Halsey
The Early Bird: Top New Recorded Releases 8-27-21 – 9-2-21 Reviewed
the beauty and also the weariness of pregnancy and childbirth
Songwriters Wrote An Open Letter Asking For More Fairness
‘The most successful songwriters in the world can’t pay their rent’
L.A. Burning West Coast Concert Picks, September 23rd To 29th
On Saturday, Moby will play at Jail Guitar Doors: Rock Out 5!
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of April 13th, 2019
this moves rap to country instead.
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of April 6th, 2019
still buzzing on the album charts after hits on the singles
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of March 30th, 2019
women have ruled
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of March 23rd, 2019
“Shallow” sounds recycled: Mark Ronson co-wrote it
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of March 16th, 2019
moment for moment it is too retread
L. A. BURNING, WEST COAST CONCERT PICKS, MARCH 11TH TO 17TH
Cherry Glazerr are at The Troubadour on Monday and Tuesday
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of March 9th, 2019
I’ve steadily dissed “Middle Child” since it was released
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of March 2nd, 2019
the sort of single that is eaten alive on the charts in 2019
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of February 16th, 2019
not on the same level as the Beatles.
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of February 16th, 2019
this is beyond discrepancy
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of February 9th, 2019
This isn’t the place for gossip, true, but
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of February 2nd, 2019
Whatever happens in the States tomorrow, today feast on hook lined pop songs.
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of January 26th, 2019
somebody needs to give em some competition…
UK Top 10 Singles 1-18-19 – 1-24-19
this is a real snooze.
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of January 19th, 2019
remember Puff Daddy punching Drake in a parking lot over the beat for 0- 100?
UK Top 10 Singles 1-11-19 -11-17-19
when Ava’s parents escaped from the Iron Curtain they live for a year in a church in Paris
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of January 12th, 2019
emo rap lends itself to featured verses position
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of January 5th, 2019
2019 is in its infancy and the world is alive with possibility -most of it musical!
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of December 29th, 2018
white picket fence comfort food
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of December 22nd, 2018
Ariana’s putting the ex into Xmas
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of December 15th, 2018
she must have had it in her pocket right, must have been waiting to unload him?
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of December 8th, 2018
It his moment.
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of December 1st, 2018
biting at her ankles
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of November 24th, 2018
over the season and through to the New Year
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of November 17th, 2018
makes you happy to be alive
Tomorrow Never Knows: Monday, November 12th, 2018
Grow it in girl, and go platinum…
UK Top 10 Singles 11-9-18 – 11-15-19
Ariana just left the pack and has her own “Shake It Off” after all these years.
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of November 10th, 2018
Halsey defines rubber necking
Governors Ball Day 2, Saturday, June 2nd, 2018, Reviewed
exhausted from the heat and the push and the shove of young America
US Top 10 Albums 6-29-17
Looks good till you read the numbers
US Top 10 Albums 9-19-15
Meanwhile, except for “New Americana”, Halsey is way too manufactured to be taken seriously, but there is a huge difference between a manufactured popstar who is ignored and one who is a huge hit. Half white, half black, hip hop production on Americana songs and attitude with a soupcon of Lorde and a little more than that of Lana Del Rey… hey, apparently it worked, with 115,000 units (of which 97,000 are pure album sales), any other week it would be # 1.
UK Top 10 Albums: 9-4-15 – 9-10-15
The relentless hype surrounding Halsey is beginning to work against her, how long can Apple Play ram her down our throats (two weeks among new releases, why?) , and how long before her lack of traction becomes a problem. Or will she break? A story of modern pop.
Singles Going Steady: New Single Releases 7-10-15
New American – Halsey – “We are the Americana, high on legal marijuana”, Halsey says and at first you gotta think she is serious but by the time she quotes an entire verse of a Biggie hit, well, this is a witty electro pop winner from the urban jungle – B+