Drama, the second solo record for Rodrigo Amarante —the 44-year-old Carioca songwriter who led the Brazilian band Los Hermanos for four albums before relocating to Los Angeles— opens with an odd overture…

With his perfect quiff and smooth tenor, Kiwi singer-songwriter Anthonie Tonnon looks and sounds a lot like a classic crooner. But the 35-year-old Dunedinite is also, in his own way, an activist.

His…

When Chrystia Cabral played her first-ever show as SPELLLING, in her hometown of Sacramento, California, she was so gripped by stage-fright that she cut short her set, left the stage, left the venue…

"I wanted to create a sensationalised fairytale version of [my life]," says Slayyyter, of her new LP, Troubled Paradise.

"It's a little more personal than my music in the past, which has…

"There's a difference between lonely and lonesome, but I'm both all the time," Faye Webster sings, on her 3rd album, I Know I'm Funny haha. It's a great line that suggests the…

Across Ella Williams' second Squirrel Flower LP, Planet (i), there's two major recurring motifs in her lyrical imagery: cars and roads and highways; and then weather, in the form of storms and…

Mannequin Pussy had big plans for 2020. Fresh off the release of their all-conquering third LP, Patience, the Philadelphia punks were going to spend the year touring, play Coachella, and revel in…

Lily Konigsberg wrote her first song when she was 2 years old. She was in Florida, with her dad, holding his hand in a pool, and sung the melodic refrain: "oooooh ooh-ooh-oooh, you…

When English folkie Billie Marten first set out making her third LP, in 2019, she felt like "something was about to burst". Both within herself —after signing a record deal at 15 and…

On her fourth album, Sparkles & Debris, Canadian composer and songwriter Lydia Ainsworth laced her songs with spells. Like, literally, in the lyrics: Ainsworth incanting charmed collections of words amidst her songs…