It took months of living without Spotify’s algorithm to realize I had trained it too well.
The Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar feud, explained.
We can’t just blame Ticketmaster and scalpers.
MAGA still hated the Pulitzer Prize winner’s performance.
The Grammy winner’s NFL moment spotlighted his beef with a Drake and subsequent defamation lawsuit.
The end of one wildly popular platform is a chance to overhaul the broken social media industry.
Vox’s cultural obsessions of 2024.
There’s likely more industry-shifting fallout to come from the Diddy case.
For music lovers, streaming has never felt more stale.
How entertainment, from Morgan Wallen to Twisters, predicted the MAGA pivot.
How hip-hop’s Dionysus rose to power, decade after decade.
Why do we care so much about campaign songs?
Everything we (actually) know about Liam Payne’s death.
Laraaji — ambient musician and onetime actor and comic — on laughter, surrender, and transcending the thinking mind.
Linkin Park fans welcomed new vocalist Emily Armstrong. Then the Scientology allegations surfaced.
Why the new luxury is flip phones and vinyl LPs
The CMA snub just proves what Beyoncé was trying to tell us all along.
The singer’s new album, Short n’ Sweet, is full of the sexy clown wordplay she’s known for.
The rising Midwest princess is finally embracing queer joy — and learning that fame comes with a price.
Our society demands Black women be “twice as good.” Beyoncé has found a solution that Harris seems keen to copy.
Music production is getting easier. Does that make it better?
I dove into the scary world of streaming bundles, and now Dolly Parton talks to me while I walk.
Everyone from Beyonce to Dua Lipa has an album out this year. So why are the charts dominated by male country and rap?
The musician is packing arenas and performing on The Tonight Show.
In recent months, he’s worked with the likes of everyone from Beyoncé to Taylor Swift to Morgan Wallen.
Her new album is a joyous, anxious ode to envy among her fellow pop stars.
The fight over Billboard rankings just proves we live in an era of stanufactured drama.
The government filed a lawsuit to break up Ticketmaster’s parent company.
Albums are too, and it has everything to do with our anxious relationship to technology.
“Hind’s Hall” was electrifying because it was so unexpected.
Eurovision doesn’t want to be about Israel-Palestine, but amid protests and boycotts, it might not have a choice.
The rappers accused one another of abusing women, but weaponizing Me Too isn’t the same as standing up for women.
Politics on Eurovision isn’t new. It’s been part of it almost from the start.
Is the massive backlash against the former child star justified?
The Tortured Poets Department sees Swift tormented by her boyfriends, her haters, and even her fans.
The Tortured Poets Department and the broken way we talk about pop music.
It seems like every musician is being labeled an “industry plant” — does it actually mean anything?
Coverage and analysis of the global superstar’s eighth studio album.
Country music uses the West as a synecdoche for America. Beyoncé is here to disrupt that.