Cat Zhang

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The high-concept futurist talks about embracing their human side, confronting their inner-child, and the surprising influences—including Avril Lavigne and My Chemical Romance—behind their new album, softscars.

The TikTok starlet delivers the kind of plasticky, pristine pop that online audiences ironically, and then unironically, eat up.

Read Cat Zhang’s review of the album.

After hitting a Paris Hilton DJ set, the burgeoning star talks about making over-the-top music, coming to terms with her queerness, and her forthcoming debut album.

Read Cat Zhang’s review of the album.

Read Cat Zhang’s review of the album.

Read Cat Zhang’s review of the album.

Hitting a rage room and chilling in the studio with the left-field pop artist, whose new album With a Hammer turns anger into introspection.

On the enigmatic first single from Everyone’s Crushed, art-rockers Rachel Brown and Nate Amos take a herky-jerky guitar riff in search of the unattainable.

Read Cat Zhang’s review of the album.

The self-identified “cyborg entity” is practicing the guitar, tending to their online personas, and learning how to curb self-destructive tendencies.

Camouflaged as a love song, this sunny, effortless single from the rising jungle artist deals with body dysmorphia.

On her second LP, the sonically adventurous pop star goes for a chiller sound. She’s more content to sing about the bad guys than play one.

How Japanese city pop’s quintessential clip lodged itself in the YouTube algorithm, briefly disappeared due to photo rights, and then grew even more powerful.

A crop of zany, rainbow-colored videos have influenced the rise of niche songs, and tapped into a long-standing fascination with the “glitch”

In her new book, Maria Sherman seriously considers the cultural impact of these once-maligned groups while still keeping things peppy and nostalgic

Molchat Doma’s “Судно (Sudno)” makes teens yearn for “Soviet vibes” and taps into the spirit of hauntology

Kacey and friends even cater to the holiday cranks.

As the video app becomes an increasingly influential signpost for musical trends, we look at the absurd, croaked-out, bass-gurgling songs behind its memes.