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Mark Blinch / Reuters Drake's Crucial Political Awakening
The killing of Alton Sterling has led the biggest rapper in the world to break his silence about Black Lives Matter.
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Mark VonHolden / AP Music-Streaming Peace in Our Time?
The irony and the allure of the rumors about Apple buying Tidal
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Tidal Kanye West’s ‘Famous’ Indecency
The rapper has said celebrities shouldn't be disrespected, and yet here are nine minutes of naked Taylor Swift.
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UCLA Library Special Collections / Flickr Black Flag’s Psychic Imprint
A look at the punk band’s cultural impact, 30 years after its last live show
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Ebru Yildiz Indie Rock’s Recent, Clear-Eyed Take on Depression
Excellent new albums from Mitski and Car Seat Headrest describe sadness with precise, piercing insights.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Frank Ocean’s Radically Humane Response to the Orlando Shootings
The R&B star, who has sung about loving a man, draws a line between seemingly very different interpretations of God.
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NBC / Netflix The Strange, True, Tragicomic Story of EGOT
How a Miami Vice star and a 30 Rock writer made a nonsense acronym into the entertainment industry’s highest achievement
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Danny Moloshok / Reuters Where Is the Heir to Rage Against the Machine?
The super-group Prophets of Rage come at a time of much political music, but few iconically political musicians.
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Track of the Day: 'Dirty Linen'
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Jeff Christensen / Reuters The Radical Power of ‘Killing Me Softly’
As sung by the Fugees’ Lauryn Hill, the 20-year-old cover was a pivotal musical moment for many young black women in 1996.
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Evan Agostini / Invision / AP Making Art in the Age of Trump
The artist and musician Laurie Anderson reflects on the power of political rhetoric, why she voted for Hillary Clinton, and why she hated Hamilton.
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Spike / Flickr How Tyondai Braxton Subverts and Destroys His Own Music
The composer and musician, formerly in Battles, explains his immersion in electronic music and how it’s changed the way he thinks about sound.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Pop's Dueling Definitions of Dangerous Women
New albums from Fifth Harmony and Ariana Grande take two different sonic and lyrical approaches to an age-old dichotomy.
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Valentin Flauraud / Reuters Finding the Magic: The Secrets of the Music Producer Daniel Lanois
The Canadian musician, who has collaborated with Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, and U2, on his approach to performing and making records
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AP Track of the Day: 'Forever Young'
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Alex Kacha Moogfest 2016: A Futurism Weighted With History and Trepidation
At the music and technology festival, artists paid tribute to the pioneering synthesizer and its creator—sometimes more in spirit than in sound.
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Chris Pizzello / AP The Noble Futility of Madonna’s Prince Tribute
Her patchy Billboard Awards performance is drawing the inevitable flak, but fortunately other artists will get their chances to pay homage.
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Richard Shotwell / AP The Stakes of #FreeKesha, Clarified
Even if she doesn’t have to record with Dr. Luke anymore, his company still can do things like stop her from performing at the Billboard Awards.
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Robb D. Cohen / AP Chance the Rapper and the Lessons of Childhood
The uplifting Coloring Book makes profound use of Millennial nostalgia.
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Capitol Records How Pet Sounds Invented the Modern Pop Album
Brian Wilson’s Beach Boys masterpiece paved the way for auteurs like Kanye West and anticipated the rise of the producer.
