Music

Through day ‘n’ night, cruel summers and G.O.O.D. Fridays, superstar button-pusher Kanye West and paranoid android cult hero Kid Cudi have remained thought leaders since they started working together nearly 10 years ago. Kanye’s grain-rubbing résumé in the last decade includes a nine-minute vocoder-prog opus, a minimalist industrial noise suite …

Natalie Prass‘ second album pairs the sharp and the smooth, its keenly observed lyrics about love and politics grounded in arrangements that recall soft-pop highlights from the past four decades. The Future and the Past is a modern echo of that moment when soft rock and Quiet Storm fed off …

The National‘s Bryce and Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon have launched an online music platform dubbed People. The service provides artists “an independent and nurturing space in which to make work (generally around music) that is collaborative, spontaneous and expressive in nature,” People states. People, which launched Wednesday, …

Beck reimagined U2‘s stark ballad “Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way” as a synth-laced arena-rocker in a new remix of the Songs of Experiencesingle. The songwriter revamped the track into a maximalist sing-along, speeding up the tempo to a danceable BPM and layering in shimmering keyboards and percussion. …

In its piano-ballad gait, baroque-pop raptures and confessional sting, Josh Tillman’s fourth album as the darkly antic Father John Misty often sounds like it was made more than 40 years earlier under yet another name: John Lennon. It’s as if Tillman wrote and arranged these songs under the sumptuous, despairing …

Kesha‘s musicon new albumRainbowcelebrates dreamers of all kinds, but her new video for “Hymn” goes out to a one particularly besieged subset – DACA recipients. Kesha announced the video on Facebook where she also detailed her new partnership with United We Dream, an organization designed to aid those who were …

Sean Lennon’s Chimera label is unearthing lost music from Beanpole, a demented recording project featuring performances from Primus members Les Claypool and Larry LaLonde, and Derek Greenberg and Adam Gates of Geffen-signed alt-pop group Spent Poets. All My Kin, featuring recordings from between 1984 through the late Nineties, is due …

Pusha-T’s third – and best – solo album is a marvel of musical precision. On this 21-minute, EP-length collaboration with producer Kanye West no moment is wasted. If this seven-song collection being marketed as an album statement seems frustratingly incomplete, it’s only because Pusha T and West leave the audience …

Chvrches performed their cathartic single “Miracle” on Thursday’s Tonight Show. The synth-pop trio nailed the song’s dynamic shifts. Multi-instrumentalists Iain Cook and Martin Doherty flanked the stage on synths, with the former switching to a booming bass guitar on the choruses. “Miracle” appears on the Glasgow-based trio’s newly issued third …

Kenny Chesney salutes fans who embody the all-for-one vibe of his latest single in a new music video, placing them at the heart of a tailgate-centric clip for “Get Along.” Directed by Shaun Silva and filmed largely amid the citizens of Chesney’s No Shoes Nation, the video captures a sunny …