Fresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. No matter how temporary these states may be the vulnerability and transformation they demand can overpower the strongest among us. Then there are the rare, fertile moments when both occur, when mourning and limerence heighten, complicate and explain each other; the songs that comprise Angel Olsen’s Big Time were forged in such whiplash. Big Time is an album about the expansive power of new love, but this brightness is tempered by a profound sense of loss. During Olsen’s process of coming to terms with her queerness and confronting the traumas that had been keeping her from fully accepting herself, she felt it was time to come out to her parents, a hurdle she’d avoided for some time.

“Finally at the ripe age of 34, I was free to be me,” she said. Three days later her father died and shortly after her mother passed away. The shards of this grief are scattered throughout the album. Three weeks after her mother’s funeral she was in the studio recording this wise and tender new album. Loss has long been a subject of Olsen’s elegiac songs, but few can write elegies with quite the reckless energy as she. If that bursting-at-the-seams energy has come to seem intractable to her work, this album proves Olsen is now writing from a more rooted place of clarity. These are songs not just about transformational mourning, but of finding freedom and joy in the privations as they come.

Bartees Strange’s mother was an opera singer. His dad served in the military for decades. He traveled widely for his parents jobs — born in Ipswich, England 1989, his family also did stints in Germany, Greenland, and a number of states across america before he hit his 12th birthday when they settled in Mustang, Oklahoma.

Though Bartees’s mother shepherded him through formal musical training in voice, as a teenager he and his friends fixated on the blooming hardcore and emo scene of the Midwest and Deep South, drawing inspiration from band such as At the Drive In, Norma Jean, MeWithoutYou, Cap n Jazz, Bright Eyes, and American Football. Around this time Bartees started playing guitar.

In true DIY/punk fashion, this consumption turned into production. In middle school, Bartees began producing music for friends with a small project studio he built out of a Tascam 388, the family computer and a pirated copy of FL Studio. Through AOL instant messenger, Bartees connected with old friends in the UK, who brought him up to speed on a new world of sonic influence led by Bloc Party, Burial, Robyn and Skream. College, and a half-decade stint in Brooklyn connected him with the rising indie scene— particularly favorites like Bon Iver, TV on The Radio, Frank Ocean, James Blake, King Krule, Japanese Breakfast, Mt. Kimbie, Mitski, Thao Nguyen and The National, giving him a crash course in lyrical intrigue and textural brilliance.

Boyish was created after a failed audition attempt for a college songwriters showcase at Berklee College of Music. Singer, India Shore and guitarist, Claire Altendahl met during their freshman year and while they were told they wouldn’t get the part, the judges told them “you should work together more”. 
Their first release Carnation was dedicated to the college basement show scene, featuring 7 alt-country songs and getting a write up in The New Yorker.

After leaving college, the pair felt they needed to head in a new direction that felt more authentic so they wrote and released Garden Spider in February of 2020. Then, as we all know, the fun stopped and Covid hit, sending India to quarantine in Brooklyn while Claire stayed in Minneapolis, MN. It was during this time that the two finally found the sound they had been trying to write for so long. Their latest EP We’re All Gonna Die, But Here’s My Contribution reflects on heartbreak, family drama, queerness, and the apocalypse. WAGDBHMC has been featured in NYLON, Ones to Watch, Lyrical Lemonade, Them. and more :)

Elton John is one of the top-selling solo artists of all time with 1 diamond, 40 platinum/multi-platinum and 23 gold albums, over 50 Top 40 hits and more than 300m records sold worldwide. Candle in the Wind 1997 the biggest-selling single of all time, sold over 33m copies. Diamonds the Ultimate Greatest Hits has spent over 175 consecutive weeks in the UK album charts to date. Celebrating 50 years of his songwriting partnership with Bernie Taupin, it was his 40th Top 40 album. Aug 2018 saw Elton named as the most successful male solo artist in Billboard Hot 100 chart history with 67 entries, including nine #1s and 27 Top 10s.

Scrutiny, the debut album from Moaning's Pascal Stevenson under her new solo alias Fashion Club, explores the mind's complex relationship to morality, and the way structures of power tend to replicate themselves through unexamined habits. Stevenson began writing the songs that would become Scrutiny toward the end of 2018, as Moaning embarked on a European tour in support of their critically acclaimed first album. Between shows, in the back of the band's tour van, she traced early drafts of Scrutiny's instrumentals on her laptop, planting the seeds of what would bloom into her captivating solo debut.

