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Julia Wolf
Written By Kelly Holm One night, NYC-based singer-songwriter Julia Wolf dreamed about a trend where girls painted the words “Hot Killer” on the front pockets of their blue jeans. Some might turn that into an opportunity to craft a viral Tweet— but Wolf spun this bit of nocturnal inspiration into a verifiable earworm. “I thought
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Casey Conroy
Written By Kelly Holm Growing up in Orlando, Casey Conroy’s father would tell her and her sisters that “life’s not that serious,” a mantra that has stuck with her over the years and into adulthood. Now, that motto has become the inspiration for Conroy’s first EP, It’s Just Living. “The EP had so many different
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Lindsey Stirling
Photo Credit: Natasha Belikove Written by Kelly Holm She’s been an America’s Got Talent quarter-finalist, a Mormon missionary and a best-selling author. She landed the eighth-highest number of views of any YouTube video from 2012, and has an asteroid named in her honor. She’s collaborated with Evanescence’s Amy Lee, Pentatonix and even the Muppets. She’s Arizona-born violinist,
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RIZ LA VIE
Written By Kelly Holm Growing up in an environment where spirituality and mystical exploration were valued and encouraged, it’s no wonder that New York-based hip-hop/R&B artist RIZ LA VIE became a poetic prophet with his music. From an early age, LA VIE’s mother, a Lebanese immigrant, instilled in him an affinity for the ethereal, teaching
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Sainvil
Written By Kelly Holm For Matthew Sainvil, known solely by his last name, the musical odyssey has been a continuous journey of reinvention. Born to a Haitian immigrant mother and raised in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, Sainvil grew up acting in plays and taking influences from a variety of sounds that permeated the cultural melting
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Charlotte Jane
Written By Kelly Holm If you’re seeking a little sunny optimism as summer slips away into fall, British singer-songwriter Charlotte Jane is ready to celebrate the little things with “Loving the Light.” The latest single is an ode to on-and-off-again love that calls to mind Duffy with a dance-pop twist. “I’m loving the light, the
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Samuel Jack
Written By Kelly Holm Samuel Jack’s “Feels Like Summer” was first released in 2019, but recently became America’s most popular Instagram Reels song, racking up tens of millions of plays in a matter of weeks. As the British singer-songwriter sipped tea in his bed, he quickly realized that the 2-year-old track was going viral. “Madness,”
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JORDY
Photo Credit: Callum Walker Hutchinson Written By Kelly Holm We all have our lockdown accomplishments: maybe we learned to tie-dye or binge-watched Tiger King until we had every episode memorized, or mastered the art of Zoom cat filters. For rising pop sensation JORDY, quarantine produced “better in my head,” a bop about intimacy, regret and
