Bree Runway's "ATM" Deserves to Be Her Breakthrough
It's about time for the general public to invest in Bree Runway. Perhaps you've already heard of the genre-hopping 28-year-old Hackney-bred singer-songwriter-rapper after seeing her name appear on the highly coveted BBC Sound of... longlist for 2021. Or maybe you know her from her remix of Rina…
Who Is Olivia Rodrigo & Why Is 'Drivers License' No. 1 on the Charts?
"I got my driver's license last week, just like we always talked about..." Meet Olivia Rodrigo: she's currently got the No. 1 song on Spotify's Global Top 50 and iTunes, and Taylor Swift is proudly shouting her out on social media. Wait, what? Who? Is this what it feels like to age out of pop…
Claudia Valentina Is Your First Pop Act to Watch of 2021
Meet Claudia Valentina, the first new artist to get excited about in 2021. Granted, I'm just a few weeks late to the One to Watch™ party: the 20-year-old singer-songwriter actually dropped her self-titled 4-track debut EP back in November. In any case, it's time to play catch-up. The story behind…
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…