Maryann Connolly’s New Single “Crashing Down” Has the Kind of Chorus That Makes an Immediate Replay Inevitable
Maryann Connolly’s new single Crashing Down gets to its most…
Val Made Heartbreak Sound Dangerously Polite on embers
Val’s second album, embers, gives the Chilean singer-songwriter ten songs…
“My Career Is Just Beginning”: Jah Decko Introduces His First English-Language Album Love Who Loves You Back
At a certain point in a long career, experience stops…
Reggie Pryor and Jeremy Monteiro Bring Two Generations of Singapore Jazz Into Close Conversation
Indonesian-born, Singapore-based vocalist Reggie Pryor returns with his second full-length…
“My Career Is Just Beginning”: Jah Decko Introduces His First English-Language Album Love Who Loves You Back
At a certain point in a long career, experience stops being a biography and becomes taste: what an artist leaves out, which advice they ignore and how quickly they recognise a false note in their…
“These Songs Were Meant to Be Together”: YASMINA KAÏNA on Shaping the Final Tracklist of BITTERSWEET
Pop has always preferred its lovers decisive: they fall hard, leave dramatically, block the number and discover self-respect before…
“I Generally Consider Each Album as a Single Work”: Longboat Defends the Album Format
I have always thought the British postcode carries an unreasonable amount of social information for something printed beside a…
Maryann Connolly’s New Single “Crashing Down” Has the Kind of Chorus That Makes an Immediate Replay Inevitable
Maryann Connolly’s new single Crashing Down gets to its most…
Val Made Heartbreak Sound Dangerously Polite on embers
Val’s second album, embers, gives the Chilean singer-songwriter ten songs…
“The Music Is Almost a Private Language Between Them”: F M Wilson Introduces the Friendship at the Heart of Facing the Music
The 1913 C. Bechstein grand piano in F M Wilson’s Dorset home predates the opening of ‘Facing the Music’ by a single year, a coincidence…
“I Still Enjoy Being a Beginner Whenever I’m Surprised”: Sasi Shalom on Curiosity After Five Albums
Ask Sasi Shalom what he does and prepare for a long answer. Pianist, composer, producer and synthesist all apply. So do years spent writing music…
“We Are Absolutely Allowed to Be Sensual”: Acacia Grace on Intimacy at Almost 50
Listening to Moonchild, one word keeps returning: permission. Acacia Grace gives herself room to occupy softness, sensuality and emotional uncertainty on her own terms. Soul,…
“America, Where Are You Now?”: Italian Driving Reopens the Questions Inside Monster
Italian Driving, the solo project of filmmaker and musician Alfred Thomas Catalfo, revisits Steppenwolf’s 1969 protest suite Monster/Suicide/America through a recording and video spanning American…
“Adam and I spent a lot of time trading reference tracks” — Inside the Making of Alight by The Sympathy of All Things
Dominic Parker (mastermind behind The Sympathy of All Things) has a theory about love: that it works like the universe — always expanding, always making…
“The Beat Usually Makes the Decision for Me”: How Venus Niebres Taylor Chooses the Language of a Song
Venus Niebres Taylor likes her pop with movement. Her latest album, Venus Niebres en Español, turns toward Latin dance rhythms and places Spanish at the…
“Music Has Always Been a Way for Me to Connect with Myself”: Tamari Discusses the Songwriting Behind Nice to Meet ME, Vol. 1
Tamari arrives at her first EP with a creative résumé that already includes dance, music production, acting and books. The independent artist from Pittsburg, California,…
“Those Sounds Are Very Deeply Embedded in Me”: Clíodhna Ní Aodáin Explores the Irish Roots of For the Love of Trees
Before any of its melodies entered a studio, For the Love of Trees had already taken shape beneath branches in Ireland, Switzerland and the United…
“My Listeners Love My Honesty”: Ferdinand Rennie Discusses the Emotion Behind You Wrote Hallelujah
Songwriting credit sits at the heart of You Wrote Hallelujah, the latest single from Austrian-born, Scotland-based singer Ferdinand Rennie. Written by Michael Andrew Storm and…
Paul Stone & The Basement Collective: “We All Have Input to Create That Human Vibe”
Paul Stone has built his musical life around patience, close relationships and work that carries the weight of lived experience. The Yorkshire songwriter leads Paul…
Paris WYA on MANNEQUIN: “I’m not asking, “Who am I?” anymore. I’m asking, “What kind of life do I want to create?””
