Pop Spotlight

Rapper-producer Jim Legxacy opens “miley’s riddim,” the third song from his latest project HNPM (homeless nigga pop music), with two blasts of early 2010s nostalgia. The first is the drop from Iroking.com, a Nigerian digital streaming service that […]

The main thing Matt Ox has going for him is that he has never treated rap like a stepping stone. For a white rapper who went viral at age 12—mostly because he looked like Tom Hanks’ […]

William Tyler’s songcraft was forged in the South, but it needed space to grow, so he set his sights on the West like so many musical pioneers before him. The music of the Nashville-born, Los […]

Stepwise and slowly, Bell Witch have been forever approaching The Clandestine Gate, which is not only the Seattle duo’s new 83-minute, single-song album but also the first volume in a trilogy meant to loop eternally. A decade […]

Chance took Esther Rose to New Mexico. Around the time she released her third album, 2021’s How Many Times, she found herself in line at a coffee shop in Taos and, on a whim, asked if they were […]

A hardcore show is an intensely physical experience: The kick drum’s shotgun blast to your chest, the locomotive action of distorted guitars driving a crowd into action, the guttural growls of a vocalist cutting their […]

Mark Barrott’s awe and gratitude at living in an real-life island paradise has informed most of the music he’s made since moving to Ibiza in 2012. The snaky flutes, burbling sequencers, and hand drums that […]

When Boiler Room touched down in Ho Chi Minh City last year, genre-agnostic promoters Nhạc Gãy tapped experimental music collective Rắn Cạp Đuôi to warm up the club with three drummers and a blanket of guitar fuzz. […]

redveil used to daydream about future stardom in the middle of class. “Writing out this pain, nigga, that’s the best solution, it’s really all we got/I manifest this shit then watch it bloom like I’m […]

Behind the isolation and terror at the heart of Mark Jenkin’s second feature film Enys Men is a clever act of deception. The film, the title of which is Cornish for “Stone Island,” follows a volunteer ecologist […]

Dreamer Isioma is always a lover, even in times of pure chaos. In their past work, the Chicago native has depicted the contours of queer love via a gorgeous blend of dream pop, hushed rap, […]

As darkness fell across the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, David Crosby decided it was time to get real about the Kennedy assassination. Over the course of his three years playing guitar with the Byrds, Crosby had fallen […]