Lucia & the Best Boys' 'Perfectly Untrue' Is Perfect, Truly
"Fridays used to be for you." Sometimes a song just hits right from the very first line. Lucia & the Best Boys' "Perfectly Untrue" is one of those songs. The Glasgow-based band is a relatively new discovery for me (as of this weekend, in fact), but a brief dive into their back catalog proves I'll…
Cookiee Kawaii's TikTok Hit 'Vibe (If I Back It Up)' Gets a Video
“If I back it up…is it fat enough?“ It’s a question that keeps me up at night, as well as the entirety of (the maybe-soon-to-be-banned) TikTok, all thanks to viral star Cookiee Kawaii‘s “Vibe (If I Back It Up),” resulting in a staggering 1.9 million videos…
GRIFF's Got the Good Stuff
It’s time to get into Sarah Faith Griffiths – or GRIFF, for short. The 18-year-old Chinese-Jamaican singer-songwriter-producer’s been making waves within the blogosphere, on the…
Canadian EDM Star Delaney Jane Swerves Into the Pop Lane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlfKs8zvCUY For those who like to dive in deeper with the ethereal, emotive female voices carrying today’s top EDM productions, Delaney Jane ought to be right up your street. Perhaps you’ve already been Introduuced without being aware: she’s been…
Alewya Makes Her Seductive, Club-Ready Debut With 'Sweating'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaA8UbpxrKg&feature=youtu.be It's time to make you sweat. Introduucing... Alewya, a West London-based singer-songwriter, producer and visual artist making her first formal moves in the music industry. Alewya - her name meaning "most high" or "the highest" in Arabic -…
Leah Kate Makes a 'Bad Idea' Sound Pretty Damn Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHmvuBDrqZ4&feature=youtu.be Another day, another stay. While the world largely continues to keep things socially distanced (which some of you are better at than others, evidently), there is no shortage of new music that has us yearning for some communal singing,…
Girl Interrupted: GRACEY & the Delayed Debut of 2020
It's time to put some GRACEY in your face. At the age of 22, the Brighton-bred GRACEY - it's an all-caps lock affair, stylistically speaking - has already accomplished what would have surely been a teenage dream of my own in her early years: toplining smashes within the hallowed halls of the…
'Do It To Myself': Sweden's Nova Miller Drives Herself Crazy
Nova Miller and I have an astonishing amount of things in common: we are both beautiful, blonde five octave range-commanding Swedish pop chanteuses, multi-instrumentalists and TikTok-famous teens, and we both know how to drive ourselves fucking crazy. Well, okay, fine. Maybe just the latter in…
Julie Bergan, Norway's Rising Pop Queen, Just Wants to Kiss Somebody
Meet Julie Bergan: she'd love to make out with you. The 25-year-old Norwegian singer-songwriter first gained recognition through her covers on YouTube in the early '10s performed alongside her music teacher father, which got the interest of local songwriters and producers. Eventually, she went on…
'Lonely Christmas': Now, Now's Sad, Synth-y, Single Anthem for the Holidays
Christmas music isn't my thing, aside from "All I Want for Christmas Is You" - which we are absolutely streaming until we get Mariah Carey her No. 1 this year, darlings - Britney's "My Only Wish (This Year)" obviously and, of course, Hilary Duff's masterful debut, Santa Clause Lane. (Speaking of,…
'My Body': Ann Marie Is a (Very Horny) R&B Star in the Making
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJZ2Gs0Xjvg Meet Ann Marie. She's not trying to fall in love, and she makes it nasty when she fucks. Such is the life of a Southside Chicago-bred, 23-year-old certifiable One To Watch™ - not to be confused with England's Anne-Marie, of "Rockabye" and "2002" fame. On…
Saro's 'Snowblind' Is a Hypnotic Ode to Queer Love
Meet Saro. Born Evan Windom, Saro makes "dark electronic-rooted R&B with gorgeous falsettos and grooves," as one press release proclaims - and, honestly, that's a spot-on assessment. He's been at it for a few years now, and his origin story in the music scene provides a shocking and entirely…