Review: A Band’s Success Collides With History In ‘Harmony’

For many people, especially those belonging to a particular generation, the name Barry Manilow immediately invokes harmless marshmallow soft rock. Whether you interpret this description as comforting or sugary, this isn’t necessarily the style you’d associate with a show about a Weimar-era vocal group split with the rise of Nazism. And here again “Harmony: A …

PinkPantheress’ Dance-Pop Bands Play With Memory Like Toys

Some of the most stunning music to cover TikTok this year has come from British singer and producer PinkPantheress, who sounds flirty and sore at the same time. Shorts from the songs “Break It Off” and especially “Just for Me” became the optimal melancholy soundtrack for the constant quarrel between romanticization and sullenness that dominates …