Ten years ago, Mariah Carey began her eleventh album, E=MC², with a series of cascading, a capella banshee wails, a shameless showcase of her legacy-sealing abilities. At this point, Carey’s voice was still a literally Guinness-worthy force of nature. In her vocal prime, she was able to access upper-echelon dog-whistle notes even her forebear Minnie Riperton couldn’t muster. For years, Carey’s...
During a revelatory Twitter exchange yesterday, Tom DeLonge explained to late-night host James Corden that his former band Blink-182's name is pronounced "blink-eighteen-two," rather than the common pronunciation "blink-one-eighty-two," and definitely not "blink-one-eight-two," which, according to Corden's co-writer Iam Karmel, is how British people say it. This is extremely validating to me personally...
It's the holiday season—a terrible time for something bad to happen to you or your loved ones, wouldn't you agree? Let's say you slip and fall somewhere on a late-December run for presents that you really should have handled earlier, or a razor-sharp icicle drops from the awning of your house just as you're fetching the morning paper, or maybe—and I shudder to even say it out loud—maybe Smashing...
One of the last houses owned by Aretha Franklin has been sold. According to the Associated Press and the Detroit News, the 5,600-square-foot, 5-bedroom, six-bathroom home…
Thom Yorke's solo tour throughout the U.S. kicked off last night at Franklin Music Hall in Philadelphia. The performance opened with the Radiohead frontman making…
Back in 2010, Jack Antonoff released Terrible Thrills, a compilation collecting reimagined versions of his songs to be released on a standalone album. In its first incarnation,…
Nicolas Roeg, the auteur behind the David Bowie-starring film The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976), as well as Performance (1970) starring Mick Jagger, has died. As the…
Kodak Black has announced the release of his second studio album DYING TO LIVE. The album follows Painting Pictures, his studio debut album last year,…
Bob Dylan begins a seven-night residency tonight at New York's Beacon Theatre, which I suppose explains this weird sketch on last night's episode of The Tonight…
Meek Mill has released two tracks from his upcoming album Championships. "Oodles O' Noodles Babies" samples the Isley Brothers's "Choosey Lover" and features Meek detailing childhood horrors while criticizing…
Oneohtrix Point Never has released the EP Love in the Time of Lexapro via Warp. The four-track project finds producer Daniel Lopatin continuing to tinker with material from…
Diplomatic Ties, Dipset's first album in 14 years, is finally here. The new project from Cam’ron, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana and Freekey Zekey comes in at…
Katy Perry was the highest paid woman in music during 2018, pulling in $83 million before taxes, according to Forbes. This unnecessarily gendered ranking comes…
As 2018 draws to a close, we're looking ahead to new music arriving in 2019. Here are 30 albums we hope to be listening to next year—some with officially announced…
The 1975's video for "Sincerity Is Scary," has everything, up to and including choreography, sick soccer moves, a child in corpse paint, and what appears…
St. Vincent released MassEducation, her stripped-back, piano-and-vocal retake on her MASSEDUCTION album of 2017, in October of this year. Annie Clark has been busy performing…
Héloïse Letissier of Christine and the Queens recently recorded an episode of BBC Radio's Live Lounge, performing "5 Dollars" from her 2018 album Chris and an unexpected cover. She…