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Christopher Polk / TAS / Getty How Taylor Swift Broke Ticketmaster
Live music is a mess right now.
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Illustration by Paul Spella. Sources: Getty; L. Cohen … The Year Virginia Rewrote the Rules of Popular Culture
Missy Elliott. Timbaland. Allen Iverson. What was it about the Tidewater region in 2002?
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic; Prince Williams / … Hip-Hop Needs an Intervention
The regularity of these killings has us concerned and thinking, Who’s next?
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Amy Sussman / Getty For Drake, the Misogyny Is the Message
The rapper’s brand is now pointless, profitable cruelty.
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Getty; The Atlantic Brian Eno Has Some Actual Good News
The master of calming music has recorded a wake-up call.
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Getty Taylor Swift’s Best New Songs Aren’t Technically on Midnights
She hid her rawest, messiest feelings in her bonus tracks.
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Rich Fury / Getty A Rapper Who Spoke Quietly and Had a Big Impact
Remembering Takeoff, the quiet force of Migos
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David Corio The Too-Muchness of Bono
In Dublin with the irrepressible U2 front man
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Sthanlee B. Mirador / Sipa / AP Rihanna Is Back in the Pop Game—On Her Own Terms
Thank goodness.
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Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP Don’t Blame a Man for Midnights
Taylor Swift’s new album surely sounds how it sounds because she, not her producer, wanted it to.
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Jabari Jacobs Black Country Is Not a Fad. It’s a Legacy.
“The root of country music is blues, and it’s Black as hell.”
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Beth Garrabrant The Beautiful Banality of Taylor Swift’s Midnights
The album treads aggressively familiar territory—but with new wisdom and confidence.
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Meredith Jenks Carly Rae Jepsen Pierces the Fantasy
“I thrive on a little chaos,” the queen of bubblegum pop said, describing her new album’s grit and glitter.
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Fred Lahache / Connected Archives Go Ahead, Buy a Piano
I rediscovered the instrument I played as a child, and you should too.
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Photo-illustration by Gabriela Pesqueira. Source: Michel Ginfray / … ABBA’s Triumphant Return
Take a chance on them.
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Ellen Qbertplaya The Band That Invented Millennials
How the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a trio of Gen X rockers, made radical sincerity cool
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Santiago Felipe / Getty How to Listen to Björk, According to Björk
The Icelandic artist breaks down her powerful new album, Fossora.
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Vidar Logi Björk Is Building a Matriarchy
On her fascinating 10th album, the artist takes stock of the world she helped create—and, once again, conjures a new one.
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Thurstan Redding A New Generation of Pop Stars Are Dancing With the Devil
Rina Sawayama’s new album, Hold the Girl, is full of righteous anger, grace, and a spirit of searching.
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MTV VMA 22 / Getty This Is How the Hollywood Comeback Cycle Works
Johnny Depp’s appearance at MTV’s Video Music Awards was at once bizarre and frustratingly predictable.
