Dec 23, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Here we go again, racing to December’s finish line, eager to put another chaotic year in the rearview and nervous about what the next 12 months have in store for us. More

Nov 10, 2023 By Mark Redfern

The nominations for the 2024 Grammy Awards have been announced. Under the Radar favorites Alvvays, boygenius, PJ Harvey, Paramore, Arctic Monkeys, Lana Del Rey, Olivia Rodrigo, Janelle Monáe, Gorillaz, James Blake, and others are all up for awards. More

Jun 26, 2023 By Kat Ramkumar

If you missed the Glastonbury Music Festival this last weekend, never fear. This is your one-stop shop for many of the performances, including highlights from Elton John, Weyes Blood, CHVRCHES, Billy Nomates, Caroline Polachek, Manic Street Preachers, Carly Rae Jepsen, Young Fathers, and many others. More

Mar 14, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Lana Del Rey is releasing a new album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, on March 24 via Interscope. Now she has shared its third single, “The Grants.” More

Feb 14, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Lana Del Rey is releasing a new album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, on March 24 via Interscope. Now she has shared its second single, the seven-minute long “A&W.” More

Dec 07, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Lana Del Rey has announced a new album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, which will be out on March 10, 2023 via Interscope. Del Rey has also shared the album’s title track. The album artwork mentions production from Mike Hermosa, Jack Antonoff, Drew Erickson, Zach Dawes, and Benji, as well as guest features from Jon Batiste, Bleachers, Father John Misty, Tommy Genesis, SYML, and Judah Smith. More

Nov 11, 2022 By Austin Saalman

“Elvis is my daddy, Marilyn’s my mother, Jesus is my bestest friend,” sings indie pop phenomenon Lana Del Rey on her beguiling, if overlooked Paradise EP, identifying herself yet again as a neon lovechild of popular culture, and further mythologizing herself as a musical force to be reckoned with. More

Jun 16, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) has shared a video for the song “Buddy’s Rendezvous” from his most recent album, Chloë and the Next 20th Century. He has also shared a Lana Del Rey cover of the same song. More

Jan 27, 2022 By Austin Saalman

Once upon a time, not so long ago, the prospect of an alternate America nurtured an offshoot of modern youth, estranged, through crystalline fantasies of virtue and discovery, from an era of continued cultural decadence. The present was slow, the future bleak, and a romanticized, misty past held inevitable allure. More

Jan 21, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Lana Del Rey has shared a new song, “Watercolor Eyes,” for the season two soundtrack of the HBO series Euphoria. The song is set to play in Sunday’s episode of the show. The official soundtrack to the second season is set to be released on February 25. More

Oct 21, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Lana Del Rey has shared a new video for “Blue Banisters,” the title track from her forthcoming eighth studio album. The video depicts Del Rey acting out lyrics from the song, showing her riding a John Deere tractor, baking a birthday cake, and, well, painting her banisters blue. The new album, Blue Banisters, will be out tomorrow (Oct. 22) via Interscope. More

Sep 08, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Lana Del Rey has shared a video for her new single “Arcadia.” It is the latest release from her forthcoming studio album Blue Banisters, which has now received a confirmed tracklist and release date of October 22. “Arcadia” was written and produced by Del Rey alongside Drew Erickson. More

Jul 28, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Noted producer Jack Antonoff is releasing a new album under his Bleachers moniker, Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night, this Friday via RCA. Now he has shared another song from it, ballad “Secret Life,” which features guest backing vocals from Lana Del Rey (whose work Antonoff often produces). More

May 20, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Lana Del Rey is releasing a new album, Blue Banisters, on July 4 via Interscope. Now she has just gone ahead and shared three new songs from it: “Blue Banisters,” “Text Book,” and “Wildflower Wildfire.” More

Apr 28, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Lana Del Rey has announced yet another new 2021 album, despite just releasing one, Chemtrails over the Country Club, in March and previously announcing another new album, Rock Candy Sweet, due for release on June 1. More

