Steven Loftin

Enumclaw have learned that sometimes, not getting what you want can lead to finding what you need.
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UPSET COVER STORY
Enumclaw have learned that sometimes, not getting what you want can lead to finding what you need. Their second album, ‘Home In Another Life’, is a testament to that journey—born from setbacks, but bursting with raw, real-time reflections. Check out our new Upset cover story.
Words: Steven Loftin.
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You can’t always get what you want:...

(HEAL) (On The Rise)
As they prepare for an appearance at Eurosonic festival, Catalan alt-rock four piece HEAL tells Steven Loftin about the ties that bind.
It could be a total understatement to say that a band is united by an unspoken bond between its members. But for Catalan-quartet HEAL, it is indeed a mystical unknown quantity that brings them together.
While Dani Ambrosí, Edu Mató, and Raúl Pérez knew each other from previous projects, this iteration of the Catalan quartet introduces a n...

12 February 2025, 22:31
(Rauw Alejandro)
Puerto Rican superstar on the rise, Rauw Alejandro's success all comes down a very simple personal philosophy, he tells Steven Loftin.
While his latest record, Cosa Nuestra, was released in November 2024, Rauw Alejandro seems poised to make 2025 his year.
Fresh from announcing the European leg of the supporting global tour – including a night at London’s O2 Arena – the Puerto Rican genre-defying star is every part the suave idol. Decked out in luxuriou...

29 November 2024, 10:00
Original Photography by Mark Seliger
(Elvis Costello) (Personal Best)
As one of England's most prolific songwriters, Elvis Costello has a harder job than many picking out the songs he's most proud of. He talks Steven Loftin through five of his personal best.
Elvis Costello contains paradoxes, marrying a fierce punk attitude with a Tin Pan Alley-like ability to craft diamond songs from the rough of life – both his own and imagined.
Resulting in a catalogue thirty-plus a...

Will Yip appears in our Fall 2024 Issue with cover stars Slipknot, Destroy Boys, Pierce the Veil, and beabadoobee. Head to the AP Shop to grab a copy.
Lately, Will Yip starts his days early. With a recent addition to his family, the time for him to get to his studio — Studio 4 in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania — while balancing being a family man with an incredibly driven mind is an art within itself. But you don’t get to Yip’s status without focus.
There’s a high chance that if you’re even a pas...

Palaye Royale appear on the cover of the Spring 2024 Issue — head to the AP Shop to grab a copy.
It’s been over a decade since brothers Sebastian Danzig, Remington Leith, and Emerson Barrett began their journey as Palaye Royale. Leaving behind their homestead of Las Vegas in 2011, they set out for LA, eventually sleeping in their mom’s borrowed car while they toiled away releasing independent music. Until, in 2015, Sumerian Records came calling and the risk paid its reward. In becoming rock ’...

Welcome to AP&R, where we highlight rising artists who will soon become your new favorite.
Dirt Buyer are an earnest endeavor only here by accident. While living in Boston in 2018, and with time on their hands, New Jersey native Joe Taylor Sutkowski and pal Ruben Radlauer thought it would be fun to make up a fake label. Then, listing a bunch of nonexistent bands, the plan was to bring them all to life. But it was one riff in particular that heralded Dirt Buyer’s lo-fi but intense entrance int...

Welcome to AP&R, where we highlight rising artists who are on their way to becoming your new favorite. Below, we’ve rounded up a handful of names from around the world who either just dropped music or have new music on the way very soon. These are the August up-and-comers, artists picked for their standout sound, from frank emo-folk to shapeshifting dance.
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Ok Cowgirl
Earlier this month, buzzy Brooklyn indie outfit Ok Cowgirl released their debut album ...

Sweden's breakout singer/songwriter Albin Lee Meldau tells Steven Loftin about second chances and creative redemption.
"He was a fucking asshole": Albin Lee Meldau wastes no time in glorifying his idol, Elvis Presley.
Yet, the same was almost true for the Swedish singer-songwriter. Finding himself on a better path after struggling with addiction for the majority of his adult life, he's keen to not follow in Presley's footsteps. "I mean, I'm the most egocentric person I've ever met," he laughs...

(Enji)
Merging jazz and the traditional music of Mongolia has brought Enji a nomination for the Anchor International Music Award at this year's Reeperbahn Festival but the Munich-based singer is just going with the flow, writes Steven Loftin.
Enkhjargal Erkhembayar has travelled far. The Mongolian jazz singer who make music as Enji was born in her country's capital, Ulaanbaatar, though she's now based in Munich. A world away from her landlocked, eastern upbringing, heading westward wasn't a l...

"Cartoon Darkness"
Release date: 25 October 2024
9/10
(Albums)
(Amyl and the Sniffers)
“You’re a dumb cunt, you're an arsehole." And like that, Amyl and The Sniffers are back.
As advertised, there is a lampooning smirk to this third outing from the Aussie four-piece. Across Cartoon Darkness, vocalist Amy Taylor’s ire aims at the naysayers and haters they've amassed since releasing 2019’s scuzzy pub-punk self-titled debut, and its more complete 2021 follow-up Comfort To Me. Wasting no time, th...

(Duff McKagan) (Personal Best)
From his glam-haired rhythm section tenure in behemoth group Guns N’ Roses to his earnest and honest solo output, Duff McKagan reflects on his growth to Steven Loftin.
45 minutes with Duff McKagan pass like five. As the inner workings of a bonafide rock staple work themselves out before you, it’s beyond evident that saying McKagan’s life is music would be an incredible understatement.
For the best part of six decades, the songwriter, bassist, writer, broadcaster...

Original Photography by Kate Friend
(Orlando Weeks)
Orlando Weeks' new record LOJA marks a new high for the former Maccabee. He tells Steven Loftin about his journey to unite the worlds of music and art.
Orlando Weeks' world doesn't just echo with the sonics of his current solo endeavours – or his past as the frontman of The Maccabees. It's also vividly inhabited by his artistry, currently taking the form of black and white visuals, inks and brushes bringing to life and enacting the future th...

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