Let’s get one thing clear right off the bat: whether an artist as mercurial, exciting and dynamic as Janelle ... album with a novelist’s control. This isn’t genre-hopping as cosplay or dilettantism, ...

We are proud to present Janelle Monáe with the SoundExchange Hall of Fame Award.” “I appreciate SoundExchange so much – this is such an honor. I work really hard on creating album ...

One morning in January, I met the musician Lucy Dacus at the Cloisters, the medieval-art museum at the northwestern ... It’s a gorgeous and tender album about falling in love—Dacus is now ...

On her latest album, Forever Is a Feeling (due March 28), the 29-year ... blown-out style evoking a little bit of one of my favorite music videos of all time, Janelle Monáe's “Q.U.E.E.N.,” which is ...

Here are five notable recent releases worth exploring, ranging from our biggest pop star to Australia's emerging neo-soul oddballs and The Cruel Sea's first album in two decades ... For fans of: ...

From Lana to Final Destination, explore how music and film give death a voice we fear, desire, and sometimes welcome.

Sister Nancy’s groundbreaking 1982 debut album, One Two, will be reissued on vinyl for the first time in over four decades.