When Nilüfer Yanya was 10, she would scribble throwaway lyrics in a notebook she kept hidden at home in west London. One day, her sister found them. “She left a message inside letting me know that she ...

Nilüfer Yanya is honoring one of her alt-rock forebears, PJ Harvey, with a new cover of the latter’s 1992 classic, “Rid of Me.” Yanya’s rendition is largely faithful to the original as she builds up ...

“I’ve just given up describing music. I just see them as songs,” Nilüfer Yanya says about her own music, “It’s almost like a fun experiment to try and make something from one genre.” This approach to ...

In her newest music video for her song, “The Dealer,” Nilüfer Yanya shows off her guitar chops. In the visual, Yanya is seen playing different color guitars corresponding to blue, red, and orange ...

Nilüfer Yanya is back, with her first piece of new music since her 2022 album, Painless. Today (April 24), Yanya is kicking off a new era. After recently signing with Ninja Tune, Yanya is gearing up ...

As WFUV honors Women's History Month, we're also heralding a handful of "Ascending Women" musicians who are making their own history with outstanding new music. Some are making comebacks; others are ...

While on tour earlier this year supporting her fantastic second LP, Painless — one of our favorite albums of 2022 so far — Nilüfer Yanya frequently worked a cover of PJ Harvey‘s classic, raw Rid of Me ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This is the official album cover for 'My Method Actor' by Nilüfer Yanya. In a landscape fraught ...

It’s been two years since Nilüfer Yanya shared her stunning second album, PAINLESS, but today she’s returned with a fuzzy new single, “Like I Say (I runaway),” which comes with a music video directed ...

Nilüfer Yanya appears in our Fall 2024 Issue with cover stars Slipknot, Destroy Boys, Pierce the Veil, and beabadoobee. Head to the AP Shop to grab a copy. Nilüfer Yanya’s first memories of music were ...

In the DNA of Nilüfer Yanya’s music you hear the unmistakable guitar strains of mid-aughts bands such as Interpol, The Strokes, and The Libertines. These were the albums that her older sister was ...