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By Danielle Chelosky In several ways, Sasami Ashworth’s life has been leading up to this moment. Studying classical music through middle school and high school, the Los Angeles-based artist has been refining her ear since she was a kid. Right after furthering her research in college, she became a music teacher while touring with bands part-time. It was once she was assisting Bright..
Read MoreHer Instagram bio declares her a "emo alphabet girl," however Gayle grew up making nation music. Or at least, that's where she began. At 17 years old, the Nashville-based artist still has several years of growing up ahead of her. Nevertheless you wouldn't necessarily know it from the cheekily titled "ABCDEFU," her power chord-aided single that's currently sitting at No. 8 on the Billb..
Read MoreBy Ashley Oken On a recent Friday afternoon, musician Jeris Johnson, 25, ran his fingers through his blond hair while settling into a nondescript hotel room in Nashville immediately after a frenzied few days of traveling on his first tour. Wearing a hat emblazoned with the message “Make Rock Wonderful Again,” Johnson shared his thoughts on the state of the genre of which his Inst..
Read MoreBy Grant Sharples “Watershed,” the closing track on indie-folk songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s first solo record in 10 years, is a reflection of where her life has taken her. Despite releasing her last collection, Young Man in America, in 2012, she’s stayed notoriously busy while in that timeframe. Her 2010 studio album, Hadestown, was transmogrified into a full-blown Broadway m..
Read MoreBy Dani Blum Grace Cummings makes songs that sound like she’s ripping them raw from her throat. The Australian singer-songwriter wails and howls and shudders; this is intense, elaborate folk music that seems physically taxing, as if she’s fighting to drag each ragged syllable out of her mouth. Her voice is the main event. There’s a urgency inherent in her shaking vocals, the se..
Read MoreBy Max Freedman It’s easy to forget that Lindsey Jordan, the frontperson of esteemed Baltimore indie-rock musical group Snail Mail, was literally a teenager while in her breakout moment – up until she reminds you in the most subtly brutal way. “I was really overwhelmed by a lot of decisions that I had to make,” she tells MTV News about the months surrounding the release of he..
Read MoreBy Ted Davis in case you follow underground rock music, there’s a good chance that you have at least heard the name Palberta. For 10 years, the New York City musical group worked hard to carve a niche for themselves in the indie scene, touting an angular, sludgy sound that falls somewhere between The Raincoats and Palm. At its front is Lily Konigsberg, a quirky songwriter whose ene..
Read MoreBy Grant Sharples Each person understands that sound. Right after pressing play, that unforgettable melody materializes and bubbles up to the surface just in time for the opening chorus. It’s not exactly welcoming; it’s high-pitched and uncanny, unconventional characteristics for one of the most ubiquitous pop songs of the new millennium. Still, it’s one of the catchiest hooks ..
Read MoreGiana Caliolo wouldn’t be anywhere without their people. It’s a fact the musician and songwriter, who records under the moniker Calicoco, underscores throughout a recent hour-long conversation about Underneath, their loud, bold, and bloodletting new album out Friday (September 3) that was created with eight fellow instrumentalists, some of whom also acted as recording engineers..
Read MoreBy Beau Hayhoe A curious thing happened right before Big Red Machine reported its new album, How Long Do you know It’s Gonna Last? (out today on 37d03d/Jagjaguwar). Because the social accounts of the indie folk duo (The National’s Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon) flickered to life, one could sense larger forces at play. Rumors buzzed on Reddit, tweets took off, and ..
Read MoreBy Max Freedman Indigo de Souza writes about thrilling moments of personalized revelation as though finally cementing a long-fomenting, rather specific feeling is the ultimate emotional release. Whenever she sings, “Now that everyone’s gone, I can tell you the truth / I don’t love you, I like you!” On 2018’s “Take Off Ur Pants,” she yelps it with so much ecstasy and lib..
Read MoreCharlie Watts, who'd been the drummer for The Rolling Stones since joining the order in 1963 shortly right after its inception, has died, his spokesperson confirmed by means of the a note posted to the band's social media accounts. He was 80. "It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of our beloved Charlie Watts. He passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier tod..
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