August 2015 Music Articles
- The Haim Sisters Will Host Their Own Beats 1 Radio Show
- Miley Cyrus Surprise Releases Free, 23-Track Psychedelic Album, ‘Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz’
- 2015 VMAs: “Kanye For President” Derails a Series of Calculated Tweetable Moments
- 10 Songs About Classic Hollywood Icons
- The 5 Best Songs We Heard This Week: Sexwitch, Julia Holter
- ‘Straight Outta Compton’ and the Politics of Modern Day Minstrelsy
- What It’s Like Working Backstage at the VMAs
- The One Where Phoebe Sang “Smelly Cat” Onstage with Taylor Swift
- Watch: Beck and St. Vincent Perform “Dreams” with Taylor Swift
- How Willis Earl Beal Created Himself Through Negating His Self
- The Best Part of Yo La Tengo’s ‘Stuff Like That There’ Isn’t the Covers — It’s the Band
- Kanye West to Recieve MTV’s “Highest Honor” at The VMAs
- “This Is Bigger Than Me, and Bigger Than Hip-Hop”: Dee Barnes Responds to Dre’s Apology
- Wu-Tang Clan Still Hasn’t Sold That $5 Million Album
- Spotify’s New Privacy Policy: Music’s Not the Product, You Are
- The Weeknd Has a Bizarrely Eventful Day in the Desert in “Tell Your Friends” Video
- 4D: One Direction Members Will Take a Break to Go Solo
- Mark Kozelek Announces Free ‘Down In The Willow Garden’ EP
- Dr. Dre: “I Apologize to the Women I’ve Hurt”
- The 5 Best Songs We Heard This Week: Deerhunter, Bikini Kill
- Yes, “The Best-Ever Bitcoin Cannabis Drone Entrepreneurs in San Francisco” Is a Mountain Goats Parody — and It’s Glorious
- Lana Del Rey Shares New Bowie-Referencing Track, Reveals ‘Honeymoon’ Cover Art
- Courtney Barnett Shares Sneakily Recorded Music Video from Her Secret Concert in London
- Check Out the Tracklist for Lana Del Rey’s ‘Honeymoon’
- “And Now You’re Dead, and It’s the End”: Patti Smith Sings Dirge for ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force’
- ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Gets 20th-Anniversary Reissue, Featuring Previously Unreleased Demos
- Kathleen Hanna Is Awesomely Clear-Eyed About Pop-Star Feminism
- Carly Rae Jepsen: The Pop Star Baffling America With Her Unprecedented Normalcy
- This Professor Is Living Everyone’s Dream by Being David Bowie for a Year
- Bikini Kill to Reissue Debut Record With Three Previously Unreleased Tracks
- Ryan Adams Shares Melancholy Clip of “Blank Space” Cover
- Watch Peaches and Kim Gordon Deal Out the Smackdowns in “Close Up” Video
- FKA twigs’ Melissa and Arca’s Xen: Defiantly Dysmorphic Essences
- Does ‘Rolling Stone’ Know It Declared Songwriting Dead?
- Willow Smith Releases New Age-Saturated Song/Video, “Wit a Indigo”
- Lana Del Rey Announces Release Date for ‘Honeymoon’
- The 5 Best Songs We Heard This Week: FKA twigs, Chance the Rapper
- Flavorwire Video Premiere: Pajama People, “Thank You Limousine”
- FKA twigs Releases New EP, ‘M3LL155X,’ Accompanied by a 16-Minute, Four-Part Music Video
- Paparazzi, Beware: Lana Del Rey Will Blow Up Your Helicopters
- ‘The Room’s’ Tommy Wiseau Directed This Music Video, Whose Concept Was “Vision, Vision, Vision”
- Hari Nef and a Gooey Beast Star in The Drums’ Newest Music Video
- Arcade Fire Share the First Full Trailer for ‘The Reflektor Tapes’
- A Requiem for Columbia House, the Original Spotify
- Lana Del Rey Shares “Andrews Sisters Meets Ludacris” Track “High By the Beach”
- Brooklyn Rapper/Heltah Skeltah Member Sean Price Dies at 43
- Joanna Newsom Announces First Album Since 2010, Shares Video for New Track Directed by P.T. Anderson
- Prince’s New Album ‘HITNRUN’ Will Be Released Exclusively Through Tidal in September
- Watch: Earl Sweatshirt’s “Off Top” Video Disturbingly Animates the American Police State
- The 5 Best Songs We Heard This Week: Four Tet, Jay Rock
- ‘Compton’ Puts Dr. Dre Back in the Director’s Chair as Hip Hop’s Reigning Auteur
- Ryan Adams Covers All of ‘1989’ With T-Swift’s Glowing Approval, Records “Saddest Version of ‘Welcome to New York’ Ever”
- Petite Noir Forges a Vision of “Noirwave” Africa in Gorgeous “Best” Video
- Will a Spice Girls Reunion Spice Up Our Lives in 2016?
- Headlines About Lenny Kravitz Splitting His Pants, Ranked
- The Forgotten Women of Punk: Spitboy’s Michelle Cruz Gonzales on Riot Grrrl, Dystopias, and More
- The 10 Albums You Need to Hear in August
- Don’t Speak, Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale Are Divorcing
- FKA twigs Debuts the Menacing, Voguing-Inspired New Track, “Figure 8”
- ‘Compton,’ Dr. Dre’s First Album in 15 Years, Will (Allegedly) Be Released August 7
- Watch Kendrick Lamar’s Surreal New Video for the Politically-Charged “For Free?”