Archive for January 2023

Waterville, Ohio indie-folk trio Oliver Hazard release the new single “Ballerina” off their forthcoming full-length album via Nettwerk. Stream the band’s most experimental track to date, featuring an uplifting chorus and synthesizers from the 1980s HERE. Oliver Hazard writes earnest and emotional music that you can’t help but sing along to. “This song, like so many, is simply…

Today, trio Wild Rivers share their driving new indie pop single, “Don’t,” an upbeat earworm tackling the breaking point of a relationship. The band explains, “I’ve heard the adage my whole life: when you know, you know. People describe love at first sight as an irrevocable moment when you know you want to be with someone forever.…

Sergio Díaz De Rojas’ upcoming album Muerte en una tarde de verano, due out March 10th via Nettwerk, is a drifting song cycle of spare, contemplative piano that’s suffused in melancholy but resists giving into despair. Raised in a family of musicians, the Peruvian composer took inspiration from his grandfather and his grandfather’s sister, both accomplished pianists and…

Nettwerk Music Group is thrilled to announce the signing of ethereal producer pastels. The Melbourne-based artist (given name Annie Bui) chose the name pastels as a reference to the soft yet eternally growing nature of her sound. Today. pastels shares the single “Dreamfield,” her first release with Nettwerk. The track is a slow burner, with shimmering synths, a gentle…

Today. rapper/singer/producer Laeland announces his next EP Love Is Killing U, Vol. 1, out on March 3. The project is the third from the Mississippi-based artist and his first with Nettwerk, following 2018’s Heavily Edited Heart, Vol. 1 and 2021’s Traveling Alone. Love Is Killing U – Volume 1 is a collection of sad-rap melancholy love songs following the events leading up to the…

Today, Canadian alt-pop duo Bestfriend, comprised of Stacy Kim (vocals/instrumentals) and Kaelan Geoffrey (vocals/production), have announced their sophomore EP places i’ve left out April 21st via Nettwerk. The announcement is accompanied by the band’s new single “Anxious People” and its music video co-directed by Kyle Ball and Kim herself. The immediately danceable and aptly titled, “Anxious People,” is a panic-driven pop song about all of us huddled together, trying to figure out what to…

ALT-POP ARTIST SIGNS WITH NETTWERK + SHARES NEW SINGLE “EIGHTEEN (FT. COLE BAUER)” Transitioning into adulthood is already a hideous process, even under the best of circumstances. For Malaysian-born, queer bedroom-pop performer Rufus Sivaroshan (they/them), who performs as a kid named rufus, leaving home was exponentially more challenging. The now 20-year-old Rufus is thriving at Syracuse University, where…

Today, Massachusetts-based music producer Towerz shares his next album, entitled standing hills. The 11-track project chronicles how isolation helped Towerz find peace with his personal struggles. “I’ve moved 18 times in my life,” shares Towerz. “For some reason not one of those places had mountains. So I’ve always been in awe of mountains. The last year has been quite a rough…

“Chariot,” the new single from SYML—the solo project of singer, songwriter and producer Brian Fennell—debuts today—listen here. The track is taken from SYML’s forthcoming album, The Day My Father Died, set for release February 3 on Nettwerk—pre-save/pre-order here. “Chariots are for royalty,” says Fennell. “They are golden and precious vessels reserved for people who deserve it. For this song though, I imagine my chariot…

Today 20-year-old vocalist, producer, and composer SCayos shares his newest LP, entitled Whatever Happens, Happens. The 12-track LP features collaborations with Souly Had, santpoort, Relyae and more, as well as two tracks with fellow Nettwerk artist Presence. Whatever Happens, Happens builds on SCayos’ October EP You, which received coverage from Lyrical Lemonade, Ones to Watch, Sparky WTF and more.  “Whatever Happens, Happens talks about the…