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With Parquet Courts’ new album comes a reminder of their most undervalued talent
Parquet Courts are best known for the wild and woolly energy of their early work, but one of the band’s greatest strengths is its comedown songs
Beyond Mamma Mia!: Essential ABBA tracks, from the Gold to the obscure
Sure, we all know the hits—but for every “Dancing Queen,” there's a host of fantastic lesser-known tracks from the Swedish music legends
Head In The Clouds is the biggest festival you haven't heard of (yet)
The festival, a celebration of Asian heritage in music, featured performances from CL, Saweetie, DPR Live, DPR Ian, and more
The 12 jams of Xmas: 2021’s best new holiday music
This year brought a bevy of new holiday-themed songs—from ABBA to Beach Bunny to Norah Jones, here are the best new yuletide tunes for your December playlist
What makes a sad song a hit in 2022?
There aren't as many of them as there used to be, and Billboard hits about heartbreak share few commonalities—save for "woe is me" lyrics
A definitive ranking of Charli XCX’s collaborations, from worst to best
From “I Love It” to “Xcxoplex,” here’s the complete ranking of all the songs where Charli XCX teams up with other artists
In Willie Nelson we trust: Why his homegrown Luck Reunion matters
The annual celebration held on his unusual land resists the odds and creates a music event that transcends its trappings
A 40th anniversary reissue asks: Is Moving Pictures Rush’s best album?
The sterling new deluxe reissue makes the case for the Canadian trio’s most commercially successful album
The 10 best (virtual) Coachella performances
Between acts like Billie Eilish and Harry Styles, high-profile guests, and much-anticipated reunions, the beloved festival had it all
The Grammys have never understood what makes Beyoncé, Beyoncé
Despite her work as music’s foremost performer and curator, Beyoncé has been almost completely shut out in the Grammys’ major categories
Smog: Knock Knock
Bill "Smog" Callahan, purportedly for the purposes of attracting teenage fans, adorned his album cover with flashy photographs of lightning and an ugly wildcat. Regardless of his motives for doing so,
The Black Crowes: By Your Side
Brothers Chris and Rich Robinson, the leaders of the Atlanta blues-rock band Black Crowes, have survived a cavalcade of oft-self-imposed career roadblocks: They've battled drugs, feuds, the legal syst
Sugar Ray: 14:59
Of the nation's current hitmakers, Sugar Ray is among the least likely to stay true to anything resembling an artistic vision. Its 1995 debut, Lemonade And Brownies, was a listless collection of dopey
Angry Samoans: The '90s Suck And So Do You
When a band, retired for years and long in the tooth, comes back from the dead to try to recapture its lost glory, the results are often pretty sad. It's sadder still when the would-be comeback/cash-i
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: I See A Darkness
Will Oldham doesn't make life easy for completists, critics, or archivists: He not only switches his instrumental accompaniment, his on-again/off-again supporting players, and even his overall tone fr
Built To Spill: Keep It Like A Secret
Doug Martsch's greatest gift is his ability to create an elastic, unpredictable rock sound that's always threatening to careen in five directions at once. An exceptionally skilled guitarist and witty
Collective Soul: Dosage
It takes a while to forget Collective Soul's dark past. This is, after all, the band that brought the world the heavily contested Most Generic Single Of The '90s: "Shine," a 1994 song that sounded lik
Sparklehorse: Good Morning Spider
Midway through Good Morning Spider, Sparklehorse's baffling but brilliant sophomore album, "Chaos Of The Galaxy/Happy Man" sums up the kitchen-sink approach for which the record and the band ought to
XTC: Apple Venus Vol. 1
After the release of the 1992 album Nonsuch, XTC disappeared, but it wasn't laziness that kept the venerable, prolific act from recording. A bum record deal pushed the trio into the financial red, a s
Paul Westerberg: Suicaine Gratifaction
Paul Westerberg's solo career has found him in something of an impossible situation: If he were to make music that sounds too much like The Replacements, people would accuse him of repeating himself.
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