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 new single from cryptic trio, who recently signed to Matador Records, is a swirl of whispery vocals, opaque poetry and tight, art-rock instrumentals.
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Lana Del Rey is further, gloriously unspooled in a seven-minute track that includes a rap.
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With four new prizes tonight, the megastar has now won more Grammys than any other artist in the awards' 65-year history. But Harry Styles took home the evening's biggest prize. -
The NPR Music editor shares her favorite albums and songs of 2022.
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The songwriter's grungy dream-pop sound and sweet, sincere voice are perfectly suited to the Tiny Desk.
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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.
