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…

Emmy Award-Winning, Juilliard-trained saxophonist, singer, songwriter and jazz prodigy Braxton Cook is one of this generation’s most exciting voices. In 2013, Braxton was selected as a semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition. In 2015, he graduated from The Juilliard School, where he studied Jazz Composition. While a student, Braxton toured with Grammy Award-nominated trumpeter Christian Scott and…

Boy Willows' music tells a story of unbridled, modernist creativity. The vocalist, producer, and multi-creative, also known as Landon Fleischman, makes music that is spacious and special. The BANGS EP (Nettwerk Records) is a delicate example of Boy Willows's aptitude for worldbuilding.  While about specific experiences and moments, his songs also capture those unique, diaphanous moments that seem to only…

Boy Bleach are an East London born & raised alternative outfit. A musically eclectic group of working-class council boys, a Portuguese immigrant & Cockney-blooded Welsh lads set on sensitising the world to its own peculiarities. Their unapologetically punk essence is palpable as they cut and sew genres at their discretion to offer up a raw…

In 1998, British alt-rock band bôa dropped their breakout single “Duvet,” a sweeping anthem that soundtracked the Japanese cult-classic anime Serial Experiments Lain. A little more than two decades later, “Duvet” re-emerged on TikTok, igniting a feverish renewed interest in the band with a whole new generation of fans and inspiring bôa to return to…

Bridgeport, CT-based artist BODHI crafts a unique sound shaped by their experiences as a queer black artist. Growing up attending a predominantly white Christian private school, BODHI’s childhood was marked by feelings of isolation and a search for belonging. Music became BODHI’s solace, and they began crafting hypnotic melodies and transportive soundscapes paired with an…

The communion between an artist and a room full of people endures is one of the most sacred forms of connection. As emotion and energy transfer back-and-forth, this interchange of feelings might be the closest thing we have to true magic in our physical world. Billy Raffoul writes music with this moment in mind. Guitar…

As ambient folk artist Black Brunswicker, Etta Helfrich creates rich ground for reflection with roaming instrumentals closely rooted in nature, casting a restful spell. The Bloomington, Indiana-born artist grew up in the Midwest and brings the sweeping plains of the landscape into their expansive guitar-led sound, drawing you closer to something primordial, vast, and earthy.Accordingly…

After nearly over a decade and four albums, Beta Radio’s Ben Mabry and Brent Holloman decided to see other people. The duo’s new album Waiting for the End to Come marks the first time they’ve worked with other songwriters. During a writing retreat in Nashville the two friends shared a creative experience that bordered on…

Canadian alt-pop duo Bestfriend is a culmination of two young artists, Stacy Kim (lead vocals/guitar) and Kaelan Geoffrey (synthesizers/vocals), making music from thousands of miles apart; Stacy in Vancouver, Kaelan in Toronto. Half-formed through a mutual friend and half-formed through Instagram DMs in 2018, Stacy would write songs, create rough demos, and send them to…