Colin Morris conducted a study for the online magazine The Pudding in which he found that the repetitiveness of songs on the Billboard Hot 100 had steadily increased between the chart’s inception in ...

Usually considered to be adjacent to the jam-band world, King Gizzard puts out albums like other people change their sheets; the group released five LPs in 2017 ... songs that steered back into ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT R&B/HIP-HOP SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED ...

Ethel Cain’ s next album, due in January, is titled “Perverts,” and its first single, “Punish,” sinks into the self-torment of a narrator who avows, “I am punished by love.” It’s a glacial ...

The late singer Liam Payne, who was just 31 years old, made notable contributions to the music industry both as a member of ...

There was a Kerry James Marshall retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2017 that he found “eye-opening” and ...

Pop legend and LGBTQ advocate Cyndi Lauper launches into a national multi-city farewell tour that combines art and music.

New Zealand musician Fazerdaze, a.k.a. Amelia Murray, took a hiatus from music after her 2017 ... vibrant songs clocking in at a svelte 35 minutes. GET A.V.CLUB RIGHT IN YOUR INBOX Pop culture ...

A massive 777 songs have hit a billion streams on Spotify, with the likes of 'BIRDS OF A FEATHER' by Billie Eilish and 'The ...

Taylor Swift took a big swing when she released 1989 i014. While the singer dipped her toes into the pop world on her 2012 ...

VIVA PHX returned to downtown Phoenix with great sets from Freddie Gibbs, Cuco, Coco & Clair Clair and Playboy Manbaby. The ...

The below songs are ordered by release date ... is an immediate hit of the messy Charli we’d been missing since 2017’s Pop 2, pushed from zero to 100 and then into overdrive.