Tom Breihan

Have you seen Franz Ferdinand live lately? It fucking rules. Seriously. Last year, the band played my sleepy Southern college town, and I was not…

Next month, the great Courtney Barnett returns with the new LP Tell Me How You Really Feel, which is somehow only her second proper solo…

Is it possible that the Voidz could've made a song too weird for their new album? Yesterday, I would've answered that question with an emphatic…

It's been a long time since we've heard from the great Swedish pop singer Lykke Li. She released I Never Learn, her excellently heart-shattered breakup…

It should not be this way. There should be more than one woman within rap's A-list at a time, and the women within rap's A-list…

Right now, Rae Sremmurd are hard at work on their ridiculously ambitious triple album Sr3mm -- two solo albums from group members Swae Lee and…

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,…

In January, Grant Fell, longtime bassist for the New Zealand band Headless Chickens, died of cancer. Shortly before his death, Fell and his bandmates learned…

For upwards of 20 years, El-P, the indie-rap innovator and one half of Run The Jewels, has been making clanking, sputtering, avant-garde rap beats that…

Matthew Barnes, the UK producer who records under the name Forest Swords, makes ominous, intense, meditative instrumental music. Last year, he returned after a long…

Last year, 21 Savage, Migos member Offset, and star producer Metro Boomin all got together to record the collaborative album Without Warning. But the breakout…

The whole saga of Once Upon A Time In Shaolin gets more complicated all the time. It was weird enough when the Wu-Tang Clan decided…

Migos make a lot of songs. Even after releasing the mammoth Culture II album earlier this year, and even after showing up everyone else's records,…

It has now been two decades since Lauryn Hill (who now goes by Ms. Lauryn Hill) released a studio album. That album included the gorgeous…

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,…