Maria Sherman
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Emo has its survivors, but few can command attention the way Brand New has in eight years without an album. The band's surprise return with Science Fiction comes, characteristically, on its own terms.
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A country star turned rock 'n' roll pioneer, Jackson's prolific career protested patriarchal standards of music new and old. In doing so, she paved the way for countless rock singers who followed.
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Love in pop music is often painted in grandiose gestures, but sometimes it feels truest in just feeling "OK."
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Chumped's Anika Pyle and Dan Frelly are back with a new band that's more pop than punk and a song named for a 19th-century abolitionist and suffragist.
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The fifth album by the one-time pop-punk champions ditches the four-letter qualifier to embrace a classic '80s pop sound. But there's still anxiety beneath the gloss.
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The Melbourne indie-pop band knows that darkness is best served deceptively, through happy sounds and complicated sentiment.
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The debut single from the Seattle grunge-pop band doesn't ignore the gracelessness of youth. It embraces it.
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The gothy teens of Gothenburg, Sweden's Agent Blå mix indie-pop and post-punk to make what they call "death pop." The first single from the band's debut album is sinister and sweet.
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The band excels at crafting impossibly memorable pop songs, and it does so here with a capital P.
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The Philadelphia band gets at the heart of youthful romance with peculiar — and, frankly, gross — scientific specificity.