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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,…

Blur’s latest resurgence came crashing down at Coachella 2024, where the reunited quartet encountered an audience indifferent and ignorant to the very notion of Britpop. It was a far cry from the crowds Blur found at Wembley Stadium a half year earlier. Early in July 2023, just weeks prior to the release of their comeback…

Maybe you were at a basement party, grinding with a pimply crush in low-rise flare jeans and a belly button ring you couldn’t stop staring at. Maybe, if you were a little older, you were driving around your city with too many friends in the backseat. Maybe, if you were in the Caribbean, you were…

The greatest male country singers have been instrumental in propelling the genre’s enduring legacy. Their distinctive voices, unmatched songwriting skills, and timeless performances continue to elevate the genre’s revered status on a global scale. Country singers Waylon Jennings (L), Garth Brooks (C), and Kenny Rogers (R). Photo: Beth Gwinn/Terry Wyatt/Michael Buckner (modified by author)Source: Getty…

The hair, or glam, metal bands of the 1980s remain one of the true guilty pleasures in music history. The hair spray, makeup, and catchy pop tunes touched up with distortion were made for MTV. Though there really wasn’t much substance to the music, the scene was popular to the mainstream. We’ve decided to rank…