Sad13 in Sixty Seconds or So
On ‘1331,’ Sadie Dupuis wrote, performed, and mixed her own theme songs, and she would like the record to show she is not an easy hang.
The Animal Songs of Nina Winder-Lind
The New Eves’ cellist straps on an electric guitar for ‘Wild Love,’ a debut solo album of bruises, breath, and a closing salute to her foremothers.
The Warm, Cosmic Company of megiapa
On megiapa’s ‘Intentions,’ voice notes from her grandmother, her mother, and her closest friends drift through the synth haze, a family album cut to beats.
Elanor Moss's English Solitude
Good and evil sit in the same character, the same song, and — Moss suspects — the same person, a Catholic inheritance she hears throughout 'The Knife, The Needle.'
Mother, Father, Daughter, Mother — MuMu's Family Album
Her mother remembers love, her father says there was none, and 'The Brothel: A Musical Memoir' lets both accounts stand before handing the story to the next generation.
Yuka Honda's Impossible Dreams — On Celebrating Yoko Ono
For Honda, an artistic format is a language rather than an identity — a conviction she shares with Ono, and one that made curating a tribute feel less like a departure than a translation.
Shana Falana, the Goddess Party, and a Cult Worth Joining
The Hudson Valley musician and Goddess Party founder on self-marriage, Bulgarian choral music, and running a benevolent hierarchy, ahead of 'The Wedding,' a two-night rite of borrowed gowns and mirror-held vows.
Silly by Design — Chinese American Bear's Accidental Path to Indie Pop
The Seattle-based duo of Anne Tong and Bryce Barsten speak about their new album 'Dim Sum & Then Some,' the band that began as a Mandarin lesson, their DIY aesthetic, and the unexpected resonance their music carries for Chinese American audiences.
Folk Memory, Living Sound — Zosha Warpeha's Resonant Rooms
Drawing on Nordic folk lineage and the acoustic personality of grand marble rooms, Zosha Warpeha's 'I grow accustomed to the dark' is less an album about darkness than a slow revelation of what lives inside it.
Charlotte Cornfield's Hard-Won Reckoning
Charlotte Cornfield's album 'Hurts Like Hell' maps a songwriter's life from drink-ticket gigs in Montreal to the steadier ground of family, community, and creative confidence in Toronto.
Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart — Three Points of a Creative Shape
Longtime friends and Chicago scene veterans, Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart have turned 'BODY SOUND' into a record of real-time improvisation, physical tape manipulation, and an unexpected kinship with Yoko Ono's 'Grapefruit'.
Sibyl and the Unbroken Channel
The Holgate sisters discuss their self-titled debut, the eccentric visionary women — from Hildegard von Bingen to Emily Dickinson — who populate their vocal lineage, and the uncanny resonance two siblings can achieve when they know each other almost too well.