It has been just short of a year since Dev Hynes, better known as Blood Orange, released his ambitiously eclectic, socially incisive fourth album “Black Swan.” For restlessly…
Ed Sheeran seems to have no limits in his quest to systematically dominate the world of popular music as we know it. A rare example of what you might call…
After a two-year hiatus of plenty soul-searching and personal growth, Los Angeles singer-songwriter Jillian Banks, simply known as Banks, has returned with a thrilling new album, “…
Jaden Smith made his major label debut with 2017’s “SYRE,” titled with his own middle name. The album was a melodramatic outpouring taking inspiration from the myth of Icarus, who…
Over the last week, cryptic signs have started to appear throughout London. It began with ads in trains for “Anima Technologies,” followed by a social media post about a “dream camera” that captures subconscious thoughts,…
Lil Nas X is emblematic of a new synergy in popular music that would have been practically unthinkable a mere decade earlier. Silicon Valley techies will tell you that technology…
It’s not all that common for a producer behind-the-scenes of hit singles to get publicly acknowledged, save celebrated. Popular music is a world of flash and bombast, in which the loudest voices…
Madonna is such an iconic figure in pop culture that she has subconsciously seeped into the spirit of nearly everyone over the years. While most pop stars tire and fade over time,…