For her newly-released fifth album, The Loneliest Time, Carly Rae Jepsen worked on over 100 songs.

Collaborating with a range of producers including Rostam, Bullion, Lewis OfMan and Patrik Berger, often via…

Fauness, the recording project of London artist Cora Gilroy-Ware, draws heavily from mythology.

Her band name speaks of a pseduo-mythical creature, a female half-human/half-goat creature, that was invented anew by rococo sculptors in…

In 2020, Phoebe Lou found herself in "identity crisis" mode. The Melburnian musician's band, Two People, came to a sudden end with the release of their second LP, Second Body. In the…

When iLe —33-year-old Puerto Rican artist Ileana Cabra Joglar— released her second solo album, Almadura, in 2019, she conceived of it as a protest record.

"I was very angry at the time,"…

On the closing song on the latest album by Jordaan Mason, the 35-year-old Canadian cult songwriter recruits a chorus of friends to belt out a defiant refrain: "I don't want to make art…

In the wake of her breakout debut LP, 2017's Morningside, Amelia Murray —the New Zealand songwriter and producer who records as Fazerdaze— was struggling to write a follow-up. She had ideas, but couldn't…

Growing up in Guatemala City, cellist/songwriter/soundscaper Mabe Fratti was raised in an evangelical household. Though she outright rejects religion now, the 30-year-old sees one key influence of her upbringing lingering in her music…

Across three albums out front of Philadelphia combo 2nd Grade —2018's Wish You Were Here Tour, 2020's Hit To Hit, and 2022's Easy Listening— Peter Gill has penned a run…

Silvana Estrada was born into a musical family. Her parents are luthiers: her mother builds violins and violas, her father, cellos and double basses.

Raised in Coatepec, a mountain town on the outskirts…

Singer-songwriter Marina Allen lives, these days, in Los Angeles, but she wrote the songs for her second record, Centrifics, in a different iconic Golden State location: amongst the towering redwoods of Northern…