pastels is the artist project of Melbourne producer and musician Annie Bui—the name pastels refers to the soft yet eternally growing nature of her sound. Growing up in a music-forward environment, Annie picked up both the piano and the violin at a young age and went on to major in music composition in college. During…

paris91 is a German production duo made up of members Deniz & Flo. The self-proclaimed "music-loving nerds" reside in Hamburg and craft a distinct sound found somewhere between lofi beats, old-school hip-hop, and sophisticated jazzy instrumentals. While both artists spend time on their respective solo projects, they founded the duo because of their love of collaborations.…

Mike Rosenberg, better known as Passenger, is a multi-award winning, platinum-selling singer-songwriter from Brighton, England. Although still known for his busking, he long ago made the journey from street corners to stadiums –most notably with “Let Her Go,” which reached #1 in 19 countries and is approaching three billion plays on YouTube. Yet “Let Her…

PANTōNE VU is a chromesthesia-curious partnership between two musicians looking to explore that intersection of color and sound. Blending found sound, live performance and modular synth-tinkering, their color series EPs (having just wrapped up Green and continuing with Pink) explore the many musical trails that exist in the corners of the color spectrum.

The Derbyshire-born musician, Paris Paloma, gave the world “labour” in 2023. Its journal-like lyricism and incisive strain of compelling, dark folk-pop skewered the knots of women’s emotional labour, and immediately became a rallying cry worldwide. The track broke over 100 million streams on Spotify, cracked the Official UK Singles Chart and US Billboard Chart, and…

Panchiko is beginning to settle into rockstar life. It’s different from how the Nottingham, UK band imagined it when they were teens, crafting ethereal, at times cosmic bits of heart-forward rock music to little outside interest, playing shows to nearly empty rooms. They set aside their hopes of becoming full-time musicians and pursued other careers.…

Songwriter Paige Valentine is one special artist.Thematically, her music arches across age-old artistic fascinations; love, death, growth, a loss of innocence, the stark face of grief. She writes elegantly, cutting straight to the heart of matters with devastating concision. With a clever approach to production and aesthetic akin to Maggie Rogers and Kita Alexander, Paige’s…

Growing up in a small village in Lower Austria, OSKA moved to Vienna at 18 to study her first love; music. She started busking in streets and squares of the capital while also studying pop and jazz singing. She signed to Nettwerk in 2020 and released her debut EP Honeymoon Phase to critical acclaim. The…

Shaan Chhadva is a Mumbai-born, L.A.-based producer and singer/songwriter curating his own musical universe to nurture his worldly curiosity. One may have encountered the virtuoso’s deeply resonant pieces without attaching a face to any of his many names; perhaps in the depths of a playlist, or a popular YouTube channel in the background of a…

While some musicians are scheming to go viral, the Waterville, OH indie-folk band Oliver Hazard has been killing it the old-fashioned way: squeezing into a van, traversing a tangle of Interstates, and winning over fans one city at a time. They created a Living Room Tour, where one fan would host the band and invite…