As the world turns inward, trapped inside in various stages of pandemic quarantine, numerous songwriting luminaries…

In a recent radio interview, pop superstar Ariana Grande discussed the thought process she went through before…

Loss is on Bruce Springsteen’s mind. How could it not be—it’s on all of our minds these days, inescapably present…

Sufjan Stevens wants to love America. His early odes to Illinois and Michigan are as meticulously researched as they…

Long gone is the Conor Oberst capable of turning whiskey-scented words of longing into grand, fiery statements, ones…

If we are to commit only one detail about Beyoncé to our collective memory forever, it should be this: She never…

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta put a lot of time and effort into creating the Lady Gaga persona launched in…

Nobody would ever accuse The 1975 of cutting corners or resting on its laurels. The British band spent time in a…

Moses Sumney is nothing if not ambitious. After two modest EPs of bare-bones home recordings, he delivered a debut…

There’s a breathtaking dichotomy between the brazen, wailing frontwoman of pop-punk outfit Paramore and the…

During the season-two finale of British drama The Fall, Gillian Anderson’s sex-crimes investigator realizes a victim…

Provocation has always been a sharp tool in Morrissey’s arsenal. In his earliest days with The Smiths, the singer…

In 2010, the notion of a small-time, Beatles-esque psychedelic project growing into a global festival headliner may…

Kesha’s 2017 album, Rainbow, was deservedly seen as an empowerment victory lap. Released in the midst of her…

There’s a long tradition of artists heading for the promised land of California seeking musical fortunes. Don Henley…

Beck—or at least the Beck as represented on his records—has been in a real funk for a while, and not the fun,…

Coldplay has a reputation for a sort of vanilla earnestness that isn’t entirely undeserved: The albums that made the…

There’s a thundering blast of sound that opens Our Pathetic Age, like someone was testing out a town’s tornado…

In 1975, three years before Brian Eno introduced the word “ambient” to the world, Portland-based musician Ernest…

Just around the time Nick Cave began to abandon the narrative, the narrative came for him. As he wrote 2013’s Push…