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There’s often little more than a hair’s breadth of difference separating good Weezer from bad. Take “All The Good…
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Taylor Swift’s second album, Fearless, catapulted her to fame, and firmly established Swift as a flourishing…
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Let’s address the elephant in the review: No matter what album Lana Del Rey would’ve released in 2021, it would…
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With the release of their debut LP, Strange House, in 2007, The Horrors introduced themselves in the midst of the…
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At the beginning of the year, Julien Baker told KEXP’s Cheryl Waters that when she wrote her sophomore album, Turn…
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Early on in the 2020 sort-of documentary Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets, an old man coins a rallying cry for generations…
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Before working on her solo debut, Petals For Armor, Hayley Williams wasn’t convinced she could venture out on her…
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It was supposed to be the year of Van Weezer. After putting out a dozen studio albums (13 if you count the…
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Taylor Swift always commemorates her December birthday by doing something special: having a gigantic party,…
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As the world turns inward, trapped inside in various stages of pandemic quarantine, numerous songwriting luminaries…
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In a recent radio interview, pop superstar Ariana Grande discussed the thought process she went through before…
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Loss is on Bruce Springsteen’s mind. How could it not be—it’s on all of our minds these days, inescapably present…
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Sufjan Stevens wants to love America. His early odes to Illinois and Michigan are as meticulously researched as they…
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Who is Katy Perry? The answer was supposedly revealed back in 2017, when the singer released Witness, her fourth…
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Long gone is the Conor Oberst capable of turning whiskey-scented words of longing into grand, fiery statements, ones…
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If we are to commit only one detail about Beyoncé to our collective memory forever, it should be this: She never…
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Eavesdrop on any Twitter thread between creatives during the last few months, and you’ll inevitably find…
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Like many people, I’ve been spending a lot of time alone lately. Time alone leads to time for reflection, and that…
May 28
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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta put a lot of time and effort into creating the Lady Gaga persona launched in…
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Nobody would ever accuse The 1975 of cutting corners or resting on its laurels. The British band spent time in a…