Carly Rae Jepsen and the Kingdom of Desire
What it’s like to be in the crowd when she cuts to the feeling with a symphony orchestra
What it’s like to be in the crowd when she cuts to the feeling with a symphony orchestra
In the Bay Area punk rocker’s new novel, a man goes home to Alabama to wrestle with his past
The Black Keys frontman on his new solo album, ‘Waiting on a Song,’ and quitting the internet
On UGK and Outkast’s 2007 classic, Willie Hutch, and the mysteries of the heart
Our critical roundtable on the songs and videos of the week
No one sang like him, and now he’s gone
Notes on the band’s new album, ‘After Laughter’
Our critical roundtable on the songs and videos of the week
Notes on the continued life of a band that no one thought would make it this far
10 years of a Southern rap classic
You are not always the fires you start, and you are not always the ruins after the fire is through
Rapper Marco Pavé Brings Memphis Protest History Alive
What it means now when a rapper calls himself the greatest
Lessons from the classic double album on its 30th anniversary
Notes on the later years of a troubled legend
Twenty years after his death, remembering what the late rapper meant to the kids who looked like him
Wonder Years frontman Dan Campbell’s side project is a deeply real work of fiction
What the Roxanne Wars of the early 1980s can tell us about today’s feud of the moment
The web series’s writer on Muslim identity, Chicago music, and more
The rap legends used the awards’ platform to speak up for the underrepresented
Five years after her death, we remember and honor a legend
Revisiting the classic 1977 album’s peak drama and incomplete endings
Barack Obama’s relationship with rap music will be sorely missed
Notes on the rapper’s breakthrough film role, 25 years later