Music

The British singer and producer Nia Archives already has fans in Beyoncé and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, as well as scores of young people drawn to the 23-year-old musician’s emotive dance tunes — a sound she describes as “crying in the club” music. In the past few years, she’s toured …

PJ Harding is set to release his new single “A Dangerous Thing” on Friday, a heartfelt ode to the risks we take for love. In support of the track, the Australian singer-songwriter shared an accompanying black-and-white video capturing intimate moments between partners and surreal scenes of people happily falling in …

Christian Lopez recorded his just-released album Magdalena in self-imposed exile in a remote corner of New Mexico. But for his new video “Harpers Ferry,” the singer-songwriter-guitarist went home again. A West Virginia native, Lopez would frequently visit nearby Harpers Ferry, a historic site in the U.S. Civil War and beyond, …

When Janelle Monáe was working on her fourth album, she road-tested it where it was meant to be heard: parties at Wondaland West, her Los Angeles creative headquarters. “I was like, ‘OK, if we have a party in spring of 2022, I want to have records ready,’ ” the singer-songwriter-actor-artist told …

It takes 97 minutes to listen to Christine and the Queens‘ moving, three-act pop opera, Paranoïa, Angels, True Love, but you need months to understand it fully. On the album, the French artist (let’s call him Chris for simplicity) summons celestial bodies, pays tribute to his late mother, flirts with …

Sam Smith and Madonna are putting the S&M in BDSM. On Friday, they released their sexy, club-ready collaboration, “Vulgar,” as both stars celebrate each other’s sensuality on the lyrics. “All black in stripper heels, move like Madonna/Rich like I’m in the Louvre, got nothin’ left to prove,” sings Smith. “Let’s …

Aqua and Tiësto are ready to party on the first official remix of “Barbie Girl,” the 1997 hit from the Danish dance-pop group that has been criminally left off the official soundtrack to Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. A version of the record, it seems, will be folded into the Nicki Minaj …

BTS are celebrating 10 years together with a festival, a new single, and plenty of hope for the future. Ahead of their special anniversary event scheduled for June 17 in Seoul, the supergroup has shared “Take Two,” a record that serves as an ode to their fans. It also features …

Happy 20th anniversary to Hail to the Thief, Radiohead’s most misunderstood album. If you doubt the last part of that sentence, consider the fact that Thom Yorke once described this supremely anxious, stubbornly combative music as being ideal “for shagging.” Our five brainy lads released it in the summer of …

Jessie Murph teams with Maren Morris to sing about broken hearts and a lover leaving them for the Lone Star State on the new single, “Texas.” “You got all the good shit, and I got consequences,” Murph sings, her voice cracking, over plaintive piano chords. “I’m cold, I’m lost, I’m …