Chance The Rapper Cheekily Roasts The Major Labels Onstage
The artist is lambasting the majors during his live show in a series of tongue-in-cheek puns.
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Gorillaz Are Human After All
The latest album from the dystopian cartoon band — whose lone consistent musical member is the British musician Damon Albarn — emphasizes real suffering and salvation in a contemporary setting.
Jonathan Demme's Musical Moments Made Sense
The director's gleeful fusion of song and subject matter provided a guide to how personal playlists could serve broader narratives.
'I'm Not Going To Be Broken': Mary J. Blige On 'Strength Of A Woman'
"It's a responsibility being Mary J. Blige," the singer says. She speaks with NPR's Rachel Martin about finding catharsis through music — and says that even she works out to her songs.
Songs We Love: Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, 'Diaspora'
The trumpeter stretches into trap and electronics on Diaspora. Flutist Elena Pinderhughes guests on the soothing and locomotive first single.
Algiers Shows Us 'The Underside Of Power'
"I heard someone say once that you don't know what real power is until you're on the wrong side of it," says Algiers' frontman. His band's new song deals with the idea directly.
HAIM Announces First Album In 4 Years, Shares New Video From P.T. Anderson
It's been four long summers since Days Are Gone, which is the only way to count our time way from the sparkling pop-rock of HAIM. Something To Tell You is due out July 7.
First Listen: 'The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda'
Stream a compilation of cosmically scaled, rarely heard sounds from a largely unheralded master.
Hear A Rare Outtake From The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's' Recording Sessions
As the 50th anniversary of the greatest rock album of all time rapidly nears, Capitol Records is sharing a previously unreleased outtake from the Sgt. Pepper's recording sessions.
First Listen: Joan Shelley, 'Joan Shelley'
On her fourth solo album, the Kentucky singer-songwriter's music once again functions as a headache remedy, nerve tonic and comfort food rolled into one.