Joe Jackson has spent nearly half a century not staying in one place too long. Through highlights (1979's new-wave-meets-bar-band debut, Look Sharp!) and lowlights (the 1997 classical concept LP ...

Over the past decade, several overlapping indie-rock scenes in the U.K. have produced bands that have achieved local popularity thanks to their consistently high-quality music, yet have had only mixed ...

Trent Reznor is still one jukebox musical away from EGOT status, but it’s safe to assume that the prime slot he got in Coachella’s dance-focused Sahara Tent feels better to him than any award. In some ...

Two years ago, Arlo Parks fell in love with the night. The singer’s first two albums—2021’s Collapsed in Sunbeams and 2023’s My Soft Machine—filled up most of the singer-songwriter’s early twenties.

On a daring new album, the singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso examines happiness, love, and memory with a forensic curiosity. Save this story Save this story Wendy Eisenberg used to only write love ...

Tati Salazar wanted to make scary bitch music—music that’s loud and confrontational and holds nothing back, music that helps itself to the blood in your ears with full fists, music that takes all the ...

The SoCal rapper pushes the synthesis of rage rap and alt rock to thunderous new extremes on his latest album, a high-energy tribute to perseverance in the face of adversity. The SoCal rager has seen ...

It was the week of Valentine’s Day when Ella Langley’s undeniable “Choosin’ Texas” crested the Billboard Hot 100, a result of the song’s sturdy, confident earworm, country music’s post-pandemic ...

MIKE and Earl Sweatshirt resent the weight of expectation. After each of their prior records, fans were quick to project their own assumptions onto the pair, but both rappers have been equally fast to ...

Ella Langley's Dandelion is about growth — in all its forms. Perfectly timed for spring, the album has plenty of seasonal imagery about regrowth and new buds blooming. The obvious example is the title ...

Ella Langley was a merely promising young country star this time last year, riding the modest success of Hungover, her solid LP debut. A twangy neo-trad country set branded with a knowing taste for ...

Happy Friday and hope your week has not been too taxing (sorry). This week I review a lot of records I really, really like including: the long-awaited Nine Inch Noize collab and the latest collection ...