Quelle Chris Upends How We Talk About Guns Quelle Chris Upends How We Talk About Guns
The Detroit rapper’s new album offers a panorama of gun culture that brims with disarming nuance and clarity.
Apr 25, 2019 / Stephen Kearse
Music’s Shift From Analog to Digital Changed Everything Music’s Shift From Analog to Digital Changed Everything
Damon Krukowski’s new book is critique of capitalism disguised as a meditation on playback technology.
Apr 24, 2019 / Editorial / Sasha Geffen
The Salad Giant Sweetgreen Has Used Hip Hop to Turn Lettuce Into Gold The Salad Giant Sweetgreen Has Used Hip Hop to Turn Lettuce Into Gold
But if the salad giant is so woke, why are 95 percent of its shops in majority white neighborhoods?
Apr 10, 2019 / Aaron Ross Coleman
Angel-Ho Is the Future of Pop Music Angel-Ho Is the Future of Pop Music
The Cape Town artist’s daring new album Death Becomes Her upends the language and conventions of pop pleasure.
Apr 4, 2019 / Sasha Geffen
The Uncommon Grace of SASAMI The Uncommon Grace of SASAMI
The “emotionally huge” rock music of Sasami Ashworth lands like a gut punch on her debut album.
Apr 1, 2019 / Olivia Horn
This Is How You Make an Electronic Masterpiece This Is How You Make an Electronic Masterpiece
Helado Negro’s new album of deeply intimate electronic music is simply stunning.
Mar 22, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Julyssa Lopez
Listening to Michael Jackson Will Never Be the Same Listening to Michael Jackson Will Never Be the Same
What it means to listen to Jackson’s music after HBO’s Leaving Neverland.
Mar 22, 2019 / David Hajdu
Jeremy Denk Explains the History of Western Classical Music (Yes, All of It!) Jeremy Denk Explains the History of Western Classical Music (Yes, All of It!)
The pianist’s new album, c. 1300–c. 2000, gives a listener a lesson in seven centuries of composition, from Monteverdi to Stockhausen and beyond.
Mar 15, 2019 / David Hajdu
Solange Searches for Epiphany Solange Searches for Epiphany
Her fourth album, When I Get Home, is a love letter to her hometown of Houston and to her fans, who find solace in her vision of uplift.
Mar 14, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Marcus J. Moore
Mariah Parker Invites You to Be Your Complete, Weird, Messy Self Mariah Parker Invites You to Be Your Complete, Weird, Messy Self
The 27-year-old Athens, Georgia, county commissioner leans into her humanity as she fights for social justice.
Mar 1, 2019 / Drinks On The Nation / Aaron Ross Coleman