Lexa Gates is a 24-year-old rapper/singer/producer from Queens, NY. Today she’s released her sophomore album I Am, the follow-up to 2024’s Elite Vessel. The album’s title is a play on her birth name/initials Ivanna Alexandra Martinez. “I am everything they said I couldn’t be. I am all of those things. I am what I am,” […]

Synth-pop trio Chvrches covered Robert Palmer’s lustful classic “Addicted To Love” for the Hulu drama Tell Me Lies. Chvrches’ rendition, out today, is less jazz-rock and more melodramatic ballad pop. A serious piano greets us along with Lauren Mayberry’s concerned vocals. In fact, it sounds like she’s narrating a horror scene when she sings, “You […]

The album Charli XCX made for the forthcoming Emerald Fennell-directed Wuthering Heights film adaptation is sounding pretty great so far. We’ve already heard the John Cale collab “House” and “Chains Of Love,” which we named as one of that week’s best tracks. Today she’s released another single “Wall Of Sound.” It’s a brooding ballad that […]