Music critics—myself included—have spent much of the past several years bemoaning the decline of capital-“E” Events in music: no new superstars to crown, no more tentpole albums to unify us, no more ...
When it comes to the last line of a song, writers of pop songs have an opportunity to do something significant, beautiful, devastating, or downright crazy. When it comes to the following tunes, the ...
Listen to 48 tracks that broke new artists, blew apart genres and revived beloved sounds. By Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Jon Caramanica On the one hand, living in an environment in which sounds ...