Just three years after changing its name from Musical.ly, TikTok has become one of the most important tools for musicians to find and grow their audience. Many of this year’s biggest hits—”Drivers ...
This is more of a "Best for Mi" list. Represented here are my belief that strings make everything better; my tendency to listen to music that gives me '70s, '80s & '90s sounds; the fact that I'll play ...
In Slate’s annual Music Club, Slate critic Carl Wilson emails about the year in music with fellow critics — featuring New York Times contributor Lindsay Zoladz, freelance writer Briana Younger, NPR ...
Dear music-scribe mayors who are not the mayor, I wish we could go another dozen rounds to dig into all the fascinating stuff that’s come up this week. I’m sure in many ways we will, in many other ...
“Too much pain,” Young M.A. offers on her second LP, “could barely notice the beauty in things.” Not only did these albums provide comfort and commiseration, they also taught me new ways to listen, to ...
This year, many of the books we loved most used music as a lens through which to examine broader issues of politics, history, and identity — whether it was the story of capitalist circulation as heard ...
Any survey of the music made by Latinx artists over the course of a year is certain to be limited. The sheer breadth and scope of the diaspora is overwhelming and impossible to consolidate into any ...
Enjoy performances from more than a thousand of Iowa's top high school musicians. Enjoy performances featuring more than a thousand of the top high school musicians and vocalists from across Iowa. All ...
News flash: we've had a lot more time to consume music during the pandemic. While many in-person concerts were canceled or postponed, our devices allowed us to stream our favorite tunes, dance in ...
Physical media showed strong signs of life last year. The 2021 RIAA Music Industry Data confirms that vinyl and CDs are going nowhere but up. Americans purchased how many new records in 2021? 40 ...