When Japanese-American musician Mei Semones wrote the song Hfoas in 2020, she felt like she'd come upon something different. Growing up, though she'd studied jazz guitar, the songs Semones wrote for herself were…

"When I listen to this record, I can't help but move and dance," says Hayden Dunham, of their second album as Hyd, Hold Onto Me Infinity. "It's almost like, on a cellular…

When LA pop trio MUNA released their single Big Stick, in advance of their fourth album Dancing on the Wall, they described it as 'the most overtly political song' they'd ever…

The striking cover art for Johnny's Dreamworld, the debut album for London art-rock outfit Modern Woman, shows two girls fighting in a field, arms flailing, faces blurred.

Shot by photographer Sandra Ebert…

"This is a guitar-rock post-punk band, that's the DNA of the sound of the albums," says Tim Darcy, frontman of the Montréal-born combo Cola.

Speaking with Anthony Carew on The International Pop Underground…

Julia Cumming's My Life —the opening song and first single from her debut solo LP, Julia— is quite the introduction.

It finds the 30-year-old musician, longtime member of the rock outfit Sunflower…

The new fourth album for Gia Margaret is called Singing. Its title is literal —the 38-year-old Chicagoan songwriter is indeed singing across the record— but also celebratory.

In 2019, touring behind her…

"The idea of this album came about when I met my partner two years ago, and fell in love," says Anjimile, of his new LP, You're Free to Go. The sixth album…

Mārara, the debut album for the Parisian collective 15 15, is a concept record. Charting a day in the life on the fictional titular island, it's a bright, sunkissed record that expands…

Like many debutantes, 28-year-old Swedish songwriter waterbaby has spent a long time working up towards her first album.

"It's been a long journey with a slow burn," she says. "I've always been singing…