Multi-Platinum global pop superstar Kesha has unveiled ATTENTION! (SMASH FEATURES), collecting two brand new spins on her hit single, “ATTENTION!” (featuring pop disruptor Slayyyter and rising UK artist Rose Gray), created via an exclusive feature challenge heralding the launch of SMASH – a global creator community and marketplace where musicians connect and create independently. The competition saw over 500 submissions from more than 40 countries around the world, with Kesha ultimately selecting her two favorites for the new EP, including original remixes from Sizzy Rocket, and XAMIYA. ATTENTION! (SMASH FEATURES) is available everywhere now via her own Kesha Records.
“I’ve learned from my own experience fighting for ownership of my music and being my own record label for the past 6 years that having a career as an independent female artist in the music industry is not for the faint of heart. Kesha’s message is a reminder that NO ONE gets to take away your voice or your right to live authentically wild and free.” — Sizzy Rocket, singer-songwriter, Independent SMASH Creator
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Co-founded by Kesha Sebert (CEO), Alan Cannistraro (CTO), and Lagan Sebert (COO) alongside a team of top music industry and tech veterans, SMASH aims to help music creators build long thriving careers through community support and by providing a direct line to opportunities. By connecting a safe and supportive community of the very best songwriters, artists, producers, instrumentalists, singers, and sound engineers, SMASH takes the power out of the hands of the traditional music business gatekeepers and places it into the hands of those who create the music. The announcement of SMASH – which received wide-ranging media attention from such publications as Variety, WIRED, and Tech Crunch – was joined by a remix challenge for Kesha’s acclaimed hit single “BOY CRAZY.,” with the winners then featured on this summer’s 5-track BOY CRAZY. (SMASH REMIXES) – EP, available everywhere 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 latest from the breakthrough talent is both a stirring paean, and playful personification of the capital.
London is where McGuinness was born and currently resides, but one he’d never really call ‘home’ – despite his deep affection for the city. Born to Irish parents, his complex relationship with London is considered in this lyrically personal – yet universal – exploration.
“You and I go back a long time // We braved the rain and bathed in sunshine // But you walk all over me sometimes” quips McGuinness here.
McGuinness’ wry lyrical flair is once again flaunted in this ‘widescreen romance’ about displacement and uncertainty. Capturing the dichotomous nature of London – both its fun, vibrant and romantic surface; and its hard, bleak and intolerant underbelly – it’s a song that muses themes of identity and belonging, of where you come from and where you’re going, in a place that can seem to be fighting against you.
Recorded at Liverpool’s Docklands Speed Shop with friend and producer Gajo Paco, its tasteful additions of cello, slide guitar and wurlitzer were also added to the mix there.
A lush, warm and cinematic new addition to Eugene McGuinness’ canon, standby for further new music very soon….
The Barons is a US alternative band known for their raw energy, introspective lyrics, and distinctive guitar-driven sounds. Based in Richmond, Virginia, the group consists of Peyton Alley (vocals, guitar, keys), Josiah Ragland (lead guitar), Kirtland Gray (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 colleges and venues on the East Coast as well as supporting alt acts such as Catfish and the Bottlemen, The Aces, Barns Courtney, Flipturn, and Judah & The Lion. The band has released a stack of singles since it’s founding and embark on their first full album release, Le Château, coming November 2025.
Dynasty is Jenni and Marcone, a synth-pop duo based in Hamilton, ON, creating music that blends emotional storytelling with rich, atmospheric production. Their sound is rooted in a shared love for dreamy textures, modern pop, and nostalgic 80s-inspired synths, with each track offering a deep dive into the emotional landscape of being human. What started as a one-off collaboration quickly grew into a full project, sparked by a mutual desire to make music that feels honest, cinematic, and personal.
Genre-bending trailblazer Theodora delivers a showstopping performance for NTS Sessions. The french artist performed three tracks of her deluxe mixtape ‘Mega BBL’: DO YOU WANNA, MASOKO NA MABELE, and I WANNA.
