Multi-Platinum international pop celebrity Kesha has unveiled ATTENTION! (SMASH FEATURES), accumulating two model new spins on her hit single, “ATTENTION!” (that includes pop disruptor Slayyyter and rising UK artist Rose Grey), created by way of an unique characteristic problem heralding the launch of SMASH – a world creator group and market the place musicians join and create independently. The competitors noticed over 500 submissions from greater than 40 international locations world wide, with Kesha in the end deciding on her two favorites for the brand new EP, together with authentic remixes from Sizzy Rocket, and XAMIYA. ATTENTION! (SMASH FEATURES) is out there in every single place now by way of her personal Kesha Data.
“I’ve discovered from my very own expertise combating for possession of my music and being my very own report label for the previous 6 years that having a profession as an impartial feminine artist within the music business shouldn’t be for the faint of coronary heart. Kesha’s message is a reminder that NO ONE will get to remove your voice or your proper to stay authentically wild and free.” — Sizzy Rocket, singer-songwriter, Impartial SMASH Creator
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Co-founded by Kesha Sebert (CEO), Alan Cannistraro (CTO), and Lagan Sebert (COO) alongside a staff of prime music business and tech veterans, SMASH goals to assist music creators construct lengthy thriving careers by means of group help and by offering a direct line to alternatives. By connecting a protected and supportive group of the perfect songwriters, artists, producers, instrumentalists, singers, and sound engineers, SMASH takes the ability out of the palms of the standard music enterprise gatekeepers and locations it into the palms of those that create the music. The announcement of SMASH – which acquired wide-ranging media consideration from such publications as Selection, WIRED, and Tech Crunch – was joined by a remix problem for Kesha’s acclaimed hit single “BOY CRAZY.,” with the winners then featured on this summer time’s 5-track BOY CRAZY. (SMASH REMIXES) – EP, accessible in every single place now HERE.
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“London” is the majestic new single from the returning Eugene McGuinness.
Adorned with sweeping string sections and lovelorn lyricism, the most recent from the breakthrough expertise is each a stirring paean, and playful personification of the capital.
London is the place McGuinness was born and at present resides, however one he’d by no means actually name ‘dwelling’ – regardless of his deep affection for town. Born to Irish mother and father, his complicated relationship with London is taken into account on this lyrically private – but common – exploration.
“You and I’m going again a very long time // We braved the rain and bathed in sunshine // However you stroll throughout me generally” quips McGuinness right here.
McGuinness’ wry lyrical aptitude is as soon as once more flaunted on this ‘widescreen romance’ about displacement and uncertainty. Capturing the dichotomous nature of London – each its enjoyable, vibrant and romantic floor; and its onerous, bleak and illiberal underbelly – it’s a track that muses themes of id and belonging, of the place you come from and the place you’re going, in a spot that may appear to be combating towards you.
Recorded at Liverpool’s Docklands Velocity Store with buddy and producer Gajo Paco, its tasteful additions of cello, slide guitar and wurlitzer have been additionally added to the combination there.
A lush, heat and cinematic new addition to Eugene McGuinness’ canon, standby for additional new music very quickly….
The Barons is a US different band identified for his or her uncooked power, introspective lyrics, and distinctive guitar-driven sounds. Based mostly in Richmond, Virginia, the group consists of Peyton Alley (vocals, guitar, keys), Josiah Ragland (lead guitar), Kirtland Grey (bass guitar, backing vocals), Mathes Glymph (drums, backing vocals), and Jack Peacock (saxophone, keys).
Since their founding in 2016, the band has amassed a following from headlining schools and venues on the East Coast in addition to supporting alt acts similar to Catfish and the Bottlemen, The Aces, Barns Courtney, Flipturn, and Judah & The Lion. The band has launched a stack of singles because it’s founding and embark on their first full album launch, Le Château, coming November 2025.
Dynasty is Jenni and Marcone, a synth-pop duo primarily based in Hamilton, ON, creating music that blends emotional storytelling with wealthy, atmospheric manufacturing. Their sound is rooted in a shared love for dreamy textures, trendy pop, and nostalgic 80s-inspired synths, with every observe providing a deep dive into the emotional panorama of being human. What began as a one-off collaboration rapidly grew right into a full mission, sparked by a mutual need to make music that feels sincere, cinematic, and private.
