Maroon 5 may have seemed like a flash in the pan when they released “Songs About Jane” back in 2003, but it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they’ve endured, and flourished, since then.
Considering how much powerful music is born out of struggle, the relative dearth of songs devoted to the expression of joy, at least within the indie sphere, should come as no major surprise.
Folk music history may not be as rich or storied with Black singers and songwriters as it should, but Canadian poet and musician Mustafa is trying to change that. Working with the…
DMX was a singular artist. After a handful of iconic guest verses, including the explosive LL Cool J posse cut “4, 3, 2, 1,” the late Earl Simmons came roaring out of…
Columbus, Ohio duo Twenty One Pilots made history with their 2015 breakthrough “Blurryface,” the first album on which every song exceeded 100 million streams on Spotify. The band’s sound, boldly eclectic and…
Navigating pop phenomena is like driving on a road full of speed bumps: every time you think you’re starting to develop some momentum with a new sound, artist or genre, another comes along…
Given a series of social media announcements about future releases, its title and its comparative brevity in an era of albums stretching across 20 or more tracks, you’d be forgiven for mistaking “…
Rock ‘n’ roll began as a heavily blues-derived sound, and all the disparate offshoots and subgenres that we have come to place under the “rock” banner remain indebted, in varying degrees, to the…
Even knowing that its title is literally inspired by Annie Clark’s father’s 2019 release from prison, St. Vincent’s “Daddy’s Home” feels like an odd title in 2021 when female empowerment is…
In 2018, Weezer released a cover of Toto’s “Africa” that was so well-received commercially that the band went on to record a full album of them, including everything from Black Sabbath to…
Among a growing collection of releases either commemorating the quarantine or reflecting it, “The Marfa Tapes” carries an imprint not only more authentic than most, but more likely to endure. Miranda…
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…