Music Features

Earlier this year, former Band of Skulls bassist Emma Richardson was painting in her London studio when the phone rang. It was producer Tom Dalgety with a rather urgent matter to discuss. He was working on a new record with the Pixes, and they had an all-too-familiar problem to solve: …

Gordo is one of those artists-producers who has been around for years — his name casually appearing on a constant stream of hits from all of your favorites. He’s done it all at this point. He’s been DJ’ing for more than 20 years, first getting notice in the mid-2010s as …

Jhené Aiko had worked out the kinks — likely unnoticeable to most fans — of The Magic Hour, her first tour in seven years and her first-ever arena run, by the time she sold out Barclays Center in Brooklyn this month. (In fact, all the dates on her 13-stop headlining …

There have been many one-of-a-kind historic events over the last two weeks or so, but arguably —arguably! — the most significant is the release of Katy Perry‘s “Woman’s World,” her hilariously catastrophic attempt at a comeback single. Thanks to its brain-dead lyrics (“sexy, confident/ so intelligent”), AI-like chorus, and Perry’s …

If The Fear of Standing Still, American Aquarium’s 10th studio album, out July 26, carries an unmistakable theme of home and comfort, credit that to Pearl. Pearl Barham is 6 years old, and when she sets her sights on something she wants, she usually gets it. On a Monday afternoon …

The Rolling Stones spent the last three months hitting football stadiums in major cities all across North America on their Hackney Diamonds tour. But it all wrapped up Sunday night at the New Thunder Ridge Nature Arena at Big Cedar Lodge in Ridgedale, Missouri. That’s a 20,000-seat outdoor amphitheater in …

What started as a modest affair with a mix of local acts and other up-and-comers (including one Solána Rowe, the week after her second EP as SZA dropped), Washington D.C.’s Broccoli City Festival has evolved into one of the country’s largest music weekends catering specifically to Black concertgoers. This year, …

This February, Alvvays took a moment to think about how far they’d come. The Canadian indie-pop group was standing on the red carpet at the 66th Grammy Awards, a sentence that might have sounded delightfully absurd once. But their song “Belinda Says” — a shimmering highlight from 2022’s Blue Rev …

Madeleine Peyroux doesn’t have a television or a radio at her home in New York, but she still can’t help feeling inundated by politically charged news, ads for hygiene products, and even the loud music from cars passing by. “We’re being bombarded by so much stuff, all the time. I …

Pink and blue lights dance off the mirrored disco ball that hangs from the ceiling of New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, illuminating the hundreds-deep crowd beneath it. It’s early in the night on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, only about 9:30., but the audience is already buzzing with impatience. …