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With the recent release of Iceman, Maid Of Honour, and Habibti, Drake became the first artist to hold the top three albums on the Billboard 200 chart. Now, the world-dominating rapper is claiming nine songs in the Top 10, and his interpolation of Lykke Li’s “I Follow Rivers” earned her her first Hot 100 credit at #1.

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Clutter are a young indie band from Stockholm. All four members are about 21 years old, and they released their debut EP Loves You last year. In January, the band landed on our radar with the fun single “C.L.U.T.T.E.R.” Today, they follow that song with a bleary post-hardcore headrush called “GirlVsHeart.” It’s fast and sloppy,…

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Last week, the late Ozzy Osbourne’s family announced ghoulish plans for an interactive AI hologram version of the rock icon. By way of selling this enterprise, Ozzy’s widow Sharon Osbourne said, “You can ask Ozzy anything, and he will answer you in his own voice, and the answers will be what Ozzy would have said. We’re going to take it all around the world. People can talk to him and he will talk back.” That sucks! Don’t do that!

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Sonny Rollins has died at 95. An absolute legend, he was the last man standing from his generation of bebop and hard bop players, and even though he retired from live performance several years ago due to illness, he remained a standard to live up to. 

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How famous can a musician become and still seem like he isn’t? How much musical precedent must exist — how many artists like you, coming before you — before an artist’s ascent is no longer “unlikely”? These are the questions Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide had me asking. 

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Rivers Cuomo just provided fans with a treasure trove of fascinating musical scraps. Under the banner of “randum cuverz,” the Weezer frontman uploaded 15 solo acoustic covers to YouTube. They sound like Voice Memos, though some of them are old enough to predate smartphones. Some are only a few seconds. But on the whole, they’re…

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The Boys Of Dungeon Lane is the name of Paul McCartney’s new album revisiting his Liverpool coming of age, due out this Friday. It’s also the name of a new interview special available to watch on Amazon Live and in the Amazon Music app as of 11 a.m. ET today, in which McCartney is interviewed by actor Paul Mescal, who is playing him in the upcoming Beatles biopics directed by Sam Mendes.

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Creatively speaking, returns are uneven on Drake’s surprise three-album drop. But commercially speaking, Iceman, Habibti, and Maid Of Honour are a major coup. The albums have debuted at #1, #2, and #3 respectively, making Drake the first artist to ever occupy the top three spots on the Billboard 200 concurrently.

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