“I Don’t Envy New Artists Right Now”: Maggie Rogers on the Clarity and Chaos of Her Sophomore Effort

Around sunset on Wednesday, a few dozen fans gathered on the rooftop of Electric Lady Studios to watch Maggie Rogers perform songs from her new album, Surrender, over acoustic guitar. For those in attendance, the evening was a perfect metaphor for Rogers’ career: Just as we wondered whether the passersby in Greenwich Village knew, exactly, whose voice was ringing out so lushly from above, we also knew that few of us were likely to ever play audience to Rogers in such close quarters ever again. “This is a really strange relationship,” Rogers herself remarked to her listeners after pausing to… Read Full Article