Icona Pop video cover by Indira Cesarine for The Untitled Magazine's "NEXT Issue." Left: Aino wears a dress and gloves by MOSCHINO. Right: Caroline wears a blazer by MOSCHINO. It’s been more than a decade since Aino Jawo and Caroline Hjelt of Icona Pop first brought their foot-stomping thunder to pop music. Their multiplatinum hit…
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Ashlee Keating’s laser focus sets her apart from many rising pop stars. It’s increasingly rare for a 29 year old to know exactly who they are, but for Keating, the deal was sealed even before she made it to her teens. After performing on television by the age of three and making her Broadway debut…
“I literally left my life behind and started with a blank page.” While that may be true for Armenian singer-songwriter Rosa Linn, her page didn’t stay blank for long. After representing her country at last year’s Eurovision Song Contest, where she performed the rootsy, organic “SNAP,” Linn found herself catapulted to international stardom almost overnight.…
Grammy-nominated artist Tove Nillson, better known as Tove Lo, is making an impact in the new year. Along with the launch of her new single “Borderline,” accompanied by a grungy, cybertronic music video, she's currently embarking on the North American leg of her 2023 headlining Dirt Femme Tour, which kicked off February 6th in Nashville.…
GIRLI’s power comes from speaking her mind, and she has a lot to say. “Vulnerability is rebellion” according to the artist, also known as Amelia Toomey. It is that kind of inward thinking that truly sets her apart as a rule-breaker. With the courage to admit she doesn’t have it all figured out when it…
Singer-songwriter and actress Elle Winter seemed to have it all together by the time she was a teenager. She broke out on Radio Disney’s “Next Big Thing” and embarked on a national tour at only 14 years old, then nabbed her first-ever film role alongside Susan Sarandon and Naomi Watts in 2015’s Three Generations. Following…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1kbLwvqugk At midnight on Friday, October 21st, Taylor Swift released her 10th studio album, Midnights. Shortly thereafter, she supplemented the 13 tracks with the reveal of Midnights (3am Edition), which includes seven additional songs that were a part of the creative process but did not make it to the final product. The album was produced…
Canadian pop singer Alexis Lynn is not in the business of holding back. Her debut EP, 2019’s Things Get Good, introduced listeners to an artist whose bubbly, soul-infused pop prefers to cut right to the chase of LGBTQ+ realities, and Lynn carried that unflinching honesty all the way through the making of her sophomore album…
In many ways, Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt skipped a lot of the early stages of the typical career path of music stars. After being asked to join Ed Sheeran on tour over a decade ago, Nesbitt saw rapid, almost overnight success, with a slew of new fans waiting at her doorstep to see what more…
Singer Tiggi Hawke in part credits the help of her fans on social media for helping her get through lockdown. The pandemic has affected so many young artists, and completely changed the way many of them approached their own work, and Hawke is one such artist who successfully adapted. It makes sense, considering she has…
After a six-year wait, fans are finally able to celebrate the return of Adele. The singer recently released her first single, "Easy On Me," on October 15th, in anticipation of her third studio album, entitled 30, set to release on November 19th, which took wild acclaim from all corners of the internet. In a revealing profile for Vogue as…
If the name Olly Alexander rang a bell to you before, then soon enough you won’t be able to escape it. The now-solo frontman of acclaimed London pop group Years & Years has been on an absolute hot streak in the last year, expanding his name as not only a prolific musician, but also as…
https://www.youtube.com/embed/T9lQFrSGQk8 “We got on like a house on fire, so it made sense for us to collaborate.” That’s what Dan Dare, one half of rising star dance group KOLIDESCOPES, said regarding his collaboration with musical counterpart Johnny Castro. The two musicians come from vastly different ends of the pop music spectrum, and even corners of…
Most would be hesitant or embarrassed to use words like “reckless,” “unpredictable” or “ignorant” to describe themselves, even in the past. For electropop singer Kiiara, those flaws of her past self helped shape her into who she is today, and inform her music on a deeply personal level. On her debut album lil kiiwi, Kiiara presents…
Check out a behind-the-scenes clip from our shoot with Elle King for our next issue, coming soon! Elle King has lived the quintessential rock 'n roll life that most singer songwriters only dream of. Love Stuff, her debut album, came out on 2/17, after which King is hitting the festival circuit. We plan to see…
“I don't want to hear about bitches and hoes and pimps and all that shit,” says singer-songwriter Kady Z. “Like Bonnie Raitt’s ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me,’ I just want to cry sometimes. I don't want to hear a freakin' beat in my ear. …. Nobody is just one [emotion]. I'm not always this awesome! I'm…
"Each of us have an extension of ourselves in the record, in the midst of a collective." Alhough Milo Greene has only been a band for four years, one would guess that they've been together for a lifetime. Between their close-knit relationship and the immense amount of time they have spent together in production studios,…
“I’m a perfectionist,” says British singer-songwriter Delilah. “I’ve grown to accept my perfectionism, but it’s something that makes everyone around me wacko.” The Paris-born Delilah has been perfecting her style since an early age, writing her first song at twelve and signing with Atlantic Records at seventeen. In the three years she spent writing and…
When Malcolm Kelley and Tony Oller met on the set of their hit Nickelodeon teen series Gigantic, their chemistry was already in sync. Oller had starred in a few films, most notably 2013 cult-favorite horror film The Purge; Kelly was best known for his role as Walt on the television phenomenon Lost. Yet, even with…
With her ethereal vocals and unique style, singer-songwriter Yuna is both an artist on the rise and a critical darling. Hailing from Malaysia, the singer’s fourth album, Nocturnal, was released last year to much critical praise, comparing her to the likes of Bob Dylan and Feist, which she too cites as some of her most…