Clockwise from top left: VenessaMichaels, Rachael Sage, Samantha Urbani, Fea, May Erlewine and Sawyer. Every week, there’s more new music waiting to be discovered. No one really has enough time to watch that indie channel on TV that just happens to be playing a lot of great new artists.…

The Infamous Stringdusters play the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival on Oct. 6. Photo courtesy of the artist. In a world of “darkness, disagreement and discontent,” people may constantly find themselves in search of “love, truth and positivity.” And that’s exactly what resonator guitarist Andy Hall says they’ll find, once…

Phantoms perform at the 2019 Life is Beautiful festival in Las Vegas. Photo courtesy of the artist. As multicolored lights illuminate the Fremont Stage in the heart of Las Vegas, a dynamic duo takes the stage, thousands wildly cheer and sing along to favorite jams, and folks unfamiliar with…

Tove Lo, “Sunshine Kitty.” Often hailed as grunge’s response to synth-pop, Swedish songwriter Tove Lo takes a noticeable turn from her dark past on Sunshine Kitty. The album journeys through the divergent paths of love and romance, but does so with a more uplifting tone. It’s a potent shift from…

Ms. Lauryn Hill plays at the Sonoma Harvest Music Festival at BR Cohn Winery in Glen Ellen, Calif. on Sept. 15, 2019. Photos: Mike DeWald and courtesy of Sonoma Harvest Music Festival. GLEN ELLEN, Calif. — Funk, hip-hop and soul were on the menu Sunday at the BR Cohn…

Taylor Swift’s seventh album, Lover, exceeds expectations, as she takes a different path through her emotional cycle of valleys of love, heartbreak and moving on. On the 18-track opus, she blends her classic love ballads with more recent forays into electro-pop. Swift’s flavorful array of styles serve her mature, self-aware…

CRX’s sophomore album, Peek, tackles both internal struggles and confronts a “back and forth” battle with people we encounter in day-to-day life. The project of The Strokes’ guitarist Nick Valensi again blends garage rock, dance pop and punk for an infectious mix that will connect with listeners of multiple genres. Peak…

Shura already carved out her niche in electropop with her 2016 debut, but her sophomore outing truly separates her from her contemporaries in terms of emotional impact. The British artist serves up a unique blend of ’80s synth-pop, ’90s electronica and modern club music on Forevher, Shura explores the phases of…

Dirty Heads’ will take you on a journey out of this world with their newest album, Super Moon. The band’s seventh album charges a familiar combination of ska and hip-hop and with a compelling thematic backdrop. The message remains universal: that life is precious even in the dimmest hours. This message…

It would be a tragic understatement to say that the title of The Rocket Summer’s Sweet Shivers epitomizes the appropriate reaction to its well-crafted illustration of internal conflict and its resolution. Sweet Shivers The Summer LAB Records, Aug. 2 It’s clear that during his two-year break, mastermind Bryce Avary spent his…