Presenting the 100 best rap albums of all time

No Joy's Bugland is named Best New Music 🏆

The Sunday Review ☀️ Toni Braxton's Secrets Today, we revisit the R&B diva’s 1996 album, a blend of grown-up pop and sultry quiet storm that reconciled Braxton’s soul roots with a sexier, more youthful edge

The members of U2—Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.—have each shared their own individual statements on Israel’s ongoing starvation of the Gaza Strip

The kind of music you make when the future is uncertain and you want to keep the end at bay for as long as you can

Over at @pitchfork.com, I review No Rain, No Flowers, the album where the Black Keys recover from a tumultuous year by steering toward the middle of the road. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Perhaps the most interesting frictions in the Ethel Cain universe play out in the relationships between the character, her author, and their shared audience

Revisit our Sunday Review of a Perfect 10 international breakthrough

Here are 20 picks for Song of the Summer

Sony Music Entertainment is suing Rhapsody International, the parent company of streaming service Napster

It’s Never Over has no interest in painting Jeff Buckley as a doomed, tragic figure, but as an artist who somehow foresaw his brief life—and devoured the world, while he could

Topshelf (@topshelfrecords.com) has launched a donation initiative to help aid efforts in Gaza

xaviersobased refines his singularly unrefined style on a short, slaphappy new EP featuring a standout song with OsamaSon

A talent-stacked double mixtape that’s like a crystallized memory of the club in the mid-2010s

“Comafields” is one of the most affecting tracks he’s given us in a while—ambient trance as a weighted blanket for the soul Our track review

Algernon Cadwallader is back 🥲

Heatmiser's Mic City Sons (30th Anniversary) is named Best New Reissue 🏆

The Armed's sixth album faces down the apocalypse with some of its heaviest music yet: visceral, vital, and filled with desperate, righteous anger

We're revisiting one of the strangest, most exhilarating products of the post-Nevermind alternative rock boom, the 1994 record by D.C. hardcore alchemists Shudder to Think Read @philipsherburne.bsky.social's Sunday Review ⬇️

Robert Wilson, the pioneering avant-garde playwright and theater director who collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Lady Gaga, and more, has died

Miimii's “Sé Miimii” is named Best New Track 🏆

Chappell Roan treats an open wound with the sounds of the Cocteau Twins, the Sundays, and the Cranberries Read our track review of "The Subway"

"It was the only time in my life I saw her care about anything happening on a television. Sometimes, I even caught her humming the beat to herself while she fried johnnycakes on the stove" Alphonse remembers his grandmother and her obsession with Fat Joe and Terror Squad’s biggest hit. Read more ⬇️

Cindy Lee has brought their entire catalog exclusively to Bandcamp, where it is now available to stream, download, and pre-order on vinyl

A shoegaze star born on TikTok scales up her sound with a full-length debut that’s beautiful on the surface but uninterested in challenging the genre’s priors

Together’s cast and special effects department alone could make for a substantive horror classic, but the script is freighted with distracting cliches and errant plot developments

On his debut album, the Detroit rapper wrestles with his home scene’s growing influence on mainstream rap. He offers a portrait of his city that’s both loving and critical, grounded in stories that couldn’t have come from anywhere else

Brian Eno has announced Together for Palestine, a concert at London’s Wembley Arena raising funds for families in Gaza

The Baton Rouge rapper’s first release since his legal pardon is a hyper-emotive data dump that churns through hunger, bitterness, boasts, and torment at breakneck speeds

Rock music's great drummer reshuffle continues

Here are some methods for scraping good music from the data wasteland

On the followup to the pair’s 2020 collaboration, Gibbs sounds unusually animated. The album is an effective demonstration of the rapper’s formalist technique—and prickly personality

Revisit our Sunday Review of a landmark album: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

The Queens-born rapper is deep in his comfort zone on his latest project, sounding philosophical, charismatic, and imaginative as ever—if occasionally a little too cozy

Idles have shared “Rabbit Run,” a new song that they made for Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming crime caper Caught Stealing

Sleep tight, grim rite, we have 200 albums from the 2000s you can revisit here: pitchfork.com/features/lis... 📷 by Wendy Redfern/Redfern

The Antlers have announced their first new album in four years. Listen to the lead single

Sound design studio Slate + Ash has released a new virtual guitar based on sounds designed by avant-garde guitarists

On a new EP recorded with Nashville songwriter Luke Roberts, the guitarist picks up a bittersweet love song, revisits Constant Hitmaker, and covers Beach House

The long-rumored collection of Ray of Light remixes was a thrilling prospect. The reality is slight and ill-considered, neither an authoritative survey nor a dynamic reinvention

Nick Cave found that AI-animated photographs of Presley “had an uncanny quality, as if he had been raised from the dead, and the crucifixion-resurrection images at the end were both shocking and deeply affecting.”

Listen to a new single from Animal Collective

Pairing Laurel Canyon splendor with a surreal perspective, the Wand frontman’s latest solo album offers wry portraits of the strange characters and bleak situations that populate modern life

Some egg punk for your Tuesday

cory hanson has made another jukebox of bouncy & beautiful tunes about our contemporary psychosis. i wrote about it for @pitchfork.com: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

You can have 17 new Hayley Williams songs as a treat

Chuquimamani-Condori's hard-drive dump of DJ edits spins together Andean folk, bro country, pop, tecnocumbia, and more. Their hyper-charged mashups are searching, self-aware, and frequently thrilling

For @pitchfork.com, I reviewed Far Caspian's new album, which stays wrapped up in that gossamer Sparklehorse/Grandaddy production he makes look easy

A batch of new singles that we like a lot

My Chemical Romance gave “War Beneath the Rain,” a song written before their breakup, its live debut