The dirty secret about comedy albums is that not every great comedian can record a great album. Plenty of great comedians either never got around to preserving their act on wax or they wound up with ...

Rosalía made an album invoking the saints, Lily Allen took us on a tragicomic trip through her domestic hell, Lady Gaga found the sweet spot between artpop and arena-ready funk, and Bad Bunny was just ...

The Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica Musicians know how to make music, and they ...

It's not just the old-timers who are keeping traditional country music alive. The current Billboard 200 features eight albums to repeat if you're longing for a "real" country music sound. These are ...

Bieber's eighth studio album arrives just two months after Bieber surprise released 'Swag' back in July. By Ethan Millman Music Editor Bieber started sharing several Instagram posts early Thursday, ...

Welcome back to the HBCU Culture section here at Sports Illustrated! Today, we’re diving into JackBoys 2, a project that’s got the whole city talking and has officially taken over aux cords across the ...

On Sunday (July 13), LaFlame brought the gang back together to drop the sequel to their 2019 compilation, Jackboys. Travis, Don Toliver, Sheck Wes, Chase B, SoFaygo and Wallie The Sensei deliver 17 ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

What a year it’s been for great music — as opposed to, say, everything else. But we’re almost halfway into 2025, and it’s already crowded with new albums that deliver what we need in terms of ...

I don’t envy anybody who decided to put out an album within the 12 months succeeding Brat Summer, Manning Fireworks Fall, and “Not Like Us” — especially considering that 2025, broadly speaking, did ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Rolling Stone have released their list of the 250 Best Albums of the 21st Century So Far, but only two metal albums have made the cut. It's often not too surprising to see metal get marginalized, ...