Beauty
I Went to a Summer Music Festival Solo—Here’s What I Learned
I rushed through dinner, however, to make it to Gracie Abrams’s set on time. When she remarked, “This is a pretty big birthday party,” at…
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Beauty
‘Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery’ Introduces the Iconic Festival to a New Generation
1997 was a great year for music. It was also a great year for women in music—and, not unrelatedly, the year that Lilith Fair, the…
Lifestyle
Music as a Lifeline: An Interview with Michael Lisenby - Social Lifestyle Magazine
Imagine retiring after more than 15 years as a police officer and SWAT team member following a life-altering incident. Then, imagine…
Beauty
King Princess on Their New Album, Talking Queer Theory With Christine Baranski, and the Joys of Drag
Oh, he is such a good man. It’s really cool for me, as a newcomer in the acting world, to be around people like Hugh Jackman, where you’re…
Style
Brittany Howard and Alabama Shakes Return with Audacious New Music
The first thing Julio Torres says in “Color Theories” is to deny that he’s made an “Off Broadway play.” (His ponytail, curling overhead…
Style
The Muted, Melancholy Synesthetics of “The History of Sound”
In “The History of Sound,” a new romantic drama set during and after the First World War, passion is an intensely private thing, and in…
Beauty
‘It’s a Different Kind of Feeling’: Sombr Makes His Entrance
A few days before Shane Michael Boose—the 20-year-old musician known as Sombr—stole the show at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards,…
Beauty
Supersonic Still: Why Gen Z Loves Oasis
When, last year, Oasis announced a reunion tour after 15 years apart, the internet promptly combusted. But it wasn’t just Gen X’ers and…
Style
The Lush Pain Music of Nourished by Time
Marcus Brown’s voice is a crooner’s voice, a baritone, emanating notes from some spot in his body deeper than his chest. Biologically…
Beauty
CMAT, Ireland’s Princess of Country-Pop, Is Ready to Take on America
It’s every artist’s dream to make it big and to have their work mean something to people. However, one byproduct of success, Irish singer…
Beauty
I Am—Once Again—Having a Shania Twain Summer
Today Twain turned 60, and while that makes chronological sense, it doesn’t track for me emotionally: When I’m listening to her music…
Style
How to Survive Your Song Going Viral on TikTok
If you’ve heard the 2019 hit song “Tek It,” by the New York City-based band Cafuné, there’s a good chance it’s not the version that the…
World
How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge
When I was growing up, a critic was a jerk, a crank, a spoilsport. I figured that was the whole idea. My favorite characters on “The…
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Beauty
Adéla Was Born to Be a Pop Star
“I mean, I’m a funny person,” Adéla says over Zoom from her home in Los Angeles, with a sheepish grin. “Humor is how I deal with shitty…
Beauty
Ciara Is Living in the Moment
Yeah, and my fans also call me CiCi. Sometimes, when I’m on the stage, they say, “Go CiCi, Go CiCi, Go CiCi!” and whenever they chant that…
Beauty
How Clairo, Claud, Noa Getzug, and Josh Mehling Made Shelly a Thing
Mintz: All four songs are from the same era. The songs are from five years ago, but with current updates and reflections. “Hartwell” was a…
Beauty
Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Isn’t Out for Months, But the Memes Are Already Delivering
I’ll say this for Taylor Swift: She sure knows how to whip the entire Internet into a frenzy. The pop star proved as much this week when…
Beauty
‘Bad Bunny by Stillz’ Captures Six Years of Portraits of the Puerto Rican Artist
Everyone loves a Polaroid picture, the immediacy and materiality of it seeming to convey more feeling—and more of a sense of the real—than…
Beauty
‘I Don’t Know That I Can Be Placed in a Box’: Amaarae on Her Thrilling New Album, ‘Black Star’
On her third studio album, Black Star, Amaarae wastes no time. From the start, she throws down the gauntlet, swirling her distinctive…
Business
Grant takes city music hub step closer to opening
A historic Sheffield building has taken another step closer to being transformed into a regional music hub. Harmony Works Trust has…
Beauty
Reneé Rapp Isn’t Letting Up
Discussing the provocative title of her sophomore album, “Bite Me,” Rapp makes things plain: “It’s the most consumer-friendly way of…
Beauty
With a New Pop Record—and New California Lifestyle—Indigo De Souza Finds Clarity
From their first blind session together in a Los Angeles studio, Kozel and De Souza found their collaborative spark. The musician, known…
Style
How Tom Lehrer Escaped the Transience of Satire
Satire, George S. Kaufman famously said, is what closes on Saturday night. Meaning, of course, that it has a limited run because of its…