NTS Sessions prides itself on sharing diversity in the music industry by featuring artists from all over the world and a variety of genres, not only sharing their musical talent but encapsulating their visual aesthetics with perfection. Theordora’s performance was no different.
Her vocal performance was paired with a set surrounded by dancers, motorbikes and trucks. Combining the extravagant makeup, outfits and cinematography, it wasn’t just a performance, it was a fully fledged live music video.
This session follows Theodora’s unleashing of the highly anticipated deluxe edition of her mixtape, ‘MEGA BBL’ – which led from a landmark win as Female Revelation of the Year at France’s prestigious Les Flammes music awards,
A sonic whirlwind that defied boundaries, ‘MEGA BBL’ expanded Theodora’s bold vision of modern music – a genre-defying blend of hip-hop, Caribbean bouyon, hyperpop, Afrobeat, and drum & bass. The project saw the Parisian artist linking up with a dynamic roster of collaborators including Brazy, Thisizlondon, bb Trikz, and Luidji, adding even more dimension to her magnetic sound.
The release came on the heels of her captivating performance at Les Flammes, where Theodora debuted the single ‘DO YOU WANNA’, a fiery, euphoric anthem that sent social media into a frenzy and signaled the arrival of a new era for the artist.
In the weeks leading up to the drop, teasers and stunning visuals of ‘MEGA BBL’ billboards appeared across Paris, Kinshasa, London, Lagos, and Barcelona, igniting buzz and speculation from fans worldwide. Theodora’s reach is now undeniably global, and she’s just getting started.
With ‘MEGA BBL’, Theodora cemented her place as one of the most innovative and fearless voices emerging from the French music scene, and one who refuses to be boxed in.
Paris WYA is an enchanting, empowered pop artist whose music blends emotional lyricism with a globally inspired perspective. Born in Shanghai and raised across Asia, Europe, and the U.S., she draws on her diverse background to craft a versatile sound marked by powerful vocals, catchy hooks, and striking emotional imagery. With two EPs—UNTANGLED (2024) and GLITCH (2025)—already showcasing her range, she now turns toward a more songwriting-focused, dreamy energy on her forthcoming project MANNEQUIN, highlighting her growing prowess and songwriting focus, while continuing to fuse global influences with pop ambition.
Raised amongst the pavement and pop radio of Los Angeles, Natalie Del Carmen creates her own musical geography with Pastures. It’s the sound of a modern-day folksinger narrowing her focus and expanding her reach, funneling the wide-ranging sounds that appeared on her debut album — 2023’s critically-acclaimed Bloodline — into a sharp, singular version of American roots music.
Pastures doesn’t sound like the work of a Gen Z songwriter with metropolitan roots. Instead, its songs are poised and pastoral, filled with acoustic instruments — including the 1930s banjo she inherited from her grandfather — that evoke a landscape far more remote than Southern California. Some songwriters make music that reflects their surroundings, but Del Carmen takes a different path, turning herself into a musical world-builder. At just 24 years old, she’s chased down an Americana sound of her own making.
“I’ve heard stories about people growing up in small towns, wanting to move to a big city,” she says. “That’s not me. I love living in a city, but I also feel connected to a traditional country sound and a small-town lifestyle. I crave both.” With Pastures, she builds a bridge between those two contrasts. Songs like the wistful, waltzing “Plans Upon Plans” and the nostalgic “Leanne” make no apologies for their countrified arrangements, but their lyrics tell a more universal 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 without abandoning a wider audience, delivering coming-of-age songs that transcend genre and generation. After all, navigating the twists and turns of early adulthood is hard work, wherever you live.
Like Bloodline, Pastures was recorded with Brunjo, the Tennessee-based musical collective whose members first crossed paths with Del Carmen while attending Berklee College of Music. Two years after graduation, the musicians reunited in a studio on the outskirts of Nashville, where they tracked Pastures during eight inspired days. Combining organic instruments with MIDI textures, they created unique soundscapes for each song, from the booming western arrangement of “Heyday” to the cinematic folk of “Good Morning from Magnolia.” With its light layers of mandolin, pedal steel, acoustic guitar, and brushed percussion, Pastures ornaments — but never overwhelms — the songs that Del Carmen wrote back home in Los Angeles, dreaming up a world with less freeways, more fiddle, and green pastureland stretching into the distance.
