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The mega-popular K-pop stars have been on hiatus for nearly four years. Their new album, “Arirang,” tests the group’s staying power in the…

For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In the summer of 2007, Kanye West and 50 Cent…

After the incident, she needed reconstructive surgery, and had brain inflammation so severe that when she tried to look up, all she saw…

My habit of seeking out new music began with a few strokes of good luck. I grew up in a college town in the early to mid-nineties, during…

If 2024 was the year of the breakout pop star—here’s looking at you, Charli, Chappell, and Sabrina—then 2025 in music was the year of……

Looking back at the songs I played the most in 2025, I can sense my own hunger for music that felt wounded, carnal, unfamiliar, tactile,…

The common adage may dictate that revenge is a dish best served cold, but—luckily for us—musicians tend to serve it piping hot, with a…

If I were writing a song about Travis Kelce, a man I’ve never met, I would mention that he plays football, and that he has a podcast. I’d…

There’s a scene in Netflix’s “Too Much” in which the heroine, an American transplant in London, listens to a playlist curated by her new…

Midway through the music video for “American Teenager,” a feel-good pop song that has been streamed more than a hundred million times, the…

Morgan Wallen is a country singer, almost defiantly so, though he is also popular on a scale that seems to circumvent genre entirely. Each…

There is perhaps no moment in history when being a music critic felt like a respectable, lucrative, or essential position, though there…