At the end of Midnight's opening track, "All I Do Is Lie," Stef Chura moans and shouts: "If you do it to me, I don't care / I can do it to you too." Fuzzed-out guitars mimic her wailing, and she ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Bandcamp playlist at the bottom of the page. But two years later, Chura has remained ...

In early May, Stef Chura was hosting a karaoke night at a Detroit bar when someone tried to steal her tip jar. “I almost lost my mind,” she says angrily. Karaoke is a way for the 30-year-old indie ...

“Have you ever heard of the ‘Return of Saturn’ years?” Stef Chura asks. The Detroit singer-songwriter is sitting across from me in a restaurant booth in Brooklyn, looking earnest through her round, ...