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Faye Webster’s second full-length 2019 album Atlanta Millionaires Club is a case-study in duality. The instrumentation (a heart-rending mix of pedal-steel, guitars and strings) recalls the country-folk of her musical upbringing but listen deeper and you’ll discover a soulful undertone to her vocal delivery, a spare groove laid down by her rhythm section; a subtle and elegant genre-bending which just happens to make her one of the most compelling young songwriters in music today.
The near-whisper of Webster&#8217;s voice feels like the embodiment of the maxim &#8220;speak softly and they’ll listen harder.&#8221; Singles &#8220;Kingston,&#8221; &#8220;Right Side Of My Neck&#8221; and &#8220;Flowers&#8221; (a brilliant collaboration with Atlanta rapper and Awful Records label-boss Father) are highlights on an album which has landed on multiple end-of-year best-ofs.
Webster’s talent doesn’t lie solely in music, her collection of portraits documenting the Atlanta hip hop scene are near-iconic and have made her a much in-demand photographer. She is also the proud owner of a line of signature yoyos,  a hobby-turned obsession she picked up on the road after a new drummer turned out to have a side-hustle as a yoyo professional.

Faye Webster

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Best of 2021: Faye Webster Relates to Erika de Casier’s Love Songs Now

Inspired by the honest writing and timeless melodies of American greats such as Hank Williams Sr. and Joni Mitchell, Esther Rose’s songwriting has been called “The happiest saddest music.” Her 2017 debut, This Time Last Night, caught fire as her listeners tuned-in to a storied chronology of this soulful, heart-worn artist. Her latest record, Safe to Run, is out April 21, 2023 on New West Records.
(Photo Credit: Rett Rogers)

Esther Rose

Best of 2021: Esther Rose Has Been on a Techno Journey This Year

Sloppy Jane is an eight-to-11 piece music project led by Haley Dahl out of Brooklyn, NY (originating in Los Angeles). An ever-evolving lineup of players, friends, and collaborators. Elements of the live show include: laughter, choir vocals, xylophone, saxophone, kazoo, television, slide whistle, vomiting blue dye, a naked body, a rotting suit, guitar, bass, drums, tambourine, ruby red slippers, violent shifts in genre and speed, a make-believe maestro, and a set that does not stop moving once it has started.

Sloppy Jane

Best of 2021: Haley Dahl Is Super Happy About Gustaf’s Big Year

David Castillo is an NYC-based vocalist and producer who performs as Confines. He&#8217;s also the co-owner and booker for Brooklyn&#8217;s Saint Vitus Bar. The debut Confines EP Work Up the Blood is out now via Synthicide.

David Castillo

David Castillo and Igor Cavalera on the Metal-to-Electronic-Music Pipeline

Beatrice Deer is a Quaqtaq-born, Montreal-based singer-songwriter. Her latest album SHIFTING is out December 10, 2021.

Beatrice Deer

Beatrice Deer and Sylvia Cloutier Try to Recognize the Pain

René Kladzyk is the songwriter, producer, vocalist and pianist behind Ziemba. Her latest album Unsubtle Magic is out December 10, 2021 via Sister Polygon.
(Photo Credit: Ian Torres)

René Kladzyk

Colin Self and Ziemba Choose to Feel the Feelings

William Tyler is a composer and guitarist based in Los Angeles-via-Nashville. His new album <a href="http://smarturl.it/goeswest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Goes West</a> was released by Merge in January 2019, and features contributions from Meg Duffy, Brad Cook, and Bill Frisell, among others. 
(Photo Credit: Chantal Anderson)

William Tyler

Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo) Interviews William Tyler and Marisa Anderson About Lost Futures

Gustaf is an art punk band from Brooklyn, NY. Their debut full-length, Audio Drag for Ego Slobs, is out now on Royal Mountain Records.
(Photo Credit: Felipe Torres)

Gustaf

A Q&A with the Drummers of Gustaf and IDLES

Sam Evian is a New York-based singer-songwriter, and the co-owner and engineer of Flying Cloud Recordings. His latest album, Plunge, is out now. 
(Photo Credit: Josh Goleman)

Sam Evian

Sam Evian and James Krivchenia (Big Thief) Aren’t Gonna Do Shit Just to Get Bigger

Steve Hartlett is songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist of Newtown, CT&#8217;s Ovlov. The band&#8217;s latest record buds is out now via Exploding in Sound.

Steve Hartlett

The Ovlov and Alex Gehring (Ringo Deathstarr) Collab Happened Thanks to Instagram

Wes Tirey is a songwriter, guitarist, and poet living in Asheville, NC. His latest album, The Midwest Book of the Dead, was released on cassette and CD by Dear Life Records this April along with an accompanying chapbook of lyrics and prose poems. It will be reissued on vinyl by Mapache Records early next year.
(Photo Credit: Bow Smith)

Wes Tirey

Wes Tirey and Ashleigh Bryant Phillips Talk Animals, The South, and More — Via Postcard

Tonstartssbandht is the psych-rock brother duo of Edwin and Andy White. Their album Petunia is out now via Mexican Summer.
(Photo Credit: Case Mahan)

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