The Anniversary

"Seeing light out of darkness...if you can see, like, beauty in a dark situation it's kind of...it's what tickles your boat really, isn't it?"

Last month, Travis Scott released Look Mom I Can Fly, a documentary centered around his blockbuster 2018 album Astroworld. The film spends a good deal…

Start spreading the news: New York is the greatest city on the planet. Or maybe you've heard that before. Regardless of your own personal feelings…

Stephin Merritt did not mean any of what he wrote on 69 Love Songs. He has been very clear about this over the years. 69…

Before they announced to a London audience in 2003 that they were ashamed President Bush hailed from their home state of Texas, before they bore…

"In 2009, you kind of need to know some C++ just to talk about bands," Brian Howe wrote in the Pitchfork review for Antlers' breakthrough…

The xx came out of nowhere, and suddenly they had been around forever. The band's rise happened in a summer, when their debut album came…

Sometimes, the forces of history converge, and people rise out of nothing to become conquerors. Consider, if you will, Beyoncé Knowles, now appearing on half…

Rostam Batmanglij came out publicly in a Rolling Stone profile in 2010, but for anyone who had latched onto Discovery's LP, which was released a…

Young love is tough. Especially when that love is tumultuous, uncertain, full of rage, vengeful, and insatiable. The push and pull of a relationship gone…

"You wanted the worst, you got the worst." - Fred Durst…

Prior to making his name in the early 1990s at the Haçienda and through his big-beat project Lionrock, Manchester-based DJ Justin Robertson once held a…

It is difficult to divorce the blues from its history, though that doesn't stop it from happening in broader discussions of American music history. Part…

Super Furry Animals insisted that drugs weren't a catalyst for the band's psychedelic vision, but some of SFA's early decisions came across as if they…

"Man, it's a hot one."