Phoebe Bridgers

Phoebe Bridgers doesn't write love songs as much as songs about the impact love can have on her life, personality, and priorities. Her fourth release and second solo album is concerned with that subject. To say she writes about heartbreak is to undersell her blue wisdom, to say she writes about pain erases all the strange joy her music emanates. This cements Phoebe Bridgers as one of the most clever, tender and prolific songwriters of our era.

The surprise companion to the National's April release, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, is the band's most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20-plus years together, the vibrant, exploratory album is both the product of that faith and a new statement of intent. Reveling in the license to radically upend its creative process, the National honed most of this...

Better Oblivion Community Center is a brand new band comprising the talents of Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst.

Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus formed boygenius after booking a tour together, but the trio had subconsciously been in the works for longer than that. Through a series of tours and performances together, and chance encounters that led to friendships ? including Bridgers? and Dacus? first in-person meeting backstage at a Philadelphia festival, greenroom hangouts that felt instantly comfortable and compatible, a couple of long email chains...