Ilana Kaplan

Michelle Zauner on the urgency of her pain in Crying in H Mart

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The Singer-turned-author, who goes by the moniker Japanese Breakfast, paints a vivid portrait of identity, loss, and a mother's love in her new memoir.

Hayley Williams lets her softer side shine on Flowers for Vases / Descansos

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The Paramore singer's latest solo album grapples with pain that’s been lying in wait.

Rilo Kiley’s self-titled debut is an early showcase of their vulnerable, sardonic songwriting

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The recently re-issued album, which had been out of print for 21 years, finds the quartet at the preliminary stages of discovering its sound.

How Alicia Bognanno found peace, let go, and made a new Bully album

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"I just did what the f—k I wanted to do for the first time in so long, and it felt good."

Alanis Morissette searched for what mattered most to her. She returned with Such Pretty Forks in the Road

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The singer's ninth studio album, her first since 2012, is filled with themes that have been woven throughout her work over the years.

Voice Notes: How Jehnny Beth honed her ferocious sound

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“I try to hold the note as long as I can, so that people think that I'm going to stop," says the Savages singer. "But I never stop."

Kehlani comes clean: The singer on love, life, and It Was Good Until It Wasn't

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The R&B performer's sophomore effort is filled with candid observations on romance. As she tells EW, who her fans “were listening to at 19 is a completely different girl than who they're experiencing at 25."

Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino is better than ever — for real this time

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“I really don't know if I would've been able to crawl out of the darkness that I was in," says the rocker, who got sober in 2017. Her band's latest, Always Tomorrow, is the first body of work where she feels like herself again.

The shades of Soccer Mommy

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Two years after her sharp, deeply personal debut Clean, 22-year-old rocker Sophie Allison is back for more. She tells EW the story behind her new album Color Theory.

On Manic, Halsey chases happiness through chaos

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The most emotionally devastating songs of the 2010s

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From Frank Ocean, Kacey Musgraves, Adele (obv), and more.

The best pop hooks of the 2010s

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Twenty indelible earworms you've been singing along to all decade.

Inside Big Thief's big year

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Five months after their critically acclaimed U.F.O.F., the Brooklyn-based quartet returns with its "sibling record," Two Hands.

Liz Phair has Horror Stories

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The fierce alt-rocker still has a lot to say, but this time she's doing it in book form. "I wanted to do something meaningful and make a stand in support of not being shallow, not hiding and concealing."