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Stream Dan Bodan’s Entire New Album, Soft, Exclusively on Vogue.com
Soft is Berlin musician Dan Bodan’s favorite word lately—it’s not only the name of his new album, out Tuesday, but it’s a part of the title of two of its songs and is featured in the lyrics of nearly...
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Hear an Unreleased Song From Folk Legend Bessie Jones
Bessie Jones was born in Georgia in 1902 to a family of story-telling singers and musicians. Her African-born grandfather had once been a slave and raised her with the blues and gospel spirituals that...
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Hear 20-Year-Old Guitarist Hayden Pedigo’s New Take on an Old Fingerpicking...
The 20-year-old guitarist Hayden Pedigo trades in a style of guitar-picking called “American Primitive.” It was developed back in the 1950s by the guitarist John Fahey, who took the fingerpicking of...
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Hear a Song from Duppy Gun Productions, a Mind-Bending New Jamaican Dancehall...
Cameron Stallones (of L.A. band Sun Araw) and producer M. Geddes Gengras first started working on music in Jamaica in 2011, when they left California for the Caribbean island to work with The Congos,...
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Romeo Beckham’s Festive Burberry Ad Premieres in London
Three generations of the Beckham dynasty were gathered on a high balcony to watch the premiere of Romeo Beckham’s appearance in Burberry’s all-singing, all-dancing holiday commercial in London....
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Vogue Exclusive: Stream iamamiwhoami’s New Audio-Visual Album, Blue
For Sweden’s iamamiwhoami, the duo of Jonna Lee and Claes Björklund, the visuals that accompany its records are as important as the music itself. So it makes total sense that the band should pull a...
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Listen to a Haunting New Song by Rihanna’s Duet Partner Mikky Ekko
You might not know it, but chances are you’ve already heard Mikky Ekko on the radio: That was his angelic voice singing with Rihanna on the Grammy-winning piano ballad “Stay.” Ekko wrote the song,...
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Giraffage Debuts a New Track, “Chocolate,” and Announces Tour Dates
The San Francisco producer Giraffage’s beats percolate, speed up, slow down, and shimmer, but seemingly never waver in their pursuit of joy. “Chocolate,” the second single off his forthcoming EP, No...
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Tonight on Season 2 of The Fashion Fund: 15 Minutes Can Change Everything
What happens when you’re given an opportunity to get everything that you ever wanted? In the fashion world, it means that you have to work for it. “You celebrate for like two seconds, but the next...
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Relax and Listen to This Pioneering Work of New Age Music
While many associate New Age philosophy with a study of astrology and believing in the spiritual power of quartz crystals, a full-fledged genre of music also developed from the movement in the...
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Hear Io Echo’s Dreamy Cover of Mariah Carey’s “Heartbreaker”
Of all the acts you’d expect moody L.A. dream pop duo Io Echo to cover, Mariah Carey might not be at the top of your list. But Carey’s catalogue of undeniable hits has been the eternal wellspring from...
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From Cliché to Clever: A Look at Banksy’s Divisive Work
Last fall, Banksy took over the streets of New York with a work he called “Better Out Than In,” which displayed a new piece of street art in an unannounced location every single day for a month....
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First Heard in a Steamy Cara Delevingne Ad, Rush Midnight’s Song Gets a Full...
Back in September, we first heard a preview of Rush Midnight’s “I’m Going Home” as the score to a John Hardy ad, in which, like the homage to Helena Christensen in Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game,” Cara...
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Plugged In: 10 Things to Stream, See, and Listen to This Week
It’s a busy season filled with seemingly infinite things to do and see. So we’ve narrowed down the list for you—here are the ten most essential cultural events of the week. The post Plugged In: 10...
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Hear Lion Babe’s Slinky New Track “Jungle Lady”
Though still fairly new to the scene, New York City duo Lion Babe has already worked out a signature sound: Lucas Goodman, on production, builds a slinky, atmospheric beat, while Jillian Hervey...
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Exclusive! Charli XCX Premieres a Cover of ’60s Classic “Money (That’s What I...
Whether you know it or not, you have likely heard a lot from Charli XCX in the past two years. In demand as a songwriter before she was as a singer, Charli—née Charlotte Emma Aitchison, of East...
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Plugged In: 10 Things to Stream, See, and Listen to This Week
Nicki Minaj’s new album, Jay Z’s Annie, Mariah Carey at the Beacon—here are the ten most essential cultural events happening this week. The post Plugged In: 10 Things to Stream, See, and Listen to...
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Hear a New Track from Electronic Super Duo Sherwood & Pinch
Adrian Sherwood and Rob Ellis (aka Pinch) are two British producers who’ve come together for a new album, Late Night Endless, and brought their disparate influences with them. There’s a little bit of...
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With the Folk Revival in Full Swing, Nashville’s Natalie Prass Prepares Her...
At this point, it’s safe to say that we’re in the midst of a bonafide folk music revival. Things started strumming last year with new albums from Angel Olsen, Vashti Bunyan, Weyes Blood, and Grouper....
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Take a Listen to Kali Uchis’s Latest Shimmering Soul Song
On one of her early songs from 2013, the grainy, crackling “What They Say,” Kali Uchis sounds so convincingly old-school that you’d swear the track was a Motown B-side from 1965. But even if the...
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