Lana Del Rey, “Chemtrails Over the Country Club.” Lana Del Rey‘s sixth studio album, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, was rumored to be a country album. After nearly 15 years, it came as a shocker to fans, many who’ve fawned over her dreamy, sleepy Americana since her early days…

Zach & Roger, courtesy. Zach & Roger, the Brooklyn-based production duo, have had a career so exciting that it borders on the bizarre. “We’ve been doing this for so long that so many strange things have happened to us,” Zach Seman says. “Traveling around the world, working with different…

It wasn’t fate that brought CNCO together. It was Simon Cowell. All five members—the name is a play on “cinco,” for the uninitiated—were winners of the first season of La Banda, a Spanish-language competition show that sought to create the perfect Latin boy band. And after almost six years…

Alec Ounsworth has been around the block. Eloquent and verbose, his band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has been a stable pillar in indie rock. Through all the hiatuses, side projects and shifting lineup, Ounsworth has stuck with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah for over a decade. His love still…

Zayn, “Nobody Is Listening.” In 2016 he was the American Music Awards’ New Artist of the Year and one of Glamour Magazine’s Top 100 Sexiest Men. The following he was Billboard’s top new artist. Any of these sounds familiar? If a teen-heartthrob-turned-solo-artist came to mind, you’re on the right track. No,…

Why Don’t We, the five-member boy band from Los Angeles, went completely dark on social media in January 2019. Their fans, in a panic, started a Twitter campaign, with outcries of #WhereIsWDW echoing online. Upon their return, they proclaimed that the month had been spent devoted to the careful…