When Paris WYA talks about music, she often returns to one question: how do you hold on to yourself when every city and audience expects…
Prima Apollinaare: “Today I Know Where I Stand, What I Want, and Most of All, Who I Am”
Prima Apollinaare grew up in a house with a piano she was not allowed to touch. Her mother was a singer and actress. Her father…
Merchant Seaman, Rapper, Filmmaker: Sk8tie Is Building Something Bigger Than a Single
The streets where Khiry Bivins grew up carry names like Pinocchio, Tinkerbell, and Goldilocks. He will be the first to tell you that the neighborhood…
Martin Luther McCoy: “I Don’t Drop Songs Every Day or Week or Month. When Purpose Finds Me, I Respond”
Martin Luther McCoy has never done things the way you’d expect. He grew up in San Francisco absorbing church, soul, funk, and Bay Area street…
TRIPI: “I Wanted to Quit This Project a Thousand Times. That’s How I Knew I Couldn’t Ignore the Call”
Tony Tripi has spent his adult life helping other people navigate the worst moments of theirs. He joined the Coast Guard as a teenager, battled…
Stephanie Seymour on Recording With Her Husband: “Things Will Get Heated — Then We Start Laughing Because It’s So Typical”
Stephanie Seymour spent sixteen years inside the music industry at Island Records and Virgin Records, watched it eat itself alive, and built her own career…
Miist: “I Couldn’t Convince Myself That Anything I Would Write Would Be Good Enough”
Miist was 34, working as a bookkeeper, when a friend kept insisting she could write a song. She sat down at a piano to prove…
Steven Keene: “The Win Is the Finished Song. Everything Else Is Pure Bullshit”
Steven Keene has spent four decades writing folk music without a major label, without a marketing budget, and without much interest in either. He came…
PREMIERE: “The Only” — Inside the Song Tamar Kaprelian Wrote the Chorus to 15 Years Before Becoming a Mother
Tamar Kaprelian was signed by Clive Davis and Jimmy Iovine. Dropped. Instead of staying in that wreckage, she went and built Nvak Collective — a…
“I Don’t Know That I’m Capable of Being Inauthentic” — Bernie Sirelson on Staying True to Sound Over Strategy
Some artists chase relevance. Bernie Sirelson chases something else entirely — a 22-minute track named after a kosmische legend who passed in 2022, released into…
“I Was on a Plane in Amsterdam, Dealing with Anxiety About Being Away from My Kids” — Wyatt Lowe on the Real Story Behind “The Road Back to You”
Wyatt Lowe released his first record at thirteen. Was touring nationally by fifteen. Not as some industry-backed prodigy with a manager and a five-year plan…
“I Have to Approach Improvisation NOT as a Jazz Player” — Steve Wilson on the Billy Childs Concerto That Changed How He Hears Himself
There are musicians who chase the spotlight, and there are musicians the spotlight has to chase. Steve Wilson is neither. He’s been in the room…
“Billie Eilish Ignored My Track” — Vegan Rapper ColdPoison Calls Out the Biggest Name in Plant-Based Pop
ColdPoison is an independent vocalist and rapper from the vegan movement, and if you just rolled your eyes — honestly, that’s exactly the reaction he’s…
“The Stories Belong to Me. The Emotions Belong to Everyone.” Laura Mazon Franqui on Making a Personal Album Public
Classical guitar rarely becomes the occasion for a conversation about grief, identity, and the color red. But Cuban guitarist Laura Mazon Franqui knows how to…
“Muscle Memory Is a Myth”: Pete Cater on What It Really Means to Play in the Moment
Born in Staffordshire in 1963, he was drawn into jazz almost before he could walk, shaped from infancy by a father who lived and breathed…
“I Still Think I’ve Got a Pretty Good Head of Hair for 55” — Rodeo Terrorists on Football, Scotland and Not Taking Any of It Too Seriously
Richard is a 55-year-old IT manager from England. He spent years working behind the scenes of the pop industry — building websites for Britney Spears,…
Michael V. Doane Breaks Silence on Years Away From Music: “I Finally Had Something to Say”
Michael V. Doane has worked on both sides of the cultural divide — an indie garage label and Shakespeare in a black box theater, Broadway…
Filip Clements: “If It’s Honest and It Connects, It Can Travel”
His debut EP Taking Flight drops April 30th on Eastcote Recordings — and the biography behind these four tracks is hard to make up. A…
“I’ve Been Using Music to Write About My Emotions Since I Was 6”: Maria Ellis on “Relapse”
Maria Ellis grew up in a Greek Orthodox family on Long Island, writing songs before she understood that’s even what songwriting was, and by twelve…
“Hollywood X Vine,” Moving to the West Coast, and “April’s Fool.” A Candid Interview With Matt Nation
Matt Nation is an independent artist from Brooklyn who at some point packed his bags and relocated to Los Angeles, dragging his whole production kitchen…
Michael Wolff on Intimacy, Legacy, and Letting the Music Take the Wheel
