In this week's edition of Pop is Not A Dirty Word, columnist Douglas Greenwood marks the arrival of BLACKPINK by arguing that Western pop should be shaking in its boots at this K-Pop quartet.BLACKPINKI have an infection, but it’s not the gross, throat-coaty-phlegmy kind you might expect. It started a while ago, when I first heard the s...

Lana played the musician one of her early tracks during their evening togetherMoby/ Lana Del ReyMoby has opened up on dating a pre-fame Lana Del Rey in his new memoir, Then It Fell Apart. The book, released earlier this month, is a follow-up to 2016’s Porcelain and is described as “a journey into the dark heart of fame and the de...

Just a few months ago, UK time-warper James Blake came out with the new album Assume Form. Blake, of course, specializes in intricately constructed, deeply emotive lyrical self-laceration. But compared to past Blake albums, Assume Form wasn't so much of an internal journey. Instead, Blake found himself collaborating with some of his present-day ...

The London band Scrap Brain have an unhinged, noise-damaged take on punk rock. It's like one band combined the fastest, sludgiest early-'80s hardcore with the most oblique, damaged early-'80s postpunk, except with lyrics about what it's like to be mentally ill and queer in the late '10s. Last year, the band released a furious, impressive&#82...

in 1994, Nine Inch Nails made their masterpiece in the shape of The Downward Spiral. Here, we take a look back at how the iconic album came to life