Sabrina Carpenter, “Short n’ Sweet.” Since the mid-2010s, when the Disney Channel gave her airtime, Sabrina Carpenter has had difficulty establishing a distinct sound or persona as a pop star. With all five albums she’d made, she threw different sounds at the wall, and while some stuck, she lacked…

Sabrina Carpenter performs during Outside Lands Music Festival in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2024. Mariana Garcia/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Thrown in as a surprise headliner at Outside Lands Music Festival just a couple months before the festival was set to begin its 16th annual…

girl in red, “I’m Doing It Again Baby.” Norwegian singer-songwriter Marie Ringheim delivers a fitting return engagement on her sophomore effort as girl in red, I’m Doing It Again Baby. Three years after her debut, if i could make it go quiet, she’s on a roll and building from…

Our favorite new holiday songs come from Suki Waterhouse, Fitz and The Tantrums, Sabrina Carpenter, From Ashes to New, the Lumineers, Matt Rogers, Forest Blakk, Phony Ppl, Maisie Peters, Hakushi Hasegawa, Chloe Flower and EELS. The Tuesday Tracks crew had a slow week with pretty much all musician taking…