Florence and the Machine is back
The band’s new album, Everybody Scream, contains some of the best music released this year
Pop music
Tuesday
Friday
We need Sabrina Carpenter
She’s the nation’s court jester
Tuesday
Sabrina Carpenter mainstreams cutesy violence towards women
The singer changed her album cover that suggested ‘I like being roughed up in the bedroom’
Monday
Back to 1984 with Robert Dean Lurie
‘My forty-five-year-old self is inhabiting my nine-year-old body’
Thursday
Aaron Lewis tells it like he sees it
An interview with the country music singer
Friday
The Last Dinner Party’s Prelude to Ecstasy fizzes with wit and invention
This wholly distinctive album justifies the hype
Friday
Lil Nas X is getting boring
His chase for virality has eaten away at his artistry
Monday
I took my daughter to see Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
It is impossible not to be swept up in the giddy exuberance of it all
Sunday
The history of a Britney Spears masterpiece
Blackout laid the foundation for the EDM revolution, Lady Gaga’s self-referential debut album and the rest of the past fifteen years of pop
Monday
& Juliet and Titanique: two newly minted cult classics
Let me tell you a secret: the theater world still adores Shakespeare, even in 2023
