Pakistan-born, London artist, Ahadadream is likely one of the most iconic and groundbreaking artists on the UK scene in recent times, with distinctive DJ expertise, unmistakable manufacturing, and a singular sound like no different. Ahad has gained scene assist from artists like Skrillex, Fred Once more, 4 Tet, Eliza Rose, Pete Tong, and is driving ahead South Asian tradition within the UK at a time when artistic illustration and celebration of tradition is so essential.
Immediately, Ahadadream releases his new single ‘Bass Dhol’ that includes Skrillex and Raf-Sappera by way of Island Information. Stream the observe right here.
This observe represents the end result of Ahadadream’s journey – It highlights his percussive method, fusing the unmistakable energy of Punjabi dhol rhythms with driving, propulsive digital beats to create a party-fuelled dancefloor sound.
Ahadadream’s music is outlined by signature skittish drum patterns and coiled depth, set for the tastemakers with a sure London power. His manufacturing attracts affect from throughout the UK, his homeland of Pakistan, and the broader African and South Asian diasporas, with clear references to his South Asian roots.
Linking up with nine-time GRAMMY winner Skrillex and Punjabi vocalist and cultural power Raf-Sappera, for this observe, Ahadadream explains, “The beginnings of bass dhol had been again in early 2023, when Sonny invited me to work on music collectively in Miami. That’s once I performed him some Raf Saperra too, he cherished the vibe and we thought he’d be good for this observe. Early variations of the observe have been getting performed since again then, so I’m tremendous glad to lastly see this formally going out into the world in it’s ultimate kind.”
Mercury Information proudly releases the GOAT Authentic Movement Image Soundtrack, accompanying the Sony Footage Animation movie out right now. Hearken to the #GOATmovie soundtrack now HERE.
From Sony Footage Animation, the studio behind Spider-ManTM: Throughout the Spider-Verse and the artists that made KPop Demon Hunters, GOAT is a high-energy authentic action-comedy that delivers massive laughs and an excellent larger coronary heart set in an all-animal world.
The star-studded soundtrack options beforehand launched singles “I’m Good” that includes Jelly Roll and “Don’t Dream It’s Over” that includes Bryant Barnes in addition to an thrilling new launch from breakout world act, CORTIS entitled “Point out Me.”
GOAT Authentic Movement Image Soundtrack incorporates a daring, genre-spanning lineup together with Ayra Starr, Bryant Barnes, Chris Patrick, CORTIS, FLO, Jelly Roll, Joey Valence & Brae, Jon Bellion, KAIRO, KOLE, Lil Naay, Natania, PartyOf2, Quinn XCII, Russ, Trueno, and members of the GOAT forged. The soundtrack delivers a high-energy, emotionally pushed musical expertise that enhances the formidable storytelling of the Sony Footage Animation characteristic.
Lecx Stacy is a psychological, philosophical, and romantic artist whose work blurs reminiscence, identification, and sound into one thing deeply private. A primary-generation Filipino American initially from San Diego and now primarily based in Los Angeles, Stacy grew up immersed in music via karaoke-filled weekends, piano classes, and early beat-making classes taught by his older brother. After his brother’s passing, the tools he left behind grew to become a lifeline. By his early teenagers, Stacy was promoting beats on-line, and by 18 he had begun shaping a singular voice, utilizing manufacturing as a approach to course of grief, longing, and perception.
“With You, I’d Be Nearer to God,” was written after touring with Sega Bodega and Eartheater. Whereas the lyrics open up about Lecx’s new child catholic devotion, the manufacturing embodies a newfound love for digital dance music melded with emo sensibilities. The track opens with guitar-led intimacy, the place finger-picked strings and refined slides really feel uncovered and tactile, earlier than unraveling into one thing far stranger. Digital textures, glitching parts, and a quick, repetitive beat collide with emo melodies and dramatic lyricism, making a soundscape that feels unstable and cathartic suddenly. Stacy describes it as equal elements Hawthorne Heights and Crystal Castles, with emotion and digital chaos locked in fixed stress.
Whereas his earlier single, “Winter, A Wilted Flower,” leaned into stillness and impermanence, “With You, I’d Be Nearer to God” pushes ahead with urgency and depth. It alerts a brand new chapter in Stacy’s work, one which embraces distortion, repetition, and strain as instruments for emotional launch. Throughout each releases, his music stays rooted in vulnerability and perception, tracing the delicate house the place love, religion, and need intersect, and proving that Lecx Stacy’s evolution is pushed by intuition fairly than expectation.
genre-defying guitarist and innovator Tim Henson releases “Authentic Sin,” his first self-produced solo single alongside an accompanying music video and the official announcement of his forthcoming clothes model bearing the identical title.
