine Inch Nails are an iconic artist that have stood the test of time, embodying a coming-of-age of the goth aesthetic. While the term “goth” is still associated, largely, with…
Leave it to Jay-Z and Beyoncé to drop an album in the middle of a Kanye West hip-hop storm. Earlier this week, hip-hop fans worldwide stared at a still of the Queensborough…
For the fourth of his slapdash five-in-five-weeks record release spree, Kanye West has joined forces with none other than the legendary Nas. Hip-hop purists worldwide have been pacing…