There are plenty of reasons to be excited about listening to an album for the first time. If it’s an artist you love, your anticipation for the moment you hit play on your Spotify/iTunes/Sony ...

Before iTunes and Amazon gave us the luxury of picking and choosing which tracks we want off an album, we had to buy the entire CD or cassette tape to listen to everything we paid for. The intro ...

I can’t be the only one who feels like album intro tracks are dumb in 2011. I’m no full-album hater — intro tracks were cool once upon a time when you had little choice but to sit through them, and ...

Even though her Queen album has been pushed back to August, Nicki Minaj is giving us a potential taste of the project's process and what she is planning to include on it. Now that her and Eminem have ...

Meek Mill set the bar incredibly high for album intros when he created the song "Dreams and Nightmares." Even for himself. Meek posted a message on Wednesday declaring that the recently-recorded intro ...

Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Brooklyn-based synth trio Nation of ...

I like Slipknot’s new album, .5: The Gray Chapter (read my review here), but the opening track, “XIX,” is probably my least favorite cut on the record. It’s more than just an intro in vein of ...

For the better part of a year, Roddy Ricch has left his fans wondering when the Compton rapper would deliver his sophomore album. His debut Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial was met with rave ...