Kylie Minogue performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on April 22, 2025. Photos courtesy Chloe Irving and Nick Buckmaster (San Francisco) and Erik Melvin (Australia). SAN FRANCISCO — Australian Kylie Minogue has been a pop star internationally since the late ’80s and has occasionally made inroads in North…

Kylie Minogue, “Tension II.” Kylie Minogue originally conceived thought of her new album as an expanded edition of 2023’s Tension. At first listen, Tension II seems to be riding on its predecessor’s coattails. But while Tension II rides on that album’s coattails, these nine previously unreleased tracks and four…

RIFF’s best albums of 2023 include Olivia Rodrigo, Paramore, Lana Del Rey, Mitski, boygenius, Slowdive, Hozier, Yves Tumor, Foo Fighters, Corinne Bailey Rae, Kylie Minogue, The Clientele, Avenged Sevenfold, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode, Caroline Polachek, Blur, Feist, Sonic Youth and Billy Woods with Kenny Segal. Our album reviews are…

Kylie Minogue, “Tension.”` Kylie Minogue shows no desire to slow down on Tension. Tension  Kylie Minogue BMG, Sept. 22 8/10 Get the album on Amazon Music. Her her 16th studio album, and first since 2020’s Disco, stays in the club but drastically jumps a few decades forward. Rich in…

When Years & Years released their last album, Palo Santo, nearly four years ago, they were a trio. In the subsequent years, the group went through various changes resulting in a new version of Years & Years for third album Night Call. It’s now just lead singer Olly Alexander, exerting…

Kylie Minogue, “Disco.” DISCO, the 15th album by Australian dance queen Kylie Minogue, brings full circle a career that began way back in 1987, with a decidedly disco cover of 1962 doo-wop song “The Loco-Motion.” Over the three decades since, the pop singer-songwriter has dabbled in other genres, such…