Tom Breihan

Here's what I remember: They were moshing to piped-in music. When Odd Future came to SXSW in 2011, their breakout year, they brought a whirlwind…

Jenny Lewis, the former Rilo Kiley leader and persistently underrated solo artist, does not work all that quickly. Lewis has not released a solo album…

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958,…

Chan Marshall has been recording covers for many, many years. For most of that time, her process has been to strip a song down to…

A Julien Baker show is a powerful, almost religious experience, and a big part of the reason is that she's the only person onstage for…

It just barely missed this week's list, but I'd like to take a moment for Young Thug's clip for the Lil Baby/Gunna collab "Chanel." I…

Next month, veteran Californian goth-punk superstars AFI will release the new EP The Missing Man. We've already heard the early song "Get Dark," and now…

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958,…

A couple of months ago, Kanye West claimed on Twitter that Watch The Throne 2 would be "coming soon." That is probably not happening! In…

In the past few months, we have seen the releases of solo albums from Migos members Quavo and Takeoff. And so you will probably not…

Around a decade ago, Gucci Mane changed the course of rap music. His playful, hooky street-rap taunts became the new sound of the Atlanta rap…

Way back in 2016, Kaytranada, the Haiti-born and Montreal-based dance producer, released 99.9%, his guest-heavy debut album. It was great. But since then, there's been…

Over the summer, there was a rumor that young Chicago royal Chance The Rapper was about to come out with a new album. That didn't…

A Turnstile live show is a fucking war zone. The Baltimore-born band might be the biggest thing happening in hardcore right now, even if they…

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958,…