Dreams are tricky currency in pop music. Fleetwood Mac mines the gap between their sparkling visions and living, breathing, aching reality, hoping to put dreams of loneliness up for auction. The ...

Coined in the late 1980s to describe the slow, jazzy psychedelia by the British duo A.R. Kane, the term “dream pop” soon came to describe a genre of its own. Coalescing first around the trendsetting ...

Cathedral Bells is one of the latest projects of Matt Messore, who was an early member of You Blew It! and was later in Dear Tracks and Houseplants. It began as a solo bedroom dream pop project but ...

More often than not, living in Brooklyn can make you feel outright cynical about the music business. For all of your friends slinging in the trenches, booking and promoting their own shows, playing ...

Venezuelan pop chanteuse Maye is on her first headlining U.S. run and she holds court at the intimate Social this week. Maye made a big splash in the pop mainstream in 2020 when her Latin-tinged indie ...

Chicago dream-pop artist Alana Schachtel, who records and performs as Lipsticism, has a seemingly effortless command of melody, and her ethereal, diaphanous productions make her songs feel like ...

Tommy McLain is enjoying the attention. Ever since his new album, “I Ran Down Every Dream,” was announced in April, the 82-year-old Louisiana musician has been fielding interviews with both local and ...

The members of New Orleans dream pop band Whisper Party! like to joke that vocalist and keyboardist Jean Preston is the “whisper,” while drummer Chris Hayes, guitarist Michael Selser and bassist Rex ...

Portland-based Pure Bathing Culture has always been one of the best creators of dream pop — that hazy, melancholic sound that makes you feel like you’re in a washed-out Instagram picture of a beach at ...

With many of the lists we’ve assembled over the past few years, the parameters have been clear. To be considered Britpop, for example, a record had to be guitar-based, from the UK, and released during ...