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...

There’s a peculiar, soil-and-metal chill to Rubanq’s new single, "Bury Me Deep." From the first few sparse piano keys, you’re not so much listening to a song as you are being lowered into its world—a quiet, frostbitten landscape where the roads are empty and the sun is just a rumor. The Swedish songwriter operates in that stark territory between grunge’s raw-nerve honesty and Americana’s...