Currently based in Auckland, alayna has been an avid explorer of herself for years, and, though she’s just coming to terms with herself now, she realizes, too, that she’ll be ever-changing, evolving, and continuing to figure things out. Her upcoming new material throughout 2022 sees alayna slowly transition from an R&B and soulful singer to a singer-songwriter where her…

Nicolas Dupuis is never far from home. As Anomalie – the shape-shifting, electronic-leaning contemporary jazz production project he unveiled in 2016 – the Montréal born & based artist has carved out his own niche in the music industry.  He combines his world-class talents as a composer, producer, and classically and jazz-trained keyboardist with an innovative…

An inveterate musician raised in the recording studio, Elliot Moss has devoted much of his life to dreaming up sonic worlds with a strangely transportive power. After finding breakout success with his viral hit single “Slip” at age 18, the New York City-bred singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist brought his unfettered imagination and refined musicality to his 2015 debut Highspeeds and its follow-up A…

Since forming in 2015, TENDER have become masters of balancing bedroom pop intimacy with festival-sized ambition, with their superbly composed alt-pop songs gaining fans in NPR, Stereogum and beyond as well as hundreds of millions of streams. A steady progression and refinement of their sound followed on their debut album Modern Addiction (2017) and follow-up…

Ian Ewing is a self-taught instrumentalist, producer and artist who blends a smooth mix of hip-hop, electronica, and R&B to create a sound that has been supported and showcased by Chillhop Music, SiriusXM, BBC One Extra, Soulection, Complexion's Future Beats Show, Indie Shuffle, and much more.  At a young age, the Southern California-based artist (by…

August Pemberton lived in New York as a child before he moved back to the UK at 7 years old. At university, he studied computer science and after graduating he moved to Bristol where he’s currently based. Pemberton grew up in a musical family and began playing the piano at a young age. While making software…

The Album Leaf began as the solo project of Jimmy LaValle, who came up in the San Diego music scene playing in hardcore bands and the instrumental rock band Tristeza. He had inked a deal to release his next solo album through the indie label Tigerstyle Records, so he put the modest advance towards a…

Jolé went through some of the darkest times in his life, only to emerge stronger than ever. The pandemic pushed unexpected challenges his way, but he rose to every single one of them. It was a coming-of-age of sorts, marked by personal loss, fatherhood, and the realization of what he wants to achieve in life.…

You’ll feel like you’re sitting right next to Bre Kennedy while listening to Scream Over Everything (Side A). With heart-on-her-sleeve lyricism and intimate and infectious delivery, the Nashville-based singer, songwriter, and producer discloses her innermost thoughts, fears, and dreams with a novelist’s attention to detail. Fashioning a signature style, she uplifts sharp storytelling with an…

LADYTRON earned a decade's worth of acclaim by relentlessly pushing boundaries, carving out new sonic and conceptual space and refusing to abide any formula or trend. So it's testimony to their craft to say that Gravity The Seducer, the fifth album from the electro-pop provocateurs, is vintage Ladytron — because, like each of the four…