“To me, a pasture sounds like an open place where you can go anywhere,” she says. “Sometimes, that’s the most freeing thing… but other times, it can be an open invitation for doubt. Sometimes, it can be easy to write about love, because it’s so accessible. But I try to write about things that are harder to talk about, like failing, or trying to live up to society’s expectations, or grief, or the pressure to amount. With Pastures, I’m letting myself be free to make the music I want to make… and I’m letting myself do it on my timeline.”
New York City’s leading underground event collective, Teksupport, announces the finale of its 10-year anniversary celebration with a four-show series during New Year’s week. Closing out a decade of groundbreaking events, Teksupport will wrap its “Teksupport X” programming across Brooklyn Storehouse and 99 Scott, featuring an all-star lineup of world-class house and techno artists that will bring the collective’s anniversary year to a powerful close.
The series begins with a New Year’s Day marathon at Brooklyn Storehouse on January 1 showcasing a forward-thinking lineup of back-to-back sets — including Afriqua b2b Mink, Aly Meza b2b The Fellas, Ben Sterling b2b Hot Since 82, Brunello b2b Rafael, Clüb de Combat b2b Salomé Le Chat, Loco Dice b2b Seth Troxler, and Riordan b2b Obskür.
The momentum carries into January 2 at Brooklyn Storehouse with top-tier billing featuring genre-bending icon Bonobo (DJ Set), Innervisions co-founder Âme (DJ Set) b2b Swiss maestro Jimi Jules, Life and Death founder DJ Tennis, live-electronic visionary JanBlomqvist, and rising star LuSiD. Teksupport X will wrap at 99 Scott on January 2nd and 3rd, with an unmissable lineup of to be announced talent.
Fueled by forward-thinking taste, a deep passion for dance music, and a distinctly New York sense of hustle, Teksupport has been a driving force at the intersection of club culture, high fashion, and technology for the past decade.
Founded by Rob Toma, a born-and-raised New Yorker who began throwing parties as a teenager, Teksupport has continually redefined the city’s nightlife landscape—transforming abandoned factories, navy yards, subterranean ballrooms, passenger ships, and even Grand Central Station into transcendent event spaces.
Dre Dupuis, a 29 year old singer-songwriter hailing from St. Catharines Ontario, has been plucking away since he was a kid. He began playing guitar at the age of 12, first borrowing an acoustic from his older brother, he was later gifted a cheap stratocaster copy by his parents and took off running. It’s also around this time he started tinkering with basic home studio equipment & recording techniques.
He’s now set to make waves with his upcoming debut self-titled release, out digitally October 24th. Recorded in the humble confines of his laundry room using a Tascam 488, this album is a testament to Dupuis’ DIY spirit and raw creativity. Drawing influence from the punchy riffs of The Strokes, the introspective melodies of Andy Shauf, and the lush harmonies of The Beach Boys, Dre’s music blends lo-fi indie rock with intricate, soulful songwriting.
The result is a collection of tracks that feel both timeless and deeply personal—music that invites listeners into a world built from the ground up, with each note carefully crafted in the quiet moments of everyday life. Dre Dupuis’ upcoming self-titled album is an intimate exploration of sound, offering a fresh voice in the indie scene with a sound that’s as warm as it is captivating.
Philadelphia-born and now London-based, ELUNIA makes ethereal indie-electronic pop that hits like an emotional current — immersive, cinematic, and deeply human. Channeling the ache of isolation and the beauty of self-discovery, she fuses the raw, intimate lyricism of Lorde and Daughter with the expansive electronic worlds of Glass Animals and RÜFÜS DU SOL.
