Charli XCX and Troye Sivan perform at OVO Arena Wembley in London on June 27, 2024. Photo by Katja Ogrin/Redferns. SAN FRANCISCO — It’s been quite a summer for pop artist Charlotte Aitchison, better known as Charli XCX. She released a new album, BRAT, entered the mainstream lexicon with a…

Charli XCX, “BRAT.” Leave it to British singer-songwriter Charli XCX to go back to her roots, while still keeping it sounding new. The British pop icon, born Charlotte Emma Aitchison, is back with her sixth studio album, BRAT, going back to the clubs at which she got her start. BRAT …

Charli XCX performs at The Fox Theater in Oakland on Oct. 2, 2019. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. Troye Sivan and Charli XCX are teaming up on a co-headlining arena tour. The 21-city tour kicks off on Sept. 14 in Detroit, MI and wraps up in Seattle on Oct. 23. The two…

Tiësto, “Drive.” There’s rarely this little uncertainty over the commercial viability of an album that has yet to be released. Dutch DJ Tiësto (Tijs Verwest) has been releasing songs from new album Drive since 2020. Combined, the five bangers he’s released have accrued more than 3.5 billion streams, led by…

Flume performs at Portola Festival in San Francisco on Sep. 24, 2022. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — The inaugural Portola Festival brought dance vibes old and new to Pier 80, nestled amid old shipyards in a once mostly abandoned and now-burgeoning neighborhood just downwind of Chase Center. An industrial…

Charli XCX, courtesy. Terrence O’Connor Charli XCX has made it abundantly clear she has no intentions of creating the same album twice. Her breakthrough came a decade ago via collaborations with Iggy Azalea and Icona Pop, but collaborations are about the end of the similarities between her music then…

Charli XCX IN “Alone Together.” A brief intro filmed during her 2019 headlining tour immediately sets the scene for “Alone Together,” a new documentary by Charli XCX that’s meant as a pairing for 2020’s made-at-home album How I’m Feeling Now. On the introspective deep dive, a chirpy Charli XCX is shown…

Row 1: Charli XCX, Camila Cabello, The Weeknd, Khalid, Weezer. Row 2: Janet Jackson, Vince Staples, SPOON, GZA, Sky Ferreira, Row 3: Meg Myers, Rina Sawayama, Eddie Vedder, Black Country, New Road, and My Bloody Valentine. Row 4: Elvis Costello, BROCKHAMPTON, Alt-J, Avril Lavigne, Lykke Li. Not pictured: The…

The best albums of 2020 include Washed Out, the Mountain Goats, Ethan Gruska, Tom Petty, Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown, Logic, The Strokes, Moses Sumney, Fleet Foxes, Willie Nelson, Yves Tumor, Nicolas Jaar, Ed O’Brien, Charli XCX and Blackpink. After nearly a decade of living through 2020, we’re finally…

Charli XCX and her band of collaborators have been leading the charge of pushing pop music headlong into new territories over the last few years, using the latest and greatest in PC Music (aka bubblegum bass) production techniques. However, it was a bit of a surprise to hear she…