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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,…

Ben Schneider, as is his tendency, is trying to remember the night we met. The Lord Huron mastermind believes it took place after a show…

The week in headlines: Bazzi, Tinashe, & Kali Uchis: Three Distinct Visions Of R&B As Pop, Yodel Boy Performed At Coachella, Taylor Swift Dumb, Toys…

It's Coachella weekend, which means that about a hundred thousand at-least-theoretical music fans are now converging on the California desert, waiting for the yodeling kid…

"We just need to get warmed up here before we get into the real business of the evening," Scott Hutchison said, onstage in Manhattan in…

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,…

At this point, we're used to it. After years of living with one revival after another, retro culture is inextricably woven into our contemporary experience.

This is a big week for R&B. That's true first of all in a statistical sense: The Weeknd's new EP, My Dear Melancholy, just put…

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,…

Twelve years is just a blip in the grand scheme of humanity, but for any living person, that's a pretty significant chunk of time. 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,…

Sometimes, a perfect opening line will tell you, right away, everything you need to know about an album. Kurt Cobain on In Utero: "Teenage angst…

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,…

When they were starting out, Baltimore's War On Women defined their sound as "Bikini Kill meets early Metallica." That seems like an untenable combination --…

There is an art to putting together a music festival. Or, rather, there should be an art to putting together a music festival. That's true…