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Spotlight - MANYON ART WORK

Japan-based artist MANYON ART WORK blends alternative and cinematic rock with personal storytelling, crafting emotionally raw music about fear, perseverance, and everyday life.

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Spotlight - Lenny and the D

Tyler, Texas trio Lenny and the D blend genre-bending garage indie rock with stacked harmonies, synths, and a live-first energy that turns every room into a show.

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Spotlight - Stars and the Underground

Get to know Stars and the Underground and the story behind Echolocation is the most recent single and is off the forthcoming album Guardians of the Night.

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Spotlight - Alimba

From Greek radio nights and mix tapes to analog synths in a Linux studio, producer Alimba crafts deeply personal electronic music that chronicles every chapter of a life in motion.

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Something You Can Hold

Vinyl pressed after a failed Kickstarter, tapes on a DIY label, a lathe cut CD. Six artists on making the object.

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Spotlight - Modern Ideas

Melbourne's Modern Ideas crafts emotionally raw, 80s-inspired synth-pop where cold machine sounds become an unexpectedly honest vessel for very human feeling.

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Spotlight - Brandon Hopkins

London-based British composer Brandon Hopkins blends contemporary classical, minimalism, and experimental electronics into immersive, detail-driven music — his latest release, Three Commutes, finds beauty in the rhythms of the city.

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The Years You Don't Play

A ten-year hiatus, a guitar in a closet, a band reformed after two decades. Six artists on coming back.

Liner Notes

It Started with Guitar Hero

A PS3 game, a flutophone, a Halloween costume of a tuba. Six artists on the unglamorous moment music arrived.

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Spotlight - I Ya Toyah

Polish-American artist I Ya Toyah makes industrial-electronic music from Chicago that holds a mirror to the parts of ourselves we'd rather edit out.