London-based polymath anaiis makes the kind of music that speaks to an innate sense of wonder. On her latest album Devotion & The Black Divine, the songs swell with emotional clarity as she lovingly pushes herself beyond the edges of her comfort zone.
There’s an ecstatic melancholy in Dent May’s music, bittersweet, exuberant songs that break your heart as you sing along.
Blending DIY pop with ’70s songwriter warmth, May embraces improvisation, community, and cautious optimism, finding joy, connection, and possibility even as the world feels uncertain.
Dark-pop provocateur, Daniel Virgil Maisonneuve, professionally known as Sub Urban is a Taiwanese American singer, songwriter and producer most known for his RIAA double platinum-certified hit, “Cradles”. Since his breakout hit, Daniel has continued to innovate his electric sound, imbuing macabre theatrics with distinctive timbres and undeniably addictive hooks
Zee Machine is an electrifying pop/rock/electronic singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known for their powerful vocals, dynamic songwriting, and genre-fluid sound.
With millions of streams across platforms, Zee Machine is continuing to grow, connect, and find their own lane as an independent artist that you know you’ll have a good time dancing along to
Boys Go To Jupiter is most definitely a band. But it feels like something else. A friend you can just talk to for hours. A story that hooks you from the very first word. Or three Brooklyn twenty-somethings who really, really love a great song.
A whirlwind of influences and genres, their captivating sound is grounded in strong storytelling and powerful live performance. Blending joyful indie-pop, dreamy soul, lush folk and sugary punk, the Brooklyn-based band delivers.
Brampton’s own RUSSELL! is a Filipino-Canadian R&B artist blending smooth vocals, warm production, and emotionally honest songwriting.
His music explores growth, relationships, and identity through a modern R&B lens. Following Dearly Loved, El Cariño, and the globally inspired Motherland, his latest project Flowers marks his most personal chapter yet—a tribute to his hometown, his mother, and the people who shaped him.
To Lauren Sanderson, rebellion isn’t an aesthetic – it’s a practiced discipline, delivered at full volume.
Drawing from the hyperactive futurism of Missy Elliott and the abrasive bite of nü-metal, Sanderson distills those influences into something distinctly her own: a swaggering, energetic vision balancing sharp hooks with unfiltered attitude.
In 2018, vaultboy started livestreaming himself singing, performing and also gaming full-time under a previous alias.
It wasn’t until late 2020 that he posted his debut TikTok as vaultboy, a name that pays homage to his love of video games, specifically the Fallout series.
He began sharing his original music and found, with his fun and relatable lyrics, that he was able to deeply connect with the audience that has grown around him.
“Todd could be completely absurd one minute, deeply sincere the next. And it worked. Seeing Todd do stand-up with the band is ‘shut-the-fuck-up funny.’ From the moment you walk through the front door, Todd is shaping the entire experience. By the time you’re in your seat, you’ve left the regular world. It’s its own universe. It’s really something to see live.” —Rory Scovel
Darkness and light, aggression and gentleness, ecstasy and reflection: these dualities define Slow Magic’s third and strongest project to date, Float.
An expansive and inventive compendium of modern electronic pop, the enigmatic producer’s latest spans a multitude of genres and moods resulting in a listening experience that makes for its own journey.
Joon is captivating North American and Southeast Asian audiences with emotional pop sentimentality and a nostalgic band production reminiscent of The1975 and LANY.
tobi lou is a genre-bending rap artist with a knack for blending deeper lyricism into light beats, putting his own spin on what emotional artistry looks like.
Saint Harison is an artist with an undeniable voice from Southampton, United Kingdom, currently living in Los Angeles.
Called one of the “great voices not just from the UK, but of all time” by Elton John, Saint has quickly become a fan favorite with nods from Justin Bieber, Jazmine Sullivan, SZA and more.
He was recently named on Rolling Stone’s Future of Music list. Citing Amy Winehouse and Frank Ocean as key musical influences, Saint has been covered by British Vogue, Rolling Stone, NPR, GQ, CLASH, Variety, Pigeons & Planes etc. and was named Apple Music’s global Up Next artist.
With a vibrant blend of alternative indie pop, Tyler’s sound evokes a sense of nostalgia, joy, and classic song-craft rounded in this ethos of presence, Tyler’s music is built on strong melodic hooks and draws subtle inspiration from the classic songwriting of the ’60s and ’70s.
