Less than two years into the new decade, it’s already been eventful. A global pandemic and BlackLivesMatter protests have already created ten years’ worth of chaos.
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Arooj Aftab was born in Saudi Arabia to Pakistani parents. She taught herself guitar and became a viral sensation in…
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The members of Black Midi met at the BRIT School in London, a performing art college whose other alumni include…
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Sabrina Teitelbaum flirted with musical success in a different guise. Between 2017 and 2019, she released singles as the pop…
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Female solo artists Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, and Phoebe Bridgers had never all been in the same room together when…
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Indie singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers was born in Los Angeles and studied vocal jazz at the Los Angeles County High School…
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Smooth R&B artist Erika de Casier was born in Portugal to a Belgian mother and a Cape Verdean father. She’s…
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Dijon’s music sounds like Prince, if the Purple One were forced out of Paisley Park and into his bedroom. His…
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Dina Ögon are a smooth Swedish supergroup. Lead vocalist Anna Ahnlund, drummer Christopher Cantillo, guitarist/keyboardist Daniel Ogren, and bassist Love…
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The duo of Tom McGreevy and Evan Lewis met on the Toronto scene, bonding over their shared love of vintage…
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Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell was the first musician born in the 21st century to score a number-one single in…
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San Francisco’s Avalon Emerson made her reputation as a DJ. But she used the advice of Jeff Tweedy’s book How To…
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Guatemalan cellist and vocalist Mabe Fratti grew up only listening to Christian and classical music. Discovering Limewire, her musical horizons…
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Natalie Hemby was born in Illinois, the daughter of a Nashville studio guitarist. She almost signed a record deal with…
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New York’s Cassandra Jenkins comes from a musical family. Her parents worked on cruise ships as musicians, and her brother…
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The Last Dinner Party were the breakout UK stars of 2023, with the release of the single ‘Nothing Matters’. They’d…
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Mark Jacob Lenderman was born in Asheville, North Carolina. He’s a busy fellow—in addition to his solo career, he’s a…
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Pop music has become a much more respected art form in the past decade. Records like Taylor Swift’s 1989, Carly Rae…
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Miami synth-pop duo Magdalena Bay consists of songwriter/vocalist Mica Tenenbaum and musician/producer Matthew Lewin. The pair met as high school…
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Gabriela Jimeno Caldas was born in 1990 in Bogotá, Colombia. She spent her teens as the drummer for Colombian hardcore…
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Michael Gordon grew up in New Jersey, where he played in bands but gravitated to making solo music in his…
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Producer and musician Kelly Lee Owens grew up in a small Welsh village. She sang in her school choir and…
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Caroline Polachek grew up in Connecticut and was formerly the vocalist for the indie-pop duo Chairlift. Chairlift enjoyed a surprise…
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Katie Pruitt grew up in Atlanta and was raised Catholic. She attended Catholic school and mass. She got into music…
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Olivia Isabel Rodrigo first came to prominence as an actor. She appeared in Bizaardvark and High School Musical. In 2020, she…
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Margaret Debay Rogers grew up in Maryland, the daughter of a Ford salesman and a nurse. She began learning the…
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British collective Sault have eschewed all the usual rules of music-making in their brief and eventful career. They’ve veiled their…
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There hasn’t been a new Radiohead album since 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool. The Smile might be the next best thing.…
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Lindsey Jordan grew up in Baltimore, which is also home to Beach House and Wye Oak, and at one point…
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Sophie Allison was born in Switzerland and grew up in Nashville. She self-released guitar-pop as a teenager on Bandcamp, before…
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Born in London, Cleopatra Nikolic’s parents met in a jazz band – her Jamaican dad plays bass and piano, while…
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A crop of young, critically acclaimed post-punk bands emerged in the UK around 2020. It’s tough to keep up –…
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Isle of Wight’s Wet Leg were breakout stars in 2021, when their innuendo-laden hit ‘Chaise Longue’ went viral. Their name…
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Hayley Williams is best known as the lead vocalist of Paramore. However, she has also released three solo albums, two…
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Indie artist Nilüfer Yanya was born in Chelsea, West London. She’s the daughter of two visual artistsmwith Turkish, Irish and…
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This page collects album reviews for 2020s artists of whom I’ve only reviewed one or two albums. This page became…
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The consequence of reviewing new releases each week is that I already have too many records for one page. Here’s…
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