Style-bending trailblazer Theodora delivers a showstopping efficiency for NTS Classes. The french artist carried out three tracks of her deluxe mixtape ‘Mega BBL’: DO YOU WANNA, MASOKO NA MABELE, and I WANNA.
NTS Classes prides itself on sharing range within the music business by that includes artists from everywhere in the world and quite a lot of genres, not solely sharing their musical expertise however encapsulating their visible aesthetics with perfection. Theordora’s efficiency was no completely different.
Her vocal efficiency was paired with a set surrounded by dancers, motorbikes and vans. Combining the extravagant make-up, outfits and cinematography, it wasn’t only a efficiency, it was a totally fledged stay music video.
This session follows Theodora’s unleashing of the extremely anticipated deluxe version of her mixtape, ‘MEGA BBL’ – which led from a landmark win as Feminine Revelation of the 12 months at France’s prestigious Les Flammes music awards,
A sonic whirlwind that defied boundaries, ‘MEGA BBL’ expanded Theodora’s daring imaginative and prescient of recent music – a genre-defying mix of hip-hop, Caribbean bouyon, hyperpop, Afrobeat, and drum & bass. The mission noticed the Parisian artist linking up with a dynamic roster of collaborators together with Brazy, Thisizlondon, bb Trikz, and Luidji, including much more dimension to her magnetic sound.
The discharge got here on the heels of her fascinating efficiency at Les Flammes, the place Theodora debuted the one ‘DO YOU WANNA’, a fiery, euphoric anthem that despatched social media right into a frenzy and signaled the arrival of a brand new period for the artist.
Within the weeks main as much as the drop, teasers and gorgeous visuals of ‘MEGA BBL’ billboards appeared throughout Paris, Kinshasa, London, Lagos, and Barcelona, igniting buzz and hypothesis from followers worldwide. Theodora’s attain is now undeniably international, and she or he’s simply getting began.
With ‘MEGA BBL’, Theodora cemented her place as one of the vital modern and fearless voices rising from the French music scene, and one who refuses to be boxed in.
Paris WYA is a fascinating, empowered pop artist whose music blends emotional lyricism with a globally impressed perspective. Born in Shanghai and raised throughout Asia, Europe, and the U.S., she attracts on her numerous background to craft a flexible sound marked by highly effective vocals, catchy hooks, and hanging emotional imagery. With two EPs—UNTANGLED (2024) and GLITCH (2025)—already showcasing her vary, she now turns towards a extra songwriting-focused, dreamy power on her forthcoming mission MANNEQUIN, highlighting her rising prowess and songwriting focus, whereas persevering with to fuse international influences with pop ambition.
Raised amongst the pavement and pop radio of Los Angeles, Natalie Del Carmen creates her personal musical geography with Pastures. It’s the sound of a modern-day folksinger narrowing her focus and increasing her attain, funneling the wide-ranging sounds that appeared on her debut album — 2023’s critically-acclaimed Bloodline — into a pointy, singular model of American roots music.
Pastures doesn’t sound just like the work of a Gen Z songwriter with metropolitan roots. As a substitute, its songs are poised and pastoral, full of acoustic devices — together with the Thirties banjo she inherited from her grandfather — that evoke a panorama way more distant than Southern California. Some songwriters make music that displays their environment, however Del Carmen takes a distinct path, turning herself right into a musical world-builder. At simply 24 years outdated, she’s chased down an Americana sound of her personal making.
“I’ve heard tales about folks rising up in small cities, wanting to maneuver to an enormous metropolis,” she says. “That’s not me. I really like residing in a metropolis, however I additionally really feel linked to a conventional nation sound and a small-town way of life. I crave each.” With Pastures, she builds a bridge between these two contrasts. Songs just like the wistful, waltzing “Plans Upon Plans” and the nostalgic “Leanne” make no apologies for his or her countrified preparations, however their lyrics inform a extra common story, capturing the zeitgeist of 20something life in all its charmed and contradictory glory. Like her musical heroes — from Brandi Carlile to Gregory Alan Isakov to The Lumineers — Del Carmen embraces her folksy roots with out abandoning a wider viewers, delivering coming-of-age songs that transcend style and era. In spite of everything, navigating the twists and turns of early maturity is difficult work, wherever you reside.