Michael Wolff is one of those rare jazz artists who feels like living history without ever sounding like a museum piece. A virtuoso pianist whose…
“I Had Homesickness for a Place I Had Never Visited”: Alex Kilroy on Romania, Nashville, and Break My Chains
Getting time with Alex Kilroy isn’t easy — not because of handlers or label gatekeeping, but because the man simply doesn’t stop moving. Between Nashville…
Lettie on AI, Frozen Pizza, and Why the Space Around a Song Matters More Than Ever
If you don’t know Lettie yet, that’s partly by design and partly the cruel math of an industry that rewards Spotify-gaming dentists over artists who…
Doug Howard on Controlled Lunacy, Swallowing Bees Onstage, and Building a Show From an ICU Bed
Doug Howard has spent 45 years in rock ‘n’ roll — and still calls his career “controlled lunacy.” Bassist, vocalist, founding member of Touch, co-writer…
“I Decided to Go Through With It While Being Terrified” — Jamma on Why She Waited a Decade to Release Music
JAMMA is an Italian in Los Angeles who spent over a decade studying, performing live, and staying silent in the studio before releasing a single…
“Certain Scents Can Stop You in Your Tracks” — Charlie Aky on the Power Behind “Perfume Regret”
Charlie Aky is the kind of artist who is already making things worth paying attention to. A guy from the UK who walked away from…
“The Stability Could Break at Any Moment” — Pianist Anastasiya Bazhenova on Her Debut Album and the Psychology Hidden Inside Mendelssohn
Pianist Anastasiya Bazhenova’s debut album traces a path from clarity to madness — through Mendelssohn and Prokofiev. We spoke with her about why classical music…
Ava Della Pietra Knows What Happens at 3AM: An Exclusive Interview
Most people who land on Broadway before high school end up chasing that feeling forever. Ava Della Pietra went somewhere else entirely. After School of Rock and Les…
Alexis Strum Is Already Writing Album Four. She Admits This Might Be Insane.
Releasing a heartbreak single the day before Valentine’s Day is either a provocation or a manifesto. For Alexis Strum, it’s both — and neither, really.…
Who Is The Ingrid? Three Lockdown Dreamers Who Decided to Ask the Uncomfortable Questions
They named the band after someone who belongs to everyone and no one at the same time. They write songs with titles like Limerence —…
“Acoustic Is the Foundation. Electric Is the Color” — Blocks of Life Frontman Pete Wiley Breaks Down the Sound of Whisper in the Dark
There’s a version of this story where Pete Wiley moves to a city, finds four people who like the same records he does, and rehearses…
Broke Royals on Campr, Restraint, and Why the Loudest Are the Least Confident
The new album by Broke Royals titled Campr came out in early 2025 and truly became the absolute opposite of their previous work. This is…
Lily Forte On Live Recording, Shakespeare, and Why The Stage Is The Only Real Cure For Existential Emptiness
We live in crazy times, because now more than ever the Industry demands content. Remixes, deluxe versions, visual albums, TikTok campaigns, merch, collaborations, acoustic versions, Spotify…
“They hope I Stay Small. That I Don’t Make Enough Noise” – ColdPoison’s Scandalous Interview on “Sung to Sleep” and the Future of Hip-Hop
I think many will agree with me if I say that rap has now turned into a sport for likes, and hip-hop culture prefers to…
Judith Owen: The “queen of the bitter sweet” on Finding Joy in New Orleans, Being a Front Woman, and Why Happiness Doesn’t Kill Your Muse
Some artists spend their careers chasing happiness. Judith Owen spent hers learning how to mean it. Calling from her adopted home in New Orleans—a city…
Siqian Li on Her Debut Album — “There’s Still Room for Music That Invites People to Walk Through it”
Getting in touch with Siqian Li turned out to be a quest. Between rehearsals, flights, and studio work on her debut album Voyage among Fragments…
Five Pages or Three Words: Iuliano on Why Volume and Honesty Are Different Things
Musicians from Napoli usually choose one of two paths: either they become part of their city’s noise, or they leave. Iuliano chose a third option—he…
Love Over Fear: Alternative Influence Champions Every Marginalized Voice in One Powerful Album
Getting in touch with the frontman of Alternative Influence proved to be a challenge. Between recording videos, activism, working on the album’s visual component, and…
“I Do Not Want Music to Become Something I Do for Money”: Inside Bellefolie’s Beautiful Madness
Bellefolie recorded her new single “Restless Nights” in one take. Her voice slips from English to French mid-thought—that’s how her brain thinks, how her throat…
Thomas Luke on Releasing a Debut Album at 22: “This Feels Like a Starting Line”
Pianist Thomas Luke took the BBC Young Musician prize in 2020, played Wigmore Hall, Lang Lang gave him advice. And now, coming very soon on…
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