Nine “fresh n’ Green”, ultra tasty tunes to feed your music appetite. We are pretty confident, you don’t wanna miss those ones right?

Akeylah Simone – ‘Black Is Beautiful; Letter to My Country’ (Radio Rdit)

About Akeylah Simone

Akeylah Simone, from Newport News, VA is just getting her feet wet as a singer, songwriter, and now recording artist. While she has been singing and performing since her first time on stage at an elementary school talent contest, songwriting has recently gained her focus and she is ready to share it with the world.

Her love for music is deeply rooted in her upbringing. Raised by two musicians, Akeylah, developed a passion for singing and music exploration early on. She always knew she would be a performer and that she would pursue a life on stage. She was so certain by age 7, she was practicing her Bruce Hornsby set in her room every night–just to be ready. She is sure to get up on stage with her dad, Bobby Blackhat as often possible. She has also been featured on a few of his albums singing back-up vocals, solos and even her own cover of “Fever” with her younger sister.

Music has always been her outlet for dealing with all things “life,” and that inspired her to create a series of “Therapy Sessions.” These consisted of hours of creating, singing, and sharing her best moments with her family and friends through social media. The feedback and encouragement motivated Akeylah to revisit some of her original work. She has now recorded her second full track and is currently working on an EP and full release album. She has opened up her personal journey to the world and her vocals will surely let you know where she’s headed.

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Spike Pop – ‘So Mysterious’

About Spike Pop

Spike Pop is the lo-fi synth pop project by London musician H. McLoughlin.

Energetic beats and heavy synth riffs combine with dreamy vocals and distorted vocoders to make Spike Pop’s distinctively dark lo-fi sound. Spike Pop writes, records and produces her all of her music, embracing the D.I.Y. tradition. Spike Pop’s early minimalist bedroom releases have evolved into a vaster sound of high energy electronics. Spike’s upcoming EP carries echos of trance, hardcore, classic new wave and glitchy digital dance music.

McLoughlin started making music when living in Berlin in 2014. After an email correspondence with her music hero Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields about what drum machine to buy, she began producing her own electronic music. Later moving to London, Spike Pop took form and she released her first demos on bandcamp in 2018. This has led to gigs across the UK, numerous musical collaborations and film scoring.

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LAYNEVERDIES – ‘M4d3 A W4y’

About LAYNEVERDIES

Born and raised in Queens, NY, Lay began his journey as a music producer shortly after high school. From camping outside of stores, to reselling hyped kicks, he invested into a basic home studio, which consisted of a Macbook, a midi controller and a pair of speakers. Although, like most inner city kids, he found himself trying to create stability with both the street life and his passion for music. Lay began searching for his sound as a solo artist, pulling inspiration from all genres, creating a sound that was both abstract and cohesive. He spent the majority of his time in the lab, cooking up what could be considered some of hip-hop’s newest innovative sound.

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Home Counties – ‘White Shirt / Clean Shirt’

About Home Counties

Since forming in January 2020, Home Counties have distinguished themselves as a key act to watch, with radio support from Jack Saunders, Huw Stephens (BBC Radio 1), Steve Lamacq, Amy Lame, Tom Robinson (BBC 6Music) and Matt Wilkinson (Beats 1), along with press support from DIY Magazine, Loud & Quiet, NME, Dork Magazine, Clash Magazine, The Line Of Best Fit, So Young Magazine, YUCK, The Rodeo, Gigwise and more.

Home Counties are: Will Harrison (vocals/guitar), Conor Kearney (guitar/vocals), Barn Peiser Pepin (synth/percussion/vocals), Sam Woodroffe (bass/synth) and Dan Hearn (drums).

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Rohne – ‘Ceres’

About Rohne

Originating from the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, electronic producer Rohne (Keenan Branch) has spent recent years honing his craft while traveling the world with a laptop, headphones, and field recorder. The culmination of ideas and inspirations captured at his home studio, mobile set ups in India, and places in-between, now lead to the release of his debut work Meridian. The album represents the blooming of a bond between Rohne, his art, and the world around him. Drawing influences from a wide range of genres, lush, organic and ethereal sounds, Rohne’s nuanced style of electronic music is an intimate and immersive experience of its own.

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Matthew And The Arrogant Sea – ‘Motional’ (single)

About Matthew And The Arrogant Sea

Matthew And The Arrogant Sea (MATAS) is an alt-folk/psychedelic pop act from Denton, TX. The band has received numerous accolades and notable press from around the globe since its inception in the early 2000s. Heralded with praise from outlets such as Daytrotter, NME, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Good Morning Texas, and NPR, alongside the exuberant praise from their national debut, “Family, Family, Family, Meets the Magic Christian”, in 2008—named one of the best records to be released in North Texas in the last decade. With the band’s latest effort “But…Who are you now?”, MATAS takes a darker turn into newer and dreamier territories while maintaining (and improving upon) the sounds they had originally sought out with the 2008 release. Founder and frontman Matthew Gray is accompanied by Hagen Hauschild (drums), Blake Vickery (bass), Tony Whitlock (lead guitar), and Jesse Chandler (keys,mellotron,flutes/other wizardry), who together form a wildly dynamic and deeply magical group capable of making the darkest of stories into beautiful ballads.

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zleephouse – ‘No Performance’

About zleephouse

zleephouse was born in Los Angeles but grew up in Dallas, Texas. Having moved back to LA four years ago, he deems them both his homes.

zleephouse is a singer-songwriter at heart, but he takes a lot of pride in having a hand in all aspects of his career, especially the production process. He draws his musical inspiration from the ability to use his art to express some of the traumatic experiences he’s been through in order to help others relate.

While zleephouse has only released a few tracks to date, his diverse and versatile songwriting abilities have shown that he is capable of not only creating alternative pop tracks over G-Funk and hip-hop beats, but also creating thematic and substantial worlds around his music under his label and partner, 405thelabel.

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Emmrose – ‘The Imposter’

About Emmrose

Emmrose is a seventeen-year-old songwriter whose career began three years ago when she wrote her first single in her 8th-grade math class. Years later, she is working on her second EP while living through remote school and the New York City lockdown. So nothing much has changed since then; she’s still writing songs in math class – except now thousands of people have discovered her brand of original, introspective dream pop music.

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Kuhr – ‘Detached’

About Kuhr

Joshua Kuhr Lee is a 22-year-old producer/artist hailing from Nashville, Tennessee. Growing up in Fairfax, Virginia, Joshua began learning classical music at the age of 9. He played the cello in many orchestras throughout his K-12 years. He then started to get into producing and writing hip-hop and indie pop in his high school days. Moving to Nashville assisted Kuhr in fine-tuning his style into a more gentle approach, thus creating more of a Lofi-chill vibe with many different elements of indie, alternative, hip hop, and ambient. He doesn’t bother with describing himself as one genre, but rather creates what comes to his mind.

Christos Doukakis