Like Bloodline, Pastures was recorded with Brunjo, the Tennessee-based musical collective whose members first crossed paths with Del Carmen whereas attending Berklee School of Music. Two years after commencement, the musicians reunited in a studio on the outskirts of Nashville, the place they tracked Pastures throughout eight impressed days. Combining natural devices with MIDI textures, they created distinctive soundscapes for every track, from the booming western association of “Heyday” to the cinematic people of “Good Morning from Magnolia.” With its gentle layers of mandolin, pedal metal, acoustic guitar, and brushed percussion, Pastures ornaments — however by no means overwhelms — the songs that Del Carmen wrote again dwelling in Los Angeles, dreaming up a world with much less freeways, extra fiddle, and inexperienced pastureland stretching into the gap.
“To me, a pasture appears like an open place the place you’ll be able to go anyplace,” she says. “Generally, that’s probably the most releasing factor… however different instances, it may be an open invitation for doubt. Generally, it may be straightforward to jot down about love, as a result of it’s so accessible. However I attempt to write about issues which are tougher to speak about, like failing, or making an attempt to stay as much as society’s expectations, or grief, or the stress to quantity. With Pastures, I’m letting myself be free to make the music I wish to make… and I’m letting myself do it on my timeline.”
New York Metropolis’s main underground occasion collective, Teksupport, publicizes the finale of its 10-year anniversary celebration with a four-show sequence throughout New 12 months’s week. Closing out a decade of groundbreaking occasions, Teksupport will wrap its “Teksupport X” programming throughout Brooklyn Storehouse and 99 Scott, that includes an all-star lineup of world-class home and techno artists that may carry the collective’s anniversary 12 months to a robust shut.
The sequence begins with a New 12 months’s Day marathon at Brooklyn Storehouse on January 1 showcasing a forward-thinking lineup of back-to-back units — together with Afriqua b2b Mink, Aly Meza b2b The Fellas, Ben Sterling b2b Scorching Since 82, Brunello b2b Rafael, Clüb de Fight b2b Salomé Le Chat, Loco Cube b2b Seth Troxler, and Riordan b2b Obskür.
The momentum carries into January 2 at Brooklyn Storehouse with top-tier billing that includes genre-bending icon Bonobo (DJ Set), Innervisions co-founder Âme (DJ Set) b2b Swiss maestro Jimi Jules, Life and Loss of life founder DJ Tennis, live-electronic visionary JanBlomqvist, and rising star LuSiD. Teksupport X will wrap at 99 Scott on January 2nd and third, with an unmissable lineup of to be introduced expertise.
Fueled by forward-thinking style, a deep ardour for dance music, and a distinctly New York sense of hustle, Teksupport has been a driving pressure on the intersection of membership tradition, excessive trend, and know-how for the previous decade.
Based by Rob Toma, a born-and-raised New Yorker who started throwing events as a teen, Teksupport has frequently redefined town’s nightlife panorama—reworking deserted factories, navy yards, subterranean ballrooms, passenger ships, and even Grand Central Station into transcendent occasion areas.
Dre Dupuis, a 29 12 months outdated singer-songwriter hailing from St. Catharines Ontario, has been plucking away since he was a child. He started enjoying guitar on the age of 12, first borrowing an acoustic from his older brother, he was later gifted an affordable stratocaster copy by his mother and father and took off operating. It’s additionally round this time he began tinkering with primary dwelling studio tools & recording strategies.
He’s now set to make waves along with his upcoming debut self-titled launch, out digitally October twenty fourth. Recorded within the humble confines of his laundry room utilizing a Tascam 488, this album is a testomony to Dupuis’ DIY spirit and uncooked creativity. Drawing affect from the punchy riffs of The Strokes, the introspective melodies of Andy Shauf, and the luxurious harmonies of The Seaside Boys, Dre’s music blends lo-fi indie rock with intricate, soulful songwriting.
The result’s a group of tracks that really feel each timeless and deeply private—music that invitations listeners right into a world constructed from the bottom up, with every notice rigorously crafted within the quiet moments of on a regular basis life. Dre Dupuis’ upcoming self-titled album is an intimate exploration of sound, providing a contemporary voice within the indie scene with a sound that’s as heat as it’s fascinating.
Philadelphia-born and now London-based, ELUNIA makes ethereal indie-electronic pop that hits like an emotional present — immersive, cinematic, and deeply human. Channeling the ache of isolation and the fantastic thing about self-discovery, she fuses the uncooked, intimate lyricism of Lorde and Daughter with the expansive digital worlds of Glass Animals and RÜFÜS DU SOL.
