Feel the rain on your skin! Photo-Illustration: Illustration: Vulture. Photos: Getty Images After years of a drought beginning in 2018, it rained like the final scene in Holes. Normani will release her newest single, “1:59” featuring Gunna, on April 26 from her very upcoming album, Dopamine. “soo basically my first single 1:59 will be coming… Continue reading Normani Finally Has Music Dropping: New Single “1:59”
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How ‘For All Mankind’ Makes Its Alt-History Music Choices
FAM music supervisor Christine Greene Roe begins each season with an “initial era playlist” that is hours long — season three’s 1990s era included 139 songs. Photo: Apple TV+ Over four seasons, Apple TV+’s For All Mankind has imagined an alternate history in which the Soviets got to space first, nuclear fission changed everything about… Continue reading How ‘For All Mankind’ Makes Its Alt-History Music Choices
We Owe the Music Publication Pitchfork
Photo: Roger Kisby/Getty Images I started reading Pitchfork around 25 years ago, in an era when I rapidly morphed from being a teenager who voraciously consumed everything the radio offered to a collegiate music nerd going to Fugazi, Sonic Youth, and Dismemberment Plan shows. The site had zesty underdog energy; it was a window into… Continue reading We Owe the Music Publication Pitchfork
Reneé Rapp Should Sing ‘Mean Girls’ Songs at Music Festivals
Photo: Jojo Whilden/Paramount Once Reneé Rapp is done dominating the Mean Girls press tour, she’ll be staring down a summer on the festival circuit — including dates at Coachella, Hangout, Governors Ball, and Bonnaroo so far. So here’s a suggestion to keep the fun going: Rapp should just sing some Mean Girls songs at the… Continue reading Reneé Rapp Should Sing ‘Mean Girls’ Songs at Music Festivals
Lil Nas X Releases ‘J CHRIST’ Music Video
Lil Nas X has started teasing his new music in the way we’ve come to expect from him … memes. The rapper has taken to Twitter and TikTok to drum up excitement for his newest single (and dunk on Dave Chappelle), which we’ve already gotten our first taste of. “J CHRIST,” his first single in… Continue reading Lil Nas X Releases ‘J CHRIST’ Music Video
Regional Mexican Music Predictions for 2024
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Medios y Media/Getty Images, ZEUS. El Mero Necio via YouTube, Scott Dudelson/Getty Images Before 2023, few Americans had heard of Peso Pluma, a sierreños and corridos singer from Jalisco with sandpaper vocals and an Edgar haircut. Then came “Ella Baila Sola,” Pluma’s charcheta-and-trombone-powered collaboration with California-based group Eslabon Armado, which peaked at… Continue reading Regional Mexican Music Predictions for 2024
The Most Anticipated Classical Music of 2024
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images, Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images, Bertrand Langlois/AFP via Getty Images, Robbie Jack/Corbis via Getty Images There’s no lagging indicator of cultural health quite so lagging as the classical-music world, which makes decisions two and three years out. The programming for 2024 — as much of it as has been… Continue reading The Most Anticipated Classical Music of 2024
Britney Spears’s New Music Has Been Right in Front of Us
Stop worrying about what Charli XCX–penned Britney Spears songs you could have, and start worrying about what Britney-penned pop songs you do already have, hiding right in front of you. Spears rang in the new year by shooting down reports that she’d been working with “random people” like XCX and Julia Michaels to write songs… Continue reading Britney Spears’s New Music Has Been Right in Front of Us
Shakira, Fuerza Regida Drop ‘El Jefe’ Music Video
It hasn’t even been ten days since she was honored with the Video Vanguard Award at the VMAs, but Shakira’s already delivering another winner. Riding into your playlists is “El Jefe,” a new song with the Mexican regional band Fuerza Regida. In the corrido, her first full entry into the style of song, Shakira and… Continue reading Shakira, Fuerza Regida Drop ‘El Jefe’ Music Video
Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion Drop ‘Bongos’ Music Video
Look, both Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have been through some stressful situations recently. Cardi had to fend off accusations that her husband Offset was cheating again, while Meg had to sit through all the drama that came before Tory Lanez was sentenced for shooting her in the foot. But on “Bongos,” the pair’s… Continue reading Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion Drop ‘Bongos’ Music Video