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“I got a spreadsheet for you!” drummer/co-vocalist Nadirah “Nadi” McGill of Minneapolis’ rock group Gully Boys tells Rolling Stone. The indie band is in Los Angeles, in the middle of a 24-date tour that includes stops at Austin’s South by Southwest festival and Boise’s Treefort Music Fest. While McGill pulls …

Sarah Beth Tomberlin has only lived in New York for a short time, but she leads the life of a native. The artist, who performs as Tomberlin, owns a Honda Civic, but she usually leaves it parked near her Brooklyn apartment, choosing instead to wander the boroughs by foot — …

When Wilco are putting together the lineup for their biannual Solid Sound Festival, they have just one rule: If they love it, it’s in. “Everybody in the band keeps a running dream list of people that we would like to play with or to see,” says Jeff Tweedy, calling from …

Kikagaku Moyo literally speak their own language. The group’s lyrics consist entirely of invented syllables — phonetic sounds that complement their intricate looping riffs. But singing in tongues hasn’t stopped this Japanese quintet from connecting with audiences around the world. Since getting together in 2012, the band has gone from …

When Lucky Daye attended the Grammy Awards in Las Vegas last weekend, he was thinking optimistically. “I pull up every time they nominate me,” the 36-year-old singer said shortly before the ceremony, at which he took home a Best Progressive R&B Album trophy for his 2021 EP, Table for Two. …

A few days after Russia invaded Ukraine, singer-turned-soldier Andriy Khlyvnyuk posted video of himself belting “The Red Viburnum in the Meadow” — a folk song about the country’s strength in the face of adversity — to Instagram. The vocalist, who fronts the Kyiv group Boombox, had hoped to be playing …

Nic Collins isn’t exactly sure where he is at the moment, but he’s somewhere in Florida between Miami and St. Petersburg. Six days before speaking with Rolling Stone, he played drums at the final date of the last Genesis show at the 02 Arena in London, and now he’s in …

The energy on the waters of San Juan’s Balneario de Carolina on March 24 was majestic but stormy. Tropical rain and wind buffeted the opening night of Afro Nation Puerto Rico, muddying the festival grounds and sending some festivalgoers ducking for cover while others danced in the mist. But another …

Rock fiends everywhere mourned last fall when the Montreal art-punk quartet Ought announced they were calling it quits. The news abruptly ended one of the past decade’s most adventurous indie runs, with the righteous fury of gems like 2014’s More Than Any Other Day and 2015’s Sun Coming Down. Enter …

Obongjayar, a London-based, Nigeria-born music maker influenced by afrobeat, soul and hip-hop, is thinking about things from the inside-out on his recent single “Tinko Tinko (Don’t Play Me For A Fool).” After a quick and romantic EP with popular Afrobeats producer Sarz last year, Obongjayar’s upcoming debut album, Some Nights …