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The Beaches Vocalist Jordan Miller Talks Inspirations, Their ‘No-Gossiping Rule’ and Being in Her Stevie Nicks Era (Exclusive)

The Beaches have a new edition of their 2025 album, ‘No Hard Feelings’, and they’re about to kick off some shows on the 2026 Jingle Ball Tour.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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For years, The Beaches have been writing some of the catchiest indie pop-rock The Great White North has to offer. These days, the Toronto band is in a bright new era, having had their Coachella debut and dropped their third album—No Hard Feelings—in 2025.

Now, singer/bassist Jordan Miller is opening up to Vice about where the band is and where they’ve come from, as well as being in her “Stevie Nicks-era” and the band’s strict “no-gossiping” rule.

Scroll on to read more about The Beaches, their Juno Award-winning music, and their “Golden Girls-esque” band dynamic.

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VICE: For someone who’s never heard your music before, give me a brief description of your vibe and who you are as a band.

JORDAN MILLER: Our vibe is very indie girl pop-rock music, a little bit new wave-y. In terms of the things that we sing and write about, it’s sort of sad-girl breakup songs meet party-girl anthems. It’s a lot of dancing while you’re crying kind of vibes.

VICE: Love it. If Spotify was curating a playlist based on your songs, what other artists would fit onto that playlist?

JORDAN: Definitely MUNA. Maybe a little Olivia. Who else? These are good Leandra questions. Phoebe Bridgers, probably, and The Pretenders and The Strokes.

VICE: Who, as a band, do you consider your main inspirations?

JORDAN: Good question. In terms of bands that we’ve probably listened to the most and pulled a lot from, specifically in terms of guitar melodies and sometimes vocal melodies, I’d say definitely The Strokes.

Especially because, if you listen to them, a lot of the time the guitar melody and the vocal melody play off each other in a really interesting way. I think that’s similar to the musical relationship that me and Leandra have.

VICE: Give me a little bit of info on your background and how you guys came together as a band.

JORDAN: Me and Kylie are sisters, so I’ve known her since birth. We started playing together when we were six and seven years old.

Then we met Eliza, our drummer, in grade school, and we formed a band called Done With Dolls. That band got a couple plays on the Family Channel, which is the Canadian Disney Channel.

When we got to high school, we were like, “You know what? We kind of want to write our own songs.” So we decided to change our name and start writing our own songs. That’s when The Beaches was formed, and around that time is when Leandra joined the band.

So we’ve been together for about 12, 13 years — the four of us.

VICE: I imagine working with four personalities in any setting can have its challenges. How do you guys navigate that as you work together on music?

JORDAN: We’ve implemented a no-gossiping rule.

VICE: Probably a good idea.

JORDAN: A good idea. No gossiping allowed. And we try to limit our passive-aggressive comments, as you know, women, to a minimum.

We don’t really argue that much. I know it sounds like a cliché, and I’m sure you get this from so many other bands, but we genuinely are so close with each other.

I think we’ll probably end up having a Golden Girls-esque relationship when all of our partners are dead. We’ll live together in Miami in a seniors facility, and that would be the dream.

We already spend so much time together, but we’ve literally gone on vacation together twice in the past two years. Even on our time off, we’re spending time together.

I think that comes from a long, storied, shared history. But we’ve also........

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