Deep in the Cat Cafe With Kassie Krut
The Queens trio Kassie Krut hotwires IDM, punk, and much more into a subterranean club sound that feels like the future.
Going Up
Profiles of artists we love who are on the verge of breaking through
11 articles
FearDorian Is Smashing Through the Boundaries of Internet Rap
The 18-year-old Atlantan combines the pulse of club music and the vulnerability of emo to mesmerizing effect.
Finding Infinity in SML’s Cyborg Jazz
In the L.A. band’s music, the human and the machine are often indistinguishable.
Ginger Root’s Life Is a Movie
The SoCal multi-instrumentalist writes love letters to 1980s Japan through his elaborately world-building visuals and city pop-tinged funk-lite jams.
Emory’s Post-TikTok Pop
Here’s an impressive young artist who would much rather spend time building a real-life community around her work than figure out how to promote herself online.
The Luisa Almaguer Experience Awaits
The Mexico City singer-songwriter—who conjures a phantasmagoric mix of psych-rock, folk, and cumbia—is as complex as the capital she calls home.
The Hot-Pink Effervescence of Judith, Chingona Pop Star-in-Waiting
A 27-year-old restaurant server made some of the best pop songs of the year
Blackchai Is Indie Rap’s Next Not-So-Silent Assassin
The New Yorker’s head-spinning verses burst with leftist ideology, anime shout-outs, and nervy introspection.
Charlie Overman Is the Young Kentucky Sweetheart Country Music Needs
On a horse farm with the 22-year-old singer-songwriter, talking about his sludge metal past and his bittersweet odes to his best friends.
Lollise’s Afrofuturistic Pop Utopia
The Botswana-raised, New York-based artist talks about her dazzling pan-African paeans to family, fables, and home.