Fletcher Reed, the nom de plume of American music producer Andrew Smith, grew up learning various instruments and playing in different bands at an early age. A few years back, he and a friend took off for Zimbabwe, their first destination on what would become a mostly non-stop journey across several continents for two years. While…

Since releasing his 2022 debut album, Ritual, Bay Ledges has garnered over 100 million streams worldwide and received praise from Rolling Stone, Billboard, Under The Radar, and Flood. Partly written in response to the death of several family members of singer/songwriter/producer Zach Hurd, his latest album, Rivers, is an enthralling reflection on love, loss, and change.  Referring to two distinct…

A performance pseudonym of experimental musician Roger Sellers, Bayonne incorporates voice, synths, looping, effects, acoustic percussion, and more into his ultra-layered, textured songs. After releasing a handful of albums under his own name in the early 2010s that explored an electro-acoustic avant-folk, Sellers started going by Bayonne for his more electronics-based work.  A native of…

The all or nothing attitude is a pervasive impulse among humans. We latch onto false dichotomies to grasp the complexity that surrounds us — natural vs artificial, analog vs digital. But on his debut EP, A Beautiful Start, artist Reid Jenkins diverges from this tendency and joyfully explores the medley of emotions and influences that…

A specialist in augmenting music possibility, Derek VanScoten is the producer, guitarist, and Emmy-winning musician behind Cloudchord. His remarkable technical skills on the guitar give a refreshing take on dance music, solidifying his place in the world of psychedelic soulful chillhop beats. Derek grew up coveting guitar gods like Jimi Hendrix. The game changed when…

Atmospheric producer Vindu started making music at the age of 16 and has since captured millions of listeners. With an artist name that comes from the Star Wars character Mace Windu, his sound is full of moods and emotions and spatial bliss. Like spa music with bass. Like a drum kit in a dojo. First…

One of the first Lofi artists to gain traction on Soundcloud and develop the sound of the genre today, the Oatmello project blends elements of jazz, ambient, hip hop, and electronic into a dream-like, introspective experience that has accumulated over 250M streams worldwide. Envisioned as an antidote to our current world of attention-demanding media, constant…

Lo-fi producer, rapper, and multi-instrumentalist Nathan Kawanishi was looking for a new challenge after the breakout success of Nostalgia, his debut LP with Nettwerk Music Group. Nostalgia, a pandemic project that reflected on his time in Japan, rocketed Kawanishi from rising producer to an important new voice in lo-fi hip hop. Kawanishi could have leaned…

Rosie Darling is quietly confident, exuberantly passionate, and creatively inclined to infinity. She’s the kind of anomaly who pushes pop music forward by uncompromisingly embracing her own artistic impulses and following them to unprecedented heights. It’s why the Boston-born and Los Angeles-based pop singer-songwriter has effectively emerged as a phenomenon with tens of millions of…

Mishegas is the electronic music project of Emilio Quezada Ibañez, the Mexico-born and New York City-based artist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist with a range of sonic styles as diverse as his own upbringing and interests. Having released a steady stream of acclaimed singles over the past few years, Mishegas—a Yiddish word that can interpreted as hectic,…