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Cent’s signature song 'In Da Club' has entered a rare echelon among streaming hits by surpassing 2 billion streams on Spotify ...

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90 tracks! Five hours! Remix the year in pop however you wish. By Lindsay Zoladz The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

As the year comes to an end, we are wading deep into list season. Now that we’ve talked about the best albums, songs, debuts, and EPs of 2025, it’s time to get even more granular and pay tribute to a ...

Yes, we define indie rock pretty broadly for this list. Four decades after bands like the Replacements, the Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, and the Meat Puppets got this scene rolling, indie rock is more a ...

Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, earning its eighth nonconsecutive weeks atop the tally — tying Folklore in the process. TORONTO, ONTARIO - NOVEMBER 14: ...

Psychedelic rock didn’t just change music: it changed minds. Emerging in the mid-1960s, this kaleidoscopic soundscape rewired pop and rock by plunging headfirst into altered states, non-Western ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...