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Ari Lennox: Vacancy—A Room With A Point of View
When Ari Lennox picks up the phone, she’s already in motion. She’s on her way to the gym—because of course she is—but she doesn’t sound ... -
Young the Giant's Victory Lap
The new year was still fresh when we landed on a Zoom call with Young the Giant’s enigmatic frontman Sameer Gadhia and charming multi-instrumentalist Eric ... -
PINKPANTHERESS: THINK PINK
After conquering TikTok, U.K. electro princess PINKPANTHERESS pounces onto the award circuit—and the mainstream pop charts PinkPantheress is on top of the world—specifically the world ... -
Sleaford Mods and The Demise of Planet X
British duo Sleaford Mods are an outlier on the contemporary music landscape. They occupy a space where music meets beat poetry, where art meets spoken ... -
Leon Thomas: Pholks Have Soul
What is soul? Everyone from Parliament Funkadelic and Donny Hathaway to Aretha Franklin and the recently departed D’Angelo has defined and put their distinct stamp ... -
Vince Gill: Five Decades Deep
Smiling in front of a few thousand fans at the Fox Theatre in Detroit during the summer, Vince Gill promised to tell some stories and ... -
MARINA SHINES BRIGHTER THAN EVER
On her sixth studio album, Princess of Power, the multi-faceted pop sensation reclaims her energy, her sexuality, and her music. The world may not be ... -
John Carpenter: Master of Macabre Melody
Think John Carpenter, and all manner of creepy, skin-crawling images flood the brain: A knife-wielding Michael Myers in the shadows (Halloween), heads slowly falling to ... -
Linkin Park: Back From Zero
Berlin’s Olympiastadion is a brutalist marvel—concrete and colossal, built for spectacle. It’s hosted World Cups, political pageantry, rock gods, and operatic breakdowns. But on June ... -
Kash Doll: The Queen of Motor City Hip-Hop
The phone rang twice before she picked up, and even through the digital static, Kash Doll's voice carried weight. There's something about Detroit voices; they ... -
There Will Be Yungblud
"The last time I was here, I knocked my teeth out on this stage and it was crazy. I was 19, just been signed to ... -
Return of the TOKiMONSTA
Tokimonsta is an enigma. The electronic artist born Jennifer Lee is gleefully awkward to nail down genre-wise, primarily because she’s made it her business to ... -
Don Was and Is
With apologies to James Brown, the hardest working man in showbiz during the past few decades is dreadlocked and often barefoot, perpetually sporting a hat ... -
Damiano David's Bold New Euro Vision
After struggling with sudden fame, the Måneskin showman has gone solo, gone pop, found himself, found new love… and fallen in love with music all ... -
Cover Story with Marcus King
When much of your family consists of musicians, it might seem like creating music is your unavoidable destiny. That was the case for Marcus King, ... -
Cover Story with K-Pop Band Twice
The road to success for K-pop TWICE has been filled with many challenges and persistence. After almost a decade on the scene, the nine members ... -
"Weird Al" Yankovic: Weirder and Bigger
Al sits in front of bay windows and a bookshelf topped with Grammys (Al has five of them). Obviously, he is in a Hawaiian shirt, ... -
Green Day: American Saviors
WHEN GREEN DAY STRODE ONTO THE STAGE at the immense So-Fi Stadium in Los Angeles in the middle of September—the weather perfect, the crowd going ... -
Jack Antonoff: Eleven Grammys and Counting
Musician, producer and eminent East-Coaster Jack Antonoff has had a relationship with music since he was old enough to know what it was. Like many ... -
Adam Lambert's After Party
Photos by Brian Ziff It’s New Music Friday, and Adam Lambert has just dropped Afters, a fever-dream of a party record packed with sick house ...
