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RCA Records / VEVO Pop's Septuagenarian King
Giorgio Moroder’s first album in 30 years, featuring Britney Spears and Sia, is no throwback.
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Maverick Records Jagged Little Pill at 20: A Roundtable
Three Atlantic writers discuss the seminal Alanis Morissette album two decades after its release.
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Boris Grdanoski / AP Ornette Coleman, Still the Shape of Jazz to Come
The saxophonist, composer, and free-jazz innovator, who has died at 85, remained one of the genre’s true polarizing geniuses right up to the end of his career.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters The Great Lie of Apple Music
The latest wave of streaming services talk a lot about making the art form better. Does anyone believe them?
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Roadside Attractions Surviving Rock and Roll
As the stories of Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse resurface again, the Brian Wilson biopic Love and Mercy tells of a tortured artist who lived.
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Flavien Prioreau Jamie xx's In Colour Transcends the Past
The musician—one half of The xx—mines dance history and culture on his new record, but even listeners unfamiliar with the genre can appreciate his songs.
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Aaron Josefczyk / Reuters The Best Reason to Watch the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction
Bill. Withers.
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Rich Fury / AP Action Bronson and Hip-Hop's Never-Ending Misogyny Debate
A song from 2011 is causing controversy now, proving how slowly the genre’s attitudes about women are evolving.
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Dexter Navy A$AP Rocky and the Liquifying of Rap
The gorgeous stew of At.Long.Last.A$AP may owe something to LSD, but it’s also in line with the genre’s recent turn toward progginess.
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Joan Marcus / The Public Theater Unmanned
As drone warfare becomes a more familiar concept in American life, anxiety about its ubiquity—and what it means for humankind—is being explored in film, theater, and music.
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Dominick Reuter / Reuters See Spotify Run
Will the streaming service’s new features transform how people work out, or just transform’s Spotify’s value proposition?
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Steve Gullick Hot Chip's Electrical-Emotional Power
Why Makes Sense? sees the British band using synthetic sounds to bittersweet, beautiful effect.
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Vevo Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' Video Is the Anti-Avengers
It zanily explodes conventions around gender and action movies.
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Valentin Flauraud / Reuters B.B. King Was the Blues
The guitarist, dead at 89, built himself into the figurehead of the genre.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters Snoop Dogg Reminds That Fun Can Be Forgettable
Bush uses the rapper’s brand but not his talents as a vehicle for Pharrell’s funk and disco revival.
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Fred Prouser / Reuters The American Idol Dream Came True
The show helped usher in an era where fans campaigned for their faves, prefab pop and authenticity weren’t contradictions, and anyone could make themselves a star.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Surprising History of 'We Shall Overcome'
Guy Carawan, who died at 87 on May 2, is credited with turning the song from an obscure protest song into a civil-rights anthem.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters 1991: The Most Important Year in Pop-Music History
Historical, musical, and quantitative evidence shows that the rise of rap is the most important thing that has ever happened to the genre.
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Sascha Kohlmann / Flickr Can Music Be Used as Medicine?
Biometric trackers are helping scientists tap into the body's response to songs and sound.
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Asthmatic Kitty Sufjan Stevens, Sovereign of Sorrow
On tour, the singer's gorgeously rendered grief comes with a dose of wit.
