The band’s first album in a decade is more haunted than its arena-sized choruses suggest.
For better or worse, the music video was surprisingly central to the way we thought about music in 2013—for better and for worse.
Hip-hop titans Rick Ross and Jay-Z have joined forces for a new track from the former’s forthcoming album.
“The Monster” is Eminem’s fifth single to top the Billboard Hot 100.
Intentionally or not, Burial might have just released the best Christmas album of the year.
Beyoncé’s new self-titled album takes her (and us) to some mighty weird and exhilarating places.
Alternate/Endings succeeds in leaving you both exhausted and anxious for more.
As our list attests, if album-as-format is dead, it’s enjoying one hell of an afterlife.
Burial’s Rival Dealer drops next week, but you can stream the three-track EP in advance.
Listen to a playlist of the best singles of the year on YouTube and Spotify.
The year’s biggest singles took the pleasure principle to reckless new, solipsistic heights.
A welcome sign of life from an MC who many assumed to be over the hill, and where it fails, it fails on its own terms.
The understated music video for Britney Spears’s “Perfume” successfully shows a more mature side of the pop star.
Bloated with all manner of interstitial suites and assorted skit-like stopgaps, the 19-track Because the Internet could serviceably represent the titular web Gambino finds so perplexing.
Black Panties finds Kelly descending into earthly pleasures more intensely than ever, immersed in a sticky, sordid world of pure sexuality.
From Bowie to Madonna to Gaga, pop music has always been as much a visual medium as an aural one.
SUM/ONE is a restless, speculative, ADHD-generation medley of rhythmic rambling and avant-pop orchestration.
For the past eight years, the Killers have partnered with (RED) for a Christmas single.
Nina Simone’s spirit is lovingly refracted through a Xiu Xiu lens on Nina.
Drive All Night is a sleepy, forgettable EP composed of songs featuring down-on-their-luck subjects hoping to find redemption in love.
Eminem goes back to the future in the new music video for his single, “Rap God,”