Last year, Taylor Swift rerecorded two of her early albums, 2008’s “Fearless” and 2012’s “Red,” as part of her plan to regain control of her master recordings. The faithful rework of “Red”…
David Bowie was always more than a mere rockstar, he was a cultural icon. Just as appropriate is to term him a renaissance man. His curiosity was boundless and his creativity wasn’t…
Megan The Stallion begins her new album guns blazing, declaring, “I ain’t perfect, but anything I did to any of you niggas, y’all deserved it.” From the onset of opener “NDA,” her…
Beyoncé has long subverted standards, marching comfortably to the beat of her own drum. Indeed, the spectacular drumlines at her historic 2018 Coachella performance, commemorated in the Netflix film, “Homecoming: A Film…
Few singer-songwriters in recent years have enjoyed a success story quite like Maggie Rogers. While Rogers was pursuing a degree at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, a 2016 master class…
Lizzo storms into her fourth album, “Special,” wearing a wide grin, greeting her audience with, “Hi motherfucker, did you miss me?” She promptly updates us, “I’ve been home since 2020 /…
Director Amanda Micheli’s Netflix documentary “Halftime” is an overdue celebration of Jennifer Lopez. Rather than follow a traditional biographical format or merely peer behind the scenes of Lopez’s titular 2020…
For his third solo album, “Harry’s House,” Harry Styles took inspiration from Japanese pop pioneer Haruomi Hosono, who released a record in 1973 titled “Hosono House.” While Styles staked out a…