Pop Spotlight

It’s shaping up to be a huge year for live metal. The amount of stacked festivals and unmissable tours is growing by the week. Baltimore’s venerable Maryland Deathfest may be taking a year off — […]

Ona Tzar is 33 and lives between London and Berlin, a pretty cool pair of places to be young and creative. She describes herself as a polyglot of artistic vessels — performer, producer, singer, “visual […]

Leah Chisholm is so excited to go grocery shopping, she’s literally screaming. “I’m so fucking good, it’s scary,” the Oregon-raised, Austin-based 27-year-old better known as LP Giobbi says over the phone. “I get to be […]

After five years of radio silence, Paramore returns more popular than ever before — and they’ve forged an album to match their now-supersized status, refurbishing fear and fury for arena stages. This Is Why, the […]

Liv.e raises an implicating eyebrow and violently whirls her phone camera, blurring the white walls of her Los Angeles apartment into an eye-fucking mescaline smear. Some degree of po-mo motion sickness is almost unavoidable when […]

The Tallest Man on Earth‘s Kristian Matsson gets an assist from friends in Sylvan Esso and Bon Iver on Henry St., his first album in four years and first to be recorded with a band. […]

Electronic artist and producer Venessa Michaels describes her style and genre as “2090” – a fitting reference for her otherwordly fusion of club music, hip hop and pop. Her new album, Sent from Saturn, soars […]

If JW Francis’s third album, Dream House, sounds like it could be about your life, that’s because it really could be. Every Valentine’s Day, the up-and-coming indie-popper invites his fans to share stories about their […]

Chicago rapper Vic Mensa gets an assist from Thundercat on his new single, “Strawberry Louis Vuitton,” which he says was inspired by late fashion icon Virgil Abloh. R&B artist Maeta is also featured on the […]

Blue Chips is a monthly rap column that highlights exceptional rising rappers. To read previous columns, click here. Artistic excellence isn’t quantifiable like rushing yards or three-point shooting percentages. Taste is subjective and variable. But […]

When we caught up with Blondshell in August, the group released its third single ahead of a North American tour. Now, four months later, the Sabrina Teitelbaum-led project is set to unleash its self-titled debut […]

It’s a slow month for noteworthy new metal, so we’re going to try something different this month. First up: a quick rundown of tracks from January’s handful of standout heavy releases. Then, we’ll take a […]