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Artists You Should Know: Wednesday’s Child Evoke Ronnie Spector in New Single Dedicated to the Late Singer “Ronnie”

In the third line of singles, all dedicated to various female figures important to the band, London-based quintet Wednesday’s Child are dedicating their newest song, “Ronnie,” to the late lead singer of The Ronettes, Ronnie Spector. A tasteful blend of surviving 60s swing music and early 00s punk-rock sleaze, the band had been playing the […]

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Elizabeth Moen
Beyond LA: Stream Elizabeth Moen’s Newest Singles “Synthetic Fabrics” and Title-Track “Wherever You Aren’t” Off Upcoming Album Out Nov. 11

Chicago-based singer/songwriter Elizabeth Moen is gearing up for the self-release of her fourth album Wherever You Aren’t out on Nov. 11 with the release of her two newest singles, title-track “Wherever You Aren’t” and “Synthetic Fabrics.” A self-taught musician with a leaning towards rambunctious, garage-influenced indie rock, her music hinges deeply on the charming twang […]

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Cloe Wilder
Beyond LA: Cloe Wilder Shares Dreamy-Folk Single and Video for “House By The Water”

Florida-based singer/songwriter Cloe Wilder has shared a new single with the release of “House By The Water,” a folk-flecked swooner gushing with bittersweet nostalgia. It follows the release of her debut EP Teenage Lullabies last year, as well as the singles “One Step Closer” and “We’re Not Special.” But unlike those releases Wilder’s latest veers […]

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Beyond LA: Maude channels nostalgia and longing with debut EP “Intertwine”

Canadian singer-songwriter Maude has already paved a path for herself in the form of her first EP, Intertwine, released independently in September directly through Maude. She’s established her music with a distinctly cinematic feel to the production made up of sonorous synths and gently emotional guitars. All four songs contain deeply personal lyrics, with standouts […]

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Flash Amazonas
Beyond LA: Flash Amazonas Unleash a Fever Dream of Kinetic Wonder on Latest Singles “La Reina es un lagarto” and “Ululo”

Flash Amazonas continue to preview their hotly anticipated new album uva-uva with the release of their latest single earlier this month “La Reina es un lagarto.” It’s the third taste the Colombian and Japanese art-rock duo — comprised of Julián Mayorga & Ryota Miyake — have shared coming hot on the heels of singles “Ululo” […]

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Ailani
Beyond LA: Ailani Swentzell Creates Lush, Emotionally Sprawling Indie-Pop — Returns with Third Album “Mortified”

In case you missed it Ailani Swentzell just released her third album Mortified, a collection of songs that come as further inescapable validation of their rising star status in the indie-pop scene. We also just featured her on our list of Indigenous artists who need to be on your radar. With multiple albums and self-released […]

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Mabe Fratti
Beyond LA: Mabe Fratti Shares New Single “No se ve desde acá” off Upcoming Album “Se Ve Desde Aquí” Out Oct. 14th

Guatemalan cellist and composer Mabe Fratti has unveiled a new song with the release of “No se ve desde acá,” the latest preview of her third album Se Ve Desde Aquí which will be released on Oct. 14. True to her flair for instrumental experimentation the song tweaks an expected cyclical structure of chorus-verse-chorus into […]

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Seth Glier
Beyond LA: Watch the new lyric video for “Another Day in America” from Seth Glier

Massachusetts-born singer/songwriter Seth Glier has always used his folk-pop amalgamations to give voice to causes close to his heart and that’s nowhere as true than on his song and video for “Another Day in America.” The track is off his most recent album The Coronation where he meanders between both despair over the state of […]

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AnaMassard
Beyond LA: braveweather shares a new single/video with the release of their combustive anthem “missing pieces”

Orlando-based braveweather is back with a new single and video, sharing the combustive anthem “missing pieces,” the third to preview their upcoming release Stay Here out October 14 via Honey Pit. It’s a song that gets at the heart of that band’s attempt to voraciously present their innermost vulnerabilities. On “missing pieces,” that takes the […]

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Wild Heart Club
Beyond LA: Wild Heart Club Soothes Heartbreak and Band-breaks with Retro-Gleaming Pop on Debut Album “Arcade Back in Manitou”

As the vehicle for producer and singer/songwriter Kristen Castro’s retro-gleaming creations, Wild Heart Club started as a coping mechanism for a two-fold breakup of a relationship and her band. Stuck inside like everyone else during the pandemic, the Mexican-American artist found catharsis by retreating into the dually digital and analog conjured dreamworlds of her sleek […]

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ZADA
Beyond LA: Ethiopian-born ZADA continues to dazzle with her singles “Snakes and Ladders” and “Be Somebody Else”

Every new single that the Ethiopian-born, British Columbia-based artist known as ZADA has shared is an intimate lesson in how to spin emotion into music. Using the rotund kinetics of Afrobeat as her foundation, her music is a buoyant and ever-shifting collage of pop, folk, and soul. Her two recent singles “Snakes and Ladders” and […]

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Hoax
Beyond LA: HOAX try to unearth some peace in the aural wonderland of their new album “b?”