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Duff Goldman takes audiences on a wild, flour-dusted ride – from his great-grandmother outrunning Cossacks to his own adventures in fast-food joint, fine-dining kitchens, metal bands, Food Network, and the iconic Charm City Cakes.
Along the way, he’ll stretch paper-thin phyllo, tell big stories, deliver even bigger laughs, and perhaps hand out a bit of apple strudel. It’s part history lesson, park baking demonstration, part stand-up comedy – and entirely Duff. Come for the pastry; stay for the stories.
Keznamdi’s music feels like a passport stamp: rooted in reggae’s spiritual backbone, yet shaped by a life lived across continents.
Sonically, Keznamdi stands at the intersection of tradition and now: threading roots reggae and dancehall with global influences, including Bongo Flava, R&B, and rap, delivered with a writer’s intention and a performer’s warmth. As he puts it: “My music is a message… every one of my songs have a purpose.”.
Mountain Grass Unit is known for high-energy live shows, adventurous musicianship, and the rare chemistry that comes from years of playing together.
The band brings a forward-looking spirit to bluegrass tradition, blending instrumental firepower, improvisation, jamgrass energy, and song-driven roots music into a sound made for the stage.
For pop-rock trio Arrows in Action, comfort and familiarity aren’t just themes—they’re forces that pull you into old patterns and old feelings. That double-edged rush sits at the heart of their second LP, I Think I’ve Been Here Before.
Produced by Dan Swank (All Time Low, Charlotte Sands), I Think I’ve Been Here Before is a labor of love—an LP unafraid to sit with heavy emotions while radiating light.
Jacob Alon? Damn. They’ve got the voice of a tortured angel, and the darkest of lyricists. One of the funniest too. Has lived a life, and puts it’s all into song, every last drop. Bleakly beautiful bittersweet symphonies. Undresses themselves completely in telling those stories (metaphorically speaking), and it’s visceral stuff. The real deal. Scotland’s young Makar in waiting. That voice..
Anna Graves is an alt-folk artist whose music casts spells through storytelling.
Her sound weaves cinematic pop melodies with folk intimacy where vulnerability transforms into power, and heartbreak alchemizes into healing.
Evangelia is a multi-platinum Greek-American artist blending modern pop with traditional Greek sounds. In just two years, she’s become one of Greece’s most-streamed artists, with viral hits like “Vále,” “Vradia,” and “Fotiá, ” and over 16 million Spotify streams.
A multifaceted creative at every level, BLÜ EYES writes, produces, and shapes her own sonic world with striking intention. Her ability to translate vulnerability into connection has earned her a rapidly growing global audience and established her as one of the most compelling new voices shaping the next era of authentic pop music.
Named one of Spotify’s “Pop Rising Artists to Watch in 2024,” Isabel LaRosa is rapidly rising within modern alternative pop, transforming coming-of-age stories of infatuation and heartbreak into impossible-to-ignore hits for a new generation.
Promising Young Woman, draws from twisted wonderland imagery to explore feelings of self-imposed expectations, tension between beauty and suffocation, and the fine lines being blurred between real and performance—capturing the disorienting realization of losing yourself in the pursuit of perfection and the unsettling realization that you no longer know who you are without it.
In the echo chamber of pop’s polished perfection, Syd Taylor has made a decidedly imperfect, deeply personal noise.
With After the Fact—her debut, self-produced solo album, out —Syd Taylor introduces herself on her own terms:
Just Syd, a guitar, an open heart, and a belief that imperfection is its own kind of clarity.
(The Nuance Magazine)
Renny approaches his music as a way to challenge convention by engaging his audience to do the same through attentive lyrics about love, grief, and nature, coupled with tangly guitar melodies and rewarding dissonance that explores tension through its release.
The result is a collection of heartfelt songs that unravel differently with every listen.
Whoever Allan Rayman is, he’s made a hell of a body of work so far.
The Toronto based artist has delivered one head-scratching, hypnotic and heavenly project after another, including ‘Hotel Allan’, ‘Roadhouse 01’, and the unforgettable ‘CHRISTIAN’.
Along the way, he generated over 250 million streams, sold out tours in Europe, USA and Canada, and shined at festivals, including Reading & Leeds, Bonnaroo, Rifflandia and Lollapalooza, and has collaborated with the likes of Jessie Reyez, Alex da Kid and James Vincent McMorrow.
