Where to Start with West End Records, the Influential Disco Label Set for Relaunch
Dance music wouldn't be the worldwide force it is today without Paradise Garage co-founder Mel Cheren and his label.
“SNL”’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg Rap Parody Could Be Way Better
You can’t just take any song from an up-and-coming rapper, make it about a beloved cultural figure, and expect to get laughs.
Corporate Swag-Jacking: How Can “Fortnite” Profit Off BlocBoy JB’s “Shoot” Dance?
Don’t call it the “Hype.”
Beach House Are the Chainsmokers’ Type of Thing, and I Kind of Want to Die
When someone who embodies everything you hate likes a band you love
What Paul Dano Is Listening to Right Now
The actor, writer, and director talks about his love of goofy white funk group Vulfpeck, William Tyler’s contemplative guitar music, and more.
Young Thug, But Make It High Art: Hip-Hop Crashes the Canon
Thugger fans always knew he was museum-worthy, but now the folks running institutions are catching on.
How Powell Turned Wolfgang Tillmans’ “Sound Photographs” Into Radical Noise
What happens when a techno-punk producer and a famous fine-art photographer make music while the world burns
5 Takeaways from Amazing Grace, the Long-Lost Aretha Franklin Concert Film
After decades of delays and a ban by the Queen of Soul herself, the documentary companion to her classic 1972 album finally made its debut this week.
What Comedian Ike Barinholtz Is Listening to Right Now
The over-the-top actor discusses his love of Kendrick, the Clash, and the Stones.
Meet the People Making Hundreds Selling Frank Ocean’s Midterms Merch
Not even Frank can keep money out of politics
How Destitute Times Inspired Julia Holter to Make an Album of Beautiful Excess
Aviary, Holter’s most audacious record yet, was the result of asking questions with no answers, and finding answers for questions she hadn’t even begun to ask yet.
What Comedian Demi Adejuyigbe, Perhaps the “Weird Al” of His Generation, Is Listening to Right Now
The music-obsessed funnyman and “Late Late Show” writer gushes over Natalie Prass, St. Vincent, and German disco