Welcome to our weekly rundownofthe best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week,Childish Gambino dropped his seventh, and possibly last, album, Jimin shares his second solo set, and Madison Beer serves up a pulsating dose of dance pop. Plus, new music …
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When Georgia state prosecutors announced their sprawling gang and racketeering conspiracy indictment against Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug and his many co-defendants in 2022, they knew it would generate headlines. They just didn’t know how wild and unprecedented those headlines would get. With courtroom cameras rolling, the case would give rise …
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In 2004, Ashlee Simpson was primarily known as a little sister. By the time she began working on her debut album, her older sister Jessica Simpson had skyrocketed from a young, Southern, blond pop princess to a bona fide A-lister, thanks to the hit reality show The Newlyweds, which chronicled …
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Keith Gattis made a quick impression on Low Gap. Now, the Ohio band wants to remind the world of the impact that Gattis had on country music, more than a year after the songwriter’s passing. On Friday, Low Gap, led by brothers Gus and Phin Johnson, dropped the new single …
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Ten years ago this week, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Mandatory Fun became the first comedy album to top the Billboard album chart since Allan Sherman’s My Son, the Nut in August 1963. The years following that triumph have been a busy time for Yankovic, marked by multiple world tours, a stint …
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Happy 50th anniversary to Neil Young’s On the Beach, an album that, to put it mildly, is not a very sunny one. Young himself called it one of the most depressing records he’s ever made — and that was after he wrote and recorded the famously funereal Tonight’s the Night. …
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Jimin of BTS is turning heads worldwide with Muse, his ambitious and experimental new solo album. One of the tracks getting the most attention is the great single, “Smeraldo Garden Marching Band,” featuring South Korean rapper Loco. Jimin takes explicit inspiration from the Beatles 1967 psychedelic masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely …
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This summer’s runaway horror hit, Longlegs, opens not with a quote from the Bible or anything so mundane. Instead, the livid-red title card reads, “Well you’re slim and you’re weak/You’ve got the teeth of the hydra upon you/You’re dirty, sweet, and you’re my girl” — lyrics from glam-rock band T. …
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Of all the pop-culture questions we thought we’d be asking this summer, “What was Katy Perry thinking?” probably wasn’t high on anyone’s list. But here we are with “Woman’s World,” a fairly generic pop banger about female empowerment. Fine idea, but rarely has someone so misread the room. Crammed with …
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With the afternoon sun beating down on East Texas, Koe Wetzel has decided it’s time to jump off the roof. It’s late June, and Wetzel, with a vodka and soda in hand, is sitting in his boathouse, staring out at the lake. This Friday, he’ll release his new album 9 …
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