“High as Hope,” the follow-up to Florence and the Machine’s first No. 1 album, is the first LP that Florence Welch has made from both a sober and emotionally connected place.
Yuriy Shishkov, who came to the United States in 1990, was a fan of Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore while growing up in the Soviet Union. Decades later, Shishkov designed one for Prince.
Neko Case’s seventh solo album, “Hell-On,” is an attempt to confront challenges she has faced simply by being a woman, and a celebration of the internal power she was able to unlock.
The trailblazing funk singer, bandleader and producer Betty Davis dropped out of public for decades. A new documentary, “Betty: They Say I’m Different,” tells her story.