New Music

That this music proudly defies classification is only natural — it's a core part of Smith's message.

Backxwash doesn't just want to burn down the world; she sticks around long enough to make sure the embers of her enemies have faded to grey.

Clairo returns to nimble, self-recorded acoustics on her latest single, "Blouse."

After a four-year drought, Lorde has returned to us, delirious with joy, biting A Tribe Called Quest and indulging in the erotic.

A year after the release of her controversial hit with Cardi B, "WAP," Megan Thee Stallion clap backs at critics with a new single, "Thot S***."

The cadence of The Temptations masterpiece "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" — laid bare with some 808s and sampled in Migos' latest single, "Avalanche" — was begging for the triplet flow.

"Lumberjack" leans on the darker side of Tyler, the Creator's artistic spectrum; it's discomforting, expanding upon the sounds of 2019's Igor and calling back to his first two albums, Goblin and Wolf.

Leaning on quiet-loud-quiet dynamics, "State" makes space for both dreamy tenderness and wall-of-sound catharsis.

Deafheaven turns on a dime to make a purely dream-pop song for its fifth album, Infinite Granite.

On her latest single, "Need To Know," Doja Cat is relentlessly horny and witty.