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In his round X-ray specs and solar-system button-up, Garrett T. Capps looks like he’s just emerged from the farthest reaches of outer space. The San Antonio musician sounds like it, too. Since forming his band NASA Country in 2017, Capps has been working to introduce an unconventional new sound into …

Across their EP Abismos, sisters Valeria and Valentina Perez are perfectly in sync, their diaphanous voices winding in and out of each other to create unexpected harmonies at every turn. As preternatural as it sounds, they admit it took them a while to find the sense of unity that’s defined …

When a new neighborhood or scene hits the New York cultural pavement, there’s an inevitable jolt to the social life that its citizens occupy. Restaurants become talked about like a transgressive rumor; bars become packed with either the coolest or worst people alive. Articles – some of them kind, and …

They say that rock is dying, guitar solos are old news, and kids today don’t like that kind of noise. OK, sure —but have they heard Hello Mary? The New York trio’s self-titled full-length debut, out March 3, is a blast of distorted chords, sunny harmonies, and all-consuming angst that …

Seated among plaques of Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Lil Wayne at Noble Studios in Harlem,the Charlotte-raised rapper Mavi tells me about how a chance encounter with Zora Neale Hurston’s You Don’t Know Us Negroes helped change the direction of his life. Earlier this year, he read her essay about High …

Ice Spice hasn’t seen much of Atlanta yet when we speak on the phone in September, but she’s already formed the kind of assessment you’d expect from a tried-and-true New Yorker. “It kind of looks like Jersey a little,” she says. The 22-year-old rapper is in town for the first …

Quando Rondo is comfortable at home in Savannah, Georgia. During our conversation, the 23-year-old rapper can be overheard telling someone leaving the house to “stay safe” and calmly answering “Yes, Granny” during another juncture. He sounds at peace. But that’s not the whole story. Violence has continually hit close to …

When Latto appears in the lobby of the Sea Fire Grill, a seafood restaurant in midtown Manhattan, it’s apparent that she is on edge. As is everyone else: Her entourage has preceded her arrival by a few minutes, trickling in in twos and threes, until there are 12 of us …

Ask any young woman in pop today whose songs she first sang into her hairbrush as a child, and at the drop of a hat, or wig, she might tell you it was Britney, or Beyoncé, or Dolly, or Mariah. As a little girl in the capital of the Dominican …