MUSIC / Special Focus

An architecture dropout turned fashion major, Kilo Kish picked up music as yet another creative outlet on top of design and visual ... 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

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

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

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

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

Established musician Mackenzie Scott, known by her stage name TORRES, and Grammy nominated folk musician Brandi Carlile first became acquainted when Scott ... 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

Chaz Bear, or Toro y Moi as his music fans know him, signed to Carpark Records in 2009, months after graduating the ... 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

Long Beach native and rapper Vince Staples opens his newest EP, Prima Donna, by singing “This Little Light of Mine” with such ... More

With her newest release, Puberty 2, Mitski gives a name to the second-wave adolescence of your 20s—still packed with questions of identity, ... More

Last year, Anderson .Paak was credited on six songs on Dr. Dre’s Compton (though his vocals appeared on more) and began his ... More

Jennylee is the stage name of Los Angeles-based musician Jenny Lee Lindberg, who co-founded and has played bass with the band Warpaint ... More

Ezra Furman is the kind of person the old world might try to tame and dilute. This is, in part, what makes ... More

French darling Soko sings and acts and makes her own music videos, loves cats and vegan food and has a strong feeling ... More

Sam Cook-Parrott: Where are you from? Cleo Tucker & Harmony Tividad: We were raised in Los Angeles, CA. SCP: When did you ... More

British singer-songwriter Emma-Lee Moss (aka Emmy the Great) recently moved from London to Los Angeles to work on her latest EP and ... More

Thurz is a rapper in constant regeneration. In his earlier days, from 2007-2009, he formed one half of U-N-I (to The Verse) ... More

Moses Sumney has a homemade brand of soul—on the surface often gentle, meditative, bare, but as his voice pitches and lulls it’s ... More