Josh Kitchen

By: Josh Kitchen / May 18, 2026 Photo Credit: Nicole Busch Much has changed in the 13 years since Big Harp released an album. While Stefanie Drootin and Chris Senseney, who play together as Big Harp, haven’t put out new music together in that time, Stefanie and Chris have both stayed busy making music, touring, and starting a family. But the root of what makes Big Harp so good is the real love between them — something that, in talking to them, feels elemental. Like it has always been there....

By: Josh Kitchen / May 15, 2026 “Guitar pick in my pocket at the marketing all-hands,” Nymphlord sings on “Garden,” the opening track on her debut album Shedding Velvet, out today on Lauren Records. Anyone who’s ever sat through one of those corporate “all-hands” meetings — the office colloquialism for a company-wide staff meeting — knows that if you’re in one too long, there comes a point where it can feel like your soul is slowly being vacuumed out of your body. It’s a line that, while...

By: Josh Kitchen / May 7, 2026 Photo Credit: Connie Swift “That became my mantra,” girli’s Milly Toomey told me earlier this spring ahead of the release of her new album It’s Just My Opinion, out tomorrow. girli has quietly become one of the most exciting alt-pop voices to emerge from the North London scene in years, crafting self-aware, genre-defying, in-your-face anthems packed with massive hooks, while never shying away from messages of advocacy, acceptance, and the transformative power...