With the Grammys coming next week and the Oscar nominations out, I've been thinking about the ways the culture industry — including writers like me — throws things into buckets in order to see what ...

When Laufey looks out at her fans from the stage, she sees an audience full of “direct reflections” of herself. They’re funny; they’re kind; they’re making friends with fellow fans; some even look and ...

“One of the ironies is that my mother counted among her students, oddly enough, George Martin,” Asher said. “She taught George long before I had any affiliation with the Beatles or anything to do with ...

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Budding Icelandic superstar Laufey isn’t a household name. Her music is household music, but if you drove to Coachella this year, billboards clued attendees in to exactly why her name isn’t instantly ...

LOS ANGELES — Long before the Icelandic Chinese artist Laufey became recognized the world over for her neoclassical jazz-meets-pop music, she was a student, answering a familiar yearbook prompt: ...

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Laufey is offering fans what is believed to be the first taste of her next project with Thursday’s release of “Silver Lining,” a new single and music video that prefaces her third album, which is ...

Olivia Rodrigo and Laufey's friendship is shaping up to be one of our favorites. Recently, the two stars have been seen together at the premiere of the GUTS Tour Netflix special and other events, ...

"Dark sarcasm" isn't something that one would expect to hear in the jazz- and classical-influenced pop of Laufey. The 26-year-old Icelandic-Chinese musician is known for her romantic and dreamy tunes ...

Christmas in Rockefeller Center is just hours away, and the annual tree-lighting event boasts the most exciting lineup of performers for 2025. The Reba McEntire-hosted television special is set to ...