Artists You Should Know

Written during a period of emotional anguish “On A Cloud” gifts a soothing balm against the cloistering effects of personal despair.

Stenger’s new single mulls dolefully over the shadow of heartbreak that hangs gloomily over a recently bloomed love.

On “Flesh It Out,” she recaptures the gothic atmosphere consistent across all her material while repurposing it into something better described as a declaration of war.

The songs found within comprise a sequel of sorts for her ecstatic debut “Tranic Attack” — which saw her reckoning with the early stages of transition and the trauma of both sexual assault and abuse.

Eartheater will tour the U.S. in December with two Los Angeles shows at the Troubadour in West Hollywood.

Pen Pin’s newest offering wrangles with the moments when we find ourselves struggling and sinking helplessly beneath a wave of dopamine deficiency.

Their sophomore effort Tender is a no less personal and beaming trek through zzzahara’s enthrallingly intimate bedroom rock.

“Rearview” and its accompanying film offer a vision of what any functioning and healthy relationship shouldn’t be. One that just devolves into two people angrily airing their grievances without sincere or honest communication — as well as a vacancy of empathy.

Duong’s newest single captures a particularly infuriating feeling of existential exasperation. Honing in on the pitfalls of comparing your own thwarted progress to the success others are seemingly showered with.

On “Phantom Limb” the pair illuminate the particular heartache that comes with losing a friend, syncing such platonic loss to the track’s roiling electronic soundscape.

On “Running Shoes” she waxes tenderly about being trapped and surrounded by the empty company of people she just can’t seem to connect with.

The project of Cuban-Mexican artist Milan de la Rocha — a first-generation Latino — the single arrives as the initial steps of his music journey.

“Otherway” leaves behind the sonic buoyancy of indie-pop for spacious atmospherics and a tangle of heartstring-plucking instrumentals.

Aside from playing at Coachella and Sick New World earlier this year, the Santa Cruz band’s latest EP, Psychic Dance Routine, declared they weren’t planning on stopping anytime soon.

The dulcet-voiced singer/songwriter and creator of stirringly-haunting soundscapes shares a preview of their forthcoming debut EP

On his new single Drewbyrd invites rapper PawPaw Rod to throw some bars over his track’s suave melding of hyperkinetic beats and sleek intimacies.

The Long Beach native started back in 2018 with GarageBand, first playing the ukulele before getting better in quality with each passing song.

Her discography spans a truly inexhaustible fusion of genres — from dance and sensually nostalgic pop to hyperkinetic hip-hop cut with jazz and electronica.

His music intersects the various generational styles that have lain the bedrock for Los Angeles’ multi-faceted but inherently Mexican tapestry of music.

Their most recent single “Purple Skies” is a riveting introduction to the energizing veracity that pulses from Black Polish’s music.

Radiating with a euphoric vibrance, “Bada Bing!” offers a shimmering stage from which the sumptuously-voiced artist coos her elegantly loving lyricism.

On their new single “Better Than Ever” the four-piece craft another energizing jammer out of a lush melding of glimmering synths and groovily grumbling guitars.

The quartet is endlessly mesmerizing, whether they’re floating their iridescent harmonies over the soft pluck of acoustics, a scramble of percussion, or a lush twinkling of piano keys.

With her latest single Often still wields that hauntingly enigmatic allure that made her first record so emotionally enthralling.

Whether perceived in our lives or within ourselves these seemingly contradictory elements —from beauty and heartbreak to masculine and feminine — aren’t always as incompatible as we might believe.