Finest recognized for pushing the boundaries of contemporary instrumental music together with his band Polyphia, this track marks the primary time Henson has produced, blended, and formed each aspect right into a launch on his personal.
Initially conceived on keyboard and impressed by synth textures, “Authentic Sin” developed into one thing extra as Henson filtered his concepts via his personal nylon-string guitar – an instrument he hasn’t centered on since Polyphia’s enigmatic observe “Enjoying God” was launched. The observe feels each invigorating and disruptive, intentionally bending kind and expectation.
rising alt-pop artist $kin Up releases his first single of 2026, “Struggle Night time.” The brand new observe is accompanied by a music video directed by $kin Up himself, kicking off what is ready to be a momentous 12 months for the artist..
A uncooked, high-energy observe, “Struggle Night time” captures the adrenaline of entering into the highlight with nothing to lose. Pushed by gritty supply and hard-hitting manufacturing, the only blends pure confidence with a confrontational edge. $kin Up channels starvation, resilience, and aspiration, turning “Struggle Night time” into an anthem for anybody prepared to face their floor and declare their second. The music video mirrors the strain of the document, blurring confidence and battle.
“‘Struggle Night time’ is in regards to the stress between wanting peace and being prepared for no matter comes your means,” shares $kin Up. “It’s that second the place ambition, strain, and emotion all collide—you don’t need the battle, however you’re not backing down both.”
Seattle-based indie-folk singer-songwriter Hayden Everett kicks off the 12 months with ‘Angela’, the primary single from his forthcoming debut album ‘So The Solar Can Pour’, due in Spring 2026. A lighthearted but pointed critique of Los Angeles, the only channels Hayden’s personal love-hate relationship with town – half satire, half honest letter to her. Anthemic and catchy, the observe affords a glimpse into an album rooted within the tensions that form us.
From the core members of Philadelphia’s Blacklisted comes Colossal Rains, and on their debut album, Feral Sorrow––out right now on Reminiscence Music––the band create one thing totally their very own. By towering riffs and sludge-soaked stress, they seize an pressing sense of renewal and rediscovery.
Produced by Grammy-nominated Will Yip (Turnstile, Title Struggle, Scowl), Feral Sorrow is a full-circle second almost twenty years within the making. Blacklisted was one of many first bands to ever belief a teenage Yip, recording in his mother and father’ basement in Philly––a collaboration that may go on to affect the sound of contemporary hardcore.
With Colossal Rains, that partnership returns and evolves, sharpened by development on each the band and Yip’s facet. It’s the sound of seasoned creatives constructing one thing recent, rooted in historical past however totally targeted on what’s subsequent.
Sacha Robotti right now continues the journey of his forthcoming debut album I, Robotti together with his newest single ‘Whistle Man’, a dynamic collaboration with dance legends Felix and Eric D. Clark, out now by way of Dirtybird.
With a shared transatlantic historical past, ‘Whistle Man’ brings collectively three generations of dance music lineage right into a spirited membership minimize. Seamlessly fusing old-school influences and forward-thinking manufacturing, ‘Whistle Man’ affords a reflective look into the 2 decade arc of I, Robotti whereas paying homage to the 90s hits that had been foundational in Sacha’s sonic upbringing. Daring and brash, the observe fixates on whistled motifs to create dissonance between tense builds, euphoric breaks, and Eric D. Clark’s soulful topline.
The latest addition to I, Robotti expands Sacha’s exploration into dancefloor escapism and the connections that emerge when various rhythms, textures, and influences collide. A nod to his teenage years and early foray into digital music, ‘Whistle Man’ stands as a key sonic milestone within the I, Robotti story and joins earlier singles ‘Manifest’ with SYREETA, ‘All Night time’ with Sian and JOPLYN, ‘The Flood’ with Blakkat, and ‘Say It’ with Victoria Rawlins.
Puerto Rican star Lunay returns together with his new single “Ojalá,” his first launch in over a 12 months, launching a brand new chapter in his profession. Identified for his melodic versatility and world hits, Lunay delivers a observe that feels each emotionally uncooked and refreshingly trendy, a reset pointing in a brand new course.
