Eric Ducker

Composers are increasingly in demand for trailerization — reworking existing tracks by artists including Kate Bush, Nirvana and Kendrick Lamar to maximize their impact in film and TV previews.

The 23-year-old British singer-songwriter Robin Skinner has a listenership devoted to his sensitive (but not despairing) music.

The prolific Philadelphia songwriter returns with a new album. Is it too polished? Is it too weird? Or maybe it’s just all about dogs.

Director Brett Morgen discusses ‘Moonage Daydream,’ his David Bowie documentary freakout that’s not exactly a documentary.

In conversation with the xx singer about his revealing new solo album, Hideous Bastard.

On her new album ‘Natural Brown Prom Queen,’ the L.A. by way of Cincinnati musician continues to redefine her destiny.

Screaming out the lyrics to “Teenagers” and holding each other tight to Dashboard Confessional, at emo parties around the country, crowds are through being cool.

Shane Drake has directed videos for Paramore, Panic! at the Disco, and dozens of other bands. This is his guide to making essential emo visuals.

As festival season returns in full for the first time since the pandemic started, promoters and artists see that the way forward may be to look backward

The 1990s comedy skewered campus politics, featured John Favreau in dreadlocks, and got George Clinton to cover Prince. Obviously, we had questions.

The 31-year-old Los Angeles musician’s first album was filled with electro-inflected indie rock. Its follow-up, “Squeeze,” has harder music filtered through her unique lens.

The Detroit musician wasn’t known to give many interviews, and his influence has grown exponentially since his 2006 death. “Dilla Time” by Dan Charnas explores what drove him.

The Survival of the Illest Tour came just as DMX’s popularity exploded. Not only did it capture a young artist on the rise, it also paved the way for massive rap tours that followed.

Like the War on Drugs’ previous work, I Don’t Live Here Anymore is constructed with a reverence to the glossy moments of rock ’n’ roll’s past while staying a little frayed around the edges. The passage of time has always been of interest to Granduciel, and I Don’t Live Here Anymore feels especially fixated on remembering, returning, and thinking back to what once was.

The 25-year-old Los Angeles musician’s debut album, “Juno,” is a collage of sounds, emotions and cultural detritus filtered through her own unique energy.