Angus Stone

Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, singer/songwriter Angus Stone first garnered the public's attention as one-half of the internationally successful folk duo Angus & Julia Stone. With their distinctive vocal styles, Julia's breathy and ethereal and Angus' smoky and confident, the siblings released their debut album, A Book Like This, to critical acclaim in 2007. After 2010's Down the Way, the pair began working on solo projects, with Angus unveiling the feisty and rollicking Smoking Gun under the pseudonym Lady of the Sunshine before returning to country-folk-inflected territory with 2012's Broken Brights, issued under his birth name. The siblings released an eponymous LP in 2014, then Angus used another pseudonym, Dope Lemon, for a more '90s slacker rock-evoking outing titled Honey Bones in 2016. ~ James Christopher Monger