Eli Enis is a contributor to The Recording Academy / GRAMMY.com.
The last two records from Young Jesus were all about letting go of convention. After years of writing and releasing songs within the boundaries of emo and indie-rock, L.A.-via-Chicago musician John Rossiter was basking in the creative liberation of improvisational jazz and amorphous post-rock. Young Jesus had been his songwriting vehicle since 2010, but once he moved to L.A. and…
Caroline Rose loves the color red. It’s been the primary color on all three of her album covers and she’s wearing some shade of it in practically every photo of herself on the internet. She clearly puts a lot of effort into maintaining such a coordinated aesthetic, so it’s reasonable for one to assume that red has some sort of significance…
Andy Shauf is playing poker at Laguardia airport. He's currently at 2,300 chips, and if he gets to 5,000 then he'll have enough to win an actual bag of potato chips. It's a funny sight to try and visualize; this soft-spoken guy perched at an iPad in a bustling airport, surrounded by clunky musical gear, gambling for a petty snack…
There's a lot that goes into being a D.I.Y. pop prince(ss), and Kelsie Hogue would know. The 27-year-old Brooklyn resident and New Hampshire native writes, performs and produces cartoonishly exuberant bubblegum pop under the name Sir Babygirl. After studying musical theatre in college, spending time as an absurdist stand-up comic and playing in numerous rock bands in her early 20s, Hogue developed…
