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How Aretha Franklin Earned Her Crown As the Queen of Soul
Aretha Franklin was the best of us. More than just a national treasure, she seemed like an elemental gift sprung from the building blocks of Continue Reading
Interpol’s Paul Banks on the Music That Made Him
As the leader of Interpol, Paul Banks has been associated with some of the most brooding post-punk anthems of the 21st century. He’s built his Continue Reading
Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes Breaks Down Every Song on His New Album, Negro Swan
Negro Swan opens with the everyday din of a New York City street—honking cars and chatter from passersby—a snippet of his adopted city rendered in Continue Reading
The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s
Sometimes it feels like the neon thumbprint of the 1980s never went away. It’s arguably the defining throwback aesthetic of American culture today, from the Continue Reading
Get to Know Rosalía, the Spanish Singer Giving Flamenco’s Age-Old Sound a Bracingly Modern Twist
Walking up Barcelona’s Passeig de Gràcia, a tony boulevard teeming with tourists, Rosalía Vila Tobella is surprisingly invisible for someone wearing a bright yellow flight Continue Reading
Christine and the Queens’ Héloïse Letissier Breaks Down Every Song on Her New Album, Chris
About eight years ago, Héloïse Letissier was reborn for the first time. Heartbroken, expelled from theater school, and artistically lost, the young French oddball had Continue Reading
Meet Miya Folick, a Reasonable Singer-Songwriter With an Unreasonably Amazing Voice
Miya Folick arrives at Los Angeles’ Silver Lake Reservoir and immediately takes off running. Between the two of us, she’s the only one that can Continue Reading
The Music That Made Cat Power’s Chan Marshall
As Cat Power, Chan Marshall has spent more than 20 years making dreamy music, music that would sound great in an empty dive bar in Continue Reading
Great Records You May Have Missed: Summer 2018
It’s impossible to hear all the music that comes out every day. With this list, though, we hope to direct your attention to the generally overlooked Continue Reading
The Music That Made Neneh Cherry a Pop Rebel
Even by pop vanguard standards, it’s fair to say Neneh Cherry has done more, seen more, been more than most. Born in Stockholm in 1964, Continue Reading
Empress Of Uses Her Music as Self-Defense
Lorely Rodriguez is seated on a couch in the corner of an empty Manhattan photo studio overlooking the glittering Hudson River. A decorative gold crown Continue Reading
Meet Chai, the Eclectic Japanese Rock Band Redefining What It Means to Be Cute
The members of Chai can’t stop smiling. On a Wednesday night in early September, the Japanese quartet is making its live New York debut, and Continue Reading
Greta Van Fleet: Anthem of the Peaceful Army
Greta Van Fleet sound like they did weed exactly once, called the cops, and tried to record a Led Zeppelin album before they arrested themselves. Continue Reading
Kim Kashkashian: J.S. Bach: Six Suites for Viola Solo
There are as many ways to play Bach cello suites as there are to draw breath. You can treat these pieces as a map to Continue Reading
David Bowie: Loving the Alien (1983-1988)
Every autumn since 2015, a new David Bowie career retrospective box set arrives. These are comprehensive (just about every remix and single/album edit is compiled, Continue Reading
Empress Of: Us
Me, the first album by Lorely Rodriguez’s project Empress Of, was an astonishing debut. In a supercrowded field, Rodriguez’s production distinguished itself with all-too-rare menace Continue Reading
Helena Deland: From the Series of Songs “Altogether Unaccompanied”
Helena Deland’s From the Series of Songs “Altogether Unaccompanied” bears an unusual title: Exactly what kind of thing is this? And its format is unusual, Continue Reading
Yoko Ono:
“People of America, when will we learn?” Yoko Ono asked over a briskly strummed acoustic guitar on her 1973 album, Approximately Infinite Universe. “It’s now Continue Reading
Why Doctor Who Went Back to Basics With Its New Theme Song
Do we doo, do we do we, we doooooo, doo we dooo! Jodie Whittaker and her glass-ceiling-shattering entrance aren’t the only things delighting Whons’ eardrums Continue Reading