From love songs to solo anthems, Elvis to gay rights, Kacey Musgraves’ award-winning 2018 album proves that then and now, country music is for everyone.
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“The Bug Collector” is an agonizing display of what it means to love someone for everything they are. Heynderickx holds a mirror up to her listeners and forces them to realize how they value their loved ones.
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As a haunting beginning to the titular album Historian, Lucy Dacus details a cutting end to a tumultuous relationship, leaving listeners with a chilling reminder of their own tragic loves.
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There’s no nautical-themed birthday party in “Conversations With Friends,” but there might as well be—the plot and theme similarities between Phoebe Bridgers’ “Moon Song” and her favorite book are no coincidence.
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The pop-rock band drew inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” with recurring themes of the freethinking movement, love, peace, drugs, and even education – each are cleverly displayed in the riddle-like lyricism.
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Maggie Rogers offers another look into young heartbreak through her impassioned vocals and wistful, glimmering indie sound in her rendition of Taylor Swift’s debut single, “Tim McGraw.”
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Sampling camera shutters, bubbling liquids, and crunchy apples, the experimental pop group’s self-titled debut remains an immersive time capsule of twenty-first-century sounds and issues, five years later.
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What is the perfect landscape for a hypnotic, dream-infiltrating bunny named Frank, heralding the end of the world? An 80s gothic New Wave soundtrack.
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The ethereal score and shoegaze soundtrack of “Mysterious Skin” builds the film’s unsettling haze as its characters’ repressed memories resurface.
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Could any artist ever top Nina Simone’s heartbreaking cover of “The Other Woman?” Probably not, but Jeff Buckley and Lana Del Rey offer sensationally different covers from the perspective of “The Other Woman.”
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With its heart-tugging strings and earnest vocals, “Machote” defies machismo and offers a much-needed depiction of healthy trans love.
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Courtney Barnett takes shots at the music industry with the snarky lead single from Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit.
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In a classic tale of wintertime, Phoebe Bridgers covers Tom Waits’ war protest song from a very different perspective.
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From medieval dancing plagues to daffodils, Florence + The Machine’s 2022 album Dance Fever takes listeners on a reflective, self-realizing journey through Christian imagery.
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Leonard Cohen’s debut album Songs of Leonard Cohen is a wonderful intertwining of his poetic talent and music. 55 years after being released, this album is a reminder of the human longing and desire to love.
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The original 1959 version of “Once Upon a Dream” makes an innocent impression, but Lana Del Rey’s recent rendition shows the hidden depths of the lyrics.
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Taking iconic European classics and adding their own alt-rock twist, the fresh Dublin band — shows the world that rock never dies.
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Religious imagery pours out of every song on Ethel Cain’s debut, from the sins of a family to a betrayal that rivals Ptolemy’s.
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