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How I Became A Beatmaker (By Watching Other People Make Beats)

Talking About How I’m Not Supposed to Talk About Phoebe Bridgers’ New Album

Earl Sweatshirt, Mike, and Sideshow Are Proving That Rap Doesn’t Need to Have a Chosen One

Girlhood at the Epicenter of Alternative Music’s Mainstream Moment

This Record Store Talk Show Is My Favorite Thing on the Internet

What Does It Mean For Rap to Have “Substance”?

Angine de Poitrine Are the Real Deal

The Wasserman Exodus Is a Different Kind of Reckoning

Monocultural Rap Stardom is Dead—and That’s OK

The Pop-Music Satire in ‘I Love LA’ Is Absolutely Lethal

Max B and the Plight of the Post-Prison Rapper

New York, I Love You

Tyler, the Creator Brought This Reckoning on Himself

One Year of Hearing Things

To Live and Die by a Kai Cenat Stream

Those Gilmore Girls Sure Do Know A Lot About Music

I Took a Party Bus to ‘The Black Parade’

How Raekwon’s ‘Only Built 4 Cuban Linx’ Helped Me Appreciate Clarks Wallabees

‘Eddington,’ Katy Perry, and Why Obama-Era Pop Now Sounds Like a Punchline

Wu-Tang Really *Is* for the Children

Why We Quit Spotify

What Independent Music Journalism Means to Us

What's a Summer Party Without Heaters?

Attention Hip-Hop: Generative AI Is Not Your Friend

Music Is Free Speech

The Great Instagram Jazz Guitar Plagiarism Scandal

Brian Wilson: King Shit

Hearing Things Is Now 100% Worker-Owned

Joey Bada$$ vs. Ray Vaughn Is a Rap Beef with No Winners

What Spring Does to Me