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Music industry
Music industry news and analysis from The Nation
June 8, 2018
At his best, Kanye West could be something of a Walt Whitman with Pro Tools. His new album, Ye, sadly feels like something halted in mid-sentence.
March 8, 2018
MGMT and Poliça’s new albums offer songs of solace and alarm.
February 15, 2018
Despite all of the sex baked into Blood , the album is striking for the sense of solitude that lurks beneath its surface.
December 15, 2017
Gustav Åhr was emo-rap’s most visible representative and the genre’s most mainstream success, but what set his music apart was not its despair but its deep sense of hope.
December 8, 2017
A review of popular music reveals striking and distressing similarities in the way men talk about and deal with women in today’s society.
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November 17, 2017
On Revelations , he trades the glitz and brashness of his early work for a more ruminative and uncertain sound.
November 1, 2017
There’s a full band’s worth of talent in that name.
April 7, 2017
The Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble is a great argument for the type of experimentation that only comes from a solid knowledge of music history and decades of experience making it.
April 4, 2017
The DC rapper’s new album raises the question of what “place” in the pop-culture landscape even means anymore.
March 2, 2017
No longer in the background of Odd Future, the Los Angeles singer is finding her voice.
