Given pop music’s current (and quite possibly irreversible) obsession with singles, DJ Khaled might be one of the few artists capable of getting listeners to buy a full-length album. Almost no one…
It’s easy to think of Paul McCartney as a songwriter and artist who influenced literal generations of other musicians; after all, he’s a literal standard-bearer for the foundations of modern pop music.
Music history is littered with tragic stories of multimillion-selling artists ending up penniless because they did not own their own masters, and tales of the lopsided, contentious and cutthroat methods record labels go…
It feels a little mean to criticize Demi Lovato given how publicly she’s discussed her personal ups and downs that have become the inspiration, and inevitably, subject matter for her songs, but…
Relative newcomer Serpentwithfeet is part of the growing ranks of Black artists like Sampha, Sudan Archives and Moses Sumney who are expanding the panorama of contemporary R&B with experimental, digressive, utterly mesmerizing…
If you’re not already a fan of Lana Del Rey, her latest album “Chemtrails over the Country Club” probably won’t change your mind. The performative, narcissistic melancholy of her music has…
It’s hard to read the title of Nick Jonas’ “Spaceman” and not immediately think of the doctor of the same name (pronounced Spah-CHEM-in) played by Chris Parnell on “30 Rock,” but…
After promising Spanish-language music for years, Selena Gomez releases her “Revelación” EP on March 12, a career move that will certainly expand her worldwide popularity even if it doesn’t quite liberate…
For someone who’s at the absolute top of the recording industry, it’s tough to get excited about a new album — or really, a release of any kind — from Drake. His…
News broke in the days before the release of “When You See Yourself” that Kings of Leon’s eighth studio album was being released as a “non-fungible token,” a form of cryptocurrency…
After releasing the Frank Sinatra tribute album “My Way” in 2018, Willie Nelson returns with “That’s Life,” a second collection of songs from Ol’ Blue Eyes’ expansive catalog, and more…
The great virtue of young artists ignoring or being unfamiliar with what came before them is that they don’t know what they don’t know; there are no rules to adhere to, much less…