After 15 years in the rap game (the 25-year-old started rhyming when she was 10), and about four in the mainstream, Latto’s gotten so good she makes it look easy. She knows how to switch flows and styles seamlessly, like the way she works some R&B into hard-hitting trap on …
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Beatrice Laus has a clear head on This Is How Tomorrow Moves. For her third record, the singer-songwriter, who records as Beabadoobee, steps outside of the whimsical world she built on 2022’s Beatopia and faces the messy reality of becoming an adult. For Laus, that means owning her faults — …
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Throughout rock and pop history, musicians have been undone by ambition and creative indulgence, but Billy Corgan has long thrived on both. Swimming against the current, and splashing water in our faces, has always seems to enthrall and energize him and Smashing Pumpkins. Just last year, Corgan unveiled the last …
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In February, Ye (the former Kanye West) shocked the music industry when Vultures I, the first of a planned trilogy with Ty Dolla $ign as Y$, opened at Number One on the Billboard 200 chart. It was only a year ago when Ye’s rank antisemitism and adoration of white supremacists …
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Killer Mike‘s sixth solo album, 2023’sMichael,represented a new type of prestige rap release. Released 24 years after a debut verse on an album no less auspicious than Outkast’s Stankonia, this was a veteran artist taking stock, vividly drawing the lines between the struggling kid and the grateful, repentant adult. Over …
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Those who know the Red Clay Strays only for their TikTok love song “Wondering Why” are about to have their socks blown off. On the new albumMade by These Moments, the Mobile, Alabama, five-piece destroy any notion that they’re just a social-media phenomenon and emerge as a blistering rock & …
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Ice Spice has noted in several interviews that she was a popular girl in high school, well before she started releasing music. One story she told Erykah Badu and her daughter, Puma Curry, for Interview functions pretty well as an analogy for her debut album, Y2K. Ice, born Isis Gaston, …
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In 1983, sometime between the M*A*S*H finale, the shock of seeing Darth Vader’s face, and the Cabbage Patch Riots, the Police issued the year’s music blockbuster. The trio’s fifth and final album, Synchronicity, was almost immediately the best-selling LP released that year. The record, now octuple platinum, was a cultural …
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MySpace effectively died years ago, taking its top-eight ranking system and maximalist interface to the grave with it. Visiting anyone’s profile on the website felt like an immediate visual and auditory assault. There were always some zany graphics flashing against an ornate background, and always some thunderous song set to …
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Who is the real Childish Gambino? The punchline rapper of 2013’s Because the Internet, exploring his identity crises alongside the majestic movie magic of Ludwig Göransson? The psychedelic funkateer of 2016’s “Awaken My Love” who sang psychedelic ragers about love, unity and rebellion? The experimental R&B star of 2020’s 3.20.2020, …
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