The great touring gamble
Hitting the road is fast becoming another source of financial risk.
— Chicago Reader
‘Dark Side of the Moon’ at 50
What’s the legacy of the blockbuster album? What’s legacy, anyway?
— The Ringer
A Bittersweet Victory: De La Soul’s Music Is Finally Back
The influential rap trio’s catalog has long been absent from streaming services.
— The New York Times
Laraaji Conjures a Baptism in Sound
The pioneer of ambient music, now 79, rediscovered some of his earliest recordings for a new four-disc set.
— The New York Times
The magic and the pain behind ‘All I Need’
The real story of one of rap’s greatest love songs
— Andscape
The New Weird Virtuosos Making Jazz for the Post-Internet Age
A generation of rising players is infusing jazz with absurdist online irreverence. But are they playing jazz at all?
— Pitchfork
I’m a Noted Music Critic. Can A.I. Do My Job?
ChatGPT has professionals in a range of industries justifiably nervous.
— TIDAL Magazine
They invented the remix
Jamaica came up with the idea, but the remix as we know it was born in New York
— Mixmag
The Warm Glow of the Blog-Rock Era
The return of Voxtrot evokes a longing for the vanished musical ecosystem of blogs and MP3s.
— The New Yorker
Why do we like making year-end lists?
Experts in psychology, linguistics and criticism on the year-end list ritual’s appeal.
— Hopes&Fears