Decades of Experience and Influence Collide in 'I'm With You,' A New Chapter in Lark's Pop Legacy. Lark is a well-known pop singer hailing from Sydney, Australia, and she is an Australian pop provocateur. During Lark's formative years, the music of Madonna, KISS, and ABBA was played often in the family home. She was attracted to the fierceness of Madonna's 1984 performance, the glitter and sass...

Listening to Shotgun Driver’s new EP, “Jester Privileges”, is like finding a glitter bomb in a padded cell. The four songs present a disorienting, strangely compelling contradiction. On the surface, the alt-pop framework pulses with an upbeat, almost defiant energy; this is the slick, rock-tinged anxiety of a Machine Gun Kelly track built for open-road brooding. But beneath it, the narrative, carried by those...