Always unpredictable, shock-rocker Marilyn Manson sticks true to form on his 11th studio album, the aptly titled WE ARE CHAOS. The album not only digs into Manson’s heavy industrial rock side but also mixes his more ethereal and atmospheric tendencies in a more pronounced way than on past records. He…

Katy Perry has penned the songbook of summer. On multiple occasions her songs have dominated radio, playlists and pop culture just as the mercury has risen. Big, bombastic pop songs like “Firework” and “Dark Horse” defined her keen sense of writing larger-than-life anthems. Even on Perry’s darker electro-pop album, Witness, “Chained…

Long Beach funk-infused indie rockers Cold War Kids took an unconventional path for their latest series of releases, New Age Norms. The album is being released as a trilogy, with the each of the first two parts released so far including eight new tracks. It makes each release more than…

As with so many bands with an album on the 2020 calendar, fans of Biffy Clyro had to wait a few extra months for the band’s eighth full-length release,  A Celebration of Endings. The album takes the foundation that was built on 2016’s Ellipsis and develops it into an even…

The journey to Old Flowers began on New Year’s Day 2019 for Phoenix-born singer-songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews. While there were signs leading up to it, that particular day marked the end of a nine-year relationship for Andrews. The months of soul-searching that followed found her moving across the country (which…

Ellie Goulding digs into her vulnerabilities on her fourth studio album, Brightest Blue. Goulding worked at her own pace creating the double-LP, opting to collaborate with other artists and release exploratory pop tracks as inspiration struck. At the same time, she continued to work away on a collection of darkly personal…

There’s no such thing as idle time for Mike Shinoda. Faced with an indefinite lockdown, the Linkin Park co-founder took to Twitch and YouTube Live in his home studio to engage with with fans and flex his creative muscle. Armed with a keyboard and a handful of electronics, Shinoda dug in…

Chelsea Collins, Courtesy. When Chelsea Collins hit a stressful patch in her life, the singer-songwriter went to an unorthodox place to vent her feelings in song: the imagined headspace of her musical idol. “I was going through a lot,” Collins said. “I had some really shady friends and some opportunities…

On her fourth studio album, Jessie Ware looked to tap into the club sounds that inspired her. The result is What’s Your Pleasure?, a musical time capsule of sorts that chronicles decades of house. This ode to the ’70s-, ’80s- and ’90s-era club sounds fuses together under the watch…

The sax solo that rings in the opening notes of Women In Music Pt. III, the third album from Haim, sets an immediate tone for the trio as it embarks on an alt-pop journey. The Haim sisters may have needed to push the album back in the midst of the…