Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay (real name Jason Mizell) was shot and killed in 2002, and arrests weren't made until 2020. Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan Jr. were suspected of murdering the hip-hop pioneer, and in 2024 they were found guilty. Now, Karl J... more info

Nyxy Nyx, the prolific Philadelphia slowcore crew with the annoying-to-type name, have been cranking out lo-fi DIY releases for many years, but their recent Cult Classics Vol. 1 was their first-ever studio release. It’s one of Stereogum’s top sho... more info

For a very, very long time, A$AP Rocky has been promising a new album called Don't Be Dumb. His last LP was the divisive Testing , which came out way back in May 2018. After years of teasing, Don't Be Dumb was originally slated for an August 2024 re... more info

In 2009, Nick Cave published The Death Of Bunny Munro, a darkly comic novel about a sex-addicted salesman. I read it for work, and I hated it. When The Death Of Bunny Munro first came out, Cave and his frequent collaborator Warren Ellis scored the au... more info

The emotive Baltimore punks Pinkshift released their album Earthkeeper earlier this year, and the followed it by releasing the single “Authority Problem” and a live cover of Slipknot’s “Eyeless.” Now, we’re getting one last Pinkshift trac... more info

Allow me to pull the curtain back on the way that this particular website operates during the holidays. Once we finalize all our year-end lists, things tend to get way slower around here, and Scott lets us take most of late December off. But someone ... more info

Every year, the Recording Academy hands out a handful of Lifetime Achievement Grammys. Some of the recipients are alive to get the award, and some are not. The Academy has unveiled the list of next year's honorees, and it includes legendary figures l... more info

Ultra-famous superfriends SZA and Kendrick Lamar spent most of 2025 on what amounts to one long victory lap together. They played the Super Bowl. Their song "Luther" topped the Hot 100 for months, and the two of them took their stadium show all over ... more info

It's Cameron Winter Winter. You already knew this. Geese's Getting Killed is the critical-consensus album of the year, and it's topping all kinds of year-end lists, including ours. Winter's solo debut Heavy Metal is also placing high on lots of yea... more info

Ever since the early Beatles days, Paul McCartney's signature instrument has been the Höfner 500/1 violin bass guitar. In 1961, an 18-year-old McCartney bought the instrument in Hamburg for £30. That was McCartney's primary instrument for the Beatl... more info