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 ...

“You know what season it is,” Ye boasts on Bully track “King.” Yeah, Yeezy season has returned, but it feels different this time around for the mercurial artist born Kanye West. A typical Kanye album ...

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 ...

The founder of prominent manufacturing firms AkinOcean Nigeria and Allison Foam, Alhaji Ali Oladeinde Akinyele, passed away on Wednesday after a brief illness. Born on April 18, 1947 into the ...

Remo Stars Young Player of the Season award recipient, Ahmed Akinyele, has dedicated the award to his teammates and fans, who were solidly behind him and the team. The youngster helped Remo Stars to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The death of the album has been proclaimed many times, and after decades of piracy and point-and-click listening, cohesive bodies of work have indeed lost some of their cultural stature. Yet the long ...

The rapper’s sixth studio album follows the success of a pair of tracks this year that were sparked by a war of words with Drake. By Ben Sisario Kendrick Lamar, the rapper laureate and one of the ...

I think about Tom Petty a lot. But in October, I think about him a little bit more. This month marks two important Tom Petty milestones— it’s the seventh anniversary of his death (Oct. 2), and the ...