Pop Spotlight

When Pink Floyd first premiered what would become the most successful rock album of all time, it was quite literally too big for the system to handle. A half-hour into the band’s concert in Brighton […]

Homeboy Sandman raps like no one is listening. After more than 15 years in the industry, the dependable Queens emcee has arrived at a songwriting practice that sounds more like journaling than performing for an […]

On her new EP Infinity Club, Toronto producer Bambii bends time and space to her will. “Sydanie’s Interlude” opens as a nocturnal palate cleanser, the kind of after-dark R&B track that signals it’s almost closing […]

In the past decade, electronic artists have been fascinated with deconstructing the myth of the diva, reconfiguring its mold into strange, uncontainable new forms. Arca pulled apart the archetype’s entrails to find the machinery buzzing […]

For Prestige, their third album, London indie trio Girl Ray dabble in the art of the concept album. The idea emerged as singer-guitarist Poppy Hankin, bassist Sophie Moss, and drummer Iris McConnell were crammed in […]

Even before Gordon Lightfoot performed at London’s Royal Albert Hall on May 21, 2016, the legendary songwriter admitted to feeling like he was singing “on borrowed time.” Mortality loomed over much of his work throughout […]

Bethany Cosentino chose the name Best Coast in her early 20s, freshly appreciative of the California sun after a brief, wintery stint in New York. Her first album with bandmate Bobb Bruno introduced her as […]

On Georgia Barnes’ self-produced breakthrough, 2020’s Seeking Thrills, the UK singer and producer embraced a ramshackle approach to synthpop and house music. The album washed her voice in effects and scaffolded hooks in clattering, unpredictable […]

Gaadge’s cavernous sound and charismatic live performances in basements and bars have made them legends for a generation of Pittsburgh college students, and they’ve already served as mentors to another local breakout, feeble little horse. […]

Like the heroine of a big-budget romantic comedy, Carly Rae Jepsen presents as an eminently likable everywoman, a casually self-deprecating dreamer whose composure is no match for a sudden explosion of emotional fireworks. What elevates […]

In the early stages of writing Eyeroll, Berlin-based DJ and producer Ziúr started calling it her “jazz album.” “I mean it’s not really,” she admitted in one interview, “but I guess it’s my kind of […]

Neo Gibson invented a world and proceeded to flood it. In their antediluvian phase—around 2015, when they swapped the early alias Neo Petal for 7038634357, their phone number—they infused techno and hardstyle with the breaking-glass […]