When is a disco album not a disco album? When it’s made at the helm of a master of precision and true eccentric like…

Kelly Lee Owens was on lockdown well before the rest of the Western world. Before quarantines began in Europe and…

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Looking out at the rest of the year, at the beginning of 2020, early spring was full of exciting releases. Lady…

To pretty much no one’s surprise, Taylor Swift’s Lover debuted this week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart,…

Taylor Swift’s album Lover only just dropped on Friday, but it’s already overtaken the A Star Is Born soundtrack as…

On Sunday, I woke up with two alternating songs stuck in my head: “Happy Not Knowing” and “The Sound.” Both come…

Welcome to Albums I Loved That Are Actually Bad, a maybe one-time column about albums we loved at certain points in…

Friends, I must dispatch some unfortunate news. I cannot say the words myself so I will just quote James Corden…

Sam Smith’s sophomore album is so damp with sadness that in the rare event something as traditionally joyful as a…

You should never fully trust someone who’s trying to sell you something, but looking back at the press for Mariah…

No, it wasn’t Mary J. Blige or the incomparable Lea Michele. It’s Halsey—an artist familiar to many as the featured…

In a publicity stunt that seems inspired both by documentary and by Shiba Inu puppy cams, Katy Perry is…

If Good Girl Gone Bad is unanimously recognized as the beginning of Rihanna’s transformation from media-trained…

Six whole years ago, Adele released her second album, 21, and we’ve never stopped hearing about it since then. As of…

I’ve been sitting here for the past few hours waiting for something—anything—to be released by Katy Perry. The most…

For uncertain business-related reasons, Aaliyah’s catalog has been absent from streaming services in the years since…

For reasons largely unknown but guessable, Tinashe has yet to release her second album Joyride, the follow-up to her…

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