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, …
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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 …
Nada Surf: Life After The One-Hit Wonder
From Devo to Nada Surf, a look at the one-hit wonders who go on to become much more
Ben Folds Five is Reuniting!
Yesterday, Ben Folds announced that he’d reunited with his former bandmates Darren Jessee and Robert Sledge to record a new Ben Folds Five album.
Wilco’s New Video is Also a Popeye Cartoon
Wilco released a music video for “Dawned on Me,” a song off the band’s latest album, The Whole Love. And get this, it’s also the first hand-drawn Popeye cartoon in 25 years. The video is a partnership between the Chicago …
Fiona Apple Has New Music Coming Out, But Not In the Next Few Weeks
On Sunday, Epic Records’ chairman and CEO L.A. Reid tweeted about the long awaited Fiona Apple album, writing, “Lots of good music coming from @Epic_Records in the next few weeks. Stay tuned music fans. Welcome back Fiona!” …
Cloud Nothings’ Attack on Memory: An Aural Assault on the Heart
Singer-songwriter Dylan Baldi’s solo project has turned into a fully realized band. On its third album, Cloud Nothings has never felt more alive or more authentic.
Stop Wasting Your Hate on Lana Del Rey
Music Monday: Kathleen Edwards’ Voyageur
Kathleen Edwards has a penchant for bittersweet ballads. An earnest singer-songwriter, her voice is sweet and her her song subjects — from budding love to break-ups to “what am I doing with my life”-type explorations — …
Ten Things To Watch, Read and Listen To: Jan. 23-29
Every Monday, for your planning purposes, we will lay out the week ahead in entertainment. (All times refer to EST.)
1. Oscar Nominations Announced
Tuesday morning at 8:30 am, Winter’s Bone and Hunger Games star Jennifer …
A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012
From her potent R&B singles as a teenager to the immortal ballad “At Last,” and for another half-century, this pop-blues diva endured a life more wrenching than any of her songs
See All of TIME’s Best of Lists on the Populist iPad App
In mid-October, when we re-launched this entertainment site, we also struck out into the wild world of tablet apps.
TIME Populist, available for the iPad (download here), took all of the Top 10, 15, 25 and 100 lists that we …