On their sophomore concept album b? the Houston-duo of HOAX (Michael Raj and Frantz Cesar) journey earnestly through an aural wonderland of radiant indie-pop. But for all its euphoric hooks and uplifting melodics, every song on the album is staged in the aftermath of profound personal tragedy, which serves as the catalyst for the album’s […]

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Deadletter
Beyond LA: Deadletter embraces life as a “Binge” on rowdy new single/video

If South-London Deadletter are not yet on your radar they’re about to be with their new single/video for “Binge,” a blisteringly rapt and criminally funky guitar-led jam. On it the group take aim at the incessant needs and desires that drive people — peeling back all the ways in which we try to differentiate ourselves […]

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Nana Lourdes
Beyond LA: Nana Lourdes shares lead single “Sausalito” from upcoming album “Wyoming”

Portuguese artist Nana Lourdes has unveiled the lead single from her debut album Wyoming, sharing the heady bass and dance track “Sausalito.” Against frantic beats and raucous electronica, Lourdes plants her hypnotic pop flag into the American midwest, effectively transforming it into a soundscape of her design. On “Sausalito,” she gives a melodically luxurious introduction […]

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LUCI
Beyond LA: LUCI comes out swinging on new single “Trippin Trippin Trippin” to announce debut EP “JUVENILIA” out Sep. 23

With the release of her new single “Trippin Trippin Trippin,”  New York LUCI has finally announced plans to release her debut album Juvenilia this fall on Sep. 23. For those who have been following the rollout of previous singles, the new track is another kinetically and emotionally volatile from the rising artist. On “Trippin Trippin […]

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Julia Bhatt 2022
Beyond LA: Julia Bhatt Releases Her Sparkling Debut Album ‘it is what it is’

Since releasing her debut single nearly three years ago, Miami-based indie artist Julia Bhatt has been busy turning the songs and music she has held within her since she was 16 into live tracks for the world to hear. Now at 20 years of age, she has a new debut album under her belt, it is […]

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Babebee 2022
Beyond LA: Atlanta Artist Babebee Draws from Within to Create Enchanting and Healing Music

Soft and ethereal, Babebee, an independent artist, producer and videographer based out of Atlanta, blurs the line between singer-songwriter spirit and an electro indie sound. Blending elements of indie-pop, alt-rock and experimental dance music, they find an interesting intersection to convey their thoughts and emotions in a universal and holistic way.  Their latest single, “nervous […]

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Raiche 2022
Beyond LA: R&B Artist Raiche Creates a Rich Soundscape of Honest and Empowering Music

Massachusetts native and multi-dimensional R&B vocalist Raiche is never shy about owning up to her feelings or expressing them in a song. Penning honest, smooth and soulful, R&B, the charismatic young artist embeds personality, wit and a realness to her music that carries through with vulnerability and strength. Her latest single, “Fool” exemplifies her talent […]

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Ruth Koleva 2022
Beyond LA: Bulgarian-Born Artist Ruth Koleva Strikes a Resonating Tone in Pop Music

For Bulgarian-born, New York City based, singer-songwriter Ruth Koleva, music has become a lifeboat that she uses to ride down the river of life, braving strong currents and finding a rhythm and flow along the way. Her newest single “Moving On,” a collaboration with artists Rachel Row and Gueorgui Linev, is a charismatic, summery, self-empowering […]

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Tianna Esperanza
Beyond LA: Tianna Esperanza Makes a Strong Musical Debut This Year with Three New Singles

Cape Cod based singer, songwriter and storyteller Tianna Esperanza, granddaughter of seminal punk icon Paloma (“Palmolive”) McLardy — of the female punk groups the Slits and the Raincoats — made her musical debut this year with three searing punk singles of her own. The most recent, “Princess Slit and the Raincoat Prince,” is a quick and gritty […]

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