Mar 19, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the tenth Songs of the Week of 2021. Last week I told you that the wife and I got the Johnson & Johnson shot. This week more and more people I personally know are also getting vaccinated, and I’m talking people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, not just 65 and older. More

Mar 19, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Lana Del Rey has released a new album, Chemtrails over the Country Club, today via Interscope. In honor of release day, she has shared a video for the album’s opening track, “White Dress.” Also, now that the album is out you can stream the whole thing here. Plus, today we posted our review of Chemtrails over the Country Club. More

Dec 15, 2020 By Joey Arnone

Last night, Lana Del Rey gave her first on-air TV performance in years on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she sang her latest single “Let Me Love You Like a Woman” in a dimly-lit bar backed by a band. More

Nov 20, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The 2020 Grammy Awards nominations have been announced and they are surprisingly solid by Grammy standards. There are actual good albums up for Album of the Year, including the newest by Vampire Weekend, Bon Iver, and Lana Del Rey. More

Nov 05, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Last night at the Bellco Theater in Denver, CO Lana Del Rey sang a duet with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, covering his classic 2005-released song “I Will Follow You Into the Dark.” Del Rey also performed a duet with Australian singer/songwriter Julia Jacklin, doing Jacklin’s own song “Don’t Know How To Keep Loving You.” More

Oct 10, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey released a new album, Norman Fucking Rockwell, in August via Interscope. She’s currently touring the album and each night has been covering Joni Mitchell’s “For Free” (from her 1970 album Ladies of the Canyon). Tonight she plays the Hollywood Bowl and has shared a backstage video of her rehearsing “For Free” as a trio with Weyes Blood (aka Natalie Mering) and Zella Day. More

Aug 30, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey has released a new album, Norman Fucking Rockwell, today via Interscope. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. More

Aug 29, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey is releasing a new album, Norman Fucking Rockwell, tomorrow via Interscope. Now she has shared a video for one of its previously shared singles, a cover of Sublime’s “Doin’ Time.” In the video she’s a giant wandering around Los Angeles and eventually she also walks out of a movie screen at a drive-in movie theater. More

Aug 23, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It was another incredibly strong week for new songs. Last week we ended up with a Top 12, instead of our usual Top 10, and here we are again, except this time with a Top 13. Like last week, there are also a whole lot of honorable mentions. More

Aug 22, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey is releasing a new album, Norman Fucking Rockwell, on August 30 via Interscope. Now she has shared two new songs from it. More

May 17, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey has long been teasing her new album, Norman Fucking Rockwell, which doesn’t have a release date yet, but now she has taken a detour and released a cover of “Doin’ Time,” a song released by Sublime in 1997 that was included on their third album, which was self-titled. More

Jan 11, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the first Songs of the Week of 2019. We took an extended break in December, as there aren’t too many notable new songs released at the end of the year (beyond endless Christmas covers), but the past week has been filled with exciting new album announcements, most accompanied by new singles worthy of consideration for this list. More

Sep 22, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

In many instances an album’s strongest songs are shared before the album’s release. There were several albums released this week, however, that featured standout tracks that were not advance singles and so this week’s Songs of the Week features some of those, filtered in with other new singles released this week. More

Sep 18, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey released her last album, Lust for Life, in July 2017 via Interscope. Just last week she has returned with a new song “Mariners Apartment Complex,” shared via a black & white video. Now she has returned with another new song, the near 10-minute long “Venice Bitch,” also shared via a video (this one in color and also looking like it was shot on Super-8 or 16mm film). More

Sep 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey released her last album, Lust for Life, in July 2017 via Interscope. Now she has returned with a new song “Mariners Apartment Complex.” The song is a collaboration with Jack Antonoff (he of fun. and Bleachers, and in an in-demand producer). More

Aug 17, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We took a break from Songs of the Week last week due to a little vacation by our publishers. So this week we are compiling the best songs of the last two weeks. Hence we couldn’t contain the list to our usual Top 10, although we didn’t do too badly, only expanding to a Top 11 and a few more honorable mentions than usual. More

