Simon Talbot and Guitarist Peter Toussaint Reunite for Their Third Record With New Single “Wonder”
Simon Talbot returns today, April 3rd, with a new single…
After a Long Silence, Adrienne Leska Returns — With a Swing-Folk Love Letter to Her 92-Year-Old Grandfather
Songs about loved ones are the riskiest genre in music.…
Where the Ice Gleams Like Metal: The Matthew Shadley Band’s Seventh and Most Daring Hour
The Matthew Shadley Band have released their seventh studio album,…
KulfiGirls’ “Twist (Melted)” Is Already Sharp Enough at Demo Stage
Plenty of bands claim to fuse traditions. KulfiGirls actually do…
“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 sessions, a young daughter, and a debut album that’s been…
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…
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,…
Simon Talbot and Guitarist Peter Toussaint Reunite for Their Third Record With New Single “Wonder”
Simon Talbot returns today, April 3rd, with a new single…
After a Long Silence, Adrienne Leska Returns — With a Swing-Folk Love Letter to Her 92-Year-Old Grandfather
Songs about loved ones are the riskiest genre in music.…
“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…
Paula Tartell Turned Her Ex’s Demeaning Nickname Into “Sugar Tits,” Her Most Defiant Single Yet
Paula Tartell spent one night in her Brooklyn bedroom writing a song under the name someone used to diminish her. “Sugar Tits” started as a…
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…
“I’m a Solitary Wolf”: Our Rare Interview With the Visual Artist Who Refuses Social Media—Piergiorgio Corallo on His Debut Album “In via di sviluppo”
Today we have something different! An interview with artist and musician Piergiorgio Corallo from the Italian region of Puglia, who has just released his debut…
“If They Use It Cynically, I Walk Away”: JD Days Set Boundaries for Their Christmas Songs
A Christmas album in 2025 is a genre that long ago transformed into background noise for supermarkets. JD Days decided to take this tired format…
Sujae Jung and Wolf Stratmann: “Jazz for Us Has Always Been About Community and Connection”
Jung Stratmann Quartet has released Confluence — an album featuring New York scene legends Steve Cardenas and Marco Djordjevic. Korean pianist Sujae Jung and German…
Francis’ Scream: “If I Had Listened to the Perfectionist in Me, I Wouldn’t Have Released Anything at All”
Francis’ Scream released his first music this year. The singles are guitar-heavy and scraped clean of anything that might smooth over the edges. They arrived…
Lux Griffith: “I Really Feel Like I’m Somebody Different Every Day, I Just Go Wherever That Takes me”
Lux Griffith. The name came from a matchbox. The surname was borrowed from a Berserk character. Jordane Sagot from Nantes calls it a lucky charm—a…
DominiNiobe Is Ready to Share What She’s Been Hearing: “My Music Isn’t About Forgetting, It’s About Reconnecting”
The Roman producer spent a decade making music in private. Now, as a nurse working in prisons and hospitals, she’s channeling what she’s witnessed into…
“Provocation Is Just Another Way of Asking Our Listeners to Pay Attention” — ShitNoise: Unmasking Experimental Rock
The French troublemakers’ fourth album is a genre-bending statement. Frontman Aleksejs Macions explains why they’re doing this. When a band calls themselves ShitNoise, it’s either…
Ahead of His Autumn Concerts, James Lisney Explains Why He’s Been Studying the Same Beethoven Sonatas for 40 Years
Potsdam, 1747. An old man from Leipzig, two days on the road, sits down at Frederick the Great’s newfangled fortepiano and begins improvising on the…
“Motherhood Didn’t Erase The Rest Of Me—It Expanded The Map.” Inside Bernice Marsala’s Reimagined Life Between Nursery Runs and Nashville Studios
The Nashville songwriter talks about recording two versions of the same song at once, raising kids between singles, and why Hell’s Kitchen makes better comfort…
Percheye: The Sofa as a Metaphor for Transformation — “Music Didn’t Kill My Shyness — It Just Taught Me How To Live With It”
Paris-based musician Tristan Rolland, frontman of the band Percheye, assembled a full band and released the EP SOFA — five tracks about family trauma, ego,…
Sybax: “We Don’t Identify With This Logic” The Caen Duo Talk Canceled Gigs, Buried EPs, and Why Their 22-Minute Track Isn’t For TikTok
When French post-rock duo Sybax name their songs after English towns—Bolton, Poole, Fareham—it’s not wanderlust. It’s spite. These were supposed to be tour dates, twin…
Diana Ringo — The Wolf in the Feed: “I’m not trying to be liked — I’m making art”
Diana Ringo doesn’t do anything halfway. The Finnish artist—classically trained pianist, film composer, BBC Radio 3 broadcast veteran, and director of three feature films—has spent…
“Some who are eyes closed and I feel they’re making a deep inner trip within themselves.” -ii- On Rituals, New Album, and How to Listen to It
There’s something about industrial and gothic rock music that nobody tells you: it’s always been sensual, speaking truth through dark chords and thick fog. That’s…
‘Stripping a Song Back Forces You to Face It’—Terra Renae Reimagines Her Hits
