Music

Macklemore and Kesha reminisce on their powerful new hip-hop ballad, “Good Old Days.” The track will appear on Macklemore‘s upcoming solo album, Gemini. “Good Old Days” features stripped-down drums, piano and vocal loops. Macklemore vividly recounts everything from his early tours and dreams of stardom, to his homecoming dance regrets …

The pastoral, gorgeous modular synthesizer flutter of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith‘scritically acclaimedEarsbecame a crossover avant-garde success in 2016.Since the beginning of that year, she’s toured with Animal Collective, hit the European festival circuit, collaborated with Google on an interactive tour of national parks and released an LP collaboration with electronic music …

It’s been 13 years since the Killers exploded with their debut single, “Mr. Brightside,” and they’re still one of the biggest rock acts in the world; the Las Vegas band just headlined Lollapalooza and has an arena tour kicking off in January. “There’s still a need for what we have …

Following the death of Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker on September 3rd, Donald Fagen wrote in his tribute to Becker that “I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan band.” Fagen will make good on that promise as Steely …

Avicii spent most of his twenties as one of the biggest touring DJs in the world, blowing fans’ minds from Las Vegas to Ibiza with confetti cannons and colossal EDM hooks, not to mention a wedding-favorite pop smash (“Wake Me Up”). But, it turns out, it wasn’t much fun for …

LCD Soundsystem, American Dream“James Murphy and his wrecking crew of New York punk-disco marauders don’t waste a moment on the superb American Dream,” Rob Sheffield writes about the first album in seven years from the New York dance commanders. “It’s a relentless, expansive, maddeningly funny set of songs asking how …