Hearing Things

The long-running European fest C2C found its footing in New York City last weekend with a night of gloriously freaky beats, noise, and sex hearingthings.co/c2c-is-now-one…

Hiding the real Michael Jackson in the era of 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘭 hearingthings.co/michael-jackso…

This interview with Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew includes thoughts on [*big inhale*]—kaleidoscopic grief, Spotify, the band's new album, recording conversations with your mom while you still can, and that time Drew was voted prom queen in high school hearingthings.co/broken-social-…

This week in Five Songs, we've got Must Hear stunners from artists who may not be on your radar, new music from Afrobeats' great provocateur, and more hearingthings.co/jpegmafias-bit… hearingthings.co/jpegmafias-bit…

𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘶𝘺?, I asked myself after five straight minutes of head-nodding. hearingthings.co/tokischa-amor-…

For our latest edition of The Producers, we spoke to LA beatmaking pioneer Flying Lotus about his favorite songs from producers Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Queen, Madlib, J Dilla, & more hearingthings.co/flying-lotus-b…

This week in song recommendations: a different side of "Dilla," a UK rap banger reccomended by at least one doctor, and more hearingthings.co/lucy-dacus-mak… hearingthings.co/lucy-dacus-mak…

This week's Five Albums: Kehlani threading the needle for R&B nostalgia! New Orleans-based art-rock! A rapper-producer duo putting the avant-garde in plugg music! Analog-y synth pop! Analog-y synth-pop! And a medical student making delectable dream-pop! hearingthings.co/how-kehlani-do…

Heavensouls is an algorithmic playlist’s worst nightmare hearingthings.co/heavensouls-ha…

“He fits this trajectory of a folk troubadour who’s always on the road, hiking and staying in people's homes, and moves every couple of years,” says Ryan Davis. "But really, there’s nobody like him. He’s a singular force of nature.” hearingthings.co/the-last-folk-…

On the latest Waste or Taste: What are Olivia Rodrigo and Cameron Winter really up to? hearingthings.co/katseye-pop-pr…

This week's Five Albums: legends of industrial pop and electronic dance music meld minds, musicians from Congo and Cuba flex their ingenuity, a New York songwriter embraces jazzy art-pop, and a storied hip-hop duo contemplates what all this rap shit means. hearingthings.co/nine-inch-noiz…

In 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺’s best scene, FKA Twigs, playing a Mary fan and psychic naif, channels a ghost during a seance with typical athleticism—only making Mother Mary’s lack of juzh more apparent. Read our review:

Read @herrakakram's dive into how the Moroccan metal scene he came up in grew into the thriving community it is today—from bootleg tapes of 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘭, to the brief '03 jailing of metal musicians, to local bands gaining fans worldwide: hearingthings.co/morocco-metal-…

Hudson Freeman is a viral artist who knows that, for a certain sect of the music world, going viral is lame—even though it’s one of the only ways people without connections or rich parents can get noticed in the modern music industry hearingthings.co/hudson-freeman…

Must Hear dreamy DMV rap about kicking the habit and world-weary R&B from a modern great; plus sensory-overload electro-pop, new heat from everybody's favorite Andean electro-folk futurists, and more hearingthings.co/the-return-of-…

Something that lives rent-free in my head since reading the Hole bassist's memoir: Courtney Love once called Melissa Auf der Maur "Billy Corgan's purse." hearingthings.co/melissa-auf-de…

Dijon live from Coachella! Jazzy guitar-synths that go haywire in unexpected ways! Songwriters on the outer limits of art-rock! Two rapper/producers—one extremely storied, one still just starting out— challenging convention! Five Albums has it all! hearingthings.co/dijon-coachell…

On their latest albums, Earl Sweatshirt, Mike, and Sideshow acknowledge that hip-hop doesn't have a chosen one, but they all rap like they are anyway hearingthings.co/earl-sweatshir…