Terra Renae’s story reads like an improbable constellation of moments: a childhood tragedy, a chance encounter with Macy Gray in Los Angeles, a doctoral degree,…
In Conversation: hoxie rae on Rage, Healing, and Finding Her Voice in the Wreckage
There’s something disarming about talking to someone who’s just learned they’re allowed to take up space. hoxie rae—the New York-based singer-songwriter behind the smoldering new…
Aïda Lahlou’s “Mirrors and Echoes” Pairs Brahms With 14th-Century Andalusian Songs: “On the Surface They Look Like They Couldn’t Be More Remote, But They Share the Same Fundamental Feeling”
Can you imagine a girl from Casablanca sitting down at a piano at age five, and fifteen years later already soloing with the Royal Symphony…
“Uncertainty is quite the main reason I write music” — Candid Interview With Nikita Lev
Nikita Lev’s latest single “No One Is Gonna” feels like a quiet implosion. Built on a hypnotic pulse and unflinching lyrics, the track reflects the…
Simon Called Peter: From One Bold Album to Another Without Ever Meeting
Look, I honestly tried to understand what’s happening with music in 2025. Half the artists are recording tracks in their bedrooms on their phones, the…
“Being an independent artist, I get to decide everything, for better and for worse.” — Nadia Essah on Freedom, Experimentation, and Personal Truth
Nadia Essah is a twenty-six-year-old Norwegian-Moroccan songwriter and producer whose music blends jazz, R&B, and soul with a keen sense of rhythm and melody. After…
“We Don’t Sit Down Thinking Let’s Make 60s Music” – Date of Birth Discuss Debut Album, Mental Health Themes, and Norway’s Underrated Music Scene
Sometimes you spend weeks trying to pin down an artist for a chat, and Date of Birth was definitely one of those cases. Between studio…
Bullying, Rebellion, and Resilience in “Cœur Wanted”: Jeremie Soyan’s Exclusive Interview
“Cœur Wanted” is a conceptual work that immediately declares Jeremie Soyan’s serious artistic ambitions. The project delves deeply into the story of a young dreamer…
Evenlee’s First Interview Since Their Return: “The Last Ten Years Have Been a Seriously Wild Ride”
The husband-and-wife duo Evenlee has officially returned to music after a ten-year absence, releasing their highly anticipated new single “Narrow.” Jonathan and Evelyn, who first…
Leepeck: “Art is about searching, and sometimes the search takes us to unexpected places…”Finding Folk Between Mountain Cabins and New York Streets
Today, we’re sitting down with Leepeck, a singer-songwriter from Warsaw who is steadily carving out his place in the world of folk and Americana. He…
MOANA: “The Song Felt Like It Wrote Itself” – Inside the Making of ‘Butterflies (Compromises)’
Moana is an artist who is not easy to catch for a moment, and that is exactly what makes our conversation more valuable. Between tours,…
“We need real voices more than ever.” Clay Goodman on Indie Music, AI, and Why His New Single ‘Such Fun’ Matters Now
Back in 2017, somewhere between dead-end retail shifts and late-night guitar strumming on a beat-up acoustic, Clay Goodman wrote a song called Such Fun. He…
Lanz Pierce: Rap Rebel, Sex Symbol, and CEO Proving That Power Looks Good On a Woman
If you don’t know Lanz Pierce yet, you’re about to. She toured with Snoop at 17, landed her first deal via Jimmy Iovine, and casually…
“If you’re going to say it, say it with your whole chest.” Miles Jenson on Walking Out, Speaking Up, and Starting Fresh
Golden hour spills across a dusty Nashville attic while Miles Jenson coaxes life from a scarred upright piano. Sweat beads, wood creaks, sunlight licks brass…
“I’m proud of every brick I’m laying” — Pop Stardom, Imperfect Dreams, and The Reality Luke Rhodes Is Creating
Pop music these days can be weird. It can be shiny, glossy, and as empty as a birthday balloon three weeks later, or it can…
“I want success, not fame” — Mira. on Identity, Vulnerability, and Finding Power in the In-Between
Artists often claim their music blends various influences, and usually, that just means a predictable Spotify playlist dressed up as innovation. But Mira. genuinely embodies…
“We Are the Memory of Africa” — Inside the World of Daouda Diabatè
Daouda Diabatè is an artist whose music goes far beyond playlists, trends, or streaming numbers. For him, creativity is inseparable from history, tradition, and a…
The Blueprint Survived — Bleak Returns the Way It Was Always Meant To: Exclusive Interview with the Band’s Frontman
Bleak is back. Back to clear the wreckage, call things by their name, and prove they’re still alive — and burning even brighter than before.…
‘Pop should be fun. Loud. Sweet. A little unhinged. Like baking at 2am:’ Amelie Jat on Stardom, Stage Life, and Still Texting Her Mom About Outfits
It’s easy to pretend pop music is just about sugar and shimmer. Easy to assume it’s all about catchy hooks, glossy production, maybe a dance…
Marie Minet On Crossing Borders, Breaking Patterns, And Building A New Sound: “I wanted it to feel like a live album — a jam, composed and recorded at the same time”
Marie Minet began her musical journey with the album Clair Obscur, where the delicate lyricism of French chanson intertwined effortlessly with echoes of Cape Verde…
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