With her debut album, 2017’s “Ctrl,” SZA established herself as a singer-songwriter quite like no other. While her early EPs had teased refreshing variations on contemporary R&B designs, her first full-length release…
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”…
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…
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…
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…
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 /…
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…
In July 2005, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood premiered a piece titled “Weird Fishes / Arpeggi” at the Ether Festival with the London Sinfonietta Orchestra and the Arab Orchestra of Nazareth. Greenwood,…