Surprise! The Best Grammys Ever
Posted in: Music Features
The pandemic meant this year’s Grammys were a true music celebration like never before. Let’s never go back
How R.E.M. Invented the Nineties With ‘Out of Time’
Posted in: Music FeaturesA look back at the album that changed everything about the band’s story, and presaged the whole decade to come
Arab Strap Are Trying to Make You Cry and Maybe Laugh, Too, on ‘Tears on Tour’
Posted in: Music FeaturesThe song, which comes off the duo’s reunion album As Days Get Dark, presents a different kind of comedy tour
Anna B Savage Takes Flight
Posted in: Music FeaturesEnglish singer-songwriter mines complicated feelings with dark humor and an unforgettable voice
Inside the ‘Black Market’ Where Artists Can Pay for Millions of Streams
Posted in: Music FeaturesDigital marketer Joshua Mack brags on call with high-powered management company about the ability to “manipulate” streaming systems to “hit astronomical numbers”
Music NFTs Have Gone Mainstream. Who’s In?
Posted in: Music FeaturesShawn Mendes, Grimes, and Tory Lanez are just a few celebrities who’ve jumped aboard the crypto train to release exclusive digital goods — turning the Internet into a futuristic, fine-art auction house on crack
Is Drake Trying to Tell Us Something?
Posted in: Music FeaturesOn ‘Scary Hours 2’ Drake sounds like he’s growing tired of being the most successful rapper in the world
Eladio Carrion Has Seen the Future of Latin Trap
Posted in: Music FeaturesPuerto Rican rapper on ‘Monarca,’ collaborations with J Balvin and Natanael Cano, and more
Lucy Dacus Just Released the Most Devastating Ballad of the Year
Posted in: Music FeaturesOn fan favourite “Thumbs,” she delivers a dark murder fantasy with perfect writerly control
How Guns N’ Roses Formed
Posted in: Music FeaturesIn an exclusive excerpt from new Eighties hard-rock oral history ‘Nöthin’ but a Good Time,’ GN’R members and those in their inner circle look back on how the band’s classic lineup came to be
