Mitski Miyawaki is a cowboy. She grew up around the world — in Japan, in Turkey, in China, in Congo, in places around these United States. These days, she makes her living as a touring musician, ...

Mitski's new album Be the Cowboy has arrived from Dead Oceans. Produced by longtime collaborator Patrick Hyland, the record comes two years after the beautifully unrelenting Puberty 2, the album that ...

Mitski’s Be The Cowboy landed at No. 3 on our 2018 critic poll’s best albums list. Check out the poll here, and our thoughts on the album’s impact below. There are countless pieces floating around the ...

The RX is Uproxx Music’s stamp of approval for the best albums, songs, and music stories throughout the year. Inclusion in this category is the highest distinction we can bestow, and signals the most ...

But as Mitski has moved to stadiums where her own fans stand like ants, she's grown distressed over the loss of personhood that accompanies this idealization. Depressed crowds come to her searching ...

Mitski may have been on a semi-hiatus, but her presence was still strongly felt in the past year. “Nobody,” her disco-tinged single off the 2018 record Be The Cowboy, became an unexpected anthem for ...

Few musical miniatures command the attention like Mitski’s “Geyser,” the opening track on Be the Cowboy (out since August), which changes shape three times in two minutes. The echoey church organ ...

It’s been a wild year for Mitski Miyawaki. Her latest album, Be the Cowboy, has been hailed as one of the best of 2018, and every one of her current tour dates is sold out in advance. Still, her ...

“It’s not like it just pours out,” Mitski Miyawaki says of her music in the press materials for her new album, Be the Cowboy. “It’s not like I’m a vessel.” This is not, really, what artists are ...

When Lorde took Mitski Miyawaki out on her Melodrama tour this year as an opening act, it was a perfect match: Two smart, intense women addressing heartache, class issues, and other emotional ...

On the cover of 2016’s Puberty 2, Mitski Miyawaki stands in a meadow wearing an oversized white tee, her face painted the same color. She’s half-turned toward the camera, staring down the viewer in ...