Aug 15, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) is releasing a new album, Wanderer, on October 5 via Domino. Previously she shared a video for the album’s short opening track (and title track), “Wanderer.” Now she has shared the album’s first official single, “Woman,” via a video for the song. “Woman” features Lana Del Rey on backing vocals. More

Jul 18, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) has announced a new album, Wanderer, and has shared a video for its short title track (also its opening track). Wanderer is due out October 5 via Domino and is her first for the label after spending most of her career on Matador. It’s also Cat Power’s first new album in six years, since 2012’s Sun. Lana Del Rey is featured on one song, “Woman.” Marshall has also announced some tour dates. More

Sep 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey released a new album, Lust for Life, back in July via Interscope. Now she has shared a stylish video for “White Mustang.” In it Del Rey wanders a mansion and longs for a connection with her longhaired musician boyfriend. Watch it below. More

Aug 25, 2017 By Stephen Mayne

This week we’re going to spend a little time looking at presidential pardons as Trump hints at throwing one to a most undeserving man. There’s also inappropriate political rallying, Barcelona attacks, and a solar eclipse scored by TV on the Radio in the mix. More

Aug 24, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Former Dirty Projectors singer/guitarist Amber Coffman has shared a new anti-President Donald Trump song. It is sung from the perspective of his daughter, Ivanka Trump, cutting together her real words from interviews with her (as per the song’s video). More

Jul 12, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey is releasing a new album, Lust for Life, on July 21 via Interscope. Now she has shared two more songs from the album, “Groupie Love” (feat. A Rocky) and “Summer Bummer” (feat. A Rocky and Playboi Carti). More

May 25, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey has previously announced a new album, Lust for Life. She has already shared a video for “Love,” a mysterious trailer, the album’s title track, “Lust for Life” (which features the guest vocals of The Weeknd), “Coachella - Woodstock in My Mind,” and a video for “Lust for Life.” More

May 22, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey is releasing a new album soon, Lust for Life. The exact release date hasn’t been announced yet, but previously she has shared a video for “Love,” a mysterious trailer, the album’s title track, “Lust for Life” (which features the guest vocals of The Weeknd), and “Coachella - Woodstock in My Mind.” More

May 15, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey is releasing a new album soon, Lust for Life. The exact release date hasn’t been announced yet, but previously she has shared a video for “Love,” a mysterious trailer, and the album’s title track, “Lust for Life” (which features the guest vocals of The Weeknd). More

Apr 19, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey is releasing a new album soon, Lust for Life. The exact release date hasn’t been announced yet, but previously she has shared a video for “Love” and a mysterious trailer for the album. More

Mar 29, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey recently released a brand new song, “Love.” Now she has announced her new album, Lust for Life, via an album trailer. In the black & white trailer Del Rey appears transparent, perhaps as a ghost, and has supernatural powers. More

Feb 20, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Over the weekend Lana Del Rey released a brand new song, “Love,” after mysterious posters showed up around Los Angeles last week teasing the song. Now “Love” has a video. More

Apr 05, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Outside Lands have announced their 2016 lineup. The festival goes down August 5 - 7 at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Highlights of the lineup include Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Air, Grimes, Sufjan Stevens, Beach House, Ryan Adams, Duran Duran, The Last Shadow Puppets, Foals, Peaches, Kevin Morby, Lana Del Rey, DIIV, Big Grams, Julien Baker, Lionel Richie, Major Lazer, Jason Isbell, Lord Huron, Vince Staples, Years & Years, HÆLOS, POLIÇA, Ra Ra Riot, Rogue Wave, Caveman, Whitney, Miguel, and Chance the Rapper. More

Feb 10, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey has shared an 11-minute long video for “Freak” that costars Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman). The song is from Del Rey’s 2015 album, Honeymoon. The video starts simply enough with duo hanging out near the ocean, but then things get trippy. Eventually the music turns into Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” for a long sequence underwater. Watch it below. More

