Carly Pearce has become a major country artist, with two chart-topping singles and more than a billion collective streams across the major streamers, but she isn’t about to start presenting herself as some glamorous star. “I’m really, really not trying to make you think I’m perfect,” she tells SPIN over the phone from her Nashville […]
Florida doesn’t get enough credit for its alchemical properties. The state’s salt, sea and ungodly heat have a way of boiling off the excess material of things, turning out a newer and truer object. Spanish settlers came to the state almost five centuries ago. They built homes in the swamps and came out rednecks on […]
“As long as the music evokes a feeling in somebody, that’s all that matters,” Isaac Dunbar tells us. “I know music has done a lot for me. Sometimes I have no idea what a song is talking about, but I still connect with it. And I just play it in the soundtrack of my life […]
Last spring, Elliott Platt was cleaning fish tanks at his local pet store when he received the luckiest news of his young life. He’d been laid off. COVID cutbacks: a tale as old as 2020 itself. With extra time on his hands, the Canadian teen holed up in his bedroom after school, poring over his […]
Eamon Sandwith, the 21-year-old lead singer and bassist of the Australian “shed-rock” trio, The Chats, coifs an ever-trimmed scarlet mullet that flails whenever onstage, his eyes wan and intense if not concealed by his assholic aerodynamic glasses that bestow him “ultimate speed, and ultimate strength, and pretty much any other superpower.” He formed the self-proclaimed […]
Three days after indie-rock musician David Berman died by suicide, his would-be tourmate, Cassandra Jenkins, was processing the grief thousands of feet in the air. The singer-songwriter was on the flight to Norway she’d forgotten to cancel, to a friend’s wedding she hadn’t planned on attending. “That seems like a really weird move — to […]
Paloma Rocío Castillo Astorga, who is better known as Paloma Mami, is turning her dreams of blending American and Latin music into a reality. The title of the 21-year-old’s debut album, Sueños de Dalí, is a nod to surrealist Spanish artist Salvador Dalí and infuses R&B, trap, and alternative music. “Dalí was an artist who was […]
Music wasn’t Alice Phoebe Lou’s first choice. It sort of happened to her. When she was 16, still in high school, dancing and acting in theater, Lou left her home in South Africa for a two-month sojourn in Paris where she met some street performers who taught her the basics of busking. In her own […]
When it comes to Mac Ayres’ talents, age is truly just a number. He may just be 23 years old, but the artist/multi-instrumentalist/songwriter/producer has a vintage soul. Rather than chasing trends in the R&B space, the singer drives back to the source, whether it’s tapping into funky ‘70s grooves or ‘90s-inspired pre-Y2K futurism. Ayres draws […]
“Like, I still have a flip phone,” singer/songwriter Lael Neale casually mentions while speaking about her relationship with social media. “I’m talking to you on a flip phone.” Not only is she digitally off the grid for the most part, but she’s living on an isolated farm in Virginia, in the town where she grew […]