Tom Hamilton has made a career of pushing rock n’ roll boundaries.
Since 2000, Hamilton has fronted a cadre of bands, including Brothers Past, American Babies and Ghost Light. He also sings and plays lead guitar in the juggernaut contemporary Grateful Dead cover band, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead.
It wasn’t until a series of personal and societal crises compelled the Philadelphia based musician/songwriter/producer to reconsider his approach and finally forge ahead under his own name.
I’m Your Vampire, Hamilton’s most personal effort yet is a 10-song suite wreathed in tattered-flannel rock & roll that encapsulates Hamilton’s salvation in isolation, as he sorts through the darkness to find a pinpoint of light.
Pertinence is renowned for his alternative hip hop sound. WIth his distinctive sound, Pertinence has established himself as a force to be reckoned with, combining elements of traditional rap with a more experimental sound.
Hailing from the Midwest, Post Sex Nachos turns life’s heaviest feelings into something you can dance to, blending genre-bending energy with humor, heart, and emotional honesty.
Laura Veirs has forged a career singing personal songs of romantic intoxication, everyday vignettes, and social commentary that are often heavy on introspection and intense character scrutiny. She is fascinated with the intersection of poetry and science and explores this in her lyrics.
The Rose Hips is the LA-based indie rock duo of vocalist Dane Schumacher and guitarist Michael Gryffin, lifelong friends who grew up together in Palo Alto, California before making their way to Los Angeles in their mid-20s to pursue music.
After years navigating the LA scene, the two bonded over a shared love of classic rock, folk, and modern pop — a blend that now defines their sound: rich harmonies, timeless songwriting, and a modern alternative edge, all written, sung, and produced entirely by the two of them
Kelsey spent the last year writing The Waiting Room, a coming-of-age story about leaving your 20s and stepping into your 30s. This is the first chance to hear the nine-track album performed live with a full band and celebrate an evening centered around storytelling, vulnerability, and being present to the joy of how beautiful life is.
The Waiting Room explores what it feels like to turn 30, to find your home in a city that once felt foreign, to experience relationships that can seem healthy while slowly eating away at your identity, and to navigate all of the change, uncertainty, joy, and growth that comes with getting older.
Her music has been featured in Clout, Flex, and Lock magazines and recognized for its story-driven lyrics and hard-hitting beats. On stage, Kelsey brings her theater background to life through dynamic performances, hilarious storytelling between songs, and a connection that invites the audience to share the moment with her. Her shows are full of joy, inspiration, and a sense of celebration.
Since the debut of his album My Tribe, two-time GRAMMY® nominee and multi-award winner Blessing Offor has established himself as a true artist’s artist with a voice as bright and authentic as his personality.
His long-awaited sophomore album, Real, was created during this season of profound loss, taking the emotional wounds and forging them into 16 deeply personal songs, including one with Dolly Parton.
Blu DeTiger continues to push the limits with her genre-defying sound and dynamic performances, inspiring a new generation of musicians and fans alike.
Blu’s rise to fame was fueled by her electrifying performances and viral videos on social media, where her skillful bass playing and infectious energy captivated a global audience.
Featuring a blend of acoustic instruments, rural soundscapes, and wistful vocals, Great Lake Swimmers are a critically acclaimed indie-folk group
The music developed in that pastoral warmth, performed and recorded in acoustically resonant and historical locales with a revolving cast of personnel.
They are renowned for homespun folk and lush, intimate Americana in their live shows.
Taking 90s US college rock influences and the majesty of Sufjan Stevens as the start point, her band are now known for euphoric music that breathes life into rock from a Gen Z perspective.
Stereogum summed her up perfectly when saying “There’s a bit of Pixies and Snail Mail and The Beths in there, and maybe some Lomelda and Lucy Dacus and Built To Spill. You know, that really fcking good sht.”.
With each release, Lime Garden continue to further their reputation as ‘ones to watch’ – with a host of tips behind them from NME to The Independent, BBC 6music to KEXP, and even Johnny Marr to Hayley Williams.
Maybe Not Tonight sees four young women band together to find their own conviction in unsteady circumstances, producing their most intoxicating and luminous material to date.
Powered by razor sharp wordplay, head-spinning verbal acrobatics, and off-kilter hooks, Token has morphed into an outlier in hip-hop.
