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Chelsea Jade Makes Enigmatic Pop Music for Outsiders with Soft Spot LP

Chelsea Jade has always felt like an outsider in the music industry. Even after making the voyage to Los Angeles from her isolating home country of New Zealand, Jade’s journey in music has always seemed like something that happened despite her plan, not because of it. She went to art school and...

Sara Barron

Carli Brill Leads With an Open Heart on "Concrete Jungle"

Growing up in Southern California, Brill and her mother spent countless hours shopping in antique stores, discovering hidden gems and imagining the stories behind them. Now based in Nashville, the singer-songwriter says...

Cillea Houghton

Bren Joy and Jake Wesley Rogers Step Out of Creative Comfort Zones For Red Bull SoundClash

From the country music capital of the world to the home of the famed Fisk Jubilee Singers, Nashville is brimming with creative talent. Red Bull is working to elevate that creativity with SoundClash, its long-running...

Cillea Houghton

PREMIEREWild Heart Club Embraces the Art of Breaking in "Rainbow"

Known as Kintsugi, the art form uses lacquer mixed with gold to not only mend broken pottery, but celebrate its imperfections, incorporating the broken pieces into the object’s history. The art from...

Cillea Houghton

Caroline Romano Captures Messy Teen Romance With "Ireland in 2009"

"I do a lot of people watching. I'm a big observer,” she expresses. “Something that I don’t know that everyone else would notice, I like to write it down. Observing life, everyone has a different lens through which...

Cillea Houghton

Ryan James Brewer Crafts Liberating Debut LP Tender

Raised in a rural country town in Australia, Brewer admits it was difficult growing up queer in a conservative area. Brewer developed depression and anxiety at an early age that he is still...

Cillea Houghton

Lena Stone is Unapologetic About “Taking Up Space” In the Visualizer for Her New Single

Like many, Stone went through a personal transformation in 2020, and when the COVID-19...

Cillea Houghton

Meagan Hickman Offers Hope and Redemption with “One Day” Premiere

” Born and raised in Chicago, the singer-songwriter was trained classically, falling in love with songwriting after discovering acts ranging...

Cillea Houghton

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Saint Etienne Samples Y2K Pop and Name-drops Racehorses on I’ve Been Trying to Tell You LP

K.’s COVID-19 shutdown in 2020, Saint Etienne had been working on a new album inside a small, London recording studio. The album (which, by singer Sarah Cracknell’s estimates, was about two-thirds complete) was put on hold with the onset of the...

Liz Ohanesian

Juliana Hale Finds the Silver Lining in “Chill (So Serious)”

The practice reflects her ability to find the positive in life’s bleakest moments, a mindset she carries over into her latest single, “Chill (So Serious).” Hale...

Cillea Houghton

Kyd the Band Turns His Scars Into Compelling Stories on ‘Season’ EPs

Introduced to music in the Pentecostal church he was raised in Northern California, Guisande was playing drums at mass by the age...

Cillea Houghton

Poppies Vocalist May Rio Releases Quirky Solo Debut Easy Bammer

Released June 25 via Dots Per Inch Music, the solo debut from the Poppies vocalist materialized as she taped lyrical snippets to the walls of her childhood bedroom, adrift in...

Cillea Houghton