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Two year, the legendary producers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz turned a vague beat-battle idea into a cultural colossus. The whole idea of the Verzuz battle came out of a single night in 2020, when Timbaland and Swizz had an informal showdown on Instagram Live, taking turns playing their hits and talking good-natured shit. More Verzuz battles follo...

Among the current generation of chart-topping pop artists, you might think that Silk Sonic, the Grammy-anointed duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, would be the least susceptible to nü-metal nostalgia. Silk Sonic’s whole thing is smooth ’70s-style good-time music, not losing your sight, losing your mind, wishing somebody w...

Snail Mail is currently touring the US in support of last year’s excellent Album Of The Week Valentine. Last night, the tour hit Providence’s Fête Music Hall, where Lindsey Jordan broke out a cover of Muse’s “Starlight” from 2006’s Black Holes And Revelations. Even better, she ended th...

Long Island rap veteran Roc Marciano is a great producer whose hazy, flickering post-boom-bap style inspired a whole lot of the best underground rap of the past decade-plus. Marci’s beatmaking game is so strong that he’s produced entire albums for other rappers like Stove God Cooks and Flee Lord. But Marciano’s an e...