Between the various remixes and iconic Club Future Nostalgia (shout out to legendary DJ The Blessed Madonna!), Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia era is nothing if not surprising. And there are…
Sean Durkin’s The Nest is a punishing family drama that bristles with the disquiet and tension of a thriller. The director takes us inside a crumbling marriage, making the viewer…
Little Mix rolls out “Sweet Melody” as the third single from their upcoming Confetti album (due November 6) and it rivals “Break Up Song” as the project’s best song. Co-written…
Releasing one great EP is a significant achievement, delivering two in the same year makes Winona Oak something of a superwoman. The Swedish artist began 2020 with the pure-pop of…
Wallows hasn’t put a (collective) foot wrong since debuting with 2018’s Spring EP. That calling card was followed by an equally great, but sonically very different, album called Nothing Happens,…
The growth from Carlie Hanson’s 2019 debut EP, Junk, to the just-released DestroyDestroyDestroyDestroy is staggering. In just over a year, the 20-year-old has overhauled her sound (gritty pop/rock is her…
One of the many gems on Toni Braxton’s exceptional 10th album, Spell My Name, is “Gotta Move On” — a soulful collaboration with H.E.R.. “I kinda thought, it feels important,…
Of the huge outpouring of seasonal offerings to arrive in the last few years, Gwen Stefani’s You Make It Feel Like Christmas is one of my favorites. She now adds…
CLOVES has undergone something of a transformation since releasing One Big Nothing in 2018. For starters, the stripped-back, folk-adjacent sound of her astonishing debut has been replaced with glitchy, nightmarish…
Another week, another club banger from Ally Brooke! The 27-year-old, who released her memoir Finding Your Harmony earlier this month, rocked last week’s New Music Friday with the Afrojack-assisted “What…