Her newest single “Strobe Lights” acquired mixing by Jamie Macneal (JMAC), whose credit embrace Sadie Jean, Medium Construct, Sarah Shut, Haux, and Luz. Initially, the track’s instrumental was composed for a brief movie, produced, edited, and sound designed by ELUNIA herself, that shall be pitched to be used by a psychological well being charity. The movie follows a lady discovering security in her thoughts, portray along with her physique throughout a metaphorical panorama, every brushstroke a illustration of the wonder inside wrestle.
“Strobe Lights” additionally displays the stress to seem okay in a world that glorifies exhaustion. ELUNIA started writing it whereas working in London’s fast-paced movie post-production business, the place she witnessed the normalisation of burnout. “It appeared like a prize to be overworked, to have darkish circles underneath your eyes,” she says. “I attempted to persuade myself I used to be tremendous, however I realised I used to be shedding the connection to my youthful self and the model of me who created music simply to really feel one thing actual.”
That youthful self first emerged within the quiet corners of a faculty music room, the place ELUNIA started writing songs as a coping mechanism for feeling like an outsider. Classically skilled on a number of devices, she found true expression when she began producing in a DAW on the age of 10. Years later, an opportunity encounter on SoundCloud with producer JMAC led to the creation of her debut single “Borderlines,” which amassed over 30,000 Spotify streams and acquired reward from Earmilk, Atwood Journal, 1883 Journal, and Rolling Stone India, to call just a few.
With “Strobe Lights,” ELUNIA steps right into a bolder, extra anthemic sound, one which mirrors the energy present in vulnerability. The track glows with cinematic textures, providing a shimmering testomony to resilience, individuality, and the fantastic thing about each imperfect brushstroke in life’s greater image.
Brighton’s rising alt-rock outfit Fever Rouge return with their chilling new single ‘Ghosts’, a darkish and brooding anthem that captures the unease of confronting one’s previous. Following the success of their acclaimed EP ‘Feed The Villain’, the band proceed to forge their fame for electrifying stay power and emotionally charged songwriting.
‘Ghosts’ is out there now in your streaming service of selection by way of APOLLO Distribution.
Rising dark-pop artist TÉODORA shines on her new single ‘Do I?’ – an introspective and hanging dive into love and obsession. The observe marks the second chapter of her forthcoming EP, as TÉODORA steps deeper into the emotional core of an obsessive love story, caught between need and dependency. Together with her haunting vocals and intimate pull, ‘Do I?’ captures the strain of asking your self: “Do I really like you, or do I want you?”
LA by way of Boston soulful/R&B singer-songwriter Becca Hannah shares uncooked, lush observe “Empathy” out now, alongside the visible from the studio, as she finds her personal energy turning her focus in the direction of empowerment and self-love. On January 23, the artist will share her tender, shiny debut album Tonight In My Goals, accessible for pre-save now.
On the swirling, susceptible observe, “Empathy”, Hannah shares, “I’ve had this behavior of internalizing different folks’s opinions, values, and experiences so deeply that I’ve misplaced a way of the place I’ve stood as a person. I’ve given folks and their judgements the good thing about the doubt in ways in which have led me down a harmful path of self-doubt and additional insecurity.”
On how the track got here collectively, Hannah explains, “One sizzling, sticky, summer time afternoon, I discovered myself in an anxious, cloudy, spiral, picked up my guitar, and began aimlessly strumming. The phrases “I must be meditating, I do know, I do it generally…” simply popped into my head, and caught. However I nonetheless couldn’t end the track in a single sitting. I wasn’t fully positive how one can articulate what I wished to say, however I knew I used to be headed in the proper route energetically. A few weeks later, I met up with [collaborator] Tristan [Jantz] to co-write the remainder of the track collectively. He helped me piece the puzzle of the track seed collectively, and we turned the idea into one thing fairly empowering.”
With “Empathy” the artist reclaims her company. “Yeah, empathy might destroy me and my wellbeing, however I received’t let it. I’m reclaiming my energy, id, individuality, and honoring the evolution of my human expertise.” There’s a hidden darkness and rawness to the observe that may be discovered with correct consideration. The ultimate line, “Empathy, might it’s the demise of me” builds with the help of the band, and includes a commanding horn association from George Pereli.
