So when Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin and Naomi McPherson began work on their new album, Dancing on the Wall, they saw an opportunity to make a record that felt uncompromising, confident and authentic.

2023 was a banner year for debut albums. I’ve been grateful to discover so many new artists, all of them putting out introductory records that, in many ways, are just as good as what the seasoned vets ...

The dirty secret about comedy albums is that not every great comedian can record a great album. Plenty of great comedians either never got around to preserving their act on wax or they wound up with ...

Has anyone reshaped popular music as consistently – or as boldly – as David Bowie? Across the 1970s alone, he delivered an astonishing run of albums, each one a reinvention: the glam spectacle of ...