Singer-songwriter Stefanie Michaela drops her new single and music video, “Something Is Potential,” a fearless assertion about threat, coronary heart, and self-belief. Co-written with legendary hitmakers Steve Dorff (Songwriters Corridor of Fame; three-time Grammy and six-time Emmy nominee) and Michael Jay (bought over 75 million information worldwide; co-wrote and produced Martika’s worldwide #1 hit Toy Troopers; and penned Declaration of Love for Celine Dion’s Grammy-winning Falling Into You), and produced by Grammy-winning Keith Thomas (Selena, Amy Grant, Vanessa Williams), the observe, featured on Stefanie’s upcoming EP Turning Pages, pushes listeners to chase desires, take daring probabilities, and imagine in their very own energy to form their future. The true complexity of the music lies in its simplicity, the purity of its message mirrored by the elegant, heartfelt writing and the music video’s understated but deep storytelling.
Massive Loud / Again Blocks Music’s powerhouse nation artist, songwriter and breakout star, Ashley Cooke, broadcasts her brand-new venture, ace, releasing November 14. The venture options 9 tracks whole with 5 brand-new songs together with the highly-anticipated fan-favorite dwell observe, “child blues.” Pre-save ace right here. Full tracklist under.
Says Ashley on ace, “Rising up, my dad gave me this nickname: Ace. I’m unsure if it was his love of blackjack or as a result of it’s form of my initials, however nonetheless, it simply caught. It makes me consider the individual that I’m, actually, to my core, behind closed doorways.
It’s been about two and a half years since my debut report was launched. So many unbelievable, bucket-list issues stuffed the times after with the very best individuals I might ever think about attending to share them with. However life has a humorous approach of spitting rain once you suppose it’s gonna be a sunny day. I swear, one factor hit after one other. I misplaced a few of the most necessary individuals in my life, and well being points in my household piled up left and proper. Love got here, and love went.
This music is derived from these actual conditions. It’s brutal honesty. It’s a narrative in chronological order. And it’s a group of songs welcoming you to the subsequent chapter.
That is ace. Make your self at residence.”
Alma Muñeca is a 4 piece artwork pop group based mostly in Austin, TX. Fashioned in 2024, the band is lead by Cocó Allegra and produced by Ernesto Gray (Font, Farmer’s Spouse, Loveme, The Opera, and many others). Cocó, a Panamanian immigrant, settled in Austin 4 years in the past. It wasn’t till she met collaborator, Ernesto, that she absolutely dedicated to writing and performing dwell. The band’s sound is impressed by 90’s icons comparable to Bjork and contemporaries like FKA Twigs and Rosalia. By their dwell performances, Cocó goals to focus on and carry up the queer and Latino group.
The band’s dwell debut, again in February, bought out and they’re now embarking on their first tour throughout Texas to advertise their new singles out now.
Sydney Jo Jackson is a Birmingham-born, London-based soul-funk singer-songwriter whose music blends uncooked storytelling with the grooves and grit of basic soul. With over 4.1 million streams, a playlist attain of greater than 24 million, and 50K followers throughout her social platforms, Jackson has carved out a voice that’s directly timeless and boundary-pushing. Her profession has seen her prime the ARIA Dance Chart, collaborate with Grammy-winning producers, and carry out alongside Jools Holland at Abbey Highway.Her new single, “Good at Goodbye,” is a cross-cultural duet that unites three international locations in a single music: the UK, Indonesia, and Germany. That includes rising Indonesian vocalist Drey Henuk and produced by Jonas Bauer in Germany, the observe delivers a world soul sound that feels contemporary and universally resonant. “Precisely why I needed this report to occur — it feels international and timeless ,” Jackson explains
Queer Canadian-French Alt-Pop Artist Maryze Unveils Electrifying UK Debut Single ‘False Icon’ – A Synth-Soaked, Cinematic Critique of Movie star Tradition
Queer Canadian-French alt-pop artist Maryze releases their extremely anticipated debut UK single ‘False Icon’ on Thursday twenty second October through Scorching Tramp Distribution. The observe, produced by Skyler Cocco, fuses the drama of 80s synths – evoking Eurythmics and later echoes in Girl Gaga – with the campy grotesque of cult body-horror cinema, mirrored within the single’s placing polaroid paintings shot by Italian director Andrea Calvetti.
Impressed partly by the 1986 movie Society, False Icon is a glittering but scathing takedown of Hollywood’s two-faced sirens. The narrator cuts by the glamour and phantasm of a con artist worshipped by the plenty, exposing the poisonous tradition of superstar idolatry whereas acknowledging the magnetic pull of its shine. Written by Maryze with Skyler, each ladies which have lived the seduction and seen the deception, the observe is each a critique and a confession.
The one coincides together with her European Tour that features a debut date at London’s 229 Membership on twenty fifth October.
“Once I moved to Los Angeles, I seen some artists surrounding themselves with followers quite than associates, utilizing individuals for clout beneath the guise of group. That’s the place the lyric ‘Your folks, your followers, your captives’ got here from. Skyler and I commiserated over having seen this identical development, and wrote the observe to name out manipulators within the trade who create the phantasm of connection to carry themselves up with out regard for these round them. We drew from the drama and camp of each 80s synthpop and physique horror movies of the period. Within the visualizer, we constructed a personality of this ‘False Icon’ (performed by Sadie Scheufler) who lures individuals in with glamour, solely to disclose the vacancy and ugliness beneath. Sadie and I developed the artistic idea collectively and I’m blown away by how she introduced it to life – she was terrifying on set.” MARYZE
Maryze’s stormy-sweet alt-pop blends digital beats with fiery, introspective bilingual lyrics. After touring Australia and New Zealand with Alex Cameron in 2024 and going viral with their single Langue, Maryze spent a lot of 2025 in Los Angeles artist residencies, together with the distinguished SOCAN Home. They launched Versed earlier this yr, carried out at SXSW, and opened for acts together with Boy Harsher, Princess Famous person and Want, additional cementing their popularity as a daring and boundary-pushing voice in alt-pop.
