With his second album, Berlin’s TJ Hertz leaves techno behind in favor of hyperreal sound design charged with a narrative sensibility.
A year after the soul singer’s death, the label that gave him a third chance collects his stray tracks, shaping a showcase for his incredible versatility.
This 10th-anniversary collection gathers loose tracks from the band’s first four years, as they explored disparate genres and song structures amid the bedlam.
A newly discovered live document from 1973 finds the bassist emerging from a hiatus and negotiating a tradition he helped build with the “new thing” he helped inspire but often doubted.
The 51-year-old rock realist talks about the songs, albums, and artists that have meant the most to him throughout his life—including Missy Elliott, Minutemen, and Amy Winehouse—five years at a time.
From Travis Scott’s queasy emptiness to Khalid’s lowkey miserabilism, how did the pop charts become a destination for despair?
Riz Ahmed also rates E.T., floral print dresses, supervillains, and more in this episode of Over/Under
The rapping, singing, and drumming polymath approaches the funk canon from a rap perspective, offering a wide-angle portrait of Los Angeles’ hedonistic landscape.
The Ohio rapper showcases the benefits of refining a long-running aesthetic while also revealing its main limitation: the looming sense that things are getting a bit stale.
Channeling krautrock’s philosophical legacy along with its repetitive grooves, the Baltimore duo’s second album aims for nothing less than political and personal liberation.
In a departure from the airier meditations of 2017’s Brønshøj (Puncak), the Indonesian duo’s Sublime Frequencies debut explores an earthy fusion of doom and folk metal.