Pop Spotlight

From the first crash and gurgle of Reset in Dub, it’s clear that Adrian Sherwood’s extensive reworking of Panda Bear and Sonic Boom’s 2022 album offers a new perspective on the original—a reset of Reset, […]

Jon Batiste has long been a household name, thanks in large part to his star-making turn as the affably hip bandleader on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. But last year’s surprise Grammy win for […]

As a child, Arnold Dreyblatt quit his piano lessons instead of learning to read sheet music. He was expelled from music class for only pretending to play the recorder. Later, his guitar teacher labeled him […]

As much archivist as poet, Rhiannon Giddens has spent her prolific career “taking back the tools” of Black musical traditions, as scholar Francesca T. Royster writes in Black Country Music, in an effort to restore […]

Mr. Greg and Cass McCombs’ Sing and Play New Folk Songs for Children, released as part of Smithsonian Folkways’ ongoing 75th anniversary celebration, is an ambitious entry in the label’s rich history of children’s music. […]

At first blush, it’s hard to make sense of exactly what’s happening in Draag Me’s lord of the shithouse. The tracks here are dense, dissonant DAW symphonies, full of sharp textures and brightly colored elements […]

Clip is a certified fashion scenester who’s shaking ass in the deli with Ice Spice and toured with Rico Nasty. Her own music exists in a haze of cloud rap and dubbed-out digicore: hyper-online emo […]

Sometime after completing Chrome Dreams in early 1977, Neil Young invited his Malibu neighbor Carole King over to hear his latest album. Years later he recalled, “About halfway through she went, ‘Neil, this isn’t an […]

At the forefront of the ongoing club rap explosion is Newark’s Bandmanrill, who alongside producer and longtime collaborator McVertt has worked hard to combine Jersey club’s pep and sped-up samples with the moody theatrics of […]

dreamTX’s debut album, living in memory of something sweet, is a hybrid of indie pop, shoegaze, emo, ambient, and R&B that’s as unsettling as it is soothing, feral as it is familiar, wily and gnarled […]

The Hives are the first to admit that all their songs sound the same. “We’re sharks,” lead singer Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist told Rolling Stone. “Sharks have been the same for billions of years, and they […]

A sense of unease drives Lea Bertucci and Lawrence English’s Chthonic. Rhythms crash like boulders and high-end shapes shriek like birds. An imaginary dive beneath the earth’s crust that finds inspiration in the mysteries of […]