Author: Ram

Few artists of her generation have turned a TikTok following into something as moody, theatrical and stubbornly personal as Nessa Barrett has. The American singer-songwriter (hometown: verify) built her name online, put out her...

Few artists have turned a pair of flip-flops and an old beach chair into a career like Kenny Chesney. The Knoxville-born country singer put out his first record in 1994 and has since built...

Few pop and R&B artists have walked away from a major label, built their own world for years, and then landed a viral Billboard Hot 100 hit, but Tinashe did exactly that. Born in...

Few Japanese bands have carried a heavy-music banner to as many stages as Coldrain. Five friends from two local bands in Nagoya formed the group on April 17, 2007, and they’ve spent nearly two...

Few Australian songwriters make small, specific details land as hard as Julia Jacklin does. She grew up in the Blue Mountains, released her debut in 2016, and turned plainspoken indie folk and rock into...

Few rappers have turned glitchy, bell-ringing internet weirdness into a No. 1 album, and Yeat did it barely three years after his debut LP. The Portland rapper, born Noah Smith, dropped his first EP,...

Few songs from the early 2000s were as hard to escape as “Wherever You Will Go.” The Los Angeles band behind it, The Calling, has rarely gotten credit for how long that one song...

Few pop singers have turned a diary entry into a dance-floor weapon as well as Tove Lo. The Stockholm-born singer and songwriter broke through in 2014 with “Habits (Stay High),” a sad, stoned confession...

Few drummers have a second act as interesting as Roger Taylor’s. The world knows him as the thump and the falsetto in Queen, but he’d been quietly making records under his own name long...

Riley Green grew up in Jacksonville, Alabama, and he’s built a country career on sounding exactly like where he’s from. He put out a self-titled EP in 2013, then spent years working his way...