8 Best New Songs of the Week More brilliant washing-machine music from Matmos!
sundance 2016
Feb. 1, 2016
DJ MikeQ Brings That ‘C*nt Feeling’ to Kiki Doc “What Paris Is Burning was to the culture,” ballroom’s go-to DJ says of Sara Jordenö’s new documentary, “ I feel this could be that and much more.”
roundtables
Jan. 28, 2016
Buster Poindexter on His Return to Café Carlyle “A lot of people think Buster is a character, but it’s not really. It’s kind of a conceit.”
the streaming wars
Jan. 26, 2016
29 Musicians and Celebs on How They Stream Music Yes, some artists are totally fine with their music being free.
roundtables
Jan. 26, 2016
bout to blow
Jan. 21, 2016
20 Musicians You Need to Know in 2016 Vulture’s music team shares the new acts they think (and hope) you’ll be hearing a lot about this year.
the hamilton papers
Jan. 15, 2016
An Exclusive Guided Look Inside the Upcoming Hamilton Book “When I was writing the chapter titles, it was almost like Colonial-era Mad Libs.”
remembering bowie
Jan. 11, 2016
16 of David Bowie’s Best Live Performances You Can Watch Right Now From his big Top of the Pops debut to SNL with Klaus Nomi to his Glastonbury sing-along.
Hear Dr. Dog’s New Song, ‘Bring My Baby Back’ “It’s like climbing out from the bottom of a junk drawer three stories deep, a veritable ascent into maelstrom.”
year in review 2015
Dec. 30, 2015
This Year in Music, We Listened to Women Sure, Adele and Taylor Swift were 2015’s top sellers, but more crucially, this year saw women in music speaking out — and people starting to listen.
fab four fun
Dec. 30, 2015
David Lowery Comes for Spotify … Again Daniel Ek is one bald dude Lowery would NEVER take bowling.
awkward interviews
Dec. 21, 2015
R. Kelly Needs to Leave the Internet for a While “I’m not perfect, but I’m perfectly me.” Problem.
in casting news
Dec. 18, 2015
vulture quiz
Dec. 18, 2015
Vulture’s Taylor Swift Welcome to the Stage Quiz Taylor Swift exhausted the meaning of #squad this year, and here’s the quiz to prove it.
conspiracy theory
Dec. 17, 2015
jingle ball
Dec. 14, 2015
Backstage at Z100’s Jingle Ball Pop all-stars share their preshow rituals.
Why Copyright Infringement Is Pop’s Big Problem Welcome to the Wild West of music-copyright law.
zomg serial’s back
Dec. 10, 2015
grammys 2016
Dec. 7, 2015
the top 40 lowdown
Dec. 2, 2015
election 2016
Nov. 25, 2015
Look at Their Dab: A Brief Conversation With Migos About Dabbing As Fashion The two members who aren’t in jail are celebrating a new capsule collection called Worldwide Rich.
trust me danny
Nov. 20, 2015
How Adele Favorite Tobias Jesso Jr. Became Pop’s Indie Boyfriend Overnight As billboards in L.A. promised earlier this year, you can’t miss Tobias Jesso Jr. And not just because he’s six-foot-seven.
David Bowie’s Beautifully Weird Short Film for ★ Has Arrived It’s pronounced “Blackstar,” if you’re reading this out loud.
do you belieb?
Nov. 18, 2015
music streaming
Nov. 13, 2015
musicians on their own music
Nov. 13, 2015
streaming world
Nov. 12, 2015
YouTube Music Won’t ‘Disrupt’ the Streaming Marketplace — and That’s Okay YouTube Music won’t make you fall in love with music again, but it will make it easier for you to remember why you fell in love with music in the first place.
a conservative rapper’s delight
Nov. 6, 2015
Meet Aspiring Mogul, Rapper Behind Ben Carson Ad “Carson likes classical music like Haydn and Tchaikovsky,” Mogul admits. “But when I made the song, I didn’t think about whether he was into rap or not.”
Why Adele’s 25 Probably Won’t Be As Big As 21 Don’t let the sales-expectations game overshadow the actual music.
soundalike sound-off
Nov. 4, 2015
Do Sleigh Bells Have a Case Against Demi Lovato? We asked a copyright expert to explain the technical aspects of the latest sound-alike controversy.
fire in the hole
Nov. 2, 2015
Ashley Monroe Drops a Fiery ‘Bombshell’ in Her New Video “All I could see was my lashes and my hair going up in flames.”
Adele Pens Passionate Letter Filled With More Details About New Album It’s called 25 , it’s a “make-up record,” still no official release date set.
the great rap way
Oct. 20, 2015
Talib Kweli Analyzes Hamilton The rap vet technically assesses songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway phenomenon Hamilton and speaks to the intersection of hip-hop and musical theater.
hollering back at ya girl
Oct. 20, 2015
Gwen Stefani on Poop Emoji, Pop’s Shift, New LP The 46-year-old No Doubt front woman says she’s so happy she could “vomit bunny emoji.”
Watch Chairlift Ace Dancehall Moves in New Video The Brooklyn-based pop duo returns in January with the new album Moth .
right-click
Oct. 15, 2015
Watch This Lovely Live Performance by Wet The trio has set their debut release, Don’t You , for January.
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