The first time I heard Dan + Shay, I was certain I was hearing contemporary Christian music. It was the spring of 2018. I had been “hiking” with my wife and kids at a state park in Illinois. (I use airquotes because when you’re with two children under three, it’s more like short-form stop-start meandering....

Next week, Lorde will release her new album Solar Power. She recorded the album with Jack Antonoff, who also produced her last album, 2017’s Melodrama. As a whole lot of people have noticed, Antonoff has been doing a whole lot of work with female pop stars lately, collaborating heavily with Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, and Clairo, among...

The 2022 edition of the Beach Road Weekend festival will bring Beck, Wilco, Lucy Dacus, the Avett Brothers, Khruangbin, Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit, Lord Huron, Dawes, Bully, and more to two stages at Veterans Memorial Park on Martha’s Vineyard from August 26-28.

Lorde is getting ready to release the new album Solar Power, and she shared her single “Stoned At The Nail Salon” yesterday. At the time that the song came out, however, Lorde was not stoned at the nail salon. Instead, right around there, she was getting shitfaced in a New York bar with Seth Meyers.

Once a year, the British Phonographic Industry And British Association Of Record Dealers picks one outstanding album from the UK or Ireland and awards it the Mercury Prize. There’s been a great deal of ceremony around the Mercury Prize ever since its 1992 inception, and while the prize has certainly gone in some unexpected directions o...