When the Grammy nominees for Best New Artist were announced for 2016, alongside mega pop star (and eventual winner) Meghan Trainor was the Australian indie rocker Courtney Barnett. The nomination came, seemingly, out of nowhere,...

Look at Kacey Musgraves' résumé and you'd think the 29-year-old country singer would be more famous than she is: her debut album, 2013's Same Trailer Different Park, won her two Grammys as well as New...

The Oakland, Calif.--based artist Merrill Garbus has earned acclaim as the frontwoman of the musical project Tune-Yards, developing an eclectic, percussive sound that incorporates everything from Afrobeat to the ukulele. On their fourth album, I...

Sharon Jones never thought she would be around to see the release of her Grammy-nominated 2014 album, Give the People What They Want. You can see it in her eyes, hear it in her quivering...

An odd thing happened when Beck's Morning Phase won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2015: he got Kanye'd. As he was walking up to accept his gramophone trophy from Prince, the outspoken...

Nashville has kept busy and profitable since the 1990s with artists like Toby Keith, Shania Twain and Carrie Underwood ascending to pop-country royalty. All the while, though, another genre has quietly gained traction in rock...