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A bout a year ago, Lifeguard had an epiphany. They’d been hammering away on a 10-minute noise suite in their hometown of Chicago, layering waves of improvised cacophony into a fearsome slab of sound that they hoped would anchor their full-length debut. Then they realized they didn’t need it. “We …

I f you had been one of the two other shoppers browsing the trinkets at the empty Sherman Oaks Antique Mall in early April, you probably would have seen a couple who looked like they’d time traveled from the Renaissance era. They were staring at a two-headed taxidermied rodent with …

B efore Sara Landry became a hard techno master, she was an angsty teen in Austin with a calling for underground sounds. She’d sit in the pews of a nondenominational Christian church with her family and begrudgingly listen to sermons and choir hymns. Though she identified as a teen atheist, …

N ew York’s a hard place to do psychedelics,” GIFT frontman TJ Freda says. “It’s really intense here. Stuff’s always moving so quick, and everyone’s getting thrown around. … I’ll save the big cathartic, psychedelic experiences for really special moments.” That said, the city’s hectic pace hasn’t stopped him or …

A s soon as you hear their celestial harmonies, you need to find them. If you happened to be looking for them on a cold afternoon in February 2024, you would have found the band of four siblings sitting in the Rolling Stone offices, strumming acoustic guitars. Their layered voices …

T here’s no fucking way I want to die on stage in my last song,” Sofía Valdés says. It’s not that she has an irrational fear of performing or anything like that; Valdés’ career as a musician is more fated than most. She’s the great-granddaughter of two legendary Latin music …

T here’s no mistaking Echo Mars for anything but a rock star. It’s in the way they carry themselves through the world, with a quick, confident step and a starchild aura that evokes Bolan, Bowie, and multiple characters from the 1998 film Velvet Goldmine. It’s in their ink — DRAMA …

M any 20-year-olds count down until they can flash an ID in exchange for a drink on their 21st birthday. For the artist Lexa Gates, turning 21 marked the first day of her sobriety. “I just started feeling like, ‘That’s actually lame as fuck now that it’s legal,’” the cat-eyed …

T he singer Judeline — whose real name is Lara Fernández Castrelo — has always let her imagination guide her. Growing up, she was a dreamy kid in a tiny, 200-person seaside town called Los Caños de Meca. There, she’d put on elaborate shows for her family, pretending to be …

M aude Latour’s fans have described her music as being for people who “had glow-in-the-dark stars on their ceilings” as kids. These days, Latour sees her music as “main-character” pop anthems for dramatic people with intense emotions, like herself. “It’s for any girly who needs to put their headphones on, …