Music

Nobody in the history of music ever sounded quite as decadently downtrodden (or whiskey-drowned, -sodden) as Shane MacGowan on “Fairytale of New York,” the soppy Christmas carol the Pogues‘ first released as a single in 1987. But as the luck of the Irish would have it, Kirsty MacColl was fortuitously …

Days after Cher heralded the arrival of the holiday season with a performance alongside Santa Claus at the Thanksgiving Day Parade, the icon made Christmas official by closing out the annual Rockefeller Center tree lighting with Darlene Love. Sixty years after Love first recorded the classic “Christmas (Baby Please Come …

Somewhere, someone has woken up in a cold sweat and faced the realization that they might not have actually escaped the wrath of Nicki Minaj. In the early hours of the morning, the rapper took to social media for an impromptu meeting of the Barbs as they gear up for …

O ne has two degrees from Juilliard, and the other went straight from the streets of Atlanta to the studio, where he helped invent trap as we know it. They come from wildly different musical worlds, but Jon Batiste and Gucci Mane found plenty of common ground when they came …

Spotify Wrapped is here — and with the platform’s analysis of users’ personal listening habits also comes a breakdown of the top-played music of the year globally. Taylor Swift earned the crown of the most-streamed artist this year, dethroning Bad Bunny, who had the most streams for three consecutive years. …

The ARMY has a holiday gift to look forward to. Big Hit Music, which represents BTS, announced a new remix of Jung Kook‘s “Standing Next to You” with a feature from Usher, due out on Friday. “Featuring the U.S.-based R&B artist Usher, this remix adds a velvety touch to the …

MGMT have released the new music video for “Bubblegum Dog,” the new single from their upcoming album, Loss of Life. The Tom Scharpling and Julia Vickerman-directed visual pays tribute to alternative-rock videos from the Nineties. The humorous clip finds Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser hanging by a fake fire, donning …

The further we get from the Nineties, the more it looks like a series of musical golden ages all stacked atop one another, a kaleidoscopic moment when grimy hip-hop and future-shock R&B hit artistic and commercial peaks at the same time as a procession of fuzz-pedal-toting rock bands found themselves …

America really likes its Morgan Wallen. The country star dominated streaming on both Apple Music and Spotify this year, earning the Number One streamed song in the country on both platforms with “Last Night.” His One Thing at a Time album was the most streamed album on Spotify. On Apple …

Albanian Independence Day was yesterday, but Drake doesn’t think it’s too late to join in on the festivities. On Wednesday, the Canadian rapper shared the music video for “Polar Opposites,” the closing track to his latest album, For All the Dogs, which prominently features a group of Albanian men hanging …