October is when the best of the fall has to prove itself before the onslaught of holiday sets. Highlights this month: John Legend enlists Pharrell to produce an entire set; Fontaines D.C. returns ...

In the spring of 1991, Los Angeles was tried on videotape twice within two weeks. One private recording showed police officers surrounding Rodney King on the side of a Lake View Terrace road, their ...

Welcome back to another issue of Wednesday Roundups! Diving into today’s music can be overwhelming with the constant influx of albums and singles, as 100,000+ tracks are uploaded daily. That’s where ...

The fight that led to the breakup of City Girls started on X in the spring of 2024 when Saucy Santana, a friend of Yung Miami, was brushing off a fan account. JT replied to the post, telling Saucy ...

In the third act of William Shakespeare’s second play about Henry IV, King of England, wearing his nightgown, pacing up and down his palace after 1 a.m., with rebels massing in the north, the king ...

It’s June, and the phrase we’ll never be this young again is written in yearbooks of friends. It’s July, and it’s captioned under “Photo Dumps,” used at a time in life when people feel the safest they ...

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TEEKS puts every lover on an altar, and Lovers Comet is a warm, slow-moving soul album whose worship gets more interesting each time it turns into need.

A Swiss singer takes her worst nights into a live band’s arrangements and stays in tune for every word, and the steadiness proves nothing about whether she is all right.

A Bay Area psych-soul band hands its middle to a veteran tenor and gets tenderness and anger out of him in a single register.

Two decades into his career, Juga-Naut packs his bars with food, place names, and pay figures, and the detail makes the case ...