Charli xcx delivered a heartfelt salute to “The Velvet Underground & Nico.” Jack Antonoff cheekily told a roomful of music industry insiders that “some of you care more about Pop Crave than Pitchfork.” Lana Del Rey confessed she didn’t submit her music for Grammy nominations early on because she didn’t know how. Olivia Rodrigo outed […]

While presenting producer and long-time collaborator Jack Antonoff with the Producer of the Decade award at Variety’s eighth-annual Hitmakers event, Lana Del Rey made a rare mention of her husband Jeremy Dufrene, crediting Antonoff’s marriage to actress Margaret Qualley as “a big reason” why she married the 49-year-old Louisiana boat captain. “I’m grateful for [Antonoff] […]

Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff have written more than a hundred songs together. So how do they keep things interesting? Especially when Swift is releasing multiple albums every year — not only rerecorded versions of her past albums but all-new ones, including this year’s sprawling, 31- song “Tortured Poets Department.” “I never know what’s gonna […]

If a genetic engineer — or a version of AI way better than the ones we’ve got now — could conjure a perfect song of the summer, there’s a good chance it would sound a lot like Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso”: frothy, effervescent, instantly identifiable and as catchy as poison oak. It even opens with a […]