Music Features

Gucci Mane in July, performing at the 2024 Exit Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia. Srdjan Stevanovic/Getty Images Europe hide caption

Quantum Baby is Tinashe's seventh album, and the second in a purported trilogy that began with last year's BB/ANG3L. Raven B. Varona hide caption

Just shy of a decade after debuting in hip-hop, Post Malone completes a long-gestating country turn with the new album F-1 Trillion. Photos by Randy Shropshire/Brett Carlsen/Getty Images/Illustration by Jackie Lay hide caption

JPEGMAFIA performs in 2023 at The Rooftop at Pier 17 in New York City. Keeyahtay Lewis on behalf of The Rooftop at Pier 17 hide caption

In 2023, after two decades in the rap game, Killer Mike turned a page in his career with the highly autobiographical album Michael, which won him multiple trophies at the Grammy Awards, where he was arrested backstage. On his new follow-up, Songs for Sinners and Saints, he reworks several songs from Michael by reaching even deeper back into the church music of his childhood. Andrew Clifton/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Two years after her breakthrough single, Ice Spice released her debut album, Y2K!, on July 26. Coughs/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Now in her 80s, the New York interdisciplinary artist Meredith Monk remains best known for her extended vocal technique, a concept she found her way to in the 1960s. Christine Alicino hide caption

The artist's star power is distinctive and grounded in a moment where the music industry, and its ability to break dependable new artists, is chaotic. Erika Goldring/Getty Images hide caption