I Am Rachel Platten is not just the name of the artist’s new album; it is her declaration of freedom, her proclamation of maturation, her edict of growth, the bullhorn to the world that she is back ...

Helen Reddy, the Australian pop singer who died Tuesday at age 78, was an unlikely pop superhero. She sang in a smooth timbre that never lost its becalmed manner — call her the anti-Joplin — and most ...