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Machine Gun Kelly took it upon himself to slam a music critic for "pushing" a hate narrative about him after releasing a song ...

Very often, a great band or a solo artist is touted by music critics and reviewers, but the wider audience is very slow, or it never picks up on them. There could come a cult following or delayed ...

Whole Lotta Red album landed on Christmas Day in 2020, Playboi Carti finally released his much-delayed and highly anticipated ...

Chris Willman is Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic at Variety. He joined the publication in 2018 and is based in Los Angeles. Willman began his career at the Los Angeles Times ...

He grew up in Little Rock, Ark., graduated from Northwestern University and knows every word to “Mo Money Mo Problems.” He was named pop music critic in 2016.

"I feel like it really challenges my identity and who I am, and diminishes that," Lizzo said of critics who say she makes music for White people Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine.

When we walked back to the car, Jack asked, “When you decided to become a music critic, did you know about South by Southwest?” Hell, kid, I was there from the very beginning, when SXSW moved ...