Hazel Cills
Hazel Cills is an editor at NPR Music, where she edits breaking music news, reviews, essays and interviews. Before coming to NPR in 2021, Hazel was a culture reporter at Jezebel, where she wrote about music and popular culture. She was also a writer for MTV News and a founding staff writer for the teen publication Rookie magazine.
Her music journalism and criticism have appeared in outlets including The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Pitchfork and more. She graduated from New York University with a degree in art history and cultural criticism.
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The vocalist and drummer for the hauntingly minimalist rock band Low died on Saturday. She had been living with ovarian cancer.
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With her self-assuredness on full display, King Princess performs three stripped-down songs that mix love, lust and playful self-deprecation.
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Do androids dream of electric betrayal? That's just one question looming over this Dolly Parton cover made by Holly Herndon's digital twin.
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The New Orleans punk band buzzes with the energy of a fly trapped in a jar, as shouted complaints ping against the glass with no resolution in sight.
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As a songwriter, Alex Giannascoli has long taken a mutating, playfully distorted approach. But on his new album, full of songs about morality, he astutely focuses every magic trick in his discography.
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The 24-year-old artist sells her larger-than-life, psychedelic pop vision with undeniable magnetism.
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There is a passionate defiance to "What I Want," the sound of a young, queer woman seizing and holding fast to her desires.
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The album will be the pop star's first solo studio album in six years.
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The latest single from Beabadoobee's forthcoming album has a magnetic, rough-around-the-edges sound with sweetness at its core.
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NPR Music staffers convene to offer up the Kate Bush tracks we think deserve a powerful, paradigm-shifting sync in a television show or movie.