Music Features

Meg Remy is walking through Manchester, England, when she spots a beer garden full of revelers. This gets the Chicago-raised, Toronto-based musician, who records as U.S. Girls, thinking about their apparent apathy toward the sorry state of the world. “How would you even begin to explain to the beer garden …

Drake‘s ambition grows more grandiose every year. In 2017, he released the genre-hopping, 22-song More Life playlist, which sounded like an attempt to conquer every sector of popular music at once. He one-upped himself last Friday with Scorpion, a 25-track double album designed to shock, awe and discombobulate. Pulpy Nineties …

The producer Steve Aoki has fond memories of his first meeting with the seven-man K-pop ensemble BTS. “We got a big old Bluetooth boombox, huddled around it and just jammed,” Aoki recalls. “The last time I saw them in L.A., I gave [the rapper] RM my hoodie; he gave me …

After Courtney Barnett put out her first full-length, 2015’s Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, a friend of hers forwarded her a comment about her music that made her laugh: “I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and spit out better words than you.” “I …

When we speak to Logic, it’s been more than a week since he performed his hit “1-800-273-8255” at the Grammys, and he’s still taking the evening in. “Kendrick Lamar gave me a little head nod of respect,” he says. “Damn, he’s one of my biggest inspirations.” The performance was the …

In January 2017, Rich Robinson decided to resurrect the music of theBlack Crowes during a four-night stand at New York’s Gramercy Theater with a little help from his ex-bandmates Marc Ford and Sven Pipien. They called the group (which also features singer John Hogg and members of Robinson’s solo band) …

On February 12th, 2017, Frank Ocean published a blunt dismissal of the Grammys on Tumblr. “You know what’s really not ‘great tv,’ guys?” Ocean asked. “[Taylor Swift’s] 1989 getting album of the year over [Kendrick Lamar’s] To Pimp a Butterfly. Hands down one of the most ‘faulty’ TV moments I’ve …

Dave East may be the least likely member of New York’s new rap aristocracy to conquer the charts. The East Harlem native’s peers, like Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, French Montana and A$AP Rocky, all crested via genre-blending songs that blur the line between electronic pop and clubby trap anthems and …

It’s a late August afternoon, and John Dwyer is sitting in his Los Angeles backyard, sipping an iced coffee. His beagle, Buddy, zips around the bramble and the sound of a Robert Fripp record trickles out from inside the house, which doubles as Dwyer’s studio. It’s a rare moment of …

Agnostic Front were born in a war zone, and their music sounded like it. From its early-Eighties inception, the band embodied the violence, drugs and tragedy surrounding the New York hardcore scene it helped spawn on the city’s derelict Lower East Side. It was unclear if the band would survive …