Bob Boilen

We first met Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Nisa – who described her sounds as, “genre-less music, leaning on pop, but not being tied to a genre.” – last February, while she was on her first-ever tour, which included a stop at MilkBoy.  Although at the time Nisa only had EPs and...

Summertime is quickly coming to an end, but the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection is still awaiting one of the summer’s best double-headlining jaunts, which will find itself at Underground Arts on Friday, August 25th…  This July two of our favorite indie folk acts — Brooklyn quartet...

This Thursday, August 25th, indie folk outfit Florist will be playing The Lounge at World Café Live, our favorite listening room in the city and a far cry from their last local stop, which had them playing gallery space PhilaMOCA in August of 2019.  And, during a recent phone...

“I think I’ve learned a lot and grown a lot.  I’ve never gotten so personal, and maybe blunt.  I’ve never allowed things to feel this raw and vulnerable,” says Nashville-based singer/songwriter Madi Diaz of her forthcoming album, History of a Feeling, out August 27th on ANTI-.  The LP, which...

“The album was inspired by spending a lot of time in the desert, spending so much time in movement across the country, and being in a kind of particular poetic, existential state at a reflective time,” says Indigo Sparke of Echo, her debut LP, which was released this February...