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If you’ve been wondering where the loud, progressive punk music is in 2018, you haven’t been listening to enough Pill. The New York band has been pushing back against power structures, gender stereotypes and political complacency since 2015, when they released their self-titled debut EP. As the stakes on all …

Since February, the young Atlanta rappers Gunna and Lil Baby have become one of the most talked-about combos in hip-hop. On a string of releases — “Oh Okay” with fellow ATLien Young Thug, “Sold Out Dates” and the latest, “Drip Too Hard” — the pair have relied on a simple …

Kanye West’s third studio album, Graduation, sold 957,000 copies in its first week in 2007. A year later, Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III sold over a million. Two albums, two generational talents, both reaching their commercial pinnacles — these were coronations, and an era of rap at its peak. Now, …

Led Zeppelin had Tolkien. Metallica had Lovecraft. ButSnail Mail,Dua Lipa, Taking Back Sunday, Why Don’t We, Hanson,and countless others have J.K. Rowling, and her story of the boy with a lightning-shaped scar. Released in the United States 20 years ago, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone began the seven-book saga …

Not long after Dawes released We’re All Gonna Die, their 2016 album that polarized fans of the Seventies-leaning classicist band with its turn toward a poppier, more synthetic sound, they received some advice from a close friend. “He was like, ‘Now that you’ve made We’re All Gonna Die, you can …

It’s always pleasantly disconcerting to watch a bohemian legend settle into domesticity – even more so in the case of Perry Farrell, onetime bard of drugs and group sex. But while the Jane’s Addiction frontman and Lollapalooza co-founder is now a married dad who turns 60 next year, his artistic …

As he prowled through gallery after gallery at the Museum of Modern Art, with each passing minute Wolfgang Voigt was becoming visibly agitated. The minimal techno legend and Kompakt label co-founder was looking for something simple but elusive in Midtown Manhattan: silence. A hallway of windows looks out on a …

A little over a month ago, the majority of Fleetwood Mac – Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood – quietly gathered at a little theater in Maui with their future in doubt. The band had secretly parted ways with Lindsey Buckingham, the longtime guitarist and voice behind …

The new Thirty Seconds to Mars album, their fifth, has what frontman Jared Leto calls a “rather, um, loaded title,” and he’s not kidding: It’s America. It’s also the most electronics-heavy album for the band since its self-titled 2002 debut, and its most pop-friendly LP ever, complete with guest appearances …

“The song never got no radio play ’til now,” says Juicy J of “Slob on My Knob”: He released it about 25 years ago, but his voice couldn’t really be heard rapping it until a recent appearance on a remix of G-Eazy‘s “No Limit.” “It was always an underground song, …