It’s no overstatement to say that a lot of today’s pop music would not sound the way it does without Robyn. Her self-titled 2005 album and its follow-up “Body Talk” paved the way for and ...

Unlike their flawed first album, Queen’s second effort was nearly perfect to begin with. “’Queen II’ was the single biggest leap we ever made,” guitarist Brian May has said. “That’s when we really ...

Easter Sunday may be just over a week away, but for someone whose true religion is music, I'm more attuned to the “sounds” of salvation. Cue the hallelujah chorus… because Loreen’s long-awaited album ...

It’s possible that we didn’t, in fact, want the old Kanye. Bully, the 12th studio album from Ye, né Kanye West, feels in some ways like a greatest-hits compilation: There are soul samples flipped with ...

On his first album for his own Plastic & Sounds label, the Japanese producer sounds pricklier than ever, lacing hypnotic house and techno with microtonal dissonance and clashing textures. No score yet ...

Here Are the First Week Numbers for Kanye West's 'BULLY' Ye's twelfth studio album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Smelling like burnt rubber and mall body mist, the pop provocateur’s loud, wild new album swerves hard into club antagonism. WOR$T GIRL is most successful as an ...

I am, and have always been, staunchly against the Spotify-driven trend of hyper-specific microgenres. Not only is it straight-up stupid much of the time, it’s also actively confining artists ...

These days, vulnerability in pop music often means detailing the specifics of your private life for public spectacle. Artists falsely equate compelling songwriting with half-baked confessions and ...

Charlie Puth makes what I’d like to call “guilty pleasure pop.” By that, I mean pop music that is sleekly and professionally made, but whose cheugy songwriting would make you a little embarrassed if ...

More than a year ago, in February, 2025, Kanye West, who is now known as Ye, gave an interview in which he said that the title of his next album was inspired by one of his children. “My son was ...

Kanye West shares first good album in 10 years. 8/10 Culturally, Kanye West has brought us into uncharted territory in the last few years. No other artist could’ve embraced the far-right, rubbed ...