Music Features

For Swedish musician Jens Lekman, recrafting old albums was a lesson in self-love

10:44am July 25, 2022

by Alex Cheng

Two of Jens Lekman's early albums were taken off streaming services due to sample clearance issues. During the pandemic, the singer recrafted and revisited his old work.

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"We're not friends like we go out and talk about the weather," Emily Sprague says about her bandmates in Florist. "We're friends like we are a part of each other's souls."

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Florist is here to make friends

11:28am July 20, 2022

by Mia Hughes

The deep connection among Florist's four members has always been central to the band's music. After some time apart, the musicians reconnected to make Florist's most open-hearted, ambitious album yet.

Sophie Allison's third album as Soccer Mommy, Sometimes, Forever, is a study in contrasts: focused, intimate writing paired with wild production that whips her songs into squalls of distortion and delay.

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Inside Soccer Mommy's widescreen world

2:57pm July 18, 2022

by Jewly Hight

Private, isolating thoughts have always been central in Sophie Allison's songs, but Sometimes, Forever breaks new ground, using the studio to blow those feelings up to arresting scale.

Music moment: Ne-Yo

5:22pm July 16, 2022

Music writer Keithan Samuels discusses singer-songwriter Ne-Yo's latest album, Self Explanatory.

Singer-songwriter Manizha, photographed at Eurovision in Rotterdam on May 16, 2021. She faced a cyberbullying campaign in Russia after voicing opposition to the country's military operation in Ukraine.

A new reality reverberates through Russia's music scene

6:32pm July 11, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

Canceled concerts, lawsuits, existential turmoil. As Russia has cracked down on anti-war speech, the country's music scene reaches a particularly high pitch.

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Lou Reed, photographed at the opening of his photography exhibit at the Gallery at Hermes on Jan. 19, 2006 in New York.

The New York Public Library honors Lou Reed with a new exhibition

11:53am July 11, 2022

by John Schaefer

A new exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts offers a rare glimpse into the archives of the late songwriter Lou Reed.

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The physicality of music — how it impacts the body and the way space can alter its effect — has been central to Caterina Barbieri's work.

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Caterina Barbieri's rapturous electronica was forged in deep solitude

11:28am July 09, 2022

by Lewis Gordon

The Italian composer Caterina Barbieri's euphoric new album Spirit Exit was made in pandemic isolation but longs for "the outside world," in all of its imperfections and wonder.

On Laura Veirs' 12th studio album, Found Light, her command never falters.

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On 'Found Light,' Laura Veirs documents newfound freedom with attentive awe

9:00am July 08, 2022

by Laura Snapes

Written after her divorce from her longtime producer, Veirs' new album vibrates with a sense of potential, balancing the weight of experience with the rewards of staying attuned to wonder.

Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan performs during its 2010 revival in Camden, New Jersey.

25 years on, Lilith Fair is a reminder of how one woman's radical idea changed music

10:11am July 05, 2022

by Lisa Weiner

Lilith Fair brought an eclectic array of women's music to millions of fans and was the top grossing music festival of the 1990s.

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Mike Stoller, 89, the songwriter and producer who, with his producing partner, wrote many of Elvis's biggest songs, poses for a portrait at his home in Los Angeles, CA.

Elvis songwriter Mike Stoller looks back on his hits

5:11pm July 03, 2022

by Tim Greiving

Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber wrote hit songs for Elvis, along with a whos-who of other artists including Big Mama Thornton, Ben E. King, and more.