Queen epitomized all the glittery excess of album-oriented rock in the 1970s, marrying the crunch of heavy metal to the pomp of prog rock then leavening the heady mixture with camp humor. It was an eccentric blend that proved surprisingly versatile, allowing for the mock-operatic "Bohemian Rhapsody," soaring arena rock like "Somebody to Love," thumping rockers like "Fat Bottomed Girls," the neo-rockabilly "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," and the disco excursion "Another One Bites the Dust."

Queen's range proved that they were a deceptively egalitarian band: they're the only classic rock group where each member wrote at least one of the group's signature songs. Despite this division of labor, frontman Freddie Mercury commanded attention both during his life and after his death. A powerful singer with a penchant for drama, Mercury possessed an exaggerated charisma and a devilish sense of humor, qualities that made him one of the great rock stars of his generation.

In Arlo Parks’ world, words are as useful as photographs. Luscious, expressive vignettes pepper the poetic lyrics in her sweet, ruminative indie pop songs. She’s inspired by an eclectic mix of artists from Radiohead to Portishead, and Sufjan Stevens to Solange.

This land runs through Katherine Paul’s blood. And it called to her. In dreams she saw the river, her ancestors, and her home. When the land calls, you listen. And KP found herself far from her ancestral lands during a time of collective trauma, when the world was wounded and in need of healing. In 2020 she made the journey from Portland back to the Skagit River, back to the cedar trees that stand tall and shrouded in fog, back to the tide flats and the mountains, back to Swinomish.

It is a powerful thing to return to our ancestral lands and often times the journey is not easy. Like the salmon through the currents, like the tide as it crawls to shore this is a story of return. It is the call and response. It is the outstretched arms of the people who came before, welcoming her home. The Land, The Water, The Sky is a celebration of lineage and strength. Even in its deepest moments of loneliness and grief, of frustration over a world wrought with colonial violence and pain, the songs remind us that if we slow down, if we listen to the waves and the wind through the trees, we will remember to breathe.

Hailing from Tampa, Florida, Doechii is a 22-year-old multihyphenate on her way to becoming the embodi- ment of pop culture. A singer-rapper-actor-dancer-en- tertainer, she began her music career by releasing “Girls” on SoundCloud in 2016, followed by additional singles, including “Spookie Coochie.” Building her fan base pri- marily on YouTube through personable vlogs, Doechii is confident, bold, unapologetic, transparent, and raw in everything she does. Recent performances include opening on SZA’s Good Days tour, Afropunk Atlanta 2021, and the BET Hip Hop Awards 2021 with Isaiah Rashad & Kal Banx. Recently listed as a 2022 Artist To Watch by Spotify, Complex’s Pigeons & Planes, and HipHopDX, Doechii continues to prove she is an artist you need to have on.

"Reyna Tropical" is Fabi Reyna and Sumohair, they met for the first time in Nashville Tennesse on behalf of Redbull Music Academy's Bass Camp at Bonnaroo. They got into the studio the same day they met, recorded a track that would later inspired "Reyna Tropical". In the nature of experimentation they record each track in one session of improvisation.

Visionary American recording artist Frank Ocean is one of the most celebrated and critically acclaimed artists of this era.

His heavily lauded breakout mixtape ‘Nostalgia Ultra’ in 2011 set the tone for what would be the Grammy-Award winning record ‘Channel Orange’. After a four-year break, Ocean dropped one of the most anticipated albums of all time ‘Endless’, followed a day later by the seminal and game-changing album ‘Blonde’. Between then and now, Frank Ocean has released songs including ‘Chanel’, ‘Provider’, and ‘In My Room’ to further acclaim, plus launched the independent American luxury company, Homer.

G Flip is the real thing: unfiltered, driven and bursting out of their bedroom with ideas to burn. In the last few years, Georgia Flipo has gone from unknown artist to international talent.

Originally a session drummer by trade, their music starts from the drums up. Lyrically, G Flip writes of relationships, heartbreak, and acceptance. Authentic, relatable and always energetic, G Flip is a bonafide powerhouse.