It is a truth far from universally acknowledged that Rihanna’s ANTI is Rihanna’s most texturally interesting and compelling work to date. To that end, I’d follow Rihanna off a cliff. Which is why I’m over the moon to hear she’s allegedly working on a reggae album, a move that makes almost too much sense within the…
Just days after deleting all the content on her social media accounts, Taylor Swift has posted a mysterious video to both her Instagram and Twitter feeds. It is 10 seconds long, it is completely silent, and it appears to be a fucking snake.
I’m not sure if you’ve heard—you probably haven’t heard—but Ruel, a husky-voiced 14-year-old cherubim from Sydney, Australia, recently released an explosively catchy single called “Don’t Tell Me” and I’m not embarrassed to say that I have listened to it nine times since yesterday.
Here’s how you can tell that summer is coming: the birds are chirping, the weather’s getting warmer, it says so on the calendar, and three chillaxed sisters with good hair are releasing new music.
Katy Perry has been busy lately, but her work has predominately taken place off-stage. After campaigning vehemently for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election, she has donated to Planned Parenthood, produced and bankrolled a pro-Muslim PSA, and participated in the Women’s March on Washington. But on…
After almost two years, our rosy-cheeked pal Ed Sheeran has released a pair of new singles — his first two since “Photograph” in May 2015. “Shape Of You” and “Castle On the Hill” offer sonic glimpses of his forthcoming album, thus far unnamed (though, the dual release suggests to some that it will be called Divide). …
Back in October, Swedish artist Tove Lo released an unflinching 31-minute video suite featuring five songs from her sophomore album, Lady Wood. Entitled “Fairy Dust,” the film travels through the dark underbelly of the soul: we bear witness to sexual obsession, the agonizing renegotiation of selfhood, and more…
As far as Drake and Taylor Swift are concerned, we must all be preoccupied with the possibility of their romantic coupling. And so, operating on this assumption, Drake has followed Swifty’s lead by filming his own Apple Music commercial where he—wait for it—bops around to her music.
Get it, Gaga. The superstar’s fourth album, Joanne, has reached the top spot on the Billboard 200, making it—that’s right—her fourth number one album.
“Cool Girl” is one of those songs that makes you want to do something horrible and then gyrate on top of a car. Conveniently, that’s exactly what Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson of Tove Lo does in the video, directed by Tim Erem; the video is the first in an evidently very dramatic series for LADY WOOD, Tove Lo’s sophomore…
Scottish synth pop band Chvrches released its video for “Bury It” today, a sweet sunset-toned fantasy of telekinesis and flight. Created by the band’s artistic collaborator, Jamie McKelvie, and animated by Mighty Nice, the video is set to a remix featuring Paramore’s Hayley Williams.
British singer-songwriter/producer Shura has steadily pumped out an array of near-perfect pop tracks over the past few years, but her latest single, “What’s It Gonna Be,” twists the tapered, yearning nostalgia of songs like “Touch” and “2Shy” into a condensed, sophisticated three minute vocalization of the best ‘80s…
5 Seconds of Summer—the glossy, confectionery pop-punk act that’s been catapulted towards world domination with an assist by One Direction and the hordes of teen girls who love them—has landed its first Rolling Stone cover story. Here they are—naked and covered in their own lyrics and song titles—and strangely, the…
Dark pop virtuoso Alex Winston, gearing up for the release of her second full-length album, just dropped a very fun slasher video for the title track from her recent EP, The Day I Died.
A hopeless romantic—much more hopeless than romantic—The Weeknd seems eternally obsessed with the thought of things dying, whether it’s love, people, dreams or ideas. Less grim possibilities rarely seem to cross his mind. As a narrator, he’s used to dragging his feet through life while bemoaning the frailty of love.…
After Carly Rae Jepsen’s enormous 2012 hit “Call Me Maybe,” it seemed like the Canadian pop star would be relegated to one-hit wonder territory. The album it spurred, Kiss, never produced a single as big, plus the ubiquity of “Maybe” is difficult to top and lightning that cheesy doesn’t strike twice. But what Jepsen…
Finally the exultant music video for Hailee Steinfeld’s masturbation banger has dropped: shot by Hannah Lux Davis on a rooftop in (maybe) Dumbo, your new favorite Oscar-nominated pop starlet dances around in a bodysuit that says SELF SERVICE, but if that’s lost on you, go ahead and think this is a song about…
Janet Jackson Unbreakable tour tickets went on sale today, and as a motivator, the god Miss Jackson dropped her first song in seven years, “No Sleeep,” which she dedicated on Twitter to “My Love,” husband Wissam Al Mana, a gazillionaire from Qatar.
That sound you hear is the collective panting of Janet Jackson stans, myself included, freaking the eff out: this morning, Miss Jackson announced that not only will she be releasing a brand-new album, she’s also embarking upon a world tour, starting in Vancouver, BC, as early as August 31. August 31!
