I t’s just past noon on a Wednesday in North Hollywood, and Wisp only has a few hours left to rehearse before she leaves for a global tour the next morning. Tucked inside an unassuming rehearsal space complete with a bustling coffee shop, 21-year-old singer-songwriter Natalie Lu admits she’s nervous. …
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G rowing up in small-town Missouri in the late 2000s and early 2010s, Casey Gomez Walker was an indie kid, searching out the lyrics to her favorite songs by the Shins and LCD Soundsystem, scrolling through posts on Tumblr, and dreaming of a wider world. That was enough to make …
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M arcus Brown is eyeballing the couch in the corner of the listening room at XL Recordings’ SoHo office in New York. After observing the stitching on the leather and checking out the chrome framing, he quickly asks his publicist if it’s for sale. “My apartment kind of sucks,” Brown, …
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T o tell the truth, Andry Kiddos can’t remember exactly when he started producing music. He must have been around 13 or 14, just tinkering around on a couple of programs he downloaded from the internet, but before he knew it, he was making full-blown songs. “It was just about …
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T here’s a peculiar rhythm to a Dutch Interior song, one that never quite settles where you’d expect it to. Guitars jangle and lurch, drums press forward then pull back, vocals arrive a half-step late or early, as if someone’s letting you in on something they’ve just realized themselves. The …
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T he doors of the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles felt like a vortex last Friday: Fans walked in wearing Hawaiian shirts, leis, and tropical flower clip-ins, ready to be transported into the Elvis Presley Blue Hawaii world of Remy Bond. A burlesque dancer opened the show, and for …
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S ome connections are cosmically fated. Justine Dorsey and Graham Epstein first met on the dating app Hinge, bonded by an affinity for the type of breezy, infectious pop music from the early aughts. Both happened to be born on the same day in 1995, adding to the mystical alignment …
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S ome connections are cosmically fated. Justine Dorsey and Graham Epstein first met on the dating app Hinge, bonded by an affinity for the type of breezy, infectious pop music from the early aughts. Both happened to be born on the same day in 1995, adding to the mystical alignment …
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L ast spring, Lily Seabird was walking through downtown Burlington, Vermont, around 1 a.m., singing to herself. Still a little buzzed from a night out, her phone long past dead, she sang the words out loud as they came to her: “We walk these streets we’ve come to know/Memories live …
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Y ou wouldn’t quite call Obongjayar a rapper today, but back in 2016, he caught the eye of Richard Russell — the influential British producer who helped launch Adele’s career and heads the indie label XL Recordings— with a freestyle over Kendrick Lamar’s “u” from To Pimp a Butterfly. The …
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