Max Martin is one of Taylor Swift’s favorite collaborators — as on her soon-to-be blockbuster The Life of a Showgirl, where he and Shellback co-produced and co-wrote the whole album. Martin, the ...

Trent Reznor usually keeps his highbrow Oscar-winning soundtrack composer side relatively separate from his main gig running Nine Inch Nails. But the soundtrack he and longtime collaborator Atticus ...

No one wants their time wasted, including by music. But the rise of TikTok-optimized tracks less than two minutes long might be going too far. The best long songs are an antidote to that—a way of ...

Nearly 50 years on from posing existential queries on Talking Heads' art-pop masterpiece Once In A Lifetime ("How did I get here?'… Am I right? Am I wrong?"), David Byrne is still asking lots of big ...

Nate Amos and Rachel Brown’s latest knotty LP is super chill and totally destabilizing. To call it their “guitar record” would be an injustice to the range and the humor they find in it. As they did ...

Whether through his recordings, live in concert or at the Tiny Desk, South African pianist and Zulu healer Nduduzo Makhathini has the ability to transfix an audience with his deeply meditative and ...

In The 1975’s own spirit of meta self-reference, I’ll be honest: when I volunteered to write this piece it was mostly to point out that Matty Healy is wrong, and not in the ways you might think.

Shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to Qatar in May 2025, a rumor circulated online that the country's ruling emir said he regretted inviting the American commander-in-chief "to the ...