Katie Presley

A discussion of two of the most powerful women to shape cultural conversations in recent years, Beyoncé and Solange.

The San Francisco band's garage-pop progressively unravels as a beautiful duo frolics on the beach.

Liza Anne cracks open the cage of anxiety she says she's lived in for most of her life with a seething, slow burn of a track.

From a musician at home in revolution, here is an album about the quiet insurgence of maturity.

Lily and Madeleine Jurkiewicz spend their second album feeling and defining the contours of each other's voices, trading verses, lines and leads. They call it "blood harmony," which about sums it up.

Ford's second solo album comes marinated in the soul tradition inherent to its Memphis birthplace, and seasoned liberally by the influence of her backing band, Al Green's Hi Rhythm Section.

Mary Timony's ebullient new project fixates on the joys of punk. There's enough energy on Rips to fuel a small country, and all of it is rooted in clean-burning enthusiasm.

The rapper turned pop singer's accessible, soaring voice is propelled by genuine charisma and heart, as she constructs her savvy, sweet pop out of sonically irresistible ingredients.

Shara Worden's music sounds both micro-orchestrated and entirely, ecstatically spontaneous. Every song here is a mission statement and a directive; each is propulsive and demanding of full attention.

The Canadian singer and producer makes user-friendly, irresistible pop music from an expressly feminist perspective. On her first full-length album, she wields many tools to do it.