Why Future trusts Metro Boomin
After a decade ruled by their influence, the buzzy reunion of two hip-hop giants finds one imbued with a startling new power.
Music Reviews
Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter' is a portrait of the artist getting joyously weird
Cowboy Carter has spurred plenty of discussion for being a groundbreaking country album. But for one critic, it calls to mind is a cult favorite '70s psych-rock concept album.
Cellist Maya Beiser's variation on a minimalist manifesto
Armed with just her cello, a looping machine and a pair of percussionists, Beiser crafts a rendition of Terry Riley's pioneering In C that is equally mesmerizing and graceful.
Emo rap at its limits
Embedded in genre : sadboy, a collaborative release by rappers MGK and Trippie Redd, is an accidental lesson in what once made the collision of rap and pop-punk so electrifying.
Beyoncé bucks the country industry establishment with sprawling 'Cowboy Carter'
While Beyoncé's new album suggests the country-music industry's problematic history of excluding Black artists, the collection as a whole is as much a celebration as it is a critique.
Celebrating singer Sarah Vaughan, on what would have been her 100th birthday
Born in 1924 in Newark, N.J., Vaughan came up in the '40s, alongside bebop, a new jazz style she instantly took to. In the following decades, she proved to be one of the best singers of any genre.
Tierra Whack springs to the forefront of hip-hop creativity on a new album
The Philadelphia rapper and singer is known for her playful side, but she widens her subject matter on World Wide Whack, with emotions ranging from ecstatic happiness to the deepest despair.
On 'Tigers Blood,' Waxahatchee is in her anti-eras era
Katie Crutchfield's gorgeous sixth album affirms that real lives are lived not in clear chapters, but as a zig-zag of pitfalls and revelations one can only hope to learn from.
Rediscovering the rigor of composers Julia Perry and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
A new album, American Counterpoints, reasserts the importance of two 20th century Black composers whose work has been neglected.
'Untame the Tiger' represents a high point of Mary Timony's adventurous career
The indie rocker's guitar playing conveys a confidence in making music — even when the songs themselves detail doubt and vulnerability. Untame the Tiger is her first solo album in 15 years.