It may be because I’m getting better at my job, but 2025 already feels like a particularly exciting year in rap. There have been excellent…

45 Pounds, share “Sickle Walk” “> YHWH Nailgun. Photo by Marcus Maddox   YHWH Nailgun, the New York-four piece making some of the most tense…

MJ Lenderman   Charlie Boss Artists including R.E.M., Faye Webster, Death Cab For Cutie, and MJ Lenderman are among a raft of artists who have…

Kendrick Lamar. Photo by pgLang.   Kendrick Lamar‘s sweep at the 2025 Grammys — winning five of the five categories that his 2024 song “Not…

Cowboy Carter”> Beyoncé. Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images.   Beyoncé has finally won a Grammy award for Album of the Year, taking home…

skaiwater. Photo by David Dickenson   Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song. skaiwater is letting work get in the way.…

OsamaSon is rap The South Carolina rapper’s wildly anticipated new album Jump Out leaked two days before we spoke for a rare interview. He’s still…

Crying in H Mart movie is “on pause,” says Japanese Breakfast”> Japanese Breakfast. Photo by Tonje Thilesen   A film adaptation of Crying in H…

Photo by Marc Piasecki/WireImage By many measures Theodora has already (semi) made it big. The 20-something French singer has a multi-million streamed hit in her…

In The Blue Light out February 2025″> Dervon Dixon In May 2024, Kelela played a series of intimate, unplugged shows at the famed New York…

Music creation platform Splice and MIDiA Research shared their “Sounds of 2025” report earlier this week, highlighting the music trends that took over 2024 and…

Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Music’s biggest night is just around the corner and the Recording Academy have finally announced some details of what we…

Rap Blog is a weekly showcase of a standout rap song. Rapper-singer wokeups is best known for his stylings as an Autotune maverick and the…

Photo by Jim Ruymen – Pool/Getty Images   The upcoming Michael Jackson biopic Michael has reportedly run into serious trouble, with the film’s entire third…

The Moment”> Charli XCX. Photo by Henry Redcliffe   Charli XCX is continuing her pivot to movies in earnest, announcing today in Variety an upcoming…

Photo by Lorne Thomson/Redferns/Getty Images Lucy Dacus is putting her money where her mouth is. The indie rock singer and songwriter announced on Wednesday that…

Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images In 2022, A$AP Rocky was arrested at LAX airport in connection with an ongoing investigation of a previously unreported shooting…

Balloonerism”> Mac Miller’s Estate/Warner Records In 2013, as the late rapper Mac Miller was recording his album Watching Movies With The Sound Off, the project…

Day Zero. Photos by Alive Coverage.   Day Zero On the weekend of January 11, the once-sleepy beachside town of Tulum, Mexico is teeming with…