The 25th Annual IPU Albums-of-the-Year Countdown.

The third album for Vienna-based songwriter Sofie Royer is called Young-Girl Forever. Royer drew the name from an essay, Preliminary Materials for the Theory of a Young-Girl, originally published in 1999…

"All of everything that's written is about the cycle of life, in some ways," offers Laura Marling, philosophically.

The 34-year-old English singer-songwriter is speaking about her newly released eighth LP, Patterns in Repeat.

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"On stage, it's like my true self," says Chloé Pelletier-Gagnon, the 34-year-old Québecoise artist who records as Klô Pelgag.

"I feel like it's a safe space, [where] you can do anything you want…

"I don't think I can be an authority on getting older," says Naima Bock. "But it's kind of a nice crossroads, being in your late-20s."

The 27-year-old, London-based songwriter is talking about her…

After a decade of releasing singles and EPs, Kate Bollinger has finally issued her debut album. The Virginia-born, California-based songwriter's first full-length set is titled Songs From A Thousand Frames of Mind…

Midway through a promotional conversation with Christian Lee Hutson, his dog kills a bird. In all the interviews on The International Pop Underground over the years, this is the first one to contain…

The title for Bright Eyes' newly-released album is Five Dice, All Threes.

The eleventh album for the iconic indie-rock outfit —which finds them collaborating with another icon, Cat Power— takes its name…

In her 25-year career, the 45-year-old Norwegian artist Susanna Wallumrød has released nine albums as Susanna, three under the name Susanna & The Magical Orchestra, plus full-length collaborations with Jenny Hval, Ensemble neoN…

Sleater-Kinney —the iconic indie-rock outfit fronted by dual guitarist/vocalists Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker— formed 30 years ago in Olympia, Washington.

Within the first year of their existence, they ended up half a…