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Spotlight - iV

Phoenix-based artist iV crafts atmospheric electronic soundscapes that blend raw emotion with synthetic textures, born from late-night pandemic experimentation.

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Spotlight - Matt DeMello

Meet Matt DeMello, a "singer songcyclist" who brilliantly blends chaos and tradition, tricking listeners into exploring unexpected musical territories.

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Spotlight - Stress Dolls

From piano prodigy to indie rock powerhouse, Chelsea O. of Stress Dolls shares her journey of overcoming chronic illness to create raw, powerful music.

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Spotlight - Torre di Fine

From Venice's industrial outskirts, Torre di Fine crafts raw, genre-bending shoegaze while rejecting music industry conventions. Their story is anything but plastic.

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Spotlight - Brendan Wright (Tiberius)

Meet Brendan Wright, the artist behind Tiberius, crafting confessional emo country tunes with psych and shoegaze influences for nearly a decade.

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Spotlight - Gripping Beasts

Meet Gripping Beasts, a nomadic artist blending IDM, Gqom, and jazz into boundary-pushing electronic music inspired by Viking art and Jewish theology.

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Spotlight - John Reidar Holmes

Swedish-English musician crafts ambient soundscapes that challenge fascism through instrumental expression. Discover how this former rock guitarist found his voice in modular synthesis.

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Spotlight - Living With Giants

Meet Living With Giants, a Sacramento instrumental band that transforms everyday sounds into mesmerizing musical stories. From birdsong to footsteps, they find rhythm in life.

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Spotlight - Seraphlesh

Meet Evelyn of Seraphlesh, a one-woman melodic death metal project transforming personal metamorphosis into powerful musical expression.