Spencer Kornhaber

Music history is full of united actions against war and humanitarian crises. So what’s changed?

The singer’s critics said his performance would be divisive. They were totally wrong.

Bad Bunny and many others used their time at this year’s ceremony to speak out against ICE.

“Streets of Minneapolis” taps into a time-old tradition to rail against a modern crisis.

The president’s party has total control of government—but not what Americans care about.

The Super Bowl headliner doesn’t care if you understand his lyrics.

The emerging technology is warping the record industry in all sorts of strange—and foreboding—ways.

Zane Lowe has made a career out of relentless positivity. Is there anything he doesn’t like?

This year’s most interesting artists invented their own grammar and tunneled in idiosyncratic directions.