On the first day of October, the number “30” appeared mysteriously on the side of the Louvre, the Colosseum, and the Empire State Building as if it were a Bat-Signal. It was, in fact, a long-awaited announcement about the return...

Cate Le Bon became a guitar rock auteur by subverting the form. The Welsh singer’s gifts for unruliness, absurdity, and obliqueness have only heightened since the jangly garage rock and shaggy psych-folk of her earliest records, but 2019’s simultaneously insular...

Even though Buffalo, New York’s Griselda collective has had California producer the Alchemist on speed-dial since the mid-2010s, they’ve never stopped rapping like they’re up-and-comers trying to get his attention. Lately, Conway the Machine has been particularly voracious: He’s the...

After collaborations with Rosalía and SOPHIE on 2020’s KiCk i and a recent remix for Lady Gaga, Arca’s latest joint venture, “Born Yesterday” with Sia, represents her latest foray into more mainstream pop. The first single from the producer’s upcoming...

On “Geyser,” the opening track of her brilliant 2018 album Be the Cowboy, Mitski cast music in the role of a temperamental lover. The need for self-expression, she suggested, could be an endless, destructive tango with frustration and epiphany. So,...

War is constant, and driving, and cruel. Its brutal rhythm pulses through “Bottle Episode,” the new single from Manchester experimental band Mandy, Indiana. The latest taste of their forthcoming … EP plows forward like the dead-eyed trudge of a doomed...