British trio The Staves‘ newest album Good Woman, makes one thing clear: It’s really hard to always be a really good person. It’s been nearly six years since the sisters—Emily, Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor—released their last album, If I Was, but the wait was well worth it. The newest record is…

Glasgow’s Honeyblood started as a duo in 2012, but after two albums, founding member Stina Tweeddale has taken the reins on In Plain Sight.  She collaborated with producer John Congleton, who has worked with both contemporaries Angel Olsen and St. Vincent, a pair of artists who share Tweeddale’s talent for…

Rock musicians embracing synths has become a bit routine, but a well-rounded artist like Sharon Van Etten can still do so not only gracefully, but transcendently. This New York songwriter has spent more than a decade developing her complex harmonies and intimate sonics, from eight independent releases to four…

When Goldfrapp keyboardist-composer Will Gregory was 21, the Englishman left college with the notion of making his way to Los Angeles and learning jazz. The electronic musician, now 57, got in a car, and when he got back out, he was not in Los Angeles but in Berkeley. Goldfrapp…