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Noname’s Fearless Complexity
Talking politics, sex, and radical human engagement with the rapper around the recent block party she organized to celebrate community, activism, and her brilliant new album, Sundial.
Life, Death, and Disco in Ibiza With Róisín Murphy
The puckish singer looks back on a career spent sharpening pop’s outer edges and forward to her surreal, DJ Koze-produced new album, Hit Parade.
Yaeji Gets Ragey
Hitting a rage room and chilling in the studio with the left-field pop artist, whose new album With a Hammer turns anger into introspection.
Welcome to Kali Uchis’ High-Femme Fantasy
Bouncing in a lowrider and chilling at home with the L.A.-based singer, whose music opens up a world of mischief and beauty, luxury and vulnerability.
Wednesday’s Curdled Beauty
Led by frontwoman Karly Hartzman, these Asheville, North Carolina underdogs turn the rubble of everyday life into swerving guitar anthems.
There Is Nothing Duval Timothy Can’t Do
Based in London and Freetown, Sierra Leone, the composer, pianist, producer, professional soccer player, fashion designer, cookbook author, and Kendrick Lamar collaborator is creating his own DIY oasis.
Alvvays Enter Their Epiphany Era
The Canadian indie rockers explain how they shed the pressures of the past in order to make their most unruly and brilliant album yet.
Alex G Is Building a Mystery
Indie rock’s normcore hero on God, dogs, and his wild new album
Tinashe Has It All Under Control
After years of major label blues, the R&B siren has settled into a sweet spot of independent bliss. What now?
The Radical Joy of MUNA’s Queer Pop
We tag along with the band as they get matching tattoos of their 7.7 Pitchfork score. (It was their idea.)
He’s Just Bartees Strange, Baby
First he wanted to be an NFL star, then a political powerhouse, now a genre-busting rock star.
Sharon Van Etten Is an Institution Now
After more than a decade as an indie-rock fixture, and with her sixth album on the way, the singer-songwriter is resolute amid a world spiraling into chaos.
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Soccer Mommy Slays Her Demons
After hitting a crushing low around the release of her last album, singer-songwriter Sophie Allison is back with a new attitude and a bold new record produced by Oneohtrix Point Never’s Daniel Lopatin.
Cate Le Bon Chooses Absurdity
Coming from a Welsh tradition of the surreal, the singer-songwriter is forever trying to capture that which cannot be said.
Helado Negro Is Dancing Out the Anxiety of Modern Life
After breaking through with music that compassionately distills the Latinx experience, singer-songwriter Roberto Carlos Lange looks within on his hypnotic forthcoming album.
Japanese Breakfast Is Working the Pain Away
With her third album and a memoir arriving this spring, indie multi-hyphenate Michelle Zauner is choosing to embrace joy in every form.
The Weather Station Battles Climate-Change Anxiety, One Song at a Time
Singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman talks about confronting the emotional fallout of looming environmental disaster on her new album, Ignorance.
By the Time You Read This, Sada Baby Will Probably Have Another Song Out
What it’s like to spend an afternoon with rap’s most prolific and unpredictable new star.
Destroyer’s Dan Bejar Serenades the Apocalypse
In Vancouver with indie rock’s most lovable curmudgeon
Clairo Has Something to Prove
In the immediate aftermath of her viral stardom, Claire Cottrill was underprepared and overwhelmed. Then she got to work.
The Relentless Determination of Vagabon
With a new album, and a dramatically different sound, Laetitia Tamko wants to be nothing less than the best—and she’s putting in the work to make it happen.
Bill Callahan the Family Man
With his first new album in six years, the deep voice of American solitude makes an unlikely case for domestic bliss.