Introducing // Chelsea Lankes
Chelsea Lankes is a Los Angeles native with an ear for crafting songs that capture the life-changing moments that bond us as a species. Which is interesting because she’s only released three songs...
View ArticleIntroducing // Denai Moore
Jamaican born Denai Moore was brought up in Stratford from the age of 10, where she honed her contemporary story telling singer-songwriter style. Moore cites Bon Iver and Lauren Hill as her influences...
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In Words // An Interview With Marika Hackman
he highlight of my year was sitting in that room with Charlie, just me and him, after it had been fully mastered…” Marika Hackman is describing hearing her debut album in full for the first time. “We...
View ArticleIntroducing // Tongues
Glasgow, Scotland isn’t perhaps the first place that springs to mind as a home to exotic sounding up-and-coming pop stars. However, in Tongues, it has one. This currently unknown songwriter and...
View ArticleIntroducing // Jay Brown
The young, Northampton-born Jay Brown is one of those lovely singer-songwriter souls, true to self, genuine in character and exclusive in sound. Honing her passion humbly, in and of herself, a...
View ArticleIntroducing // Nevada Color
The steel-enforced resolve of the Pittsburgh, PA indie rock group, Nevada Color, sprints through sprightly vocal inflections and persuasive instrumental harmonies, mirroring samples of Phoenix, Tokyo...
View ArticleIntroducing // COIN
Playing alongside bands like Walk the Moon and Young the Giant, Nashville-based quartet COIN are definitely starting this year off on the right foot, breathing new life into the synth-pop scene with...
View ArticleIntroducing // TULA
TULA’s progress in the last year proves that sometimes the universe conspires in your favor. Although having formed in 2010, it was not until a short five months ago that the Swedish quintet emerged...
View ArticleIntroducing // Genevieve
There’s a girl out in Hollywood with fiery-red hair, who is made from sugar and spice and everything nice – oh, and some insane musical talent. Genevieve’s debut solo EP Show Your Colors dropped last...
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On The Road with Magic Man // Interview
ynth-pop is everywhere. A listen to Magic Man’s debut album, Before The Waves, will show you a perfect example of it – centered around soaring, inviting melodies. Across social media, the excitement...
View ArticleIntroducing // Cilia
Cilia shows the world that she’s clearly a force to be reckoned with in the future of the pop world. Her debut single proves once again that is a hot bed for talent and she follows a long line of...
View ArticleIntroducing // Jasper Wilde
With an element of surprise in his cliche yet brilliantly-so vocals – “Don’t pretend you don’t know my name” – Jasper Wilde breaks his way into our conscience with an element of uniqueness that is hard...
View ArticleIntroducing // Holiday Oscar
For a song that is just a little over two minutes, Holiday Oscar’s White & Gold is a song that I found myself repeating over and over so that in a short time it becomes an anthem to an afternoon –...
View ArticleIntroducing // Hippo Campus
It’s not very often that we attend a show to specifically check out the support band. Often a musical backwater of palatable nerves, audience chatter and underwhelming tunes, support slots can be...
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Heart Unbreakable // An Interview With Verite
Despite being arguably the most versatile genre, the success of truly original artists in the pop world is few and far between. While many take their sound or image to the absurd extremities of the...
View ArticleWTGR Premiere: VΞИCΞ // VENTS EP
Without wanting to sound like a Debbie Downer, in most cases the first thing a new producer uploads online is shit, like seriously terrible, the kind of music that makes you wince, want to throw your...
View ArticleIntroducing // Fronteers
Location plays a significant role upon the influence of art. Cycles of noise filtered through the seasonal routine. Echoing in the winter chill, or bellowing over the parties scatted across the...
View ArticleIntroducing // Hunck
There are gigs and then there are GIGS. London five-piece Hunck know a thing or two about the latter. Having been putting a handful of tracks online over the last year, last week they found themselves...
View ArticleIntroducing // Ali Barter
We recently discovered Melbourne singer-songwriter Ali Barter when she supported Waxahatchee at Sydney’s Newton Social Club. It was just her and a guitar flying solo on the stage, and despite having...
View ArticleIntroducing // Husbands
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. That’s the saying, isn’t it? The fabled tradition that ‘distance x time = increased adoration’ has as many exceptions as it does examples, but for indie-pop duo...
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