Just to be clear, invoking choreography here doesn’t mean Mitski brought along a herd of backup hoofers, which would be unbecoming for an erstwhile indie-rocker, if de rigueur for the pop stars she ...

"Laurel Hell" probably isn't the album you put on before a night out, and it's not the album you sing along with while smiling. It's the album you put on to feel — to feel the effects of burnout, of ...

In the 135-year history of the Auditorium Theatre, no artist has likely ever asked the patrons in the upper balconies if they were terrified for the reason Mitski specified Thursday. Soon after ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Raina Douris, host of World Cafe at member station WXPN, about Mitski's new album, Nothing's About to Happen to Me. If you've only ever heard one sound from the rock ...

itski has been having nightmares. The 31-year-old musician has always suffered from performance-anxiety dreams, but lately they’ve gotten more terrifying, more elaborate. During one in particular, her ...

What is it to express monstrosity as a woman? The entirety of Mitski’s repertoire seems to claw at this question. Her closing performance on the first night of the second annual Day in Day Out ...

Mitski, the twenty-eight-year-old singer-songwriter who, this past August, put out “Be the Cowboy,” one of the best albums of the year, is a star. This isn’t a question of crowd size—although she did ...

Over the last decade, Mitski has consistently disproved the longest held music biz adage: that you have to conform to trends to reach mass appeal. The Japan-born, world-raised artist has been a ...