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‘Deadline’ by Blackpink (The Black Label) For those who love the K-pop girl group: Has a more thrilling phrase than “Blackpink in your area!” ever
“The Romantic” by Bruno Mars (Atlantic Records) Bruno Mars is back — did you miss him? The 16-time Grammy Award-winning Mars is an undisputable
“Deadline” by Blackpink (The Orchard) For those who love the K-pop girl group: Has a more thrilling phrase than “Blackpink in your area!” ever been
“Luck… or something” by Hilary Duff (Atlantic) Hilary Duff is a pop star once more – if a pop star ever truly stops being one.
“I Used to Go to This Bar” by Joyce Manor (Epitaph Records) In his seminal 1981 book “Simulacra and Simulation,” cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard argued
Self-titled album by Megadeth Tradecraft/BLKIIBLK) A fter more than 40 guitar-shredding years, Megadeth is going out on their own thunderous terms. The Grammy-winning thrash metal
‘Snocaps’ by Snocaps (ANTI- Records) For the recently converted Waxahatchee fan, Alabama-raised singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield does not drum up the image of distorted riffs, scrappy
“Everybody Scream” by Florence + The Machine” (Republic Records/Polydor Records) During his acceptance speech for best actor at this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, Timothée Chalamet
“LUX” by Rosalía (Columbia Records) Before Rosalía became a global pop phenomenon, she was Rosalía Vila Tobella — a flamenco student at Catalonia’s elite College of
“Returning to Myself” by Brandi Carlile (Interscope Records) It’s been 20 years since Brandi Carlile released her self-titled debut album. After two decades of extensive collaborations
Olivia Dean performs at the Austin City Limits Music Festival last Saturday Olivia Dean, the rising British soul pop singer-songwriter, has returned with a confident sophomore
“After the Sun Goes Down” by Khalid (RCA Records) If you want to know how far Khalid has traveled in a year, just look at his album
“Getting Killed” by Geese (Partisan) There’s a bomb in my car!” Geese frontman Cameron Winter warns through blood-curdling screams on “Trinidad,” the opening track of the band’s
“Girl Violence” by King Princess (section1) It’s impossible to hear King Princess groan “I’m a loser” on their ambitious third album and not think of Beck singing
“Man’s Best Friend” by Sabrina Carpenter (Island Records) If Sabrina Carpenter’s “Short n’ Sweet” celebrated the start of a romantic relationship, the pop sensation’s seventh studio album,
Big Money” by Jon Batiste (Verve) On “Big Money,” Super Bowl-sized singer Jon Batiste opts for a surprisingly intimate sound. The just over 32-minute, nine-song set
A few songs into the second studio album from buzzy English post-punks Wet Leg, singer Rhian Teasdale yells “level up!” And level up they have. The alt-rock duo-turned-group
HAIM has declared this season to be “single-girl summer” and offered us the soundtrack. Heartsick never sounded so good. “I Quit,” the fourth full-length album from the
Nashville hitmaker Dierks Bentley has delivered “Broken Branches,” his eleventh studio album that leans into some well-tread country rock territory, the kind that invariably involves broken
Cautious Clay, the multi-instrumentalist whose dreamy R&B and indie-pop sound has earned him the attention of everyone from Arooj Aftab and John Mayer to Taylor Swift, embraces the passing
For those unfamiliar with Toronto-based punk rock band PUP, the name is an acronym for “pathetic use of potential,” lead singer Stefan Babcock has said. That should
It started with a movie. Country star Brandi Carlile, so moved after watching a rough cut of the 2024 music documentary “Elton John: Never Too Late,” began
Most artists would make the first song on their new album something welcoming, trendy or pleasing, at least to make the Spotify algorithm happy. Not Jessie Reyez.
She hath returned: A new Lady Gaga, like the old Lady Gaga, but a different Lady Gaga. “Mayhem,” released Friday, is a satisfying full-length project of
Lisa, one-fourth of the K-pop juggernaut Blackpink, has officially stepped out on her own — releasing her first solo album “Alter Ego.” Across rap, dance and pop,
She can sing. She can dance. She’s mastered a sultry gaze. She can write a smutty phrase. Is Tate McRae the new princess of dirty, breathy pop?
If you think your Spotify playlist is getting a little too long, consider the one shared by the members of Khruangbin. It’s got 51 hours of
Lauren Mayberry, frontwoman of the Scottish synth-pop band CHVRCHES, liberates herself from preconceptions on a punchy debut solo album, “Vicious Creature.” Mayberry’s striking voice has
Rosé, the nightingale of the massively popular Korean girl group Blackpink, has flown the nest and launched her first solo album “Rosie.” She’s the first of the
When the Pixies set out to make their 1988 debut studio album, they enlisted Steve Albini to engineer “Surfer Rosa,” the seminal alternative record which includes
The lessons of Socrates have never really gone out of style, but if there’s ever a perfect time to revisit the ancient philosopher, now is it.
You might think that after being silent for 16 years, The Cure would be in a rush to get things going. Think again. It takes over three
Blitz Vega, the band helmed by The Smiths’ bassist Andy Rourke and Kav Sandhu of Happy Mondays, formed in 2016 and ended when Rourke died from pancreatic
The Sudanese-American actor/artist Dua Saleh, best known for their work as Cal Bowman on Netflix’s “Sex Education,” mesmerizes within the first few seconds of their experimental
For Michael Bublé aficionados, “The Best of Bublé” is a gift — a celebration of the Canadian singer’s best work, with a couple previously unreleased songs
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