Sep 30, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey‘s new album, Honeymoon, came out a week and a half ago. Now she’s shared a video for “Music to Watch Boys To.” More

Sep 09, 2015 By Mark Redfern

Lana Del Rey‘s new album, Honeymoon, is due out September 18. The album will feature the previously shared title track, “High By the Beach,” and “Terrence Loves You.” More

Aug 21, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

The Weeknd is releasing his sophomore full-length, Beauty Behind the Madness, on August 28 via XO/Republic. Now Abel Tesfaye has posted to Soundcloud an 18-minute sampler of the whole album, featuring snippets of each song and dubbed “The Leak.” More

Aug 21, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey‘s new album, Honeymoon, is due out September 18. The album will feature the previously shared title track and “High By the Beach.” More

Aug 14, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey has previously announced her new album, Honeymoon, but not its release date. Now, via a post on Instagram, she has announced a release date and also shared the album’s cover. More

Aug 13, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey has shared a video for “High By the Beach,” a song from her forthcoming new album, Honeymoon, which might be out in September. In the video Del Rey is in a beach house and is being stalked by a photographer in a helicopter. At the end she grabs a giant gun and blows up the helicopter. More

Aug 10, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey has shared “High By the Beach,” another song from her forthcoming new album, Honeymoon, which might be out in September. Previously she had shared the album’s title track via a lyric video. More

Jul 14, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey has shared a lyric video for “Honeymoon.” It’s the title track to the singer’s forthcoming new album, which might be out in September. More

Apr 22, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

This weekend Blake Lively will star in The Age of Adaline, a new film that follows the life of woman who cannot age after experiencing a freak car accident. More

Apr 01, 2015 By Trevor Flynn

Grimes announced via Instagram this morning that she will be supporting Lana Del Rey on the second half of her Endless Summer Tour 2015. More

Dec 01, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Supporting her sophomore album Ultraviolence, Lana Del Rey has announced plans for a new round of headlining shows for 2015. More

Nov 05, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Young Ruffian’s remix of Lana Del Rey’s “Once Upon a Dream” has gotten the video treatment. More

Jul 31, 2014 By Laura Studarus

When Lana Del Rey says “soon” she means it. The teaser and video for Ultraviolence’s title cut was released in the same day. More

Jul 30, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Because it isn’t just enough to enjoy music videos, now we must anticipate them. More

Jun 17, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Thus far Lana De Rey has shared an inordinate amount of material from her Dan Auerbach-produced sophmore album Ultraviolence, including its title track, “West Coast,” “Shades of Cool,” “Brooklyn Baby,” and even its iTunes bonus track “Is This Happiness.” More

Jun 13, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Due to release her new album Ultraviolence next week, Lana De Rey has already shared a number of tracks featured on the LP, including its title track, “West Coast,” “Shades of Cool,” and “Brooklyn Baby.” More

Jun 09, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

With her forthcoming sophomore album Ultraviolence arriving this month, over the weekend Lana De Rey shared yet another piece of the full-length effort with the track “Brooklyn Baby.” More

Jun 05, 2014 By Laura Studarus

We’ve already heard Lana De Rey perform the title track of her forthcoming album Ultraviolence in concert. More

May 28, 2014 By Laura Studarus

We’ve already heard “Ultraviolence,” “Shades of Cool,” and “West Coast.” Now, because the promotional cycle isn’t long enough, we’re being treated to a 30 second snippet from Lana Del Rey’s newest song “Brooklyn Baby.” More

May 27, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Lana Del Rey kept herself remarkably busy over the Memorial Day weekend. More

May 26, 2014 By Laura Studarus

We’ve heard “West Coast.” Now here’s “Shades of Cool,” the second cut from Lana Del Rey’s forthcoming sophomore album, Ultraviolence. More

May 14, 2014 By Laura Studarus

After months of breadcrumbs, Lana Del Rey has finally confirmed the details about her forthcoming sophomore album, Ultraviolence. More

