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MusicApril 7, 2021
Songs of Hope and Isolation
Arlo Parks’s consoling pop music is tailor-made for our fraught and lonely moment.
Julyssa Lopez
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MusicFebruary 10, 2021
Kali Uchis’s Fearless Latinx Pop
The bilingual, bicultural songs and sounds of Sin Miedo is a daring leap forward.
Julyssa Lopez
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MusicOctober 27, 2020
A Soundscape of Pure Empathy
Kelly Lee Owens’s quietly complex electronic music is defined by its spirit of care.
Julyssa Lopez
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CultureAugust 5, 2020
Arca’s Rebellion Against Music and Life
How the experimental artist made one of the year’s most defiant pop records.
Julyssa Lopez
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CultureMay 28, 2020
A Thrilling Snapshot of the New Pop Avant-Garde
Recent albums from Perfume Genius and Yves Tumor restore the power of genre-bending music
Julyssa Lopez
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MusicApril 21, 2020
What’s the Deal With Grimes?
Her climate change pop album Miss Anthropocene is riven with contradictions.
Julyssa Lopez
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MusicMarch 12, 2020
Bad Bunny Answers to No One
YHLQMDLG isn’t perfect, but it’s evidence that the Puerto Rican artist’s short career so far is iconoclastic and uncompromising.
Julyssa Lopez
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TelevisionFebruary 19, 2020
‘High Fidelity’ Is a Broken Record
While the TV reboot breaks out of some of the original’s male-centered whiteness, it refuses to take risks that would make it more memorable.
Julyssa Lopez
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MusicDecember 2, 2019
FKA Twigs, High Priestess of Pop Music’s Avant-Garde
Mixing sacred imagery and snatches of memoir, the British artist’s new album is Magdalene a beautiful and eerie statement.
Julyssa Lopez
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TelevisionOctober 15, 2019
The Absurdist Imaginings of ‘Los Espookys’
An irreverent Spanish-speaking show was a step forward for HBO, but its first season fell short of pushing the boundaries of Latinx representation.
Julyssa Lopez