Miles Caton as aspiring bluesman Sammie Moore in a pivotal scene fromSinners. Warner Bros. Pictureshide caption

Jane Remover's "Dancing With Your Eyes Closed" is one of the songs we can't stop playing this week. Brendon Burtonhide caption

Jane Remover, a 21-year-old musician whose youthful interest in online gaming transformed into a music career, is a central figure of digicore, an emerging offshoot of the hyperpop culture that took off in the 2010s. Brendon Burtonhide caption

PlaqueBoyMax attends ComplexCon in Las Vegas in November 2024. Already an online celebrity for his livestreams, he released his debut EP,LONDON, on March 20. Sara Jaye/Getty Images for Complexhide caption

Over just a few months, the four members of the K-pop group BLACKPINK (left to right: Jisoo, Jennie, Lisa and Rosé) have all debuted new releases as solo artists. Photos by Jisoo/Mok Jung Wook/Wontae Go/Kenneth Cappellohide caption

Playboi Carti onstage in February, performing with The Weeknd during the 67th Grammy Awards. The rapper's long-delayed third studio album is titled, simply,MUSIC. Amy Sussman/Getty Imageshide caption

Haim have a yet-to-be-announced album coming this spring. Lea Garn/Columbiahide caption

SZA performs at the Glastonbury Festival in June 2024, teasing the insect imagery that would appear some months later onLANA, a supersized reissue of her landmark albumSOS. Joseph Okpako/WireImage/Getty Imageshide caption

"Skullcrusher," from the artist yeule, is on our shortlist of the tracks we can't stop listening to this week. Vasso Vuhide caption

Westside Gunn belongs to a lineage of hustler rappers for whom street credibility often coexists with artful exaggeration. He released his latest album,12, on Valentine's Day.
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$ome $exy $ongs 4 U, Drake's collaborative album with his OVO Sound signee PARTYNEXTDOOR, returns to the murky R&B sound that defined his breakout years. NORMAN WONG/Norman Wonghide caption

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's "Into Your Eyes" is one of the songs we can't stop playing this week. Tim Saccenti/Courtesy of the artisthide caption

Hurry Up Tomorrow is Abel Tesfaye's sixth studio album as The Weekend — and, he's declared, his last under that identity. Holly McCandless Desmondhide caption

Perfume Genius'Glory, due out March 28, is one of the albums we're most excited about for 2025. Cody Critcheloe/Courtesy of the artisthide caption

Rosé, a member of the Korean girl group BLACKPINK, made her full-length solo debut this fall withrosie, an English-language album led by the Bruno Mars collab "APT." John V. Esparza/Courtesy of the artisthide caption

Nala Sinephro'sEndlessness — produced, arranged and engineered by the English harpist — arrived in 2024 lacking any narrative baggage, forcing listeners to uncover its secrets on their own. Tofjan/Courtesy of the artisthide caption

Kendrick Lamar, performing in Los Angeles in June, was among the most important and inescapable voices in any genre of music in 2024. Timothy Norris/Getty Imageshide caption

Kendrick Lamar surprise-released the new albumGNX on Nov. 22, capping off a year of wins. pgLang/Courtesy of the artisthide caption

Rapper and producer MF DOOM circa 2004, the year he released both the game-changing collabMadvillainy and the sleeper classicMM..FOOD. Courtesy of Rhymesayers Entertainmenthide caption

Tyler, the Creator's seventh album,CHROMAKOPIA, finds the artist deeply reconsidering his own definitions of maturity. Khalif Sawyerhide caption

Ka performs during the 2014 Pitchfork Music Festival at Chicago's Union Park on July 19, 2014. Barry Brecheisen/WireImage/Getty Imageshide caption

Sam Phillips' 20th anniversary edition ofA Boot And A Shoe includes "I Wanted To Be Alone," one of the tracks we can't stop playing this week. Rocky Schenck/Courtesy of the artisthide caption

Joy Oladokun'sObservations From a Crowded Room is among the best albums out Oct. 11. Rachel Deeb/Courtesy of the artisthide caption