Charlotte Cornfield still remembers the first time her music made someone cry. The Canadian singer-songwriter was sitting in a backyard trampoline with her high school friends when she was encouraged to sing a song she’d recently written. Cornfield obliged, treating her friends to a song about a boy she’d met …
Read More »Stef Chura Moves From the Karaoke Bar to Indie Rock's Big Leagues
In early May, Stef Chura was hosting a karaoke night at a Detroit bar when someone tried to steal her tip jar. “I almost lost my mind,” she says angrily. Karaoke is a way for the 30-year-old indie rocker to perfect her singing, but it’s also her day job. “I’m …
Read More »The Mysteries of Thomas Abban
Thomas Abban grew up in Wales and moved to Minneapolis when he was 12. Around that time, he began getting serious about guitar, which he’d already been playing for three or four years. He immersed himself in the blues — Blind Willie Johnson, who preached gospel on Texas street corners …
Read More »Artist You Need to Know: Snail Mail
Lindsey Jordan just graduated from high school last year, but the 18-year-old wunderkind is already turning heads with her band Snail Mail. She’s not one to waste time – she was just 16 when she dropped her acclaimed six-song cassette EP Habit. Her fantastic debut album Lush is full of …
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