Music
President Obama Made America A Mixtape
Political playlists aren’t easy. If there’s one off color lyric — or if the artist doesn’t agree with your agenda — you’ve got a minor scandal on your hands. Remember the uproar when Obama invited rapper Common to a White House poetry event? Or when Tom Petty, Sting and John Mellencamp all separately asked George W. Bush to …
Listen to TIME’s Fashion Week Playlist on Spotify!
It’s Fashion Week in New York City and Manhattan is crawling with eccentric designers, stylish socialites and hungry models looking for next season’s big trend. It seems that our invitation to Marc Jacobs’ show got lost in the …
On A Different Kind of Truth, Van Halen Aren’t Cool But They Can Rock
This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene.
“Cool” gets thrown around a lot, but most critics and fans alike …
Too Old to Rock? Axl Rose and 9 Other Aging Heavy-Metal Icons
Madonna’s Extraordinary Career
TIME takes a look at her life and career, both of which have been lived firmly in the public eye.
Watch M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls” Video
M.I.A. released a music video for her song “Bad Girls,” and at first glance it appears to be a political statement about women drivers in Saudi Arabia. Then again, maybe the Sri Lankan rapper adopted a stylish Arabic aesthetic because it looks cool. It’s hard to tell with M.I.A. Either way, it’s a fun video and I think we can all agree …
Don Cornelius and the Legacy of Soul Train
A photographic look at the seminal dance program and its late creator.
‘Soul Train’ Creator Don Cornelius Dies in Suicide
The ‘Soul Train’ creator is credited with bringing urban culture and R&B music into the homes of millions. He was 75
How a Red Hot Chili Pepper Gave Drive Its Pulse
“The weirdest compliment that I get is, ‘The music was so great I didn’t know that there was any,’” film composer Cliff Martinez told Carson Daly in a late-night interview that aired late last year.
At the time, the …
Lana Del Rey Gets The Superstar Treatment by Fiat
In his piece in this week’s TIME Magazine, Douglas Wolk weighs in on the Lana Del Rey debate.
If you regularly follow music blogs, or pay attention to new music in general, you’ve probably heard of Del Rey. At the very least, …
Listen to TIME’s January Music Playlist on Spotify
Congratulations, you’ve survived January. To celebrate, we’ve made you a playlist.
At the end of each month, TIME will make a Spotify playlist of new music. This month, we’ve got a 12-song mix featuring everything from …
Leonard Cohen’s New, Beautiful Old Ideas
This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene.
To call Leonard Cohen a living legend would be to define the term. The …
