Released less than a week after Kendrick Lamar turned his Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show into a victory lap around Drake’s grave, $$$4U carries the added burden of Drake’s recent losing streak.

The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist, a new book from the journalist Liz Pelly, the playlist is the ...

Mallrat delivers an expanded view of bedroom pop with her new album, but it falls flat as it sounds unfinished, repetitive and confused throughout.

Richard Dawson's latest record, 'End of the Middle', is a painstaking, stripped-back look at grief in modern Britain. Read more about it here.

Variety breaks down the best TV performances of the 21st century, from Jeremy Allen White to Emma Stone and Sydney Sweeney.

The list of 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction nominations includes Chubby Checker, Billy Idol, Bad Company, The Black Crowes, Cyndi Lauper and more.

In my notes for this album, I describe “Blood on the Boulders” as “Come Together” by Squid instead of the Beatles. The biggest similarity between both songs for me is these descending piano lines, ...

Bumper edition of new tracks this week. Positively overflowing with them. Tracks of the Week. There's something new, something old, something borrowed ...

“My music is really deeply inspired by Dragon Ball,” he says almost sheepishly, acknowledging the lifelong grip that the late ...

While the song is long and convoluted, its component parts are simple. The chorus ("fahren fahren ... You may be surprised to learn that it was originally developed not for electronic music, but for ...

The moment was captured in 2010, in a behind-the-scenes video of Perry recording her song Last Friday Night ... how the ...

The game harks back to what game studies researcher Jesper Juul described, in his foundational book Half-Real (2005), as the “primordial game structure”. This is a game in which the player doesn’t ...