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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 07: Alec O'Hanley, Molly Rankin and Sheridan Riley of Alvvays perform at Islington Assembly Hall on October 07, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Lorne Thomson/Redferns) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...