Please don't yell at me I hate putting anything down this low. It's songs like this -- and "Vigilante [Expletive]" from her Midnights album -- that take her career power struggles and lay them out for ...

New Orleans and Louisiana have left an indelible mark on rap music as the home state of some of the genre's biggest stars and most iconic record labels. Five albums by Louisiana artists were selected ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. If you cut through Opeth they’d bleed Mellotrons. Or flutes. Or any classic tool of the prog ...

If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...

Young Thug released his highly anticipated album UY SCUTI last weekend and it arrived as both a reclamation and somewhat of a reckoning. Named after one of the largest stars in the universe, the title ...

Mariah Carey is one of the bestselling artists of all time, with a staggering 19 Number One hits on the Billboard Hot 100, holding the record as the solo artist with the most chart-toppers in history.

Your new No. 1 album, the proggy and hip-hop-inflected Breach, is by Twenty One Pilots, who last topped the albums chart more than a decade ago, with 2015's Blurryface. Though rock records by Ghost ...

Foxing’s classic lineup downsized from five members to four with the 2017 departure of bassist Josh Coll, and then three with the 2020 departure of guitarist Ricky Sampson, and their last three albums ...

Sigur Rós are a millennial band in the truest sense — not because they are inordinately popular with millennials compared to other demographics, though that might be somewhat true. Rather, Ágætis ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...