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James Blake's 5 Best Collaborations (So Far)
James Blake is nothing if not meticulous, but he isn't afraid to show his work, or at least the raw materials of it. In 2016, the connections that have always fueled creativity are becoming...
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Lavender Country Won't Stand for North Carolina's Transgender Bullying
In late March, North Carolina’s legislature called a special session and passed the now-infamous House Bill 2. The “bathroom bill” stipulates that people must use restrooms based on the sex listed on...
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The History of Thom Yorke on Other People’s Songs
It’s been a good week for Radiohead fans, who certainly are losing it now over the imminent release of the band's first album in five years. Two singles have been released already, “Daydreaming” and...
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Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool: The 5 Most Important Things To Know
The first question most people ask when they first put on a new Radiohead album is: “So what’s new?” Because they both defined and stigmatized the curveball album between 1997’s OK Computerand 2000’s...
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10 Wonderfully Weird Eurovision Performances
The year is 1955, the place Monaco. The whirl of the casinos, the racket of baccarat games is quiet. Behind closed doors, in what I imagine to be a room shrouded in cigar smoke, the director of the...
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How Lush Came Back
Backstage ahead of Lush's sold-out show at London's Roundhouse last Friday, there's an almost palpable excitement—and rightfully so. While a handful of gigs earlier this year set the tone of the Lush...
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Appointment Listening Is the New Surprise Drop
In December 2007, Thom Yorke explained Radiohead’s rationale for releasing their then-new album, In Rainbows, with just 10 days’ warning and a “pay what you like” price tag. It was, quaintly, an...
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How Radiohead Became, For a Time, the World's Biggest Political Band
When it comes to marrying politics and music, Radiohead have always been good value for your money. Unlike their near contemporaries Blur, whose chart-pop whims combined with middle-of-the-road...
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Katy B's Guide to Dance Clubs Around the World
If the whole music thing doesn't work out for Katy B—a highly unlikely proposition seeing as she recently released her third album, a collection of floor-oriented tracks that pair her agile voice with...
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Prince and Michael Jackson: Still Competing, Posthumously, on the Charts
Since his death three weeks ago, Prince has been lodged in the upper reaches of the Billboard charts, as hundreds of thousands of Americans have acquired his music—in many cases, for the first time....
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Why We’re Excited for the Misfits Reunion
The poster reads, “they said it would never happen,” which is a phrase that’s become less and less meaningful as more “never say never” reunions launch. The Replacements, Royal Trux, Axl and Slash,...
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Goodbye “Nashville,” TV's Best Show about the Music Industry Yet
Yesterday evening, the news arrived that faithful viewers of “Nashville,” ABC’s perpetually “on-the-bubble” music-biz drama from Thelma & Louise writer Callie Khouri, have been dreading for a few...
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10 Essential Tracks from DJ Koze's Pampa Records
In his recent review of Koze Presents Pampa Vol. 1, the first compilation from DJ Koze and Marcus Fink's Pampa Records, Jonah Bromwich describes the label in terms of "humor, warmth, and the pleasure...
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Inside Chance the Rapper's Brain Trust
Chance the Rapper is quickly becoming one of the most formidable musicians working right now, growing more and more skilled with each passing release, as proven by last week’s Coloring Book. His...
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Tracking Anohni’s Avant-Garde Evolution on Stage
Earlier this month, Anohni released the remarkable album HOPELESSNESS. Its danceable electronic sound is something of a departure from the soulful chamber pop that made Anohni—formerly known as Antony...
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Charting Chance the Rapper’s Unsigned Success
When Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book arrived last week, it was with many trappings of the modern major-label album rollout. He announced the release date on "The Tonight Show" only a week ahead of...
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William Finnegan on the Sounds of Surfing
In April, it was announced that journalist William Finnegan won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for autobiography for his memoir, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, which follows a life spent wandering the...
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The Premature Indie Rock Nostalgia of Wolf Parade’s Comeback Show
By the time the floorboards of New York’s Bowery Ballroom stopped shaking Tuesday night, Wolf Parade had torched the notion that their return from hiatus was any kind of vanity play. You couldn’t be...
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Julien Baker on Being Queer, Southern, Christian, and Proud
Millions of queer and trans people lead rich lives in the south, but you wouldn’t necessarily think that from watching the news. Many are, once again, fighting for their basic rights after a string of...
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Why We Fight About Music
Art isn’t a competition, but one arises nevertheless when two fans on opposite sides of the aisle let loose with the world’s evergreen battle cry: My shit is better than your shit. Music, especially,...
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