May 08, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Our Google alerts for Lana Del Rey have been going crazy lately. More

May 07, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Lana Del Rey’s new video “West Coast” was accidentally uploaded to the internet yesterday before unceremoniously being pulled. It’s back now. More

Apr 22, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Here are the breadcrumbs that Lana Del Rey has released related to her sophomore album. More

Apr 14, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

This year Lana Del Rey will release the sophomore follow-up to her 2012 debut Born to Die. More

Apr 03, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Lana Del Rey’s sophomore album Ultraviolence will see the light of day later this year on Interscope. Ahead of that, check out new single “Meet Me in the Pale Moonlight.” More

Mar 11, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Currently working on her sophomore album Ultraviolence with The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach sitting in as producer, Lana Del Rey has announced plans for a spring tour. More

Feb 21, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

In an unexpected mash-up of music and perrsonalities, Lana Del Rey revealed that she is collaborating with The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach on her forthcoming sophomore album Ultraviolence. More

Dec 05, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Last night, Lana Del Rey held the Hollywood premiere of her short film Tropico. More

Nov 21, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Lana Del Rey—singer, model, Daniel Johnston fan? More

Jul 24, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Something’s rotten in the state of Brooklyn. Could it be that two of its finest manufactured pop queens—Lady Gaga and Lana Del Ray—aren’t BFFs, like we so wanted to believe? More

May 10, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Today director Baz Lurhmann’s visually elaborate adaptation of The Great Gatsby opens in theaters nationwide. More

Apr 22, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Lana Del Rey‘s music has always seemed to immerse itself in a certain old world decadence and luxury, so it’s completely unsurprising that director Baz Luhrmann would tap the young songwriter to contribute a song to his upcoming film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. More

Apr 04, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Today Great Gatsby (aka the movie that keeps giving) got an impressive sountrack. More

Mar 28, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Lana Del Rey recently debuted an ethereal cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel No 2.” More

Mar 07, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Producer Ryan Hemsworth recently dedicated his knob twiddling to giving Lana Del Rey’s “Summertime Sadness” a facelift. More

Feb 14, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Would it be Valentines Day without hearing from Lana Del Rey? More

Oct 12, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Lana Del Rey reaches some sort of Lana Del Rey apex in her new video “Ride,” a cut from the “Paradise Edition” of Born to Die (out November 12). More

Sep 28, 2012 By Laura Studarus

The Born to Die songstress being used to sell cars? Oh, why the heck not? In a move that’s either tailored to encourage internet trolls, or a brilliant bit of marketing, Jaguar used Lana Del Rey’s new song “Burning Desire” to soundtrack an epic Jaguar commercial. More

Sep 06, 2012 By Laura Studarus

As a clever promotion for his forthcoming album Sundark and Riverlight (where he covers his old songs) Patrick Wolf recently unleashed his cover of Lana Del Rey’s “Born to Die.” More

Jul 20, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Recently selected to the be the face of a new fashion campaign by H&M, Lana Del Rey has premiered a new music video for her Born to Die track “Summertime Sadness.” More

Jun 27, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Almost as if it were specifically designed to troll the online community, the extended music video/short film of Lana Del Rey‘s “National Anthem” has made its official debut this morning. More

May 29, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Now cancer-free and back on the promotional trail for new album The Bravest Man in the Universe (out June 12 via XL) Bobby Womack recently showed off new track “Dayglo Reflection.” More

Apr 27, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Despite suffering a violent death yesterday Foster the People‘s Mark Foster and Isom Innis are still keeping themselves busy with a new DJ project called Smims&Belle. More

Apr 23, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Keeping a relatively low-profile of late, at least relative to the ever-present lead-up to her debut album Born to Die, singer/songwriter Lana Del Rey has unveiled a music video for her track “Carmen.” More

Apr 20, 2012 By Cody Ray Shafer

Singer Lana Del Rey recently recorded a session for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, to be broadcast today. Included in the minimalist performance was a cover of “Goodbye Kiss” by British rockers Kasabian (who are still huge in their home country). More

