Eighteen years after their loud but literary bands toured together on the Rock and Roll Means Well Tour, the Drive-by Truckers’ Hood and the Hold Steady’s Finn have paired up again for a solo-acoustic ...

House beats still mostly carry the pulse forward, but it should come as no surprise that CONFESSIONS II serves as more than ...

A follow-up to her 2005 dance-music album, the singer’s latest release is her finest work in two decades.

Read an interview with MNEK about working with Zara Larsson, his upcoming solo album, 'BULLDOZER!!,' and writing some of pop ...

Over a decade ago, a seven-member group from a virtually unknown label in South Korea dreamed of a “big house, big car, and ...

Slayyyter and Olivia Rodrigo have put out extremely strong projects that have defined the pop music genre through the first ...

Arlo Parks will be our Resident DJ for July 2026. Novena Carmel, your neighbor with the flavor, serves up a fresh sample ...

Confessions II arrives amid a welter of promotional spectacle and global corporate partnerships. At heart, though, it’s Madonna retreating from projects stuck in development hell, and working through ...

Madonna's new album Confessions II is a fun collection of house tracks, but she spends too much time describing transcendence instead of actually delivering it.

Madonna’s back in peak form with a fresh and honest dance record that’s not only her best in 20 years, but a genuinely vital ...

After years spent chasing trends like trap and Latin pop, Madonna settles back​ nicely into​ old-school dance music to tell vivid vignettes of life in 80s New York ...

Read latest music trends of 2026, from AI creativity and hybrid genres to EDM, spatial audio, mood-based playlists, rising artists and more ...