Jamieson Cox

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How a Wave of Ascendant Pop Stars Could Define the Next Decade of Music

While 2019 may not have been an explosive year in pop music, it teed up the personalities and story lines that could define the next decade in listening. A new generational gap opened up, one...

By Jamieson Cox January 23, 2020

How Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty Pushes Her Out of Her Comfort Zone

Carrie Underwood built one of the most consistent careers in country music on songs about other people. She named her last album Storyteller for a reason: she likes booming power ballads, rowdy revenge tales and...

By Jamieson Cox September 13, 2018

Christina Aguilera Is Hitting the Reset Button on Her New Album Liberation

Christina Aguilera has always been driven by reinvention. She shakes off a part of herself with each new album cycle, tapping into a character or concept that can house whatever is energizing her creatively. First...

By Jamieson Cox June 14, 2018

U2 Shows Off Hard-Won Experience

Each recent U2 album has endured some kind of complicated gestation before its eventual release. Songs of Experience, the band's 14th LP, is no exception: the companion to 2014's Apple-branded blunder Songs of Innocence was...

By Jamieson Cox November 30, 2017

Tyler, the Creator Opens Up

Tyler, the Creator's career has been defined by immaturity. The Odd Future ringleader's many talents--his ear for production, his gravel-studded growl, his cross-disciplinary aesthetic--have often been overshadowed by his penchant for lurid imagery and homophobic...

By Jamieson Cox July 27, 2017

R&B's New Wave Is All About Creative Destruction

From the minimalism of Syd to the progressive lyricism of Kendrick Lamar, here’s a tour of the shape of music to come

By Jamieson Cox March 31, 2017

Kehlani Turns Candor Into Virtue

Kehlani Parrish doesn't mince words. The Oakland, Calif.-based singer spends most of her debut LP, SweetSexySavage, laying down romantic ground rules in frank, flirty terms. Take the funky single "Distraction," on which she eschews love...

By Jamieson Cox February 9, 2017

Sampha Sisay Is Hip-Hop’s Secret Weapon

The London-based singer-producer Sampha Sisay is a secret weapon many of this decade's most popular musicians have somehow agreed to share. You've probably heard him before, a spectral presence haunting the edges of albums by...

By Jamieson Cox February 2, 2017

Rap's Middle-Aged Everymen Return, Trash Talk In Tow

When hip-hop veterans Jaime "El-P" Meline and Michael "Killer Mike" Render came together to record their first mixtape as Run the Jewels, they weren't expecting much out of the side project beyond fraternal fun. "When...

By Jamieson Cox January 12, 2017

Review: Jamie xx Plays With Different Hues on In Colour

By lovingly exploring the sounds of eras past, Jamie xx generates a sound that's all his own

By Jamieson Cox June 5, 2015
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