Year: 2018

Taking their name from Ice-Nine, the world-ending substance at the heart of Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel Cat’s Cradle, Ice Nine Kills are a somewhat less [Read More…]

Once dubbed “the Jay-Z of the South” by Pharrell Williams, T.I. gradually came into his own and established himself as one of rap’s most successful [Read More…]

Evening Machines highlights the nights of writing and recording this album by the electric glow of equipment after long days working the land.The first song, [Read More…]

Coheed and Cambria are a charting American rock band from Nyack, New York whose music incorporates aspects of progressive rock, pop, heavy metal, and post-hardcore. [Read More…]

For KING & COUNTRY is the amiable, anthemic CCM duo of brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone. Born in Sydney, Australia to a music promoter/entertainment manager [Read More…]

How can a single song bring such an incredible feeling of delight & happiness? Easy. When it’s from an individual who’s voice has filled the [Read More…]

Country singer/songwriter/guitarist Eric Church grew up in Granite Falls, North Carolina, and began singing as a child. At 13, he started writing songs, later teaching [Read More…]

Rapper Lil Baby grew up in Atlanta hanging with friends like Young Thug, Coach K, and Pee, leaning more toward a life of petty crime [Read More…]

Glamorously gaudy, a self-made postmodern diva stitched together from elements of Madonna, David Bowie, and Freddie Mercury, Lady Gaga was the first true millennial superstar. [Read More…]

twenty one pilots’ cathartic, kitchen-sink style—which folds in alt-rock, reggae, electronic music, and rap—is one of the most unique, unclassifiable commercial sounds of the 2010s. [Read More…]

Mason Ramsey became a viral sensation in the early months of 2018 when video footage of the 11-year-old singing Hank Williams’ “Lovesick Blues” spread like [Read More…]

Growing up in the suburbs of California’s East Bay, Paolo Rodriguez began making beats while still in high school in the early 2000s. Before even [Read More…]

An international media collective and record label focusing on Asian talents, 88rising was founded in 2015 by Sean Miyashiro and fosters Asian artists like Indonesian [Read More…]

By the time her songwriting career took off in 2005, Boston native Lori McKenna had already released four strong independent albums of her own. McKenna [Read More…]

Fusing confessional lyrics with music that walks a tightrope between accessible pop and dour, emotionally forceful rock, Meg Myers is a singer and songwriter based [Read More…]

Calibre 50, from Mazatlan, Sinaloa, are a charting, award-winning quartet founded in 2010 by Eden Muñoz (vocals, accordion), Armando Ramos (guitars, vocals), Martín López (tuba), [Read More…]

Shortly after Popcaan’s debut album, Where We Come From, was released in 2014, Drake tapped him to sing on “Controlla,” the Beenie Man-sampling smash from [Read More…]

1 The Queen Is Back LaChanze & Original Broadway Cast of Summer 2:29 2 I Feel Love LaChanze & Original Broadway Cast of Summer 2:50 [Read More…]

Sitting here grinning ear-to-ear! The first two songs are nothing short of stellar! If you’ve never experienced the Punch Brothers, you’re totally missing out! It’s [Read More…]

Originally presented as an Odd Future splinter project, alternative R&B band the Internet conversely distinguished themselves with their debut album Purple Naked Ladies (2011), not [Read More…]

Building upon the foundation formed by his time as co-vocalist of multi-platinum alternative metal outfit Linkin Park, singer/songwriter, rapper, and producer Mike Shinoda went on [Read More…]

Formed in Santa Barbara, California by a group of college music students, Rebelution was built from diverse musical backgrounds united by a shared passion for [Read More…]

American pop singer Christina Aguilera spun a late-’90s breakthrough into an evolving and genre-hopping career that focused on uplifting ballads and sexually liberated anthems delivered [Read More…]

One of the most acclaimed R&B artists of the 2000s, Ne-Yo entered the mainstream as a songwriter in 2004 with Mario’s “Let Me Love You,” [Read More…]

With her omnivorous musical tastes and cheeky attitude, London-based pop singer/songwriter Lily Allen made a name for herself almost as soon as she released her [Read More…]

The thrash-oriented solo project of Mark Tremonti, the Grammy-winning lead guitarist of Alter Bridge (and formerly Creed), was formed in 2010 as an outlet for [Read More…]

Emo-leaning and volatile post-hardcore outfit Dance Gavin Dance, who were somewhat similar to peers Chiodos and the Fall of Troy, featured former members of Farewell [Read More…]

Sugarland, the platinum-selling contemporary country act, began as a trio of songwriters from the Atlanta area, each of whom had enjoyed some level of renown [Read More…]

If ye, Kanye West’s solo album released one week prior, was him proudly shouting about his superpower—bipolar disorder—from the peak of a snowcapped mountain, KIDS [Read More…]

Growing up in a non-musical family in Phoenix, Arizona, country singer Dierks Bentley got his country music education on his own, listening to records. A [Read More…]

Formed in the early ’90s by South African vocalist/guitarist Dave Matthews, the Dave Matthews Band presented a more pop-oriented version of the Grateful Dead crossed [Read More…]

BAZZI is the BEST! Apr 12, 2018 BAZZI!!! I love this album. It’s so perfect and well constructed. This is a masterpiece. Every song is [Read More…]

You can hum a John Williams theme the minute you leave the movie theater, and you’ll probably still be humming it decades later. Case in [Read More…]

Colombian reggaeton singer J Balvin is a chart-topping artist whose polished urban singles and best-selling albums have made him a top-tier Latin pop crossover act. [Read More…]