Kiersten Blue, the New Jersey-born singer-songwriter, has only ventured into the musical realm since pandemic-induced boredom led her to pick up a guitar for the first time since her childhood, but, in the time since, she has etched out a unique, ‘90s-inspired pop sound that, on her debut EP “Girl In The Mirror”, has brought her unique lyrical slant to its most complete fruition to date.

Kinna Mone, the Tel Aviv-based singer-songwriter, music producer, and DJ, has spent the year since her relocation refining her sound and honing her craft, and, with the release of her debut album, Therapeutic Nights Out, she has finally found the ideal outlet for her unique blend of sonic textures, transplanting the vulnerability and openness of her usual lyrical structures to the booming, bassy atmosphere of club music.

Angus Wayne, the indie artist from Nyack, New York, has spent years shifting between the different phases of his sound, constantly circling around and enclosing the personable and intimate sonic setting that caused him to fall in love with music in the first place, and, with the release of his new EP “lamppost” he has, at least temporarily, struck a balance, melding the lo-fi hip-hop and guitar-oriented sounds that have previously defined his surrealistic and existential output.

Dogs with Hats, the Chicago-based garage rock band born from the bedroom musings of lead vocalist Sam Shrier, made its initial mark on the scene with the release of their first EP, “Lampshades at the Party”, back in August, etching out their pop-influenced, rough around the edges sound across five energetic tracks. Yet, as they take their first steps towards their debut album, they feel as though they are poised to take large bounds forward in their sound, bringing their visions of the convergence of their influences and their unique stylistic choices to fruition.

Hannah Pruzinsky, a founding member and vocalist of the indie-folk band Sister., has been pursuing their own solo project, entitled h.pruz, since the pandemic, utilizing it as an outlet for an additional layer of their voice and creative energy, and, with the release of their second solo album Red sky at morning, they have found yet another evolution in their ever-expanding artistic intention.

Matté, the multi-faceted, Los Angeles-based alternative R&B artist, has been surrounded by music and musicians since he was a child, and he has been pursuing music professionally for almost half a decade. Yet, with the release of his newest project, CANCEL ME LATER, and its looming sequel, FORGIVE ME NOW, he feels as though he has finally brought out an edge to his sound that has been lurking in the background, displaying the full range of what he is capable of as a dynamic and talented vocalist while working to bring each track to life from the ground up.

Joyer, the noise-leaning, indie rock band led by brothers Nick and Shane Sullivan, has undergone multiple sonic transformations since its inception in the basement of the duo’s childhood home. Yet, with the release of their latest project, On the Other End of the Line…, they have reached an identity rooted in a careful intentionality, maintaining many of the Slowcore-driven influences that defined their earlier output while gaining a stronger appreciation for the traditional song structures that have lent a kind ear upon their newest creative era.

Oskar Jennefors, the artist behind Swedish psychedelic pop project Echo Thrills, has been invested in music his whole life, and, across his number of years in the industry, has taken on the breadth of multiple occupations and styles of musical expression. Yet, with the release of his first album The Inner City, under the Echo Thrills moniker, Jennefors has rediscovered his love for this expression, exploding forth from a bubbling cauldron of the genres and sounds that have defined him since his musical foundations.

Fatboi Sharif, who represents one of the most unique and harrowing voices in modern hip-hop, has been continuously attracted to the power latent in music, its capacity to bring out an inner, withheld emotion from both the listener and the artist, since he was a child.

Nuclear Monkey, the indie band masterminded by Richmond-based songwriter Nate Neuwirth, has now oscillated between the intimate settings of home studios and the explosive, improvisational settings of live shows for almost four years and, somewhere in between, has found a distinctly unique medium: one that takes jazz-riddled tastes and sensibilities and injects them into the very veins of their stripped-back, indie sound.

Drug Bug, the newest solo project of the Alberta-based, shoegaze-tinged pop act behind both Star Starer and Willy Rodriguez, has only existed for just over a year and, in the course of its emergence, has already logged two excellent projects, representing both the slowly-growing artistic confidence and the new sonic directionality of their creator.

XindieX, the explorative indie artist from Martinsburg, West Virginia, came to music relatively late in life, as a result of a devastating football injury that left a void in his heart, and, as he experienced a growing passion for music and the fading of his youth simultaneously, a unique sound, born from the crucible of reverb-soaked indie and saturation-laden post-punk, was born.

Twelve Point Buck, the Australian-based band, has been led in its genre-oscillation by the ever-evolving ideas of its frontman, Dad, since its inception in the late high-school bedroom fuzziness of its founder, and, since, has made its name intertwining the eviscerating guitars of post-rock with the lo-fi saturation of the last decade’s most prolific indie acts, constantly pursuing a north star embodied by an amorphous and ambiguous sonic landscape.

Feller, the rock trio based in Chicago, Illinois, has been formulated and shaped through their roots that spread throughout Chicago’s extensive music scene, and, now, as they approach the release of their second project, they have found a new and expansive creative work flow, leaning on each other’s strengths while pushing their work as a whole outside of their collective comfort zone.

Wieuca, the genre-transient rock band based in Atlanta, Georgia, has undergone a number of permutations, spurred by the purity and flexibility of its various musicians, and, now, as they work toward their next album, they have found a sense of constancy through their experimentations, etching out yet another unique sound as they enter a fresh creative rebirth.

Zekke, the multi-faceted artist from Malaysia, has spent the few short years of his music career balancing his ever-shifting tastes and the stylization of his output, but, now, as he has become more comfortable within his own abilities, he feels as though he has struck a perfect balance within his artistic niche, with his new EP, “Render”, serving as a representation of the new directionality of his sound.

E.R. Visit, the solo artistic project of ½ of @ Stone Filipczak, represents a fresh effort, and an ever-growing archive, of the sonic experimentations and yearnings of its creator, repurposing songs that have fallen out of the band’s creative flow into their own entities, and, as he works toward his first album under this new alias, Filipczak has gotten the opportunity to expand the acoustic songwriting roots that led him to fall in love with this creative process in the first place.

Nik Dandelion, the German-born and Barcelona-based indie artist, has been imbibed with a profound sense of acoustic rawness and sonic interplay since the earliest roots of his creative formation, and, since he has forged out a path as a solo artist in the past few years, has found himself with more and more of a passion for experimentation, crafting simultaneously sublime and haunting tracks that exist in a sort of subliminally curious plane of sound.

Ash the Author, the Chicago-born, lyrically and melodically-inclined rapper, has known his calling since he was just a teenager experimenting with a free DAW, and now, as he has matured both personally and artistically, he is ready to settle into his full creative form, flexing the prowess he has gained from years and years of dedication to his craft.

Roy Rutto, the Kenya-born, California-raised, and Arizona-based hip-hop artist, has been stretching the limits of his sound since he first fell into music as a medium of expression, and, with each successive release, has simultaneously grown increasingly comfortable and decidedly unsated, carving out his own, inimitable lane through the unceasing march of his creative energy.