All Things Go (ATG) music festival is a breeding ground for emerging artists. The festival also prioritizes women and queer people in its lineups, and that was evident in the artists I had the pleasure...

All Things Go (ATG), the closest thing Washington, D.C. has to Coachella, drew crowds to Columbia, Md., this weekend. The music festival is known for featuring not only rising independent artists but particularly...

“I’m so Julia.” “Let’s work it out on the remix.” These phrases and more have entered the cultural lexicon since British singer-songwriter Charli XCX released her monumental sixth album...

After a tumultuous year battling lupus and T-cell disorder, Halsey released what she believed would be “the last album she ever made.” A confessional concept album, “The Great Impersonator”...

★★★★☆ A coffee shop by day and a concert hall by night, Songbyrd Music House was overflowing with energy to see up-and-coming indie artist Serena Isioma this past Saturday, Sept. 18. Fans...

★★★☆☆ After a long hiatus, singer-songwriter Lorde (Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor) has returned to the music scene with her highly anticipated third studio album, “Solar Power.”...

Though it’s perhaps not strictly a biography, and perhaps a little out of place in this column, I simply could not listen to Barbra Streisand’s “Release Me 2” without considering how her cross-decade...

★★★★☆ Taylor Swift is giving the people what they want. The artist’s 2019 announcement that she would be rerecording six of her original albums was, understandably, met with some confusion....

In the era of honkey tonks, big green tractors and dirt roads emanating country radio airwaves, it is near impossible to not escape Nashville tropes. As female artists navigate the unfair, unspoken rule...

Throughout the 2000s, Disney Channel catapulted many of its child actors to pop superstardom, including Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers and Selena Gomez, who overshadow the immensely talented sister duo...

A standout scene in the film “A Star Is Born” is when Bradley Cooper’s character continuously bashes Lady Gaga’s character for having the audacity to perform a dance-pop song at her “Saturday...

★★★★☆ Even the most ardent Swifties were shocked when the then-30-year-old singer announced the surprise release of her eighth studio album this past July. Less than five months after “folklore,”...