Falling James

On her fifth studio album, Be the Cowboy, Mitski Miyawaki alternates between intimate, confessional pop passages like “Geyser” and harder-rocking art-rock/new-w...

As their name implies, Miss Jupiter are a local quartet whose music is simultaneously heavy, luminous, spacey, feminine and mystical. They’ve been mostly lying ...

“How many fucking dreams must I have about you?” Sofia Bolt croons slyly on “Get Out of My Head,” from her debut album, Waves. “I moved across an ocean to get a...

If you’re a working-class hero who can’t afford to see Macca at Dodger Stadium, there’s a much more economical, harder-rocking and femme-tastic power-pop bill h...

Even after more than 60 years in show biz, James Paul McCartney is still a people pleaser with an apparently insatiable eagerness to be everything to everybody....

“I was born too late/This old soul can’t seem to relate,” Jen Awad wails on “Love Is Dead,” the title track of her 2018 EP. Indeed, the local diva recalls the s...

“I’ve never been lucky/I’ve never been ahead of the curve,” Paige Stark confesses on her new single “Depression Song.” “I must’ve done something if we all get w...

Chrissie Hynde has a distinctively expressive voice — which can mood-swing from fiery, wraithlike, sadomasochistic imprecations into a maternally comforting mel...

Gracie Gray’s songs are spectral spells. The tracks on the Thousand Oaks native’s new album, Oregon in a Day, aren’t loud or flashy. Instead, Gray soothingly in...

Mainstream pop music used to be the exclusive province of vapid singers who were mostly flashy and generally had little to say lyrically. But there’s a whole wa...