Mar 20, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Born to Die songstress Lana Del Rey is stopping by Los Angeles and New York this June for a three-night residency in both cities. More

Mar 19, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Oh hey, remember when we were all about Lana Del Rey? (Or was that just Hipster Runoff?) At any rate, the Born to Die songstress is back to remind us of her existence with a moody black-and-white video for “Blue Jeans.” More

Feb 08, 2012 By Mi Tran

Despite backlash from critics and pretty much everyone on the Internet, Lana Del Rey‘s debut album, Born to Die is currently #2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. More

Jan 27, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

As most people know by now, before love/hate lightning rod Lana Del Rey became Lana Del Rey, she was Lizzy Grant, who recorded a self-titled debut back in 2008. More

Jan 23, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Following in the footsteps of Clams Casino and Woodkid, Blur/Gorillaz songwriter Damon Albarn has produced a new remix of Lana Del Rey‘s single “Born to Die.” More

Jan 16, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Last night Lana Del Rey, whose debut full-length Born to Die is slated for release on Jan. 30, made her American television debut over the weekend as the musical guest for ”Saturday Night Live.” More

Jan 05, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

As the hype, praise, backlash, praise cycle continues to inflict wounds on a record that hasn’t even been released yet, regular lightning rod Lana Del Rey has unveiled yet another new song off her upcoming debut Born to Die. More

Aug 07, 2023 By Katie Dadarria

​Under the Radar went to the 2023 edition of Newport Folk Festival and had a blast! More

Apr 12, 2023 By Sam Small

There was, once, a long pathway with mosaic ceilings and caramel tiles lined along both the floors and terracotta walls of the underground entrance into the shore in Long Beach, CA. This was the tunnel under Ocean Blvd., a promenade animated by vendors and screaming children with floaties on their arms and sunscreen blotches on their noses. More

Nov 04, 2021 By Austin Saalman

For nearly a decade, Lana Del Rey has confessionally traced her movie script migration from the chilly shores of New York to the singed hills of Los Angeles, via miles and miles of county fair and diner-dotted heartland, winning scores of fans and plenty of detractors along her way. While still the expected summerly slice of self-mythologized Americana, Del Rey’s second album in seven months feels somehow different from the rest. More

Mar 19, 2021 By Michael Watkins

It’s difficult to think of an artist who had more of an ascent to critical, commercial, and conversational acclaim than Lana Del Rey did in the 2010s. Her debut album, Born to Die, smashed sales records upon release in early 2012 but was met with a more-than-lukewarm hesitancy from critics. More

Jul 28, 2017 By Ilana Kaplan

Since Lizzy Grant emerged as Lana Del Rey back in 2012, she’s been donning the trope of the Hollywood starlet with a darkness surrounding her. On Lust For Life, to some degree that gloom has lifted: it’s perhaps for the first time we’re really seeing the Lizzy behind the Lana. More

Oct 02, 2015 By Natasha Aftandilians

If “beach goth” is already a musical genre taken by neo-surf rockers, then Lana Del Rey’s new album Honeymoon has given birth to “tropical noir;” all the imagery of swaying palm trees and hallucinatory California sunsets with the heightened drama and mystery of an old Hollywood film score. More

Jun 24, 2014 By Daniel Kohn

Over the past half decade, there have been few singers more polarizing than Lana Del Rey. Her debut effort, 2012’s Born to Die, was inconsistent and confusing, fueling her skeptics’ fire. More

Feb 10, 2012 By Frank Valish

It’s hard not to be put off by the hype. Before Lana Del Rey (née Lizzy Grant) had even released her debut album, she had accumulated nearly half a million Facebook “likes,” was the musical guest onSaturday Night Live (in two vocally challenged performances devoid of much stage presence), and announced the re-release of what was essentially Born to Die‘s prequel, an album she made under her own name that failed to garner much attention upon its initial release in 2010. More