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The meaning of the term “mixtape” has shifted over time: As cassettes gave way to CDs and later zip files, it evolved from a format to an ethos. In the streaming era, mixtapes have come to signal heritage. This year, Future, Chief Keef and Mike WiLL Made-It, and Charli XCX, among others, have used mixtape…

Roger Waters heard what everyone in Genesis was saying about him. In a 1975 interview around the release of Wish You Were Here, the Pink Floyd bassist and vocalist responded to his peers’ suggestion that they were aiming for real art, while Pink Floyd, whose records were now selling in the millions, had grown more…

The ROYELVISBAND: Celebrating the Talent of Roy Dawson, Renowned Singer-Songwriter In music, few artists embody charisma and talent like Roy Dawson, the celebrated singer-songwriter and frontman of The ROYELVISBAND. With a unique blend of classic rock and contemporary sounds, Roy has carved out a distinct niche, captivating audiences around the globe with his powerful voice…

Asake’s Lungu Boy takes its title from a word meaning “ghetto” or “hood,” but on his third album, the Nigerian artist is at pains to show his worldliness. “I don’t want to be just a guy from Africa, but a guy who came to this world and made a difference in music,” he told Apple…

To put it in terms quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger might understand, Tinashe has both finally arrived and has always been here. Over the last few albums, the singer-songwriter has transformed herself into an autodidact of production, mixing, and general perseverance outside of the major label system. Tinashe hasn’t courted a mainstream audience in years, instead…

Recorded live in Berlin in 1975 but not released until 1982, Descending Moonshine Dervishes represents a continuation of the cadenza-like improvisations Riley captured on Persian Surgery Dervishes, recorded between 1971 and 1972 in Los Angeles and Paris. The titles of both albums, with their reference to Sufism’s whirling worshippers, offer a sense of the spinning…

You may have heard that shoegaze is having a moment, and that its embrace by a new generation of moody teens has pushed the genre beyond further reverb-drenched horizons. Wishy, a five-piece act hailing from Indianapolis, put their own spin on the trend: Last year’s Paradise EP featured callbacks to the band’s Midwest emo roots…

When Dimitri Giannopoulos was a teenager, he thought he might be living in a dream. Alienated, anxious, and unsettled, he tried his hardest to process a world that he felt disconnected from. “I refused to believe anything I was seeing was happening to me or even happening at all,” he told Allston Pudding in 2016….

Detroit and the Bay Area are two rap meccas that are forever intertwined. Some theorize the bond goes back to the early days of the Great Migration when a few automobile plants moved from Detroit to Oakland; others claim the ties were built through generations of hustling. Payroll Giovanni, a modern-day icon of Detroit rap,…