The best albums of 2022 include Neil Young, Harry Styles, Muse, Demi Lovato, Denzel Curry, Lights, Freddie Gibbs, Steve Lacy, Father John Misty and Danger Mouse and Black Thought. Welcome to the heart of our countdown of the best albums of 2022. Before continuing, check out parts one, two and three. Part…

Lights performs at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on April 6, 2022. Chloe Catajan/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — It only took three simple words to set the tone for Lights‘ Wednesday evening set at the Regency Ballroom. “Baby I’m back.” The refrain from the singer’s “Prodigal Daughter” holds plenty…

Lights, “PEP.” If it’s true that it’s always darkest just before the dawn, the same might hold true for Lights Poxleitner-Bokan, known simply as Lights. The Canadian singer-songwriter experienced that darkness during the pandemic, and making PEP provided the roadmap back. Throughout her catalog, Lights has often reinvented herself in…

Clockwise from top left: Billie Marten, Overcoats, Holly Humberstone, Bedroom (Noah Kittinger), LŪN, and Tessa Violet with Lovelytheband. Overcoats’ post-breakup limbo, Holly Humberstone’s unshakeable wistfulness, Billie Marten’s stunning apocalypse and Lights Poxleitner-Bokan’s alter-ego as LŪN shine and make the Tuesday Tracks cut this week. Tessa Violet featuring lovelytheband, “Games” —…

L to R. Row 1: Finneas, Carly Rae Jepsen, BANNERS, August Burns Red, Lil Nas X. Row 2: Lights, Black Pumas, Chloe Flower, Ben Caplan, Liam Payne. Row 3: Dallas Smith, ROZEI, Dashboard Confessional, Dee Snider with Lzzy Hale, Josie Dunne. No one could have expected that 2020’s Holiday…

Lights. Courtesy: Lindsey Blane There is no such thing as idle time for Canadian singer-songwriter Lights Poxleitner-Bokan. The always-creating songstress, who goes simply by Lights, has four studio LPs to her name, a handful of acoustic EPs, a comic book series and a soon-to-be-developed live action TV show. Her most…

Canadian alt-pop singer-songwriter Lights isn’t one to stay still for too long. The Juno Award-winning musician released her fourth album, Skin & Earth, last fall and hasn’t looked back. Skin & Earth is part concept album, and the music was written as a companion to a comic book series of…