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

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

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

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

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