Tom Breihan

Over the past few years, the Atlanta singer Summer Walker has emerged as one of the biggest, most impressive stars on the R&B landscape. Records like Walker’s 2021 album Still Over It feature big stars and fit the sound of the moment, but Walker still uses them to get raw and vulnerable about her personal life.  » Read More

The Virginia-born country-rocker Morgan Wade impressed a whole lot of people with her 2021 album Reckless; our correspondent Stephen Deusner named it among that year’s best country albums. Since that LP’s release, Wade’s career has been on a huge upswing; she’ll play festivals like Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza,  » Read More

We know Devonté Hynes best as the man behind Blood Orange, but Hynes has also been branching out into film and TV scores lately. He’s done the soundtracks for projects like Luca Guadagnino’s We Are Who We Are, Paris Barclay’s In Treatment, and Rebecca Hall’s Passing.  » Read More

Last month, the omnivorous Montreal dance producer Kaytranada and the adventurous Portland rapper Aminé announced that they’d formed a new duo called, naturally enough, KAYTRAMINÉ. The combination makes perfect sense. Both of them make lively, inventive music, and both of them seem to exist on a similar wavelength. Today, they’ve released their self-titled debut album,  » Read More

Shapednoise is Nino Pedone, a Sicilian-born and Berlin-based producer of avant-garde electronic music. This summer, he’ll release his new album Absurd Matter, which features a wild array of guests. Moor Mother, Zelooperz, Brodinski, and David Lynch sound designer Dean Hurley all contribute to the record. Today, Shapednoise has shared “Family,”  » Read More

For a couple of years, Mikey Hawdon, leader of Toronto punks Fairmounts, has been putting together all-star covers on his Mike And His Uke YouTube channel. For his latest selection, he’s got a very famous man singing a very famous song. Skate legend Tony Hawk changed millions of kids musical tastes via the medium of video-game soundtrack.  » Read More

About halfway through “All Too Well,” I lost it. Couldn’t hold it together at all. Became an absolute mess. Couldn’t stop crying. It was embarrassing, frankly. I try to be honest with myself, but “person who cries at a Taylor Swift show” isn’t the way that I see myself. And yet there I was,  » Read More

The Simpsons: It’s still on! And famous people are still lining up to have their likenesses rendered in cartoon form! This coming Sunday, The Simpsons will air its 34th season finale, and Lizzo will be a part of it.  » Read More

It’s been a couple of months since we’ve posted one of Kelly Clarkson’s daily cover songs, but rest assured that she has not stopped. In recent weeks, Clarkson has taken on some totemic pop classics: Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game,”  » Read More