With "A Piece of Me," Western Australia’s Bailey Perrie offers up a pop rock grenade with the pin already pulled, cleverly disguised as a twisted love song. It thunders forward with a cinematic, arena-ready confidence that makes its raw, emotionally brutalist core all the more disarming. The effect is something like finding a tear-stained diary page taped to the side of a massive firework...

When Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern collaborate on electronic music, they become Sofi Tukker, a genre-defying duo that emphasises inclusivity, unity, and self-empowerment. Sofi Tukker's collaboration with John Summit on "Sun Came Up" peaked at number one on the Billboard Dance Airplay chart in 2021, and they also recorded "Mon Cheri," a trilingual effort with Amadou and Mariam. Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, and Katy Perry...