Consider the word “want.” Common enough, sure, but not the easiest to express when looking to get a need met—especially by someone you love. It’s a friction that, during the pandemic, was much on the ...

With Best Wishes, their debut LP from out 5/15 via Kill Rock Stars, Portland, Oregon’s MAITA have announced themselves as members of that rarified class of artists with the ability to enthrall the ...

‘breakup song x3’ chronicles the dissolution of a single relationship, three times,” explains Maita-Keppeler. “It explores the way the hot and cold nature of an uncertain heart can keep another held ...

February is here and hitting the ground running with a new Downtown Bloc Party (three days of dueling shows at Kelly’s Olympian and Jack London Revue), a chic home base for producer-focused showcase A ...

Maita channels her inner rocker in her new single "Can't Blame a Kid" -- premiering exclusively on Billboard today (Nov. 15) -- and she says there's more where that came from. By Gary Graff Maita ...

The life of a touring musician is exalted. But ask most people who’ve actually experienced it and they’ll probably describe the monotony: long stretches of road, losing radio and phone signal, trying ...

The colorful and dramatic life of Maita Gomez, chronicled by Marra PL. Lanot in a 2003 article reprinted from Leader magazine in last Sunday’s STAR, is an excellent material for a movie (with, why not ...

When Brazilian singer Luisa Maita and her band showed up for their Tiny Desk Concert, I was a little concerned that, with only three accompanists, she wouldn't be able to re-create the deep grooves of ...