It always fascinates me how popular media slips under my radar every day. Such was the case with Japanese-American songwriter, Mitsuki Laycock, or more commonly ‘Mitski.’ Mitski is a relatively ...

"Laurel Hell" probably isn't the album you put on before a night out, and it's not the album you sing along with while smiling. It's the album you put on to feel — to feel the effects of burnout, of ...

The last thing you might expect to hear from Mitski, one of the foremost voices in depressing indie music, is “It gets better.” But that’s exactly what she told her audience at the third of four ...

Following a musical breakthrough with her viral hit “My Love Mine All Mine,” Mitski is set to embark on her extended tour supporting her critically acclaimed album The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are ...

Mitski looks like an actor from a silent film. It’s hard to imagine it wasn’t intentional, but during her incredible performance at Los Angeles’s Shrine Auditorium on Thursday night, the question kept ...

In the middle of The Moore's stage, a door. As the venue's lights dimmed Wednesday night, the door began to glow. Smoke billowed out from behind it, and the young-ish crowd shrieked. Mitski was ...

Forty years ago, David Byrne danced with a lamp. In what might be the most memorable scene of Stop Making Sense, my pick for the best live-concert film ever made, Byrne picks up a regular floor lamp, ...

Mitski returned to the Jimmy Kimmel Live stage Tuesday to showcase “Stay Soft,” a track from her recent critically acclaimed album Laurel Hell. Earlier in her career, Mitski often performed onstage ...

Do you know what is the most awesome response to superstardom at a concert? It's not when the crowd cheers so loudly that your ears start ringing, or when fans sing along to every song, off-key at the ...

The way Phil Elverum thinks about songwriting and recording is so inspiring to us. No other albums sounds like this and it’s equally experimental and “cool” as it is heart wrenching and emotional.

Mitski claims new ground on her sixth album, spreading herself across different kinds of pop music with each new song. The result is more varied than anything she's created thus far. This is FRESH AIR ...