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Heavy Rotation: All the New Stuff
Noteworthy Reads
- The Gamification of Pop Music
- I’ll Admit It: LiAngelo Ball’s “Tweaker” Is a Certified Banger
- Don’t Like Knocked Loose? That’s Your Cross to Bear.
- The Pop Girls Ruled 2024
- The Ringer’s 30 Best Albums of 2024
- Mannequin Pussy Isn’t Shying Away From the Rage
- The (Slightly Abridged) Yacht Rock Dictionary
- Everything You Need to Know About the 2025 Grammy Nominations
- Quincy Jones Was the Original Superproducer
- About to Break: The Creation of Linkin Park’s “One Step Closer”
The Ringer Guide to ‘A Complete Unknown’
Spotlight
- Ringer Films Presents ‘Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary’
- Music, Ranked
- The Pop Ladies of 2024
60 Songs That Explain the ’90s: Start Here

The (Mostly) True Story of Vanilla Ice, Hip-Hop, and the American Dream
The (Mostly) True Story of Vanilla Ice, Hip-Hop, and the American Dream
From the archives, one of our favorite long reads, about the rise and fall of ’90s pop music’s most infamous villainFrom the Vault: Our Favorite Oral Histories
From the Archives Long Reads We Pulled From the Crates

Live Forever: Oasis, ‘Definitely Maybe,’ and the Definitely Misunderstood Legacy of Britpop
Live Forever: Oasis, ‘Definitely Maybe,’ and the Definitely Misunderstood Legacy of Britpop
Before the blokes go back on tour, revisit their big break out—and how the ’90s U.K. music scene came to define a generation of argy-bargyCollections
‘GNX,’ Beef, and the Year of Kendrick Lamar
Podcasts

A Requiem for the Dead
A Requiem for the Dead
From the archive: A farewell to the Dead and Co. and a relic of boomer culture that found a way to regenerate, time and time againThe Ringer’s Music Podcasts