Dedicated to the power of pop music, Sobs are Singapore’s premier indiepop propagandists. After releasing a breakout bedroom pop EP Catflap and a dream-jangle LP Telltale Signs that brought international embrace, Sobs now assemble a front-to-back indiepop behemoth – Air Guitar – after a much anticipated three-year wait.
The Perth-based four-piece makes music for authentic connection.
For movement, for feeling, and for being present.
These are songs that push you to run outside and be a kid again, to fall in love, dance in your kitchen, take a spontaneous trip with mates, or lie in the grass doing nothing at all.
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be in a rock and roll band.”
Dave Hause had an epiphany rewatching Goodfellas. “There’s that scene in the beginning where Henry Hill says, ‘As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.’” The Philly-bred, California-based singer-songwriter always longed to be in a different kind of mob.
This record is …And The Mermaid. And those 10 songs offer a welcome shock to the system, blending Hause’s signature lyrical elan and gift for surging melodies with his keening vocals and some deliciously sharp musical elbows courtesy of the titular group.
As IAN SWEET prepares for an exciting new chapter in her decade-strong discography, 2026 promises to be Medford’s most realized songwriting era to date.
IAN SWEET’s music has been streamed millions of times worldwide and has been praised by the likes of The FADER, KEXP, The New York Times, NPR Music, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, and elsewhere.
The San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival, founded in 2018, is an annual celebration dedicated to honoring the poetry, music, and spirit of the legendary songwriter, poet, and author.
Presented each November by Conspiracy of Beards—San Francisco’s renowned 30-member male choir devoted to Cohen’s work—the festival has grown from its early beginnings into a multi-day, multi-venue event that draws poets, musicians, artists, and audiences from across the Bay Area and beyond.
The festival emphasizes fresh interpretations of Cohen’s work, encouraging artists to reshape his words and melodies through their own creative lenses.
Wyatt first gained national attention with his powerful protest anthem “FIGHT!” during the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement, marking him as not only a compelling performer but also a voice for social awareness and change. Since then, his growing audience has been fueled by viral acapella performances and visually engaging releases that highlight both his versatility and charisma.
Best experienced live, MARIS ensures audiences feel free to be their happiest, truest selves, blending heartland rock with glam-pop bombast, MARIS crafts arena-sized, sugar-rush choruses built around elastic vocals and diaristic songwriting.
MARIS is proud to partner with LIFEBEAT, a program of The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation, on her upcoming tour. $1 from every ticket sold will benefit the program, and LIFEBEAT will be offering resources on sexual health, harm reduction, and more at select stops.
Jimmy Buffett’s coastal storytelling meets jam-band improvisation that is not to be missed. The group revives Buffett’s “Gulf & Western” sound with fresh energy and musicianship. Their shows blend greatest-hit singalongs, deep-cut gems, and cosmic grooves—sun-soaked, high-spirited, and always a party.
Internet Girl have become one of the more unlikely underground success stories to emerge from South Africa’s alternative scene.
Since breaking through with the wiry, hyperactive single “PULL UP” in 2024—a song now slated for the NBA 2K27 soundtrack—the trio have carved out a lane where indie sleaze, rap, post-punk, and internet culture collapse into something distinctly their own.
Their debut album, YES, arriving at the end of 2026, is their sharpest distillation of that world yet, featuring collaborations with Kenny Mason and Ledbyher.
Memphis LK has become a defining force in Australia’s next generation of electronic voices.
Her music taps into the sanctuary and transcendence of the dancefloor, a space to let go, reconnect, and escape.
With transportive live sets fuse DJing with live vocals and saxophone, creating an immersive, euphoric experience that mirrors the emotional landscape of her songs, Memphis LK captures a sound that exists between nostalgia and futurism, club intensity and emotional depth, reaffirming her status as one of Australia’s most compelling and fast-rising electronic artists on the global stage.
gavn! brings folk/country infused pop with a baritone edge.
HARBOUR has gone from packing rooms in their native Cincinnati to selling out venues across the United States.with their infectious, high energy sound that transfers seamlessly into their live shows.
Arthur Hill has established himself as an artist in his own right. His two 2025 EPs, ‘Missed Again’ and ‘In The Middle of Somewhere,’ introduced his distinctive blend of witty lyricism, infectious pop and genuine emotional honesty, while his growing live presence has seen him progress from an emerging artist to a headline performer.