Alarming Frequency: The Year In Noise
Death Grips, Kanye, and BadBadNotGood pointed the way forward in a punishingly loud world
Death Grips, Kanye, and BadBadNotGood pointed the way forward in a punishingly loud world
In a year of fear and hopelessness, ‘Puberty 2’ was what we needed
Can the genre evolve fast enough to catch up to today’s American realities?
By corrupting their images, Calvin Harris’s 2016 music videos relieve the tension between technology and memory
If she could make it through 2007, we can make it through 2017
‘Untitled Unmastered’ pulled back the curtain on the creation of a black masterpiece
What her tender, flippant, comforting, unnerving album ‘Anti’ meant to 2016
In a cynical year, he was our greatest optimist
Beyoncé, White Lung, Jenny Hval, and more used horror imagery to explore real-life passion and pain
2016’s perfect mascot was a dancing marshmallow, blissfully trolling America
We didn’t see this year coming, but we heard it from all sides. In Signal & Noise 2016, you’ll find what we really listened to, loud and clear.