Features
Arcade Fire at Twenty: Still Looking for Signal
Two decades after Funeral, the Montreal collective is still writing songs that feel like transmissions from a slightly better world. We spent a week with their live rig.
The Full Catalog
Full Archive
Every piece we have ever published, in reverse-chronological order. For digging in.
Album Reviews
boygenius — the record (deluxe reissue)
The deluxe reissue of boygenius’ breakout wraps the original album in rough acoustic demos and three previously unheard outtakes.
Live Reviews
Mitski at Kings Theatre, Brooklyn: A Study in Stillness
Three nights into a sold-out six-night run at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre, Mitski is still finding new ways to be unmistakably herself.
Features
The Slow Return of the Album
In an era of playlists and 90-second attention spans, why are more musicians than ever insisting on the album as a form?
Interview
Caroline Polachek on Composing in Three Languages
Her forthcoming record features songs in English, Italian, and a language of her own invention. We talked to her about why.
Album Reviews
Nala Sinephro — Endlessness
The Belgian harpist and composer builds her second album around a single ten-note theme that mutates across ten movements.
Features
The Festival Economy Is Breaking. What Comes Next?
Three major festivals cancelled this summer. The ones that happened lost money. The business model that defined live music for a decade is finally buckling.
Album Reviews
The Cure — Songs of a Lost World (Deluxe)
Robert Smith’s long-awaited return to the extended, keyboard-heavy sound of Disintegration gets a one-year-anniversary deluxe treatment with four new tracks.
Features
Why Shoegaze Is Back, and What That Says About 2026
From Slowdive’s stadium tour to a wave of twenty-year-old bands discovering reverb, the genre no one would commit to in 2012 is suddenly everywhere.
Interview
Arlo Parks on Burning Out, Taking a Year Off, and the Record That Came After
After two Mercury-nominated albums and nonstop touring, Arlo Parks took eighteen months off. The record she made on return is her best.