MUSIC / House Arrest

Actor, musician, singer and activist Rain Phoenix started singing with her brother River at age three. At sixteen she joined his band ... More

California born, England-based musician Jesca Hoop initially emerged as a protege of Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits—Waits once described Hoop’s music as ... More

At age three, Lillie Mae was touring bluegrass festivals with her family band—living out of a motorhome, surrounded by gospel music, and ... More

Illuminati Hotties is the creative outlet for self-proclaimed “tenderpunk pioneer” Sarah Tudzin, a songwriter, producer and singer who recently emerged as a ... More

Kansas City-raised songwriter Anna St. Louis made a stir in the LA music scene last year with her cassette First Tapes (2017), ... More

With most of Winnetka Bowling League’s members growing up in the San Fernando Valley, it’s no surprise that the area’s culture, history ... More

  She’s been a literature scholar at Harvard, a touring instrumentalist in a folk-rock band and a film composer, but Vera Sola’s ... More

Since meeting at a performing arts school in Melbourne, Australia, Olivia Hally and Pepita Emmerichs of Oh Pep! have wowed audiences with ... More

Los Angeles-based California soul/psychedelic country band Valley Queen are racking up praise for their new album Supergiant (2018). The album’s title track ... More

After her band Carissa’s Wierd broke up in 2003, singer-songwriter Jenn Champion focused on her solo career. On her latest album, Single ... More

Austin-based singer Molly Burch burst onto the indie music scene with her debut album Please Be Mine last year, recording the ten-song ... More

Misty Boyce recently released her fourth album, Get Lost (2018), co-produced by friend and singer-songwriter Lera Lynn of HBO series True Detective ... More

After meeting through mutual friends in Austin, Texas, the five members of Sun June began recording their first album—and won a label ... More

Gold Star—otherwise known as Marlon Rabenreither—examines the highs, lows and in-betweens of life on his new album Uppers & Downers (Autumn Tone ... More

Miles Robbins and his evolving circle of collaborators—including Gabe Wax of The War on Drugs and Fleet Foxes—recorded Pow Pow Family Band’s ... More

Laetitia Tamko, the multi-instrumentalist and producer known as Vagabon, didn’t plan for a career in music. She had graduated from college with ... More

Originally from a small village just outside Edinburgh, Nina Nesbitt’s confessional songwriting and unique pop sound has developed quite a following. She ... More

From a small town just outside Winnipeg, 19-year-old Taylor Janzen grew up with religious family and friends who never talked about their ... More

Actress and singer-songwriter Lola Kirke began her musical journey in 2016 when she released her self-titled EP. The collection of four songs ... More

Buzzy Lee, better known as Sasha Spielberg, began writing songs when she was eight. While a student at Brown University, Spielberg formed ... More

The band Loma was born from a tour friendship between bands Cross Records (the project of Emily Cross and Cross’s former husband ... More

Lucy Rose has just wrapped what seems to be the final installment of her Something’s Changing project, which now includes this summer’s ... More

Australian singer-songwriter Stella Donnelly made quite an impact when she broke onto the indie scene last year, with her infectious and biting ... More

New York City band Sons of an Illustrious Father made a splash earlier this year with their tantalizing music video for “Extraordinary ... More

Uncle Meg is all about getting his music out there. The Brooklyn-based rapper just released his second full-length album, Can’t Stay the ... More

Austin born, New York educated and recent resident of Los Angeles Jess Williamson first came to attention with her folk debut album ... More

Electronic-pop duo Overcoats busted out onto the music scene with last year’s debut album YOUNG, hailed by critics such as Billboard and ... More

Musician Matt Lowell began writing songs while still in his home state, New York. It was there he penned what would become ... More

Award-winning New Zealand musician Marlon Williams began his music career at 17 as the frontman of The Unfaithful Ways, a band he ... More

Musician Jen Cloher’s self-titled fourth solo album is an overt declaration about where Cloher is coming from, literally and figuratively. Recorded in ... More

Dream Wife, the eponymous debut album by British/Icelandic punk trio Dream Wife, has long been anticipated by live audiences and critics alike. ... More

On the heels of last year’s Teeth & Tongue album, Give Up on Your Health, Australian musician Jess Cornelius has returned with ... More

Lourdes Hernández is the Madrilenian singer-songwriter behind the band Russian Red. Russian Red first came to prominence in her native Spain with ... More

Cut Worms is the project of Ohio-born, Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, and musician Max Clarke, who recently released his debut EP, Alien Sunset. ... More

For someone who only just released his second album, singer and songwriter Kirin J. Callinan has covered a lot of ground creatively. ... More

R&B pop artist Tei Shi, the moniker of Columbian-Canadian and New York-based musician Valerie Teicher, recently released her much anticipated debut, Crawl ... More

Alex Cameron’s Forced Witness responds to our increasing inability to escape the catastrophes, trends and news circulating the globe. The LP comes ... More

English singer-songwriter and instrumentalist Marika Hackman has just released her anticipated second album, I’m Not Your Man, via Transgressive Records. The album ... More

She-Devils vocalist Audrey Ann Boucher and bandmate Kyle Jukka met while living at a music rehearsal space in Montreal’s Mile-Ex neighborhood where ... More

“There is a darker darkness and a lighter light,” says Big Thief singer and guitarist Adrianne Lenker of the band’s newest album, ... More

Influenced by his father’s record collection of old blues, folk and country legends, Charlie Parr began playing guitar at age eight. In ... More

London-born bassist Ed Nash has been playing music seriously since age 15, when he and his friends formed indie rock band Bombay ... More

We met up with musician Gordi at Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles to record an ISSUE House Arrest and discuss her ... More

Originally from D.C, rapper Chaz French credits his music to the influence of gospel, artists like Amy Winehouse and a stint of ... More

Front man of the band Ought, Tim Darcy recently released his debut solo album, Saturday Night. Issue met up with Tim for ... More

In Double Roses, Manchester-born musician, supermodel and mother of two Karen Elson delves into the personal and confronts the vicissitudes of her ... More

L.A.-based indie-folk-Americana duo Dash Hutton and Jesse Tyre recently released their self-titled debut EP in 2016 and are looking forward to their ... More

I was once in a big, dumb pool with a lot of dumb, mean people. It was at night in the desert ... More