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Recent:
  • Unknown
Past:
  • billboard
  • GQ
  • Entertainment Weekly
  • People
  • Outside Magazine

Past articles by Eric:

Jack Harlow’s No. 8 Debut for ‘Jackman’ Album: A Disappointment, Or Just a Different Type of Success?

This week’s Five Burning Questions looks at the factors behind the arguably underwhelming debut performance of Jack Harlow’s semi-surprise new album. → Read More

GQ

Kurt Vile Can’t Be Contained

With his new album 'Bottle It In,' the Philly indie-rock lifer expanded his horizons to make the most sweeping music of his career. → Read More

St. Vincent's 'MassEducation' is an ambitious reimagining of 'Masseduction'

Whether crafting baroque art-rock or flashy electro-pop, stripped-down performances have always been an integral, if overlooked, element of Annie Clark's… → Read More

Why everyone loved Mac Miller

In a world that too often seems starved for decency and kindness, Miller offered both in spades. → Read More

Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Summer Album 2018 Series: Every Song Ranked

Billboard ranks every song from a slew of albums by Pusha-T, Kanye West, Nas, Teyana Taylor, and Kids See Ghosts, West's collaboration with Kid Cudi. → Read More

Beyonce Rapping on 'Everything Is Love': 5 Standout Moments

On 'Everything Is Love,' her surprise collaborative album with JAY-Z, she continues to hone one of her secret weapons: rapping. It may never be her marquee trait, but she's slyly great at it — and can put her contemporaries on notice on a dime. → Read More

Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda grapples with Chester Bennington’s death on Post Traumatic

The alt-rocker details his new solo album, advice from Rick Rubin, and Linkin Park’s future → Read More

Kanye West's 'Ye' Review: Why the Album Is a Missed Opportunity for Redemption

In the wake of some of the messiest months of his public life — aligning with President Trump, sharing divisive political missives online — West the Musician has failed where he previously has not. 'Ye' doesn't remedy West's recent statements, nor does it offset his tabloid exploits with a new musical narrative. → Read More

Kanye West and Kid Cudi's Kids See Ghost Album: What It Means to Hip-Hop

Kanye West's collaborative LP with Kid Cudi represents a potential creative breakthrough: For a decade, West and Cudi have played seminal roles in each other’s careers, elevating one another’s crafts, often in the face of personal and professional adversity. As they prepare to release their self-titled debut as Kids See Ghost on June 8, both men desperately need a win. → Read More

Spinal Tap bassist Derek Smalls discusses solo debut 'Smalls Change'

Derek Smalls is stepping out on his own — literally. "It's a bit of a lurch, shall we say, to… → Read More

Prince: Looking back at 25 essential tracks

Looking back at the Purple One's 25 essential tracks. → Read More

Prince: Looking back at 25 essential tracks

Looking back at the Purple One's 25 essential tracks. → Read More

Spinal Tap's Derek Smalls shares the legendary band's untold stories

As the Tap bass extraordinaire prepares to release his latest solo album, 'Smalls Change,' he (and his alter ego, Harry Shearer) takes EW inside his history with the beloved band. → Read More

Nas breaks down his episode of Netflix's hip-hop docuseries Rapture

With episodes devoted to 2 Chainz, Logic, T.I., and more, Netflix's new hip-hop documentary series Rapture follows multiple major rappers across… → Read More

Go inside Jimi Hendrix's 'Both Sides of the Sky' with Eddie Kramer and Janie Hendrix

Longtime engineer Eddie Kramer and Hendrix’s sister Janie walk EW through the highlights. → Read More

Breaking Big: Beyoncé protégés Chloe x Halle transcend YouTube fame on debut 'The Kids Are Alright'

Beyoncé watches YouTube just like the rest of us. In December 2013, a week after she released her self-titled masterpiece,… → Read More

Bruce Springsteen extends Broadway show through December

Bruce Springsteen announced a final extension of his Broadway show, Springsteen on Broadway, on Wednesday — but it's a massive one.… → Read More

The Weeknd, Bruno Mars, Jack White top Lollapalooza 2018 bill

See the complete lineup here. → Read More

Bottoms Up! Justin Timberlake Handed His Crowd Shots to Celebrate Tour Launch

"Sorry we had to do this — this is our first night," Timberlake told the audience as he served up the booze → Read More

Common on his jazz-rap group August Greene's 'inspiring' debut

Since debuting a quarter-century ago with 1992's Can I Borrow a Dollar?, Chicago rapper Common has blazed a singular trail with… → Read More