In October 2014, Australian pop star Betty Who released her impeccable debut album, Take Me When You Go, a sparkly-eyed collection of songs that SPIN dubbed its favorite pop…
Will Toledo, the main brain behind Car Seat Headrest, is glad that it's not 2013 anymore. A few years ago, the bedroom-pop luminary was in a "purgatorial"
Chicago scuzz-mongers Twin Peaks have always been heavily indebted to the '60s — their second album, 2014's Wild Onion, even referenced the Beach Boys in…
Brooklyn's St. Lucia specialize in synth-pop anthems so effortlessly danceable it's hard to imagine frontman Jean-Philip Grobler struggling with his inner demons to write them, but that's exactly what happened when…
Earlier this year, when the time came to write their sophomore album, Bleached sisters Jen and Jessie Clavin, along with bassist Micayla Grace, cut themselves…
Aluna Francis cried while writing a song on her as-yet-untitled sophomore album with producer George Reid as London dancewave duo AlunaGeorge. Co-written with synth-punk mistress…
When the girl group Fifth Harmony formed in 2012 on the U.S. version of Simon Cowell's immensely popular British hit, The X-Factor, nobody quite understood what a…
It's late August when Nick Jonas releases "Levels," the lead single from his upcoming, as-yet-untitled new album. Though the former JoBro only just released his self-titled solo debut…
It's Week Three of recording for Modern Baseball at their Philadelphia studio, and singer/guitarist Brendan Lukens is pissing off the rest of his band. He's…
Tacocat are busy recording their third LP, but they can't yet say what form it'll take. They aren't being purposefully evasive; the rambunctious Seattle bubblegum-rock outfit typically save the…
Mark 2015 as the year of the Real Estate solo album. To date, frontman Martin Courtney has mostly chilled out during the downtime following last year's…