Contemporary from attending AMIRI’s present right now at Paris Trend Week, Lunay is ready to debut the observe stay for the primary time tomorrow at Willy Chavarría’s FW26 runway, becoming a member of a standout roster of performers together with Feid, Latin Mafia, Mon Laferte, and Mahmood.
Lunay captures the sensation of being utterly in love and the dedication to carry onto it. The observe pairs heartfelt letters with glossy, rhythmic manufacturing, highlighting his potential to make emotional information that also hit with replay worth. Following a 12 months of artistic development and time spent evolving his sound, the artist returns with renewed readability, able to reintroduce himself via a extra intentional and elevated musical course.
Butch debuts on DJ Tennis’ Life and Dying label with the discharge of “System E,” a brand new single from the broadly revered German producer and DJ, out now.
A slow-building however climactic membership document, “System E” displays Butch’s long-standing dancefloor sensibility. A gentle, percolating bassline anchors the observe, steadily constructing stress as a swarm of pitched-up synth tones swells. At all times serving as a peak second in Butch’s units since this previous summer season, “System E” has been absolutely road-tested to shift the power of a room.
For over twenty years, Butch has been one in every of underground digital music’s most trusted figures: a DJ’s DJ and a producer whose work strikes effortlessly between home and techno with out ever feeling stylistically fastened. His catalog spans labels together with Innervisions, Rekids, Cocoon, Defected, Diynamic, and Crosstown Rebels, and his units (whether or not at Circoloco, Robert Johnson, or all-night membership rooms) unfold with a cautious sense of timing and intuition.
With “System E,” Butch reinforces that lineage, providing a document that’s highly effective and purpose-built for the lengthy arc of the evening.
Liverpool primarily based rising bed room pop artist Bunny Alex shares new single ‘Ugly Crying’, an unfiltered and stripped again single about seeing romanticised on-line portrayals of heartbreak, whereas coming to phrases with its sombre actuality. The track was written with the aim being, “to remind listeners to be form to themselves right now.”
‘Ugly Crying’ is accessible now in your streaming service of selection by way of APOLLO Distribution.
Paradise Circus return with ‘Nevermind’, a stressed, high-impact indie-rock anthem pushed by urgency, emotion and launch. The Midlands five-piece waste no time getting into 2026, delivering a observe constructed on chest-thumping bass, explosive guitars and unfiltered vocals. Quick, instinctive and designed to be felt as a lot as heard, ‘Nevermind’ lands with the form of bodily power that defines the band at their finest.
‘Nevermind’ is accessible now in your streaming service of selection by way of APOLLO Distribution.
Rising pop powerhouse Rachel Grae returns together with her deeply shifting new single “Come A Day,” out January 23—a soul-baring meditation on endurance, hope, and the quiet perception that ache is rarely everlasting. Floating between heartbreak and therapeutic, the observe captures the emotional limbo of ready for brighter days whereas nonetheless standing within the shadow of the harm.
Singer-songwriter Asa Anderson has launched his newest single “Assist Me Breathe,” a stand-alone launch that leans into presence with uncommon persistence. Asa’s rise has come via quiet consistency and a devotion to craft, and this single displays that spirit. “Assist Me Breathe” doesn’t push for consideration. It settles in with a softness that feels open and unforced. It looks like a second suspended between inhale and exhale, formed by an artist who approaches his craft with intention fairly than spectacle.
From the primary few bars, the track whirls you right into a heat, dusky atmosphere. Asa’s musical phrasing displays his years of research, and has a fluidity that permits the construction to drop away in favor of intuition. There’s a tinge of a jazzy John Mayer-esque really feel within the guitar. It’s dreamy, unhurried, and plush with out shedding focus or momentum. It’s a chunk that rewards listeners who worth subtlety, the form of mood-setter that finds a house on ‘chill vibe’ playlists.
Donna Lewis has all the time been a beacon of individuality, crafting her personal path with grace and conviction for over 25 years. Her iconic love ballad I Love You, At all times Endlessly continues to resonate throughout generations—an everlasting anthem that topped each US and UK charts and nonetheless holds its place as one of the crucial beloved songs in historical past. Lately, UK sensation ROMY of The xx reignited that magic by sampling Donna’s basic hit, alongside Fred Once more, bringing I Love You, At all times Endlessly again into the worldwide highlight.
