Stream How Did I Get Here? PHOTOS BY CARLA FUSTER

Part of her Honeymoon in a Motel tour, Eileen Alister’s Barcelona stop felt intimate in a way that doesn’t usually happen at this scale. The room locked in early and stayed there, no big theatrics or distractions. Just her presence carrying the set from start to finish. Her sound lives in contrast: soft, then sharp, with emotional, sometimes heavy lyrics about love and growing up, cut through with a clean pop edge that keeps everything moving. It never drags, never overreaches, shifting...

The Barcelona singer turning queer feelings, raw emotion, and real-life contradictions into bold, atmospheric soundtracks for anyone living life a little too intensely. Barcelona-based artist Claudia Allmang describes her music in the simplest, sharpest terms: “I make lesbian music.” But behind that playful declaration sits a universe of contrasts —softness and seduction, euphoria and pain, politics and instinct all colliding inside her sound. For Claudia, intimacy doesn’t live in the...