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Trippie Redd, Louder and Crunchier
The Ohio rapper’s new album, Neon Shark, is a pop-punk gem.
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Throwing Everything Into the Rock Blender
The prog rockers of Black Country, New Road are stranded at the end of history, and don’t know where to turn.
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It's Time for Post-Disco
Reviving the 1980s with the 1975, Haim, Jessie Ware, and Tame Impala.
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Playboi Carti’s Impressionist Rap
Carti’s willingness to disappear runs counter to the egotist individualism that has characterized rap since its inception.
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Flo Milli, Rap Queen
She knows you love to be entertained.
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Two Sad Christmas Songs
What if the season is not jolly?
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Pop Noise Overkill
Big and loud music from Backxwash, Food House, Toriena, and Blackpink.
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The Heavenly Queens of R&B
Sharp, smooth, smoky new albums from Toni Braxton, Chloe x Halle, Ariana Grande, and K. Michelle.
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Adrianne Lenker Finds Quiet Joy in Sorrow
Lenker indulges no domestic rural fantasies. Her songs instead teem with danger and magic.
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Four Genre-Bending Releases to Blast This Weekend
From political punk to a rapper-turned-rocker, the releases below are all riotous.
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A Wall of Hyperpop Sound
Although Brakence is not the only Gen-Z singer-songwriter to play with noise and distortion, few so gleefully enact the violent collision of forms.
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Taylor Swift's Quarantine Folktales
Swift's latest, Folklore, really is about being a sad rich person stuck at home.