Craig Jenkins

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  • Oct 9, 2025
    The skies over Toronto’s Rogers Stadium on a late-August night exploded ahead of “Take You Down,” the bedroom banger from 36-year-old R&B superstar Chris...
  • Oct 6, 2025
    Across five years of tireless activity, Taylor Swift has repeatedly envisioned herself in the shoes of doomed women in history and literature while coping with stress and...
  • Sep 23, 2025
    Cardi B released an album promo clip last week that highlighted the precarious business of a second Cardi B album: She boards the subway in sweatpants, adopting the script of a...
  • Apr 16, 2025
    Justin Vernon was weeping onstage, his signature falsetto warbling just out of control, when he realized it was time to rethink Bon Iver. The song he was performing that day in...
  • Mar 13, 2025
    Lady Gaga blew through Saturday Night Live over the weekend, weaponizing boisterous vocal runs and skinny fringe dresses that suggested the 38-year-old singer-songwriter, producer,...
  • Jan 14, 2025
    Last month, Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny was navigating a holiday-season flutter of activity, including a giveaway for disadvantaged youth in his hometown, when most of his...
  • Jan 6, 2025
    Popular music of the ’70s and ’80s mixed and matched parts assembled earlier in the 20th century, borrowing from the melisma of soul, the locomotion of rock and roll, the...