It seems safe to say the prolific composer, producer, and saxophonist Joseph Shabason is the only person on Earth who played on the latest albums by both Destroyer and Miley Cyrus

I considered writing a treatise on a certain pop vortex’s song that details her man’s dick with the facepalm yucks of a B-level stand-up from the mid-’80s, but I decided instead to take advice, of sorts, from singer and rapper Shelailai: Don’t need it!

Keyboard whiz Zach Tenorio's new single sounds something like J Dilla zooted off a few lines of Pixy Stix powder. It will make your day better.

"With Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Lana Del Ray, and lots of others, it’s not just the songs—you have to buy into the mythology and the person, too. It’s almost like being into Lord of the Rings. It’s kind of genius."

Sitting here with a pile of used CDs, trying to find the uncensored version of Mama Said Knock You Out on CD (not easy and maybe not possible), I realize that my soul thinks the CD is in some way right, is perhaps the most official-feeling way to present recorded music.

I took this random sighting as a sign from the rock gods: OK fine, I will be the 564th millennial male to write about Geese this month.

"I don’t think I’ve ever fully understood a Kim Deal song, and that’s what I love about her."

"Of the modern style of songwriter, there are a lot of people that I admire, and Lana Del Rey is my favorite." – Jeff Tweedy

As long ago as Cardi likely last saw a half-drunk bottle of Tropical Fantasy tumbling forlornly down the sidewalk, she will always be of and for the city of New York

Irish/Portuguese quintet Pôt-Pot understand the power of a charismatic frontman in a psych-rock field where many bands are content to throw some slapback and reverb on a noncommittal vocal take and call it a day

On his new record, Puerto Rican star Alejandro Rauw’s mass education project expands past La Isla to explore the deeper origins of music across the entire Caribbean

Listening to Doja Cat's new album, does it sometimes sound like she's spitting bars as Carly Rae Jepsen's saxophonist solos in the background? Yes, it does.

Magdalena Bay's art-funk wallop "Second Sleep" will make you long for the days before the concept of hitting the snooze button even existed

Kelly Moonstone's 'New Moon' combines neo-soul, sample-based hip-hop, R&B, and anime into a sprawling romantic odyssey. Read her Going Up profile here

Alternatives to the status quo are out there, and it increasingly looks like the future of independent music will involve artists and labels figuring out even more ways to circumvent massive tech companies while also trying to pay the rent

Even when she snaps, Cate Le Bon never really loses her cool.

This is music I’ll use to inspire locked-in bursts of productivity, whether it’s whipping through emails and invoices, or cleaning the apartment after smoking a big sativa joint

“If we just turned Spotify off overnight, we’d be in a rough spot.”

NY singer, rapper, producer, and songwriter Kelly Moonstone dropped her debut album and landed a feature on a Jay Electronica project, all in the same month--and she's just getting started

The Japanese American composer and saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi has talked about how his grandparents were once held in internment camps, and 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘴 𝘝𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 is a plea to acknowledge the past in order to avoid repeating it

Jay Electronica just dropped more music at once than he’s ever officially released in his career—though it’s difficult to get that excited about what feels like rough sketches being sold as the Shroud of Turin

This song by Infinite Coles, who is one of Ghostface Killah’s sons, has been going around social media due to its characterization as a “diss track” aimed at his famous father. A close listen to its lyrics, though, shows it’s a reclamation in every way.

“It can be a little scary,” Hotline TNT frontman Will Anderson says of taking his music off Spotify, “but one of the things we’re trying to do is illustrate that it might not be as scary as you think.”

Maybe it’s because I grew up in a shitty little town where loitering in a pickup truck was a teenage rite of passage and boredom was the quickest path to delinquency, but I can picture every single song on Wednesday's new album so clearly

Since I first heard this song a couple of weeks ago, I’ve returned to it perhaps more than anything else Phoenix have done in about a decade

Most conscientious music fans know *why* so many artists are choosing to remove their music from Spotify, so I wanted to find out more about *how* it’s being done—and what it means for artists and labels’ financial future moving forward

It’s remarkable to hear a rapper in their mid 40s sound so creatively juiced, diving headfirst into a genre spearheaded by artists half his age and sounding like he was there from the start

The real Heaven is in our three Must Hear albums this week

It was the “Barracuda” cover that broke me

Some thoughts on the musical world-building of 𝘎𝘪𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴, forever gilded in lalala

The atmosphere of Tennessee rapper YGTUT's "Party or What" immediately screams “horny function”

Addison Rae's debut album is a slo-mo whorl of hyperpop gestures that sound like I feel when I accidentally take too much Lexapro: cottony ears, numbness to emotion, the occasional but brief electrified zap in the bloodstream

“Lou Reed Was My Babysitter” captures Jeff Tweedy hooting and hollering like he’s Howard Dean fronting a garage band

"I loved when Fox News tried to doxx Ethel Cain and they didn’t even know she’s trans. They were like, 'She has ties to Satan!' They were going after her for her vibe. That was a big win." www.hearingthings.co/asher-whites...

On "We Good," teenage rapper-producer Aj1kk samples Fred Again.. in the least corny way imaginable

It’s almost hard to believe Peel Dream Magazine are from Southern California, so thoroughly does “Venus in Nadir” summon the bookish, lovelorn, and profoundly overcast spirit of classic UK label Sarah Records

Art-pop auteur Asher White talks about her brilliant new album '8 Tips for Full Catastrophe Living,' and how to get into noise music when you're 12 years old

"My life is so short and corrupted by the fact that I was born in the wrong body, and there’s a great, churning, grinding machine of chaos that exists on either side of my life, and I’m being hurled toward the end of my life at all moments. I must make Bon Iver-inspired twee folk music."

If Burial’s music is what you hear in a dank alley next to the club, Kelman Duran’s records sound like they were made in the pitch-black space below it

It feels like the Grammys invented this young person who can pull off a convincing front-facing video, play a lot of real instruments with robotic precision, and make music that causes great-grandparents to kind of remember their first kiss at the sock hop

On “Geeksqaw!,” Chicago rapper Kaicrewsade raps with a hyperactive cadence that matches the jazz drums that propel (and I mean *propel*) this feel-good, trumpet-laden, end-of-summer sparkler

"I was really thinking, 'Everything is just so incredibly beautiful and overwhelming, wow, that maybe I actually died, and this is the afterlife.'"

You can definitely hear how Joy Orbison's latest could induce a field full of lubricated revelers to collectively lose their shit

"I think about this Zora Neale Hurston quote often: ‘If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.’ I feel like people are really gonna get it twisted if I don’t straight-up tell them how I feel.”

Our latest Must Hear track is the aural equivalent of that LeBron James “can’t believe this is my life” meme

For our latest edition of The Producers, we spoke to New Jersey producer, DJ, and sound designer DJ Haram, who dug deep into her favorite songs from Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ziad Rahbani, RP Boo, Three 6 Mafia, & more

Laufey's music is whimsically retro to the point of delusion. Remember when Zooey Deschanel sang songs? This is like the Gen Z version of that, except worse.

Let’s be real: At this point in human history, is there anything cooler than not being glued to your fucking phone all the time?

"You reach the edge of your instrument, and you go, Is there some way I can coax a sound out of this that I’m hearing in my head?"

At 32 and 31 respectively, Chance and Earl’s latest albums, Star Line and Live Laugh Love, are mirror images of that tender moment when commitment is staring you in the face.