Spring 2024 is a Manet-splendored season, given the annual pilgrimage to Coachella; hotly anticipated new longplayers from Billie, Tay, Future & Metro, Cole and Tiller; and Nipper in heat, while Aaron & Tom shield themselves from the sun with the latest issue of HITS.
Taylor Swift, with a new album coming, is ready to suck the oxygen out of the universe in a way that no other pop-cultural force since The Beatles has done. Her appearance in the crowd at Coachella...
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The co-heads of a red-hot and fully resurgent Warner Records grace the cover of this issue, having also granted us—likely to their eternal regret—an in-depth interview.
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J Balvin and Will Smith, Doja Cat and 21 Savage, A$AP Rocky and Teezo Touchdown—Coachella's first weekend wrapped with just enough festival magic to tide us over until it returns next weekend.
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Karen Glauber scolds Alt PDs for their “unwillingness to play much new music,” including Marcagi, Mitski and Vampire Weekend, in her latest Post Toasted column. “If I programmed a radio station,” she writes, “I’d feature currents, both new and tested, and do whatever I had to do to set up the next generation of listeners.” Let ’em have it, KG.
Virgin Music Group has promoted Cindy James to general manager of the company’s North American operations.
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TikTok has announced a new global ticketing partnership with AXS to allow fans to discover and buy tickets within TikTok.
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The Beatles film Let It Be, unavailable since the early 1980s, will be streamed exclusively on Disney+ beginning 5/8.
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U.K. INDIE SECTOR RISES FOR SIXTH YEARIndependently released music claimed 29.2% of U.K. recorded music consumption in 2023, up from 28.6% in 2022 and nearly a third higher than in 2017. In the physical music market, indies counted for 35% of all album sales.
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For the title track on Future & Metro Boomin's just-released LP, WE STILL DON'T TRUST YOU, the chart-topping duo tap The Weeknd to add some angelic vocals. The trio's video features model-actress Winnie Harlow.
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