Bikini Kill were the best punk band of the 1990s — catchy, playful, hostile, and righteous — and their motormouthed frontwoman Kathleen Hanna exited the…
Some important noises on Garbage's sixth album, ranked, ascendingly: the whispery wobble in the deep background of "If I Lost You," the strobe effect that…
Ariana Grande's third album contains winsome orchestral pop, throbbing house, sparkling electro, a Nicki verse, a horn-flecked breeze called "Greedy" (our favorite), a Weezy verse,…
From 12 years' distance, 2004's Love.Angel.Music.Baby. looks a little bit like a minor pop classic. Shorn of the elaborate, symbolic, inevitably political apparatus of the…
Getting religion doesn't have to mean going door-to-door, or renouncing anything you're not sure is killing you. It doesn't even have to mean deciding there's…
CHVRCHES devote themselves to early-'80s British synth-pop the way some bands devote themselves to the blues. On their sophomore album, the cavernous synths of Tears…
"Misery Business," Paramore's highest-charting hit, was an odd thing — a song that spent half its time gloating and the other half apologizing. The crowning…
The respect denied so many '90s rock perennials persists for Deftones for two reasons. First, despite being an alleged nü-metal band, they could be really…
