Purchasing special re-issued albums by The Cure, U2, Chvrches, The Charalatans and more on Record Store Day will help benefit children living in war zones, in a new initiative launched by the WarChild ...

Robert Smith said The Cure have two albums on the way to follow this year’s Songs of a Lost World. Their 14th LP, which arrived in November, was their first in 16 years. But in a recent ...

After releasing her successful third album, writing an even more successful book, appearing on numerous late night shows and performing on popular tours, Michelle Zauner decided to take a break. The ...

After listening to For Melancholy Brunettes on repeat for a few days, I went back to Soft Sounds From Another Planet, the second Japanese Breakfast album from 2017. And I was immediately pulled ...

After a whirlwind period between 2021 and 2022 that saw her catapulted to mainstream recognition with an acclaimed album (Jubilee) and a best-selling memoir (Crying In H Mart), Michelle Zauner, the ...

So when Zauner, who spearheads the shoegazey indie-rock band Japanese Breakfast, began crafting her forthcoming album, it was liberating. “The moment that you put on this pressure to achieve ...

On the cover of Japanese ... to develop the album’s visual and literal language. Zauner’s lyrics throughout the album tell stories predominantly rooted in fiction but with whispers of truth ...

“I saw a painting of a woman, head down on a table, collapsed from melancholy,” remarks indie pop visionary and bestselling author Michelle Zauner of the influence behind Japanese Breakfast’s fourth ...

It’s a shuffling, strutting exploration of toxic masculinity, talking of “incel eunuchs” and “young boys, so pissed off and jaded ... Also, being a Japanese Breakfast album, there are also moments of ...

Japanese Breakfast’s last album Jubilee came out in 2021, soon after the publication of their frontwoman Michelle Zauner’s memoir Crying in H Mart. The album was an indie hit, but the book was ...