"Being music," in the all-encompassing sense, seems to be the aspiration of the genre 100 gecs has come to represent: hyperpop. Since the 2010s, that name has been a controversial catch-all for a ...

In Pitchfork’s My Perfect 10 series, a critically adored musician (who’s usually promoting a new album) praises a favorite record. For an October entry, rambunctious Detroit rapper Danny Brown chose ...

How do you explain digicore to someone unfamiliar with the genre? d0llywood1 offers “feeling” by Kite and blackwinterwells as the platonic ideal. “It has the emo vocal inflections, it has the personal ...

The plan was for Zeke to pick me up from a train station in northern New Jersey, just a few minutes from their parents’ home. But right before we’re supposed to meet, I get a text announcing a slight ...