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The Edinburgh-born, London-based musician known as Venus Ex Machina presents herself as a storyteller, though the music she’s…

On “The Cure,” Olivia Rodrigo is infatuated, but also distracted. “All the pretty girls in the foreground of…

Drake has this One Weird Trick that almost always works for him: When they go low, make the…

In Madonna and Stuart Price’s manifesto for the singer’s forthcoming record, CONFESSIONS II, the duo has tapped into…

When Polow da Don isolated those three bittersweet chords, pedaling between major and minor, he must’ve known. Those…

I’ll talk about the late-2010s Detroit rap boom with the same overblown wistfulness as old heads reminiscing about…

When I was 15, I got caught in a tornado. It touched down at Cat’s Cradle, a 750-capacity…

How much longer until the next SoundCloud trend is rapping on dead air? Already approaching that logical end…

Unless you and your cousin share custody of a Grammy, Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar aren’t the most…

London R&B singer Ella Mai broke out in 2018 with the sleeper hit “Boo’d Up,” which employed its…

On a crowded dancefloor, where illicit substances, pheromones, and hypnotic beats blur, it’s hard to tell if it’s…

There’s an Onion joke from the ’90s that still makes me chuckle when I think of the headline:…

Venus Ex Machina: “Jericho” Track Review