Close-up profiles of the artists worth your attention.
ATLANTA, GA — Sync Licensing Pro is expanding its music licensing and catalog partnership opportunities to include a broader range of electronic dance music (EDM) and underground electronic genres, building on its existing work…
There’s a specific kind of vocal presence that doesn’t need heavy production to land — and it’s consistently one of the clearest signals of a vocalist on the verge of a breakout. Stripped-back arrangements…
Producers rarely get the same spotlight as the artists they work with, but the most in-demand names behind today’s biggest tracks share a production style that favors texture over volume — layered, slightly imperfect…
Every so often, a specific city’s local scene starts producing artists at a rate that’s hard to ignore. What usually begins as a handful of small venue shows can, within a couple of years,…
Bedroom pop has produced some of the most distinctive voices in music over the last several years, and the genre’s continued growth says a lot about what listeners are actually looking for right now.…
Momentum in music can be hard to define, but it’s usually easy to recognize once you know what to look for. The clearest sign of an artist genuinely on the rise is a steady…
A growing number of artists are pulling established genres in directions they haven’t gone before, blending in influences that wouldn’t have made sense within those genres even a few years ago. The results are…
For a growing number of artists, music and fashion have stopped being separate pursuits entirely — both are treated as part of the same creative output, each shaping the other in real time. Visual…
Some songs are written from experience. Others are written from survival. For Lincoln-based rapper JOHKES, “Karma in the Coma” is unmistakably the latter — a track built from the wreckage of a life-altering accident…
