"I'm definitely more confident when I sing it now. It's like, ingrained in me," singer Ava Max says of her 2018 hit single "Sweet but Psycho." The song was released as the lead single off the 25-year-old's upcoming debut album and was ... More

I truly believe that magic happens during a live concert. There has to be magic for an audience to fully lose themselves in an artist's words or a beat or a moment. According to Zac Farro, drummer of iconic pop rock band Paramore, and frontman of ... More

Live music can be unifying, freeing, cathartic, and seriously euphoric. Think about it, an entire crowd of mostly strangers comes together to celebrate the same sounds while standing shoulder-to-shoulder (or, on top of shoulders if you’re lucky). The video for indie rock outfit Amber Run’s third single “Neon Circus,” ... More

Phoenix-born but Los Angeles-bred artist Alec Benjamin has been having his parents drive him to the City of Angels since he was 16 as he chased his dream of becoming a singer. By the time he turned 18, his parents asked that Benjamin go to college. After ... More

The blue-haired singer sits across from me cross-legged and beaming. Njomza performed at Governors Ball Music Festival on the Honda Stage at 12:15pm, which admittedly wasn’t her ideal time slot, but the crowd showed up ready to jam to her soulful sound. Following her first set, ... More

From Tove Lo to Zara Larsson, Sweden has produced some serious hitmakers. The country that also boasts some of the most beautiful coastal villages and Planet Earth's Favorite Vodka has done it again with artist Robin Lundbäck, who goes by the moniker Boy In ... More

A lot of songs these days are about romantic relationships starting, falling apart, or ending. The heartbreak you feel when a relationship ends can be translated into many different types of relationships though. Rather than focusing on a significant other in the romantic sense of the label, one-half of dark ... More

I walk into Rough Trade NYC in Brooklyn to find Sam Fender taking it all in. He will play his first show in New York City in just a few short hours and the young Englishman is soaking in every last moment. We escape ... More

With a family legacy of founding the iconic music company Motown, Mahogany Lox grew up with some pretty big shoes to fill. Lox is the daughter of Berry Gordy VI and Valerie Robson, and the granddaughter of Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown Records. Her older brother Sky Blu has ... More

Singer-songwriter Cecilia Gault was recently the featured vocalist and co-writer (along with fellow native New Yorker, Sheare) of Kaskade's latest track, "Love Me Like You Used To." Gault has been creating music for years on her own, and has always managed to keep ... More