Moments in Timelessness

Slime Cry Album ∙ Hip-Hop/Rap ∙ 2026 YoungBoy Never Broke Again Knowing YoungBoy Never Broke Again, it wouldn’t be long into 2026 before the wildly prolific MC dropped his first project of the new year. Indeed, just 16 days into the thing, YoungBoy delivered with  Slime Cry , a 30-track epic that finds him getting ever closer to the ideal form of his diaristic, heartbreakingly honest pain rap .  Slime Cry , like most YoungBoy releases of the past few years, finds the rapper moving between shockingly vulnerable reflections on his struggles and the somewhat regular breath of fresh air where he allows himself to look back on how a broke kid from Baton Rouge hustled his way onto the Mount Rushmore of rap . “Anti-Social” represents one end of that spectrum, with YoungBoy reflecting on how the traumas of his childhood have manifested themselves in adulthood. Despite the occasional victory lap, this is a theme that appears again and again in the rapper’s music, and one that will nev...

Don't Be Dumb Album ∙ Rap ∙ 2026 A$AP Rocky When A$AP Rocky first emerged online in the early 2010s as the face and figurehead of the trendsetting Harlem collective known as the A$AP Mob , he was already primed for stardom, with model good looks, a strong curatorial eye, and a sound that drew from brolic New York street rap, DJ Screw tapes, and trippy underground electronics alike. Parlaying the hype from his acclaimed debut mixtape, 2011’s  LIVE.LOVE.A$AP , the Harlem native soon found himself in hip-hop’s upper echelons, testing the boundaries of genre and style. But for years, Rocky mostly applied his ambitions elsewhere: He embraced acting, taking on roles in 2025’s  Highest 2 Lowest  and  If I Had Legs I’d Kick You , co-chaired the 2025 Met Gala (for which he designed his own look), and meanwhile, became half of pop culture’s coolest power couple, starting a family with his partner, Rihanna . Some wondered if the fashion killa had outgrown rap entirely. His l...

With Heaven On Top Album ∙ Country ∙ 2026 Zach Bryan Oklahoma singer-songwriter Zach Bryan remains something of a cipher four years after his triple-album major-label debut  American Heartbreak : an introspective, headstrong superstar who rejects the trappings of fame while selling out arenas, a Navy cadet turned folk hero who now finds himself atop the pop and country charts despite not really making country music, or pop songs, or “hits.” Bryan’s songs are intense and writerly, inclined towards nostalgia and grief and favoring bare arrangements, live takes, and studio chatter. He embraces contradiction, avoids sloganeering, and is not soon to die on any one particular hill. He also likes to begin his albums with spoken-word poetry, as on 2023’s self-titled album and 2024’s  The Great American Bar Scene . His sixth album,  With Heaven on Top , opens with a spoken-word story where a long talk with the former owner of his new NYC home leads him to a dream where he is stan...

DINASTÍA Album ∙ Música Mexicana ∙ 2025 Peso Pluma  &  Tito Double P “I think it was only a matter of time, right?” Peso Pluma tells Apple Music . “I’d been wanting to do this project ever since he [Tito Double P] was my songwriter. I wanted to show the world what he was capable of, too. He built his own path as a solo artist, and we’re very proud of the direction he’s taken.” By now, there’s no need to retell the full Laija story . Two cousins who, each through their own strengths and skills, reworked the corrido formula and brought it to an increasingly global audience. Under the Doble P banner, they’ve become architects of one of the most visible movements in contemporary música mexicana , defined by a clear aesthetic standard that began with a fruitful vocalist-and-songwriter partnership, later split into separate artistic paths and ultimately reunited at the peak of their careers to celebrate their  DINASTÍA . Hassan /Peso and Roberto /Tito. The younger cousin a...

locket Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2026 Madison Beer Madison Beer decided on the title of her third album before she even wrote the songs. “I wanted it to feel very personal to me and tangible,” the singer-songwriter tells Apple Music’s Travis Mills . “So I wrote down a list of things that felt like they were a part of my life naturally. I really wanted something that was vintage-sounding, something that felt delicate and girly. ‘Locket’ was one of the words that was there from the start.” After heading to the dance floor on previous singles “ 15 MINUTES ,” “make you mine,” and “yes baby” (the latter two of which appear on the album), Beer leans into more acoustic textures and introspective, vocal-highlighting ballads on  locket , where she’s a hopeless romantic drifting through a world of whimsy and melancholy. Written in the wake of a breakup, the album cycles through a wide range of emotions and self-doubt, showing that growth isn’t always linear. Where the opening track “locket theme” shows...