Singer-songwriter Yuna immediately commands attention with her distinctive voice. The Malaysian-born artist fills her songs with recognizable pop and R&B signifiers, yet manages to sound quite unlike anyone…
The archetypal artist broods by candlelight, suffers violent paroxysms, and channels a lifetime of pain and anguish into tunes ready for consumption. It’s his or her duty to rail against the complacency of…
Ed Sheeran seems to have no limits in his quest to systematically dominate the world of popular music as we know it. A rare example of what you might call…
After a two-year hiatus of plenty soul-searching and personal growth, Los Angeles singer-songwriter Jillian Banks, simply known as Banks, has returned with a thrilling new album, “…
It has been just short of a year since Dev Hynes, better known as Blood Orange, released his ambitiously eclectic, socially incisive fourth album “Black Swan.” For restlessly…
Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish may only be 17 years old, but she’s already one of the hottest performers out there. Just days after she released her debut LP “When…
Jaden Smith made his major label debut with 2017’s “SYRE,” titled with his own middle name. The album was a melodramatic outpouring taking inspiration from the myth of Icarus, who…
Over the last week, cryptic signs have started to appear throughout London. It began with ads in trains for “Anima Technologies,” followed by a social media post about a “dream camera” that captures subconscious thoughts,…
It’s not all that common for a producer behind-the-scenes of hit singles to get publicly acknowledged, save celebrated. Popular music is a world of flash and bombast, in which the loudest voices…
Lil Nas X is emblematic of a new synergy in popular music that would have been practically unthinkable a mere decade earlier. Silicon Valley techies will tell you that technology…