Author Leka Gopal

You may not have heard of Kishi Bashi, but you probably have heard him. Since 2011, he has recorded with and opened for artists like Sondre Lerche, Regina Spektor, of Montreal, and Alexi Murdoch. He is also a f...

Five years is a long time. During which, a lot of things can happen: marriage, buying a new home – and the release of a fourth album. Joanna Newsom’s latest album Divers (2015) brings pieces of her past int...

“Why do you like Marina?” my friend asked the two 15-year-old girls standing behind us, half an hour before the show started. “She’s perfect,” one of them said. “Everything about her is just, perfec...