XO have at this time introduced particulars of debut EP Fashionably Late, which is able to drop on November 14th on Polydor Label Group. The hotly-tipped group have additionally confirmed particulars of their first ever headline tour, which bought out immediately and takes them across the UK later this month. Fashionably Late options early single ‘Lovesick’, new observe ‘Actual Buddies’ (co-written with Charli xcx) and introduces the five-piece with their sights set on being Britain’s subsequent, finest girlband…
Creating Fashionably Late has been, as they are saying in pop, A Journey. Its six songs are there to indicate not solely the arc of an evening out, from preparing (‘Rush Hour’) and taking cost (‘Sweet’) to catching emotions (‘Lovesick’) and going again to your mates (‘Actual Buddies’) – but additionally the origin-story of XO, and the way they’ve already developed emotionally and artistically. Each facet of the pop they’re eager to ship – feisty, unpolished, attitude-heavy, leftfield – is primed, as are their personalities: ‘Foolish Boy’, for example, got here to Zoe and Shali in an Uber and was written in response to catcalling ladies, while DIY fan favorite ‘Ponytail’ (the primary music XO made upon forming in late 2024) is an ironically-titled order to let your hair down. It’s a sense of togetherness that’s summoned within the accompanying Fashionably Late aesthetic, a wink and nod to ‘Wannabe’ that follows XO as they take to the streets and invite their viewers alongside for the journey.
The self-confessed “most chaotic girlband you’ve ever met in your life”, XO are force-of-nature five-piece Emmy, Reanna, Shali, Summer season and Zoe. In sound and spirit they evoke that basic lineage of world-class British teams, however with a recent and fully inclusive twist: suppose the unstoppable UK vitality of Spice Women as raised on the worldwide pop-girls (Tate McRae), plus that new wave of all-choreo and all-conquering acts like Katseye. But XO try for one thing extra imperfect and unapologetic of their firebrand of Pop. Moments on Fashionably Late are as relevant to a romantic scenario as they’re themes of friendship, sisterhood, and the band’s completely Gen Z imaginative and prescient of Lady Energy: “XO is an vitality for us, like an aura.”
Hailing from Essex, London, Liverpool, Derbyshire and Hong Kong, XO are rapidly amassing an ardent viewers for his or her bangers and their message. With early help throughout Radio 1, BBC Introducing, Saturday Mashup! and their first headline tour promoting out instantly, the band’s ambitions for Fashionably Late are as distinctive to every lady as they’re completely unified. “To set the tone,” says Summer season, eager to remain within the second. Zoe, nevertheless, merely states: “World Domination.” You actually wouldn’t put it previous XO – Fashionably Late, but additionally proper on time.
DBL A returns with ‘SUPERMARKET’ – a pointy, indie-rock anthem rooted in UK youth tradition. Impressed by early Arctic Monkeys, the observe captures love and heartbreak in probably the most unlikely of locations: your native grocery retailer.
‘SUPERMARKET’ is accessible now in your streaming service of alternative through APOLLO Distribution.
Wintur is an LA-based indie pop artist who has been gaining traction on TikTok, the place listeners usually examine his sound to a mix of Sombr, Billie Eilish, and Conan Grey. His music is outlined by an introspective indie-pop type. He has launched three singles “Burnt,” “Resentment,” “Bye” and his new single “author’s block” is ready to launch on October twenty second. With rising momentum on-line and a novel voice within the indie scene, Wintur is carving out an area as one of many subsequent artists to observe.
Berlin through Milwaukee indie pop/people singer-songwriter Queen Quail shares the haunting, resilient observe “Southside” out now with an identical visible. The resonant forthcoming debut EP, Narcissus is due out November 18 and out there for pre-save now. By six tracks, the musician explores the nuances of longing, id, philosophy and the search of residence over sweeping manufacturing and emotive vocals.
“Southside” delves into restlessness and the grief of misplaced time whereas propelling into the long run. Queen Quail shares, “It’s about persevering with to be haunted by an expertise even after making an attempt so arduous to course of it and recover from it. I suppose generally issues simply follow you even years after. I like the concept even when you’re considerably a sufferer of circumstance, you continue to have company and may select a unique path, and take duty for the environments you set your self in.”
There’s a specific perseverance felt all through because it culminates in a grand, optimistic finale. Queen Quail continues, “The observe laments this sense of not having the ability to escape one thing, however then ends with this large explosion of hope and resilience.”
Delaney Bailey is worked up to announce her new album, Concave, out there in every single place January 21, 2026, through AWAL. New single “Far Away” arrives at this time, previewing the expansive new report, considering youthful invincibility over propulsive drums and melodic riffs.
“‘Far Away’ is about getting older and realizing that I do know a lot lower than I assumed I did,” Bailey explains. “Once I was youthful, I assumed that the experiences I had and the issues I went by taught me sufficient concerning the world. I had discovered sufficient about myself, I had discovered sufficient about the best way I work together with the world and my opinions on sure issues. As I get older, I’ve develop into a lot much less satisfied that I do know something in any respect.:
“Though this may be scary, I are inclined to view my lack of understanding in a constructive gentle. It’s good to remind myself that there’s a lot left to expertise. Assembly myself time and again has develop into much less painful as life goes on. I can’t inform if that’s as a result of I like myself extra the extra I be taught, or if it’s as a result of I’ve gotten higher at dealing with change. In all probability each. That’s the advantage of your 20s, I feel; change is the one constant factor, so that you be taught to get used to it.”
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