In this Rising interview, the boundary-breaking artist talks about growing up on Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Jeff Buckley, accepting grief as part of life, and her stunning new album, Vulture Prince.
Armed with a handheld recorder and a reverence for environmental sounds, the Kenyan artist is carving out a unique place in electronic music.
In this Rising interview, singer, songwriter, and producer Hayden Anhedönia discusses her witchy alter ego Ethel Cain, her stifling Baptist upbringing, and her desire to soothe listeners even as she unsettles them.
Jilian Medford, who records as IAN SWEET, talks about facing her trauma and making the mightiest music of her life in this Rising interview.
In this Rising interview, frontwoman Emily Cross talks about how her work as a death doula affects her art, collaborating with Brian Eno, and the ghostly wonders of new album Don’t Shy Away.
In this Rising interview, the 26-year-old singer-songwriter based in Accra, Ghana talks about her genre-bending sound, her punk mentality, and the globalization of African music.
In this Rising interview, the Toronto poet-turned-singer-songwriter talks about getting to the heart of his community’s grief, rage, and love on his upcoming debut project, When Smoke Rises.
The L.A.-based, Texas-raised singer-songwriter discusses her early life in the church, loving Sufjan, Lomelda vs. Hannah, and learning to apologize.
In this Rising interview, the Danish songwriter talks about swallowing a tiny camera for art, moving to a commune in the woods, and synthesizing the melancholy with the uncanny in her modern love songs.
After breaking through in her native Australia with an over-the-top pop sound, the rapper-singer stepped back, started over, and created some of the most thrillingly restless music of her career.
The Colombia-born, Brooklyn-based artist talks about her emo past, communing with synthesizers, and abolishing the ego in this Rising interview.
In this Rising interview, the Brooklyn-based R&B experimentalist talks about how music, spirituality, and community help her to heal.
In this Rising interview, the lifelong New Yorker and member of the art-punk trio Palberta talks about building up the confidence to release her first official solo record.
In this Rising interview, the Little Rock and Los Angeles-based artist talks about being inspired by André 3000, the struggle to be understood, and not giving away her jokes for free.
In this Rising interview, the band talks about moving past their romantic drama, finding inspiration in Dolly Parton and Cocteau Twins, and not taking themselves too seriously.
In this Rising interview, the DJ-turned-artist discusses music-making, carving out their own space, and one very important queer period drama.
In this Rising interview, the Berlin-based artist talks about twisting her voice into avant-garde shapes as a tool for self-discovery.
In this Rising interview, the Brooklyn artist talks about rapping through trauma and the beauty of speaking in code.