Lee has settled down with his wife, internet personality and podcast host Brittany Furlan, and is a sponge for new music. It’s hard to live down a very public and scandalous — but unapologetic — past. There has rarely been a point in time when individually or as a group, they haven’t had a lawsuit pending. You’re flying over 300,000 people, drinking Jack Daniels.

Ishibashi has somehow found a way to alchemize her avant-garde leanings into dystopian torch songs, creating mournful serenades for a deliciously fallen, floating world. Through textured soho club tampa soundscapes and a meditative vocal presence, Kirke explores complicated topics such as identity, love, and loss, and her compound relationship with those issues, eventually guiding the listener toward a hard-earned sense of peace. Oh, and I don’t want it to get in the way—mullet-nostalgia might distract from the music—so I won’t mention that Djo is Joe Keery and Joe Keery is Steve from Stranger Things.

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I was always loud and bright as a child, but it forced me to fight even harder to have my own perspective, voice and experiences.” “I feel lucky it happened to me when I was about 15, not 10, because I had time to form my own perspectives and who I was. An international music career didn’t seem “possible” until Lorde’s phenomenal success opened Indy’s eyes to the possibilities. Six-year-old Indy may have thought love was a cure, but 26-year-old Indy knows love’s pain. “The lyrics were, ‘I thought love was a cure.

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• I had no take to rock.
• “I’m trying to come into all of these songs, all these stories, with as much gratitude as I can have,” he says as he takes a hit from his vape.
• Having her guidance has helped me so much with remembering to protect my art and remembering it’s my art.”
• ” She is spinning her diary-like stories into Latin pop gold.
• Ishibashi has somehow found a way to alchemize her avant-garde leanings into dystopian torch songs, creating mournful serenades for a deliciously fallen, floating world.

It’s not a documentary, so you don’t have to stick to any rules as far as that goes.” “Before that I thought of myself more as a guitar player,” he says. And how did I treat the other people who were involved? “What I want to do is to be able to zoom out and sort of see things from a perspective that’s past simple bitterness or anger or resentment or anything like that,” he tells me. “And I want to look at it from the point of view of what was this period in my life? Foxes in the Snow is notably the first album Isbell has made since he filed for divorce from his wife and collaborator, Amanda Shires—the mother of his 9-year-old daughter, Mercy Rose—in December 2023. “I don’t want to keep doing stuff that’s easy,” he says.

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It would be easy to draw real-life comparisons from that pivotal moment. ’” the 26-year-old New Zealand musician recalls, about her first acting gig. “I was like, ‘I don’t want to be Ariel. “I’m noticing everywhere, so many people, interviewers, journalists, critics, documentarians, people who are in very different positions, they grew up with us,” says Tommy.

From the driving funk of what it’s like to be Black in the white music world on “Hit It, Quit It,” to the stripped-down uncertainty of where to live on “Baltimore,” Strange’s latest is boldly honest and loud. Bad Bunny’s best album to date is both a love letter to his island and an anti-colonial stance. So the 2022 allegations from multiple young women that nice guy front-dude Win Butler was actually a pushy, manipulative sleaze—and worse—didn’t rock my take on the band. Our list is alphabetized, not ranked, as we love all of these albums with equal passion. SPIN’s favorite albums of the year (so far) include new and seasoned artists from around the world, and cover multiple genres including hip-hop, jazz, indie rock, funk, and folk. Six months in, and we’ve discovered some pretty amazing new music; albums that have made us think, helped us escape, and have been emotionally cathartic.

Heartland rock has historically been full of dudes. Inspired by his love of 2Pac and hip-hop, he switches between singing and rapping in the slick title track. Now Vega has broken through as a rising star in his own right with his swaggering debut album Mi Vida Mi Muerte. The Mexican singer-songwriter first made his mark in the crowded corridos scene as a writer for Peso Pluma. Cole’s drawling melancholy adds extra hues and layers of implication to DeCicca’s sharply observed, casually delivered insights about love, hypocrisy, and picayune transcendence.

Things don’t faze them and applying that to life is nice.” It’s a skill that takes time to learn, but it’s so important for young women to have it and to also have role models—especially someone like my sister. I don’t want to be 80 years old and have been too fearful to express myself because of what people may say. Not that she ever planned on using love to inspire songwriting. “You don’t even know what love is at that age!