Besides Phoenix, few French bands (i.e. not DJs or producers such as Daft Punk) have enjoyed mainstream success in the ...

Welcome back to Split Record Review! This week will be a bit out of the ordinary for James and me. If you’ve been reading this column for our introspective analysis on lyrics, you might be ...

For at least a decade now – since Billboard started counting music streams in its chart calculations in 2013, and probably before – the sound of pop music has been sharply bifurcated between the ...

Music critics—myself included—have spent much of the past several years bemoaning the decline of capital-“E” Events in music: no new superstars to crown, no more tentpole albums to unify us, no more ...