Music Reviews

Gioli and Assia are making sure the world knows women have a place in dance music. No longer do we live in a world in which the music industry is a boys-only club. In fact, there doesn’t have to be a man involved at all. Both Gioli & Assia kickstarted their careers uploading videos to […]

Bread & Butter, the new single by Alex Kinsey and iLana Armida, is all about good vibes. The beat is lighthearted and whimsical, the lyrics sexy and nostalgic. It gives the feel that two people had a ton of fun making this track…and they did. When I sat down for an interview with Alex and […]

And We’ll Be Late Night Watching All Summer Long

“As It Was” is a sad-disco dance track that encapsulates this moment of manic nostalgia and hyper-longing

Lorde’s decision to move away from her moody, neon-drenched sounds of old and into a more buoyant, sunny frame of mind has proven divisive. Her album Solar Power has received mixed reviews, with some fans missing the gnarly emotional impact of her previous masterpiece, Melodrama. But there’s a subtle kind of magic on Solar Power, […]

Willow’s latest album, lately i feel EVERYTHING, is an absolutely stunning entry into the pop punk canon and a vivid glimpse into the future of rock and roll. Anyone who’s been following Willow’s career shouldn’t be surprised by this. Willow has always been a futuristic artist, one step ahead of everyone else in terms of […]

“I wish I could tell myself / don’t do it for anyone else,” sings Nandi Rose Plunkett on “Party’s Over,” one of the many bittersweet tracks on her latest release, Mythopoetics. As Half Waif, Plunkett has been crafting strangely beautiful, buoyant, and sad music for years. With a knack for nimble electronic beats and thought-provoking […]

Most of us are guided, consciously or unconsciously, by our pasts. Confronting those patterns that we learned as kids takes a lot of bravery, and many people spend their whole lives running from those memories. But on Home Video, her latest and most ambitious album, Lucy Dacus takes a deep, fearless dive straight into the […]

We’re Calling It: “Summer in the Hamptons” by Brooke Alexx Is the Song of the Summer