Music Features

When the Beach Boys started back in 1961, they seemed like little more than a novelty surf band that would vanish from memory by the following summer. But 64 years later, against all odds, their saga remains ongoing. They survived surf music falling out of style, severe mental illness, musical …

The night after J’ouvert, the pinnacle of Grenada’s annual carnival, I cried and cried. All over the Caribbean and throughout its diaspora, the consecutive days of reverie known as carnival or mas are traditions rooted in African ancestral connection and resistance to colonization and slavery. This weekend, Londoners will celebrate …

A va Max greets me in the lobby of her Los Angeles apartment building with a nervous smile, like someone about to rip off a bandage. For much of the summer, she’s been MIA — vanishing from social media and seemingly abandoning the rollout of her new album, which drops …

M arcus Brown is eyeballing the couch in the corner of the listening room at XL Recordings’ SoHo office in New York. After observing the stitching on the leather and checking out the chrome framing, he quickly asks his publicist if it’s for sale. “My apartment kind of sucks,” Brown, …

Before he was an outspoken critic of Trump, before he was even a musician, Jack White was an upholsterer. Growing up in Detroit, he began as an apprentice at just 15 years old, then opened his own shop, Third Man Upholstery, when he was 21. His music career took off …

When you hit play on Water From Your Eyes’ new album, It’s a Beautiful Place, you’re taking a journey to the farthest reaches of outer space and the tiniest limits of microscopic reality. You’re also listening to a bunch of stunningly original songs made by the New York-based duo of …

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Doja Cat raps over Eighties synth-pop in the first preview of her forthcoming LP, Florence + the Machine returns with a bold Banshee yell, and BigXThaPlug adds …

All together now: the Beatles’ classic Anthology documentary is finally getting a long-awaited new edition. The new Anthology is restored, remastered, and expanded—the full story of the Beatles, in the words of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr themselves. The original eight-episode series was a worldwide sensation …

I t happened earlier this month the same way it always happens. Jesse Welles was scrolling on his cell at home in northwest Arkansas — Siloam Springs, population 21,000 — when he came across a recruitment ad for the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE to most of us). …

T he drive past the gates of the Fayetteville, Georgia mansion that Mariah the Scientist and a bustling production crew have set up camp in sprawls across acres of lush, green grass. Just past the towering front door is a small gym outfitted with a compact, boxy, analog TV, a …