Her latest single “Strobe Lights” received mixing by Jamie Macneal (JMAC), whose credits include Sadie Jean, Medium Build, Sarah Close, Haux, and Luz. Originally, the song’s instrumental was composed for a short film, produced, edited, and sound designed by ELUNIA herself, that will be pitched for use by a mental health charity. The film follows a girl finding safety in her mind, painting with her body across a metaphorical landscape, each brushstroke a representation of the beauty within struggle.
“Strobe Lights” also reflects the pressure to appear ok in a world that glorifies exhaustion. ELUNIA began writing it while working in London’s fast-paced film post-production industry, where she witnessed the normalisation of burnout. “It seemed like a prize to be overworked, to have dark circles under your eyes,” she says. “I tried to convince myself I was fine, but I realised I was losing the connection to my younger self and the version of me who created music just to feel something real.”
That younger self first emerged in the quiet corners of a school music room, where ELUNIA began writing songs as a coping mechanism for feeling like an outsider. Classically trained on multiple instruments, she discovered true expression when she started producing in a DAW at the age of 10. Years later, a chance encounter on SoundCloud with producer JMAC led to the creation of her debut single “Borderlines,” which amassed over 30,000 Spotify streams and received praise from Earmilk, Atwood Magazine, 1883 Magazine, and Rolling Stone India, to name a few.
With “Strobe Lights,” ELUNIA steps into a bolder, more anthemic sound, one that mirrors the strength found in vulnerability. The song glows with cinematic textures, offering a shimmering testament to resilience, individuality, and the beauty of every imperfect brushstroke in life’s bigger picture.
Brighton’s rising alt-rock outfit Fever Rouge return with their chilling new single ‘Ghosts’, a dark and brooding anthem that captures the unease of confronting one’s past. Following the success of their acclaimed EP ‘Feed The Villain’, the band continue to forge their reputation for electrifying live energy and emotionally charged songwriting.
‘Ghosts’ is available now on your streaming service of choice via APOLLO Distribution.
Emerging dark-pop artist TÉODORA shines on her new single ‘Do I?’ – an introspective and striking dive into love and obsession. The track marks the second chapter of her forthcoming EP, as TÉODORA steps deeper into the emotional core of an obsessive love story, caught between desire and dependency. With her haunting vocals and intimate pull, ‘Do I?’ captures the tension of asking yourself: “Do I love you, or do I need you?”
LA via Boston soulful/R&B singer-songwriter Becca Hannah shares raw, lush track “Empathy” out now, alongside the visual from the studio, as she finds her own strength turning her focus towards empowerment and self-love. On January 23, the artist will share her soft, glossy debut album Tonight In My Dreams, available for pre-save now.
On the swirling, vulnerable track, “Empathy”, Hannah shares, “I’ve had this habit of internalizing other people’s opinions, values, and experiences so deeply that I’ve lost a sense of where I’ve stood as an individual. I’ve given people and their judgements the benefit of the doubt in ways that have led me down a dangerous path of self-doubt and further insecurity.”
On how the song came together, Hannah explains, “One hot, sticky, summer afternoon, I found myself in an anxious, cloudy, spiral, picked up my guitar, and started aimlessly strumming. The words “I should be meditating, I know, I do it sometimes…” just popped into my head, and stuck. But I still couldn’t finish the song in one sitting. I wasn’t entirely sure how to articulate what I wanted to say, but I knew I was headed in the right direction energetically. A couple of weeks later, I met up with [collaborator] Tristan [Jantz] to co-write the rest of the song together. He helped me piece the puzzle of the song seed together, and we turned the concept into something quite empowering.”
With “Empathy” the artist reclaims her agency. “Yeah, empathy could destroy me and my wellbeing, but I won’t let it. I am reclaiming my power, identity, individuality, and honoring the evolution of my human experience.” There’s a hidden darkness and rawness to the track that can be found with proper attention. The final line, “Empathy, could it be the death of me” builds with the support of the band, and features a commanding horn arrangement from George Pereli.
