Forty-three songs. Three albums. One man who still believes he can rap anyone off a microphone. A giant ice sculpture in a Toronto parking lot. Fans with pickaxes and blowtorches. The CN Tower turning ...

James Blake’s latest album, Trying Times, finds him existing in a dual state: the quiet piano and synth ballads that made him famous, and the electronic experimentation that pushes his music forward.

“The Visitor” by Sienna Spiro is a cinematic orchestral ballad about the feeling of being temporary in other people’s lives, the anxiety of things ending, and the quiet desperation of needing to be ...

“Welcome to the Black Parade” is a 2006 rock opera anthem by My Chemical Romance in which a dying man known as The Patient is escorted to the afterlife by a spectral marching band summoned from his ...

Nothing’s About to Happen to Me is Mitski’s eighth studio album, and by track four she’s no longer reaching; she’s waiting. “If I Leave” doesn’t chase your attention. It holds it. “If I Leave” is ...

Most people learn at some point that nursery rhymes are not quite what they seem. Ring a Ring O’ Roses is supposedly about plague. London Bridge involves child sacrifice. Oranges and Lemons ends with ...

It’s January 2026, Jolene Allison-Burns is sitting across from us with the calm, slightly amused look of someone who still hasn’t fully processed what just happened to her career. One minute, she was ...

Right before releasing their debut album, XG rebranded. “Xtraordinary Girls” became “Xtraordinary Genes,” and THE CORE arrived as the project meant to explain that shift. What lands is ten tracks of ...

In the beginning, God created post-punk revivalism. The indie sleaze scene kicked off in New York City with post-punk revival bands like Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and The Strokes being embraced by ...

The lawsuits are over. The settlements are signed. The partnership announcements have been made. Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment spent months in 2024 battling ...

Here’s a statistic that should make every record label executive break out in a cold sweat: 84% of songs that entered the Billboard Global 200 in 2024 went viral on TikTok first. Not after. First.

The 22-year-old California songwriter turns romantic collapse into a visceral 34-minute diary with Early Twenties Torture, released on 24 October 2025. It is not another breakup record. It is a study ...