Music Features

During a segment in the 2015 Amy Winehouse documentary, Amy, a voicemail plays of the singer-songwriter telling producer Salaam Remi that she’s been writing battle-rap-style rhymes and that she’s become a lyrical “samurai.” The world would never get to hear those bars, but Lupe Fiasco gave us an imaginative depiction …

Welcome to ourweeklyrundown ofthe best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Zach Bryan continues to make the case for the top songwriter of his generation while enlisting greats like Bruce Springsteen; Lana Del Rey and Quavo tune into each …

If being a great rapper were only about swagger, Chris Conde would be all set: he carries himself with a supreme confidence, typically in nothing more than a leather harness. But the Brooklyn MC’s flow is also mesmerizing, and his bars are scandalously entertaining — check recent tracks “Notorious F.A.G.” …

In a news photo circulated two weeks ago, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Untook turns driving a Russian-made limo in Pyongyang, North Korea. The sight of two dictators tooling around was unsettling — but also ripe for a particular type of mockery. Soon after the photo appeared, a meme began …

Which Nineties band once dropped $32,000 to buy a dealer’s entire supply of Ecstasy at once? The answer would’ve been hard to guess at the height of their fame, but the culprits were the seemingly clean-cut dudes in Hootie and the Blowfish —who, as frontman Darius Rucker reveals in his …

The British musician Fred again.. is best known for creating intimate listening experiences at scale. He gained critical and fan acclaim for his 2021 project Actual Life, where he composed original tracks using an array of sonic fragments, ranging from voice memos and snippets from social media to bits and …

Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds has faced a lot of pain and turmoil since the group released their most recent LP, Mercury – Act 2, back in 2022. His relationship with Nico Vega lead singer Aja Volkman, the mother of his four children, ended in divorce after 13 years of …

Bob Dylan has spent the past two weeks crisscrossing the country on the Outlaw Music Festival summer tour alongside Celisse, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and Lukas Nelson, who has been subbing in for his ailing father, Willie. Most Dylan fans have rightly been focused on his decision to jettison …

When I tell Tierra Whack over Zoom that I’m spending my summer close to her hometown of Philadelphia — where she’s currently spending time — she has one question. “You got any good food spots you’d like to go to here or no?” She had a whirlwind spring that included …

Channel Tres took his last shot of alcohol in 2021. During a music session a couple of months later, he smoked his last blunt, albeit with funk music pioneer George Clinton (“I got high with George Clinton. I don’t need to get high anymore,” he says.) Tres spent his formative …