Working in isolation, the Paramore leader extends the healing narrative of last year’s Petals for Armor with a sparse, unadorned album that casts a mournful glance to the past.
The Detroit rapper’s latest EP is more polished than anything he’s made before but shines best when he sticks to his Midwest roots.
The Lockhart, Texas band moves easily between folky Americana and Renaissance-esque ditties, conjuring strange stories as if through a Ouija board.
The reggaeton of the Colombian pop star meets the reggae of Jamaica on a short and sleek album that, as far as cross-cultural projects go, just barely skims the surface.
Singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman talks about confronting the emotional fallout of looming environmental disaster on her new album, Ignorance.
By publicly identifying and discussing unlicensed samples, hip-hop fans on websites like WhoSampled and YouTube may be unwittingly putting their favorite producers at risk.
Sam Smith breaks down some of their favorite vocal performances in this episode of “Under the Influences”
On his promising solo debut, the Memphis rapper punches well above his weight class and firmly positions himself as the top dog of the New 1017.
The veteran South African DJ and producer broadens his sound and his global reach, but his own smooth, moody grooves are more reliably rewarding than his highest-profile collaborations.
The jam-heavy live set captured between Walker’s four-piece band and the Japanese psych-prog quintet is a heady meeting of the minds.
The California pedal steel guitarist makes inventive use of space and place on a quietly mournful album where lost forests and shuttered venues endure in intangible anonymity.