Last year’s Sweetener made a little room for vintage Grande heartbreak jams, but for the most part it was a musically diverse statement of Grande’s confidence. thank u, next – its immediate follow-up – is more unsettled. She...
Having cycled through several reinventions since 2002’s ubiquitous Complicated, Head Above Water might be Avril Lavigne’s most confident statement yet. Heavily influenced by her struggles with Lyme Disease, Head Above...
With Ariana Grande being only the fifth artist in history to have multiple #1 debuts on the Billboard Hot 100, there’s no denying she’s become one of the most impactful musicians in the game. But a prominent theme in Grande’s...
Unlike the Gallipoli familiar to most Australians, Beirut’s Zach Condon is referring here to a tiny town in southern Italy, where he ended up by chance and wrote the title track. “We tell tales to be known,” it opens, joined by...
The Dandy Warhols’ FM friendliness always felt slightly wrong, perverse, almost mocking. In that sense they share a heritage with Weezer, but unlike the latter, who became consumed by the pursuit of stardom, The Dandy Warhols...