Imagine the voice of an angel, swathed in the red plaid and dark denim of a lumberjack. Imagine being a songwriting legacy, and losing a father. Imagine the soul of the gardener who lives in wintry Canada. This is singer-songwriter Catherine MacLellan. Describe your sound in your own words. Pretty mellow, original singer-songwriter in the ...

The lovely VV Brown is a multi-instrumentalist, one-woman show who wants nothing more than for you to get up and shake it to her checkerboard mix of indie pop and R&B. As a student in the UK, VV was accepted to Oxford, but skipped higher education to be a songwriter (and model). She still calls herself a "nerd" for indulging her bookish ...