It's strange that singing has become Isabel LaRosa's entire life since she used to dislike it when she was younger. Her older brother played guitar and her father performed saxophone at local jazz jams and open mic nights in Annapolis, where her dad brought her and her brother. Although their mother isn't a musician, she raised them like a genuine Cuban... read full bio
Legendary English punk rockers The Damned were forerunners of the punk movement in the U.K. when they were formed in London in 1976. Lead singer Dave Vanian, guitarist Brian James, bassist Captain Sensible (who subsequently changed to playing guitar), and drummer Rat Scabies formed the band. Their 1976 single "New Rose" and 1977 debut studio album, "Damned Damned Damned", cemented... read full bio
Kezia Gill, a singer and songwriter from the Midlands, has been singing professionally for more than 15 years. She draws elements from a wide range of genres, including folk & Irish, country, rock and blues, which gives her sound a completely unique quality. She was born in Nottingham to a large musical family of Irish descent. She gives every song... read full bio
Lily Meola, a participant on America's Got Talent and the recipient of Heidi Klum's Golden Buzzer, began her career as a young performer of covers at neighborhood cafes on the Hawaiian island of Maui. She is now a seasoned performer and has appeared at prestigious festivals including Bottlerock Festival in Napa Valley and Luck Reunion in Spicewood, Texas. Lily received guidance from... read full bio
Matt Wills, a vocalist from Britain with a penchant for atmospheric folk-pop, has a beautiful voice. Wills, who is originally from Kent, started creating songs at the age of 13. But it wasn't until he came to London as a teenager to enroll in drama school that he started drawing attention with his blend of dance-oriented pop and melancholy love... read full bio
Rapper and singer-songwriter Yoon Seung-min, better known by his stage name Mudd the Student, is from South Korea. When he made an appearance on the rap competition TV program Show Me the Money 10, he first came to public recognition. According to Mudd the Student, his music is "alternative K-pop" or rock music with a hip-hop, electronica and pop influence. Abstract... read full bio
Building on his 2.3 million followers and 150 million+ TikTok views, Robert Grace has returned with the eagerly awaited new single "Not OK." Within ten days of its release, "Not OK" had amassed over 750,000 streams, played on BBC Radio 1 and was climbing both the Irish & German airplay charts. He was supported previously on BBC Radio 1, 2FM, Today FM,... read full bio
Panchiko, a band from Nottingham, has been together for a while and has a distinctive sound that straddles indie rock, post rock and trip hop. When a 4chan user discovered a copy of Panchiko's debut, D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L, in a charity shop and uploaded it to YouTube, the band experienced a brief surge in popularity as new fans tried to learn more about who... read full bio
A dark, alternative music duo from Scotland goes by the name of Midnight Ambulance. They were nominated for BBC Introducing Scottish Act of the Year and formed between Paris and North Berwick. The pair performed a sold-out headline and launch event at Sneaky Pete's and The Caves (Edinburgh) to celebrate the release of their debut EP, "Smoke and Sweets," which... read full bio
Short Stack's Shaun Diviney (vocals), Andy Clemmensen (bass) and Bradie Webb (drums) first met in high school and started playing together before the band's explosive first album Stack Is The New Black came out when they were all just 20 years old. Short Stack reached amazing heights, debuting at the top of the ARIA Chart, being featured on the cover of... read full bio
The term "alternative emo inspired sounds born and bred in Jersey" is used to characterize Reece Young's music. Forget Don't Forgive, his third EP, only deepens the enigma surrounding the New Jersey musician. Nevertheless, his music is the stuff of scene fans' fantasies. His first track, "What You've Become," is alternative emo with a touch of electronica. It sets the... read full bio
"Boots," the critically acclaimed Montana singer/songwriter Madeline Hawthorne's solo debut, was co-produced by Brad Parsons and Tyler Thompson of Fruition. She enters the limelight with equal parts grit and charm. "Boots" is a work of profound introspection and self-discovery that confronts change and independence while overcoming the demands of modern women with unwavering honesty and unwavering tenacity. The songs on this... read full bio
Cayucas made their album Bigfoot in a way that belied their moniker, the tranquil beach hamlet of Cayucos, California. Zach Yudin witnessed his bedroom recording project become a band that toured the world practically overnight as fans fell in love with its glistening west coast vibes as his songs blasted over the airwaves. But as Ben, Zach's twin brother and bandmate,... read full bio
Before becoming a band from Florida, Bad Luck was a Long Island solo project. The next year, while still living in Florida, they put out Cold Bones and Noise in Your Head, two sharp pop-punk albums that combined nostalgia with neuroses. After such fears caused a busy touring schedule and the group's first exposure to the industrial ecology to fail,... read full bio
Kiki Frances and Cameron Breithaupt, two songwriters from Toronto, make up the band Babygirl. The buddies have been writing lovely blue-tinged pop tunes with guitars that express the extremes of their emotions. They either feel "overbored" with life because they feel so unimportant, or they feel so in love that "you would swear I lost my mind," like in the... read full bio
Citizen has never been easily defined. The three-piece from Ohio has been defying expectations with each new album and refusing to fit neatly into a box for more than 10 years while producing dynamic, diverse guitar music. Citizen's fourth full-length, Life In Your Glass World, is their most distinctive work to date and demonstrates that only the group alone can determine its identity. With each... read full bio
Instrumental group Covet immediately gained a loyal audience for their experimental math rock sounds thanks to their intricate song structures and guitarist Yvette Young's distinctive finger-tapping approach. Young, who has training in the piano and violin, originally honed her two-handed guitar-tapping approach as a solo performer before forming Covet with a rhythm section. Over the course of numerous EPs, the... read full bio
After two studio albums and over seven years as a group, Free Throw is changing who they are significantly. On What's Past is Prologue, their third full-length album, which is available on Triple Crown Records, the group—which has publicly sang about personal difficulties related to substance addiction and body image—bares all. What's Past is Prologue represents Free Throw at their most... read full bio
Jade Lilitri's angst-filled lyrics and melodic rock guitars as Oso Oso are influenced by Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, Death Cab for Cutie and other emo-pop artists. He assembled a band for Oso Oso's second studio album, Basking in the Glow, which marked the project's entry onto the Billboard Heatseekers and independent album charts after releasing Real Stories of True People... read full bio
Just over halfway through the first song on the band's appropriately named debut full-length, This Place You Know, One Step Closer frontman Ryan Savitski yells out this assertion. Home may be a reassuring location, a solid foundation to which you can always return, but when you start to lose the tangible and symbolic elements that bind it together, the idea... read full bio
