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In Conversation: Niia’s Tender Return to Jazz — A Portrait of Self and Artistry

When I see and hear Niia, I can’t help but feel that this is what it means to accept one’s fate — quietly, fully. And her fate seems to be music. To sing, to express, to make the world a little more beautiful by offering her inner landscape to the outside. With intention, with vulnerability. And perhaps, in doing so, she also pays a certain price — the price of being someone whose art and personhood have long since blurred into one another. Of being unable, at times, to draw clear lines between life and creation. Of burning brightly, but sometimes burning out.
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“Every song is a page from my story.” — Maddisun on Her New Album

There are artists where you can feel that their personality stands right there on stage — not an artificial figure, which has its own charm too, but something with no distance between person and art. The young artist Maddisun is one of them. Her artistic self is simply an extension of who she is. “I don’t have much difference in how I show up artistically vs my daily personal self,” she says.
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Pilar Victora returns, energized by new single ‘Mi Vida’

Nearly a year since her last release, Argentine-American Pilar Victoria has emerged from the quiet with a new single in hand. Picking up where she left off with Grammy-winning producer Happy Perez, “Mi Vida” is a slow-burning ode to the dull but consuming ache that often comes with long-distance love. “Don’t go to sleep, just talk to me. Just one more thing, baby don’t dream,” she sings in the pre-chorus, the song’s lone English stanza.
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An Invitation to Slow Down and Listen Closely: Stavroz Return With Take a Seat

With Take a Seat, Belgian quartet Stavroz return with their most focused and free work yet. The 14-track album drifts through dusty deserts and humid cities, all while holding onto the warm, acoustic-meets-electronic sound that defines the band. Written partly on the road and finished together in a countryside studio, the record carries both the movement of travel and the calm of retreat.
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Dancing Through Contradictions with Joya Mooi

The tension between buoyant beats and lyrics that dive into more complex emotions is something Dutch–South African artist Joya Mooi uses with ease. So it is with her new single, Technicolour, where envy isn’t painted in one shade, but refracted into admiration, doubt, and self-discovery. 
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Behind the Beats: Primate on Live Energy, Growth and the Story of About Us

What you give, you receive. Life always has a way of reflecting back what we put into it — at least in the best of moments, when everything falls into place. Like here: “There’s nowhere I feel more alive than during a live set. That moment when the crowd screams the lyrics and melodies back at you — it’s surreal every single time,” Primate tells us.
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In Conversation with Monolink on “The Beauty Of It All”

“It was a journey of rediscovering the joy of making music within myself,” Monolink tells us — a feeling that runs through the whole album. Written in retreat, surrounded by stillness and nature, The Beauty Of It All is perhaps his most personal work to date, moving between acoustic fragments, pulsing electronics, and moments of breathtaking fragility.
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“My art has to come from a true place” — Listening Closer with Holysseus Fly

The blows of fate at a young age – though of course they can come at any time in life – leave marks that never quite fade. They shape you, become part of your story, and quietly alter the way you move through the world. Fortunate are those who are spared. For Holly Wellington, aka Holysseus Fly, a cancer diagnosis at only 25 was such a turning point. I begin with these lines because I truly feel that her music carries its depth, its vulnerability, and its beauty from walking through such moments — for who else could transform the depths of life into art, if not someone who has moved through them within herself?
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Music Made of Quiet Moments: Zimmer90’s Debut Interior

An intriguing melody and poetic lyrics drift toward me from ‘Til The Morning Comes’ by Zimmer90, taken from their long-awaited debut album ‘Interior’, out today on Bamboo Artists. With their breakout track What Love Is, which rightfully went viral last year, the German indie-electro band — based in Freiburg — captured the hearts of indie lovers worldwide, myself included. And now they return with something deeply personal —‘Interior’ is an album born in the quiet after the storm.
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Junaco’s New Album Is a Journey Born from Silence, Firelight, and Rivers

Some albums come to life under truly special circumstances. Such is the case with the new record In Motion by Junaco. The environment that shaped it was unlike anything else—written during a week together in a yurt on the Smith River, surrounded by rain, silence, wood fires, sauna nights, and icy water. Cut off from the outside world, without internet or distractions,
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New Chapters with VARLEY: On Music, Connection, and Concrete Pools

I will never stop trying to share the beautiful things. “Connection, being part of something, and showing up for each other feels like the most important thing,” Claire-Ann and Matthias of VARLEY tell me when we speak. And I hold on to that thought, because I know how much it resonates in my own life too. In the hours that feel heavy, it is exactly these things — the closeness of others, the moments that catch us off guard, the songs that stay — that give everything meaning.
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“I’ve always believed the past isn’t lost—it’s something you’ve gained forever.” Mélanie Pain on Art, Memory, and Her New Solo Record

Who doesn’t know the feeling: you’re walking down the street, already thinking about where your steps will take you next; you open a book, and your mind drifts to the ending before the first page has even settled. Where does this restless energy come from — the constant urge to move forward? Yet it is possible to learn how to stay in the moment. Not