“Ready,” the eleventh track on Alex G’s label debut “Beach Music,” is the most succinct encapsulation of the sometimes-frustrating magic its artist is capable of creating. Alex G—short for Giannascoli ...

Alex G has always been weird. Before going viral on Tiktok was a musician’s quickest path to fame, the indie singer-songwriter followed an earlier model of the internet music career, one that took ...

With his instinctual approach to music, Alex Giannascoli’s songs never end up sounding quite the same. Some are marked by a wistful sentimentality, like forgotten scriptures framed by solemn guitars; ...

There is a dreary sense of psychedelia that seeps from Alexander Giannascoli’s music, which is at once mesmerizing and deeply singular. Born and raised in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, suburbs, he ...

I have been writing about music for publications for over a year now, and here’s what I’ve learned: I shouldn’t call myself a music critic. It isn’t appropriate. Why? I do not have the knowledge to ...

“When the light came big and bright, I began another life,” Alex G sings slowly, like he’s making sense of it, on his new single, “Afterlife.” It’s a pleasant meditation on growing up (“We were mean ...

Beach Music finds him expanding stylistically, song by song: “Salt” takes inspiration from Eighties pop, “Look Out” is a shimmering ambient experiment, while “In Love” tip-toes into weirdo jazz.

How do you define your identity? The power of self-expression and acceptance comes in many forms. For writer Alex Music, their body hair became the ultimate symbol of self-love.