Kate Nash

No matter how sweet her hooks, Kate Nash will always dish out the hard, bitter truth—especially to those who are out of line.

Since catching the ear of fellow alt-pop provocateur Lily Allen on MySpace in the mid-2000s, the London-raised singer/songwriter has defined her sound by its unpredictability, experimenting with piano-pounding rock, frenetic garage-punk, and fizzy synth-pop—sometimes all at once.

Just as loose and playful with her lyrics, Nash balances the puerile with the profound, all in the name of love, self-preservation, and feminism.