October is when the best of the fall has to prove itself before the onslaught of holiday sets. Highlights this month: John Legend enlists Pharrell to produce an entire set; Fontaines D.C. returns ...

In the spring of 1991, Los Angeles was tried on videotape twice within two weeks. One private recording showed police officers surrounding Rodney King on the side of a Lake View Terrace road, their ...

Welcome back to another issue of Wednesday Roundups! Diving into today’s music can be overwhelming with the constant influx of albums and singles, as 100,000+ tracks are uploaded daily. That’s where ...

Twenty years after the Detroit battle circle, Ty Farris still writes every bar as a challenge, and he saves the heaviest ones for his mother, his uncles and his dead.

Between the bathroom mirror before a show and the sleepless bed after it, Reiyo The Giant puts a working singer’s promise to ...

Falling in love at thirty, Shygirl writes her devotion in the club’s own words for tasting, kneeling, and sharing air, and the borrowed words make the tenderness believable.

With the Wu-Tang Clan on its farewell tour, Mathematics keeps the Five Percent lessons going through Popa Wu’s archive and a ...

On Expensive Taste, Statik Selektah runs his album with one fixed sound with the door left open, and his guests do their best ...

Full Crate builds one warm house for a rotating cast of R&B singers and lets them fill it with phone calls, permission to ...

A French singer of Cameroonian descent takes freak back from the sideshow and fills the pews with every shade she can name.

Two decades into his career, Juga-Naut packs his bars with food, place names, and pay figures, and the detail makes the case ...

The Atlanta rapper drags her breakup verses onto a rave dance floor, where the drops hold back the hurt, the verses start, ...