Eclectic producer, multi-instrumentalist, and visible artist Monster Rally, at this time groups up with TV Woman on “Extremely Blind” that includes X-Cetra. Together with the brand new single that vocally samples “Wasn’t There” by X-Cetra, Monster Rally shares that his tenth full-length report, Echoes of the Emerald Sands, shall be launched in Spring 2026 by way of SoundOn / Flowering Jungle. As he started engaged on his new report, he gave himself an easy set of standards: Make one thing in contrast to something he’d made earlier than. For somebody with tastes and an inventive historical past as diverse as Monster Rally’s, that’s simpler mentioned than finished.
Venturing into uncharted territory, the upcoming report shall be Monster Rally’s first that isn’t purely instrumental. He recruited not only one or two visitor vocalists, however a complete fleet of artists and business associates to sing over his recordings. The record of collaborators contains TV Woman, Jordana, Toledo, Mei Semones, X-Cetra, Leisure, Sessa, Nella, Miles Michaud (Allah-Las), Benét, Jordann, Munya and extra. Ditching the tropical, sample-based plunderphonics of his previous work, he determined to report every part from scratch in his Cleveland dwelling studio — leading to a number of the liveliest, most vivid music in Monster Rally historical past.
On “Extremely Blind,” Monster Rally shared “That is certainly one of my favourite tracks from the brand new report and I’m actually excited to share it with the world. A couple of 12 months in the past I had despatched a tough demo of this observe to Brad (Petering) with just a few drums, bass and mellotron flute loops. He got here again with this concept of getting X-Cetera on the observe for the vocals. I had learn a bit about their backstory and was positively on board.”
Reflecting on his lengthy historical past with TV Woman, he mentioned, “TV Woman was one of many first artists I had ever finished a collaboration with. Going approach again to us enjoying exhibits in Echo Park to a handful of individuals over 12 years in the past, all the best way to a sold-out present with over 5,000 folks once I toured with them final 12 months.”
Jake Owen is thrilled to unleash his eagerly anticipated new studio album Goals To Dream. Co-produced with Shooter Jennings in Los Angeles at Sundown Sound, Goals to Dream marks Owen’s first independently launched album, and is his most sincere up to now.
With ten profession primary hits underneath his belt, Owen displays, “I’ve simply change into a man that wishes to sing songs for those that have additionally matured with me in my life. Generally you could get outdoors what’s comfy, what folks assume you’re, or assume you ought to be, and take a danger. I’m at all times going to chase the passions that preserve me shifting ahead.”
Goals to Dream shines a light-weight on uncooked and genuine storytelling and dives into real-life experiences like heartbreak, wrestle, and defiance. “It actually feels cathartic to be sincere about lots of stuff in my life — how I really feel, the place I see myself going, and the way I see myself going there,” he says.
Friday’s launch options the reflective and highly effective observe, “Wouldn’t Be Gone” — a track the place Owen ponders what life could be like if he traveled a distinct path, a distinct profession. He says, “It could preserve me goin’, however I wouldn’t be gone.” The place he would stay a extra “easy life again dwelling…be with my kids whereas they’re small.”
Following September’s announcement of their collaborative debut album Celestun, singer-songwriter-guitarists Tyler Ramsey and Carl Broemel are excited to share the second pair of singles from the forthcoming launch, the gorgeous instrumental observe “Elizabeth Brown” and a superb cowl of Neil Younger’s “Sail Away,” each out now.
Persevering with her mission to highlight the subsequent era of high-energy, emotionally charged dance music, Montreal trance visionary TDJ unveils the third installment of her acclaimed SPF INFINI mix-compilation and video sequence with SPF INFINI: LOBSTA B, starring UK producer and DJ Lobsta B.
Recognized for his turbo-charged “bouncy donk” anthems and viral onerous dance bootlegs, Lobsta B delivers a euphoric 25-track combine and companion video filled with enjoyable, silliness, and pure adrenaline. “My SPF combine is a celebration of the UK underground sound of onerous dance,” says Lobsta B. “It’s enjoyable, euphoric, foolish, and most significantly, completely banging! This combine is a rollercoaster that takes you on an adrenaline-fuelled journey by means of donk, onerous home, hardcore, and makina.”
Within the spirit of SPF INFINI, Lobsta B performs the combination stay from the now-iconic raver-filled spaceship, increasing the sequence’ visible universe along with his personal tongue-in-cheek twist and a brand new forged of colourful characters that embody his playful tackle the UK onerous dance underground.
Marking the third of 5 SPF INFINI releases, the mission continues TDJ’s imaginative and prescient of passing the torch to artists who helped outline the power and group surrounding the sequence.
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