Parquet Courts arrives in a renewed state of sound and mind on Sympathy for Life, the Brooklyn-based band’s seventh studio album. Recorded by band members Andr...
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If you put songwriters in a room with a time constraint, can they walk o...
Saint Cloud is the sound of a woman meeting her higher self with the confidence to embrace every iteration of self that came before. This confidence recalls the nostalgia of youth with the forgiving wisdom of age and is planted firmly in a legacy of women who have weathered the seasons, spun their searching into songs, and kept on down the road, in the words of Williams, “pedal to the metal and (their) luck to the test.”...
A Beginner’s Mind feels like coming home. A return to Sufjan Stevens’ best form; whispered confessions over intimate orchestrations. This is a testament to the...
After a four-year hiatus from the spotlight, Lorde released her new album, Solar Power, earlier last month. Renee Whalen speaks to the singer’s return... and w...
This story was originally aired on KPCC’s “Take Two” on February 1, 2021. It is published here with permission.
Last year, amid a pandemic as well politica...
While The Weeknd took to the Super Bowl stage on February 7th, it seemed that both my mind and social media feed were still somewhat fixated on a performance f...
It’s easy to feel like you don’t belong anywhere, especially if your family immigrated to the United States when you were just a small child. Russian American ...
