Allison Stewart

Five years ago, Irish singer-songwriter Andrew Hozier-Byrne, who records as Hozier, landed a huge and unexpected hit with his first single, “Take Me to Church.” He released his self-titled official...

Sameer Gadhia was on a pre-med track at Stanford when he decided to drop out of school and focus on music instead. It was probably the right call; Gadhia’s band,...

Not only were Culture Club and the B-52s two of the biggest and most iconoclastic acts of the ’80s, their hits (“Karma Chameleon,” “Love Shack,” et al) were universally beloved...

Singer-songwriter Haley Fohr usually does business as Circuit des Yeux, a mostly indescribable folk/ambient/noise project. Circuit des Yeux released its latest album, “Reaching for Indigo,” last year, and played a...

Country singer Chris Young came up the modern way: He won Season Four of the now-defunct TV singing competition “Nashville Star,” and, after a halting start, has gone on to...

Having a hit song has always been a big thing, but in the age of Spotify, it’s often the only thing. British singer Dua Lipa’s blockbuster 2017 smash “New Rules,”...

The last time we checked in with singer-songwriter Charlie Puth, it was June 2016, and he was modestly famous. The New Jersey native had parlayed YouTube success into a major...