Eclectic producer, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist Monster Rally, today teams up with TV Girl on “Incredibly Blind” featuring X-Cetra. Along with the new single that vocally samples “Wasn’t There” by X-Cetra, Monster Rally shares that his tenth full-length record, Echoes of the Emerald Sands, will be released in Spring 2026 via SoundOn / Flowering Jungle. As he began working on his new record, he gave himself a straightforward set of criteria: Make something unlike anything he’d made before. For someone with tastes and an artistic history as varied as Monster Rally’s, that’s easier said than done.
Venturing into uncharted territory, the upcoming record will be Monster Rally’s first that isn’t purely instrumental. He recruited not just one or two guest vocalists, but a whole fleet of artists and industry friends to sing over his recordings. The list of collaborators includes TV Girl, Jordana, Toledo, Mei Semones, X-Cetra, Leisure, Sessa, Nella, Miles Michaud (Allah-Las), Benét, Jordann, Munya and more. Ditching the tropical, sample-based plunderphonics of his past work, he decided to record everything from scratch in his Cleveland home studio — resulting in some of the liveliest, most vivid music in Monster Rally history.
On “Incredibly Blind,” Monster Rally shared “This is one of my favorite tracks from the new record and I’m really excited to share it with the world. About a year ago I had sent a rough demo of this track to Brad (Petering) with just some drums, bass and mellotron flute loops. He came back with this idea of having X-Cetera on the track for the vocals. I had read a bit about their backstory and was definitely on board.”
Reflecting on his long history with TV Girl, he said, “TV Girl was one of the first artists I had ever done a collaboration with. Going way back to us playing shows in Echo Park to a handful of people over 12 years ago, all the way to a sold-out show with over 5,000 people when I toured with them last year.”
Jake Owen is thrilled to unleash his eagerly anticipated new studio album Dreams To Dream. Co-produced with Shooter Jennings in Los Angeles at Sunset Sound, Dreams to Dream marks Owen’s first independently released album, and is his most honest to date.
With ten career number one hits under his belt, Owen reflects, “I’ve just become a guy that wants to sing songs for people that have also matured with me in my life. Sometimes you need to get outside what’s comfortable, what people think you are, or think you should be, and take a risk. I’m always going to chase the passions that keep me moving forward.”
Dreams to Dream shines a light on raw and authentic storytelling and dives into real-life experiences like heartbreak, struggle, and defiance. “It really feels cathartic to be honest about a lot of stuff in my life — how I feel, where I see myself going, and how I see myself going there,” he says.
Friday’s release features the reflective and powerful track, “Wouldn’t Be Gone” — a song where Owen ponders what life might be like if he traveled a different path, a different career. He says, “It would keep me goin’, but I wouldn’t be gone.” Where he would live a more “simple life back home…be with my children while 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 release, the stunning instrumental track “Elizabeth Brown” and a brilliant cover of Neil Young’s “Sail Away,” both out now.
Continuing her mission to spotlight the next generation of high-energy, emotionally charged dance music, Montreal trance visionary TDJ unveils the third installment of her acclaimed SPF INFINI mix-compilation and video series with SPF INFINI: LOBSTA B, starring UK producer and DJ Lobsta B.
Known for his turbo-charged “bouncy donk” anthems and viral hard dance bootlegs, Lobsta B delivers a euphoric 25-track mix and companion video packed with fun, silliness, and pure adrenaline. “My SPF mix is a celebration of the UK underground sound of hard dance,” says Lobsta B. “It’s fun, euphoric, silly, and most importantly, absolutely banging! This mix is a rollercoaster that takes you on an adrenaline-fuelled ride through donk, hard house, hardcore, and makina.”
In the spirit of SPF INFINI, Lobsta B performs the mix live from the now-iconic raver-filled spaceship, expanding the series’ visual universe with his own tongue-in-cheek twist and a new cast of colorful characters that embody his playful take on the UK hard dance underground.
Marking the third of five SPF INFINI releases, the project continues TDJ’s vision of passing the torch to artists who helped define the energy and community surrounding the series.
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