However Donna’s story right now is extra highly effective than ever. Having not too long ago emerged from a battle with breast most cancers, her energy and resilience radiate via each observe. Simply named an “Ageless Magnificence” by The Solar, she continues to encourage together with her unwavering spirit. Her most up-to-date album Rooms With a View, produced in collaboration with Holmes Ives, affords listeners an intimate and uncooked portrayal of the braveness it takes to beat life’s best challenges.For thousands and thousands who’ve confronted related well being battles, Donna’s story isn’t only a narrative—it’s a beacon of hope, a reminder that energy may be discovered even in our most weak moments. At a time when the world wants tales of resilience and sweetness greater than ever, Donna Lewis shines brighter than ever earlier than.
Following the September 2025 launch of her debut EP I Kill Spiders and the next single, “To Her,” Montreal singer-songwriter Libby Ember shares “Let Me Go,” a melancholic, dreamy indie-folk single that sits within the uncomfortable house between holding on and letting go. Nostalgic and emotionally uncooked, the observe captures the quiet contradictions of a relationship that lingers lengthy after each individuals realize it isn’t proper.
Impressed by an advanced relationship rooted in mutual concern, Libby displays on the strain of staying when leaving feels simply as painful. “I felt like somebody was holding onto me as a result of they had been afraid of letting me go,” she explains. “Even nonetheless, I knew that it was improper to maintain dragging the connection on after we knew it was improper for the each of us. It additionally touches on the truth that the other feels improper. Each letting go and never letting go really feel improper.”
Like a lone flower pushing its means via the ashes of a forest lengthy since burned, Dylan De Braga’s debut single, “Maintain The Door,” rises quietly from devastation into one thing achingly stunning. Born from one of the crucial traumatic chapters of his life, the folk-inflected ballad transforms ache into readability, standing not as a monument to struggling, however as proof that one thing delicate, resilient, and luminous can emerge in its wake.
Written within the aftermath of a brutal, heart-shattering breakup, De Braga discovered himself unable to even contact his guitar for almost two months. Music, as soon as his anchor, felt immediately unreachable. When he lastly discovered the braveness to take a seat alone together with his feelings and decide up his guitar once more, the track appeared to reach absolutely shaped.
“‘Maintain The Door’ wasn’t written, it arrived,” he says. “Inside minutes, the chords and phrases surfaced precisely as they wanted to, as if they’d been ready for me to be prepared. It felt like the primary breath after being underwater for too lengthy.”
UK singer-songwriter Joe Hicks launches into 2026 with the discharge of his electrifying new single, ‘Extra to Me’, providing one other glimpse of his forthcoming studio album Earlier than It Will get Darkish, due in March.
Powered by driving drums, pulsing keyboards, and hovering electrical guitar riffs, this indie-rock anthem fuses the punch of energy pop with the nuance of artwork pop. Written within the quick aftermath of a breakup, ‘Extra to Me’ grew to become the album’s place to begin, capturing the uncooked disorientation of heartbreak and setting the tone for the document’s emotional trope.
“After a breakup you’re usually unaware of how the opposite individual is coping with it. Silence leaves you guessing and feeling such as you’re the one one struggling whereas they’re positive. This track is about breaking free from the invisible maintain they nonetheless have, the echoes of a life that not exists.”
The observe grew heavier and extra intense as Joe developed it alongside co-writers Tom Millar and Sam Winfield and got here alive in an surprising means via a scenic February automotive journey.
“For the primary time ever, a melody and lyrics got here to me and not using a guitar in my hand – completely the other to how I usually work, so I needed to write music to a vocal, fairly than the opposite means round. Lyrically the theme survived and grew from that winter drive.”
The brand new album Earlier than It Will get Darkish (out twenty seventh March) is a cathartic set of songs written and created as a method to an finish for Joe as he got here to phrases with an immense grief. For anybody who’s needed to cope with heavy loss of their lives, the brand new album affords a serving to hand and hopefully some consolation in its music.
Joe: “The album is about feeling overwhelmed down by trendy society, uncertainty, and by the issues life can throw at you. It offers with the loss of life of my dad, a breakup, and the darker songs are from the considerably nihilistic ‘life is meaningless’-perspective of the world that I slipped into following these occasions. This document is about coming via that and searching ahead; eager to see the world earlier than it will get darkish.”
MERGUI
“3 Tears”
• Mergui releases his newest single, “3 Tears,” a pop anthem he co-wrote with GRAMMY Award-winning Amy Allen (Sabrina Carpenter, Harry Types, Justin Timberlake) and Andrew Wells (Halsey, Phoebe Bridgers, Teddy Swims). The observe is accompanied by an official music video directed by Lukas Colombo.
• “‘3 Tears’ appears at a relationship the place emotional vulnerability and insecurity are used to carry issues collectively out of concern of being alone fairly than actual love. It captures the second of readability when that dynamic isn’t sufficient anymore, and placing your self first means shifting on.” – Mergui
• Mixing emotional pop sensibilities with trendy soul influences, the only builds from hard-hitting verses right into a hovering refrain earlier than reaching a symphonic end.
ABBIE CALLAHAN, BRENDAN WALTER
“2:38”
• Constructing on the viral success of “Simon Says,” Abbie Callahan groups up with Brendan Walter on “2:38,” her first-ever collaboration and an intimate, sharply observant duet that captures the half-awake spiral of lacking somebody, buying and selling confessional strains over stripped-back Americana-pop.
• “I had written down ‘2:38’ in my track concepts for causes I can’t absolutely clarify, however it clearly caught with me… After I introduced the idea to the writing room with Ryan Hurd and Michael Lotten, it instantly sparked their curiosity. We ended up writing it as a duet, and from the start, I knew precisely who can be the right collaborator.” – Abbie Callahan
• Catch Abbie stay on choose dates of Carter Religion’s The Cherry Valley Tour this February and March.
HUDSON WESTBROOK
Unique
• For his first launch of the 12 months, Hudson Westbrook presents followers together with his Unique EP, that includes 3 extremely anticipated tracks and beforehand launched standout singles “If He Wished To” and “Fairly Privilege.”
• The EP has garnered almost 60k pre-saves on Spotify, outpacing the 55k Countdown Web page pre-saves that his debut album, Texas Endlessly, obtained only a few months in the past.
• Hudson capped out 2025 with a bought out New 12 months’s Eve celebration at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, OK. He’ll be kicking off 2026 with varied headline tour dates, exhibits supporting Bailey Zimmerman, and as direct assist to Morgan Wallen’s enviornment tour all through the summer season.
BROOKE LEE
“Burn to Black”
• “Burn to Black” appears again on a reckless old flame that burned scorching and quick, capturing youthful freedom, unhealthy choices, and a connection so intense it makes loving that means once more really feel unimaginable – dropped at life by Brooke Lee alongside co-writers Jon Nite (Dierks Bentley, Gabby Barrett) and Danielle Blakey (Matt Stell), with manufacturing additionally by Blakey.
• “’Burn to Black’ is the ache of your old flame, the unforgettable reminiscences, and the heartbreak that lingers lengthy after. It’s a mirrored image on that intense time and the best way these moments stick with you.” – Brooke Lee
• Raised in Charlotte, NC, Brooke started acting at 15 earlier than shifting to Nashville at 21, the place she honed her craft. Her gritty, naturally raspy voice and unpolished honesty give her songs lasting weight and emotional pull.
RACHEL LORIN
“Jared Leto”
• After the current launch of her second album, RE1MAG1NED, Rachel Lorin releases dark-pop single, “Jared Leto,” which pushes boundaries and captures a poisonous situationship that’s seemingly unimaginable to flee. Produced and co-written with Rob Endling (ONE OK ROCK, Ekoh), the observe is launched alongside an official visualizer filmed by Meghan Bowling.
• “‘Jared Leto’ is a horny, naughty, playful (and barely poisonous) track in regards to the form of enjoyable that’s a bit harmful. It’s about falling for the fantasy, not the person. It blends chaos with swagger and a rockstar crush I’ve had for over 10 years… to not point out, Jared has been one in every of my greatest musical influences since I began making music.” – Rachel Lorin
soulful/R&B singer-songwriter Becca Hannah shares her mushy, silky debut album Tonight In My Desires out now. Alongside the album, Hannah shares “Miriam,” a touching, private ode to her impactful childhood therapist. Tracked with a stay band, the document ponders connection, love and loss via shiny vocals, heartfelt lyricism and swirling, enchanting instrumentation.
Born from actual life experiences, the graceful ten observe challenge touches on lust, love, development, concern, loss, and longing with soulful vocals and layers of jazz and R&B as Hannah pulls from feminine powerhouses like Amy Winehouse, Corrine Bailey Rae and Erykah Badu. Hannah hopes the music connects to listeners in whichever methods they discover significant. Creating her personal sense of neighborhood via music, Hannah says, “All of us love, all of us undergo, and the way stunning is it that we will relate to one another via songs that spotlight the entire above? It brings a way of neighborhood and acknowledgement of our humanness. It makes the ebbs of life extra manageable, and the flows all of the extra blissful.”
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