Ben Funkhouser, the Seattle musician who records as fish narc, started out as a pioneering producer in the emo-rap world, joining the storied collectives ThraxxHouse and GothBoiClique and making music ...

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The column is ...

It's always cool when a band is willing to release a song that's just straight-up called "sex." LA's untitled (halo) have a new one that doesn't even seem to be about sex, but it's called "sex" anyway ...

Julia Jacklin is changing her mind. There’s power in that. When I spoke with the Melbourne-based musician about her last album Pre Pleasure, in 2022, she imagined that her future self might approach ...

TV On The Radio's Return To Cookie Mountain just turned 20, and when I revisited it, I was struck all over again by how much Katrina Ford's backing vocals added to a bunch of those songs. Ford was a ...

In March, War Child Records released the stacked HELP(2) benefit compilation, whose massive tracklist included an original song called "Sunday Light" by Anna Calvi, Nilüfer Yanya, Dove Ellis, and Wolf ...

Everyone's talking about The Odyssey these days, but more people should be talking about the Odyssey Cult. The band is headed up by Ethan Miller (Comets On Fire, Howlin Rain, Heron Oblivion, etc.), ...

Usually performers have to worry about fans in the audience throwing projectiles at them — just earlier this month, Billy Strings was the latest victim, getting hit in the head with an object rumored ...

Song People is a sneakily informative band name. It sounds generic, but it suggests the Philly upstarts value songs over, say, riffs or vibes. There's some truth to that, but band names can also be ...

Back in 2017, two different teenage Vallejo, California rap duos joined forces to form the group SOB x RBE, and they took off quickly with a hard, energetic style that felt like a fresh take on ...

London four-piece Alphabet — vocalist/guitarist Milo McNulty, vocalist/bassist Lena Pilshofer, guitarist Tom Sullivan, and drummer George Miles — have been routinely dropping singles since the fall of ...

Magdalena Mclean is best known for playing in caroline, the critically acclaimed British post-rock collective whose latest record was our Album Of The Week. But she also performs in the art-punk group ...