Music

While Asphalt Meadows is by no means perfect, it serves as proof that Death Cab for Cutie is here to stay.

Brimming with irrepressible passion, Rina Sawayama is stage-ready on Hold the Girl. 

While her previous releases were diverse but inconsistent — party pop songs, EDM jams, piano ballads and so on — The Hardest Part is heavily country-inspired, melodious and moving.

Soothing with intense melancholia and insistent cadence, Blood Orange embodies heartache on his latest EP.

“The Nicole Tour” is a mouthpiece for her generation, and NIKI gladly and beautifully shared her voice with fans at The Regency Ballroom.

Putting “all of himself” into the album, Legend presents himself ready to love.

From navigating the push-and-pull of an addictive relationship in “Darlin’ ” to finding the strength to walk away in “10,000 Reasons,” Lewis shares the fractured tensions and mind-bending transformations of her venture to self-discovery. Audio recordings may focus on the sonic senses, but they don’t block Lewis’ thunderous spirit from blazing through. 

With the sun sinking on the horizon, almost monday arrived in San Francisco and did what any boy band from the beach would do: uncork the fizzy sound of summer and douse The Warfield in bliss.

On Sept. 2, Joji transformed the auditorium into a utopia transcending time, where fans floated on luscious clouds listening to his ethereal melodies.

Julia Jacklin pores over seemingly scattered past personal threads while tumbling through an impassioned kaleidoscope of present devotion and yearning.