Rachael Yamagata w/ Anya Marina

Rachael Yamagata

With her unmistakable voice and unflinching honesty, Rachael Yamagata has built a reputation as one of indie music’s most evocative singer-songwriters. Emerging in the early 2000s with her acclaimed debut Happenstance, she’s since released a string of beloved albums — including Elephants…Teeth Sinking Into Heart, Chesapeake, and Tightrope Walker — earning a loyal following for her raw lyricism and cinematic live shows.

Her new album, Starlit Alchemy (2025), marks her first LP in nearly a decade and her most intentional work yet. Written both before and during 2020, and recorded largely in her Catskills home studio, the record is a journey through grief, resilience, and transformation. Sequenced as a continuous, immersive experience, it blends ambient textures, live warmth, and full-band arrangements into a soundtrack for personal rebirth.

A fiercely independent artist, Yamagata has self-managed for over 13 years, forging her own path outside the major label system. Along the way, she’s collaborated with Liz Phair, Ray LaMontagne, Bright Eyes, Toots and The Maytals, and more, while cultivating a body of work that’s both intimate and expansive.

With Starlit Alchemy, Yamagata invites listeners into a world where sorrow and beauty coexist — music as both compass and salve.

Anya Marina

Anya Marina is a provocative and gifted live performer, touring nearly non-stop throughout her career, both as a headliner as well as in tandem with such artists as Jason Mraz, Spoon, Tristan Prettyman, Eric Hutchinson, Chris Isaak, Paolo Nutini, Dandy Warhols, and, in recent years, opening for comedian Nikki Glaser in theaters across the U.S. and Europe.


Marina is also a prolific songwriter, perhaps best known for “Satellite Heart,” from the platinum-selling soundtrack to Twilight: New Moon, and her cover of T.I.’s “Whatever You Like” (7M YouTube views and counting). Marina’s songs have been featured in national ad campaigns and influential TV series (13 Reasons Why, Grey's Anatomy, Gossip Girl), remixed by Interpol’s Sam Fogarino, and called “a mixture of Liz Phair sex appeal with a dash of [Carl] Jung” by Rolling Stone.  

After releasing two critically acclaimed albums (Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II and Felony Flats) and an EP (Spirit School) on Chop Shop/Atlantic, Marina independently released Paper Plane and EPs Serious Love and Over You - the lead single from which was featured in the award-winning web series Anya Marina: Indie-pendent Woman. She followed that with Queen of the Night in 2020, Live & Alone in New York (recorded live over two nights at Rockwood Music Hall, NYC) in 2021, and her sixth studio LP, Asteroid (produced by Kevin Salem in Woodstock, NY) in 2024. She is currently working on an album of duets with partner Matt Pond.