“Dance Fever,” the latest album from UK indie giants Florence and the Machine, drew its titular inspiration from the phenomenon of choreomania, a mysterious “dancing plague” that took over Europe in…
On her debut album, 2012’s “Dejenme Llorar,” Mexican singer-songwriter Carla Morrison explored love and loss in Mexican pop-folk tunes, derived largely from regional traditions. Her lyricism and flair rapidly struck an international…
With more Academy of Country Music awards to her name than any artist in history, Miranda Lambert steadily continues to rack up superlatives, most recently with the 2022 distinction of Entertainer of…
For his latest album, “It’s Almost Dry,” Pusha T has split production duties between two of the most distinctive auteurs in hip-hop today. Pusha’s fellow Virginia Beach native, Pharrell WIlliams, who…
In “Goin On a Plane Today,” the opening number of his ninth album, “(Watch My Moves),” Kurt Vile sings,”My mind gone foggy, my memory’s unclear… Watch me shrinking back into a…
Rapper Vince Staples concluded the self-titled album that he released less than a year ago with a retrospective glance. The final track, “Mhm,” found him recalling, “‘Fore Corona, I was at Ramona…
Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, who comprise UK indie rock duo Wet Leg, have expressed a somewhat bewildered amusement at the unanticipated success of their hit single “Chaise Longue.” It’s a natural…
Camila Cabello is an artist who seems to live out her songs in real life. The subject of her 2017 breakthrough hit, “Havana,” was named after the city in Cuba where she…
Sydney Bennett, known mononymously as Syd, emerged in L.A.’s Odd Future collective as Syd tha Kyd, and found further fame as the frontwoman of visionary R&B band the Internet. Her distinctive airy…
If we were living in “the next 20th century,” we would currently be in our roaring ‘20s, and singer-songwriter Joshua Tillman accordingly begins his latest album, “Chloë and the Next 20th Century,”…
Jack White produces content with such a prolificacy that it can seem like he is trying to single-handedly fill the gap left by rock ‘n’ roll’s general retreat from prominence in popular…
When Red Hot Chili Peppers emerged in 1984 as scantily-clad funk rock upstarts, they brought an energy that would invariably translate to some degree of stardom. It was only upon the recruitment…