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Tory Silver (she/they) is a queer songwriter and indie-rock musician based in Pittsburgh, PA. Their latest record, In Through the Front with Lasers, is out May 29, 2026.

Tory Silver

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Role Models: Tory Silver Looked Up to Jay Som Before They Even Worked Together

Cornelia Murr was born in London and resides in California as a dual citizen, but spent much of her childhood moving through the United States, from Colorado to Massachusetts, California to New York City and upstate New York. Working with producer Jim James of My Morning Jacket on her debut album Lake Tear of the Clouds, Murr conjures a hazy blend of folk and cosmic soul music, and taps into the bucolic spirit of the Hudson Valley.

Cornelia Murr

Cornelia Murr and Reverend Baron’s Dispatch From the Road

Junior Varsity is the LA-based duo Greg Aram and Zach Michel. Their EP Ready is out now.

Junior Varsity

Mood Board: Junior Varsity’s Ready

Mei Semones is a Brooklyn-based artist making jazz-influenced indie pop. Her latest record, Animaru, is out now.

Mei Semones

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Mei Semones Talks with John Roseboro on the Talkhouse Podcast

<div>Jesca Hoop is a California-born, UK-based songwriter who released her fifth studio album, Stonechild, in July. She has written songs with Sam Beam (Iron and Wine), collaborated with Lucius and This is the Kit on her latest release, and worked with luminaries including Peter Gabriel, Stewart Copeland, and Tom Waits. With her roots in folk and Americana, Hoop continually pushes at the boundaries of what is possible within those traditions, creating songs that twist and turn, constantly surprising, and delightful and disturbing in equal measures.</div>
<div>(Photo Credit: Aga Mortlock)</div>
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Jesca Hoop

Sam Amidon and Jesca Hoop Are Lifetime Beginners

Chris Barnes is a pianist and songwriter who records as Gem Club. The latest Gem Club record, Emerald Press, is out now.

Gem Club

Gem Club and Charlie Engman Talk Through a Decade-Plus of Collaboration

Michael Imperioli is an actor and the singer/songwriter/guitarist for the New York-based rock band ZOPA. ZOPA’s new record Diamond Vehicle is out now.

Michael Imperioli

Bill Callahan Talks with Michael Imperioli on the Talkhouse Podcast

Craig Heed is a musician from New York who plays in the bands Miracle Sweepstakes and Hit. Hit&#8217;s latest record, <a href="https://hitsongs.bandcamp.com/album/bestseller" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bestseller</a>, is out now on One Weird Trick.
(Photo Credit: Sam Blieden)

Craig Heed

The Zombies’ Begin Here Tells The Full Story

Paula Kelley is a composer and a vocalist and guitarist for the band Drop Nineteens. Her latest solo record, Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out, is out now on Wharf Cat.

Paula Kelley

Paula Kelley (Drop Nineteens) and Andy Sherriff (Chapterhouse) Enjoy the Moment

Through the exhaustion, it persists. Gnaw’s glowing power-pop draws deep from a tired tension: a perpetually shifting negotiation between ‘90s alt-rock romanticism, fuzzed out upon machine-gun drumming; pummeling riffs mangled through digital processing and noise; tales traversing lingering memory and motion, mesmerized by hypergaze-influenced joy rushes. Brandishing a heavy palette of power pop immediacy — equally indebted to indie rock contemporaries like Momma and Slow Pulp and ‘90s grit a la Hole and Smashing Pumpkins — the EP’s four serrated songs thrill through life’s pushes and pulls. 
On their debut EP, Inside a Machine That’s Glistening, the three-piece draws from that weighty palette to weave four songs that glow amidst the grit. There’s a curious, yet never overbearing darkness to them: confessionals channeled through Daniel Lim’s serrated guitar work, dancing between Tara Tan’s cautious, whispery vocals. Navigating a spectrum from sheer wonder (“Star”) to fear (“Gash”) and fatigue (“This Is My Life”), Tan’s personal stories shift from dreamy to dramatic. Meanwhile, drummer Zakhran Khan’s fine-tuned rhythms rip into these sincere questions, at times accelerating to torrents of catharsis, while at others simply adding to moments triumphant.

Gnaw

Mood Board: Gnaw’s Inside a Machine That’s Glistening

Christian Stadsgaard, also known as his solo moniker Vanity Productions, has become a crucial figure in the contemporary Nordic electronic and experimental music scenes in the past decade.
Standing at the helm of the label Posh Isolation with Loke Rahbek, Stadsgaard is responsible for one of the most consistent and compelling labels to both define and elaborate the many productive sides of the underground in the last decade. As a performing and recording artist his work with Rahbek as Damien Dubrovnik was a critical project in the contemporary noise milieu throughout the 2010s. More recently his collaborative work with Jonas Rönnberg (Varg2™) and Isak Hansen as The Empire Line has gained significant notoriety.
However, it&#8217;s in Vanity Productions that the full breadth of the emotive intensity of Stadsgaard&#8217;s work is expressed. His collaboration with the seminal artist Merzbow in 2019 led to his Coastal Erosion album for iDEAL Recordings, prefacing a recent series of works that take their cues from minimalist composition.
The latest Vanity Productions record, The Vanity Project, is out now on Northern Electronics.

Vanity Productions

Vanity Productions and Varg2™ Want Real Anti-Culture to Come Back

Groupie is a Brooklyn-based band known for turning introspection into kinetic, cathartic sound. Their music fuses the emotional edge of punk with the immersive textures of shoegaze and dream pop — sharp, shimmering, and unafraid of vulnerability. Groupie has become a mainstay in NYC’s indie scene with a sound that merges dream pop sheen and punk urgency. Since the release of their debut album Ephemeral in 2021, they have shared the stage with indie greats like Warpaint, Silversun Pickups, Neon Trees, and many more. Led by bassist and frontwoman Ashley Kossakowski, a queer, first-generation daughter of Polish immigrants, and joined by drummer Aaron Silberstein, and guitarists Eric Rubin and Eamon Lebow, the band’s evolution from the raw immediacy of their debut Ephemeral to their upcoming sophomore album reflects a sound fully in bloom — cinematic in scope, but deeply human at its core.