Bethany Cosentino knew what was up. On “Everything Has Changed,” a song from Best Coast’s latest album Always Tomorrow, she looks back on her early career with a (literally) sobering eye. “I used to...

However you’re feeling, I can make you feel better. On one of the very first songs she released, SOPHIE was already a salve. Her music wasn’t so much abrasive as it was astringent, like you were...

Avril Lavigne is standing inside a Subway in Toronto ordering a six-inch veggie on wheat bread when the twangy guitars from “Complicated” start blaring out of the in-restaurant speakers. It’s been...