‘I Used to Be Very Cringe’

Charlie Puth’s Whatever’s Clever!, due March 27, is his fourth album, but in some ways, it feels more like a debut. The collection is his best work yet, built around an entirely new approach — airy, jazzy, live-instrument-driven production that tends to land somewhere between Bruce Hornsby’s “The Way It Is” and Michael Jackson’s “Human Nature.” Puth … Read more

‘Anxiety Is the Hum of My Life — Until I Step Onstage’

If you talk to Florence Welch on any given day, it’s safe to assume she’s feeling a little anxious. “Anxiety is the constant hum of my life,” she says. “Then I step out onstage, and it goes away.” Luckily, that’s where she is right now: draped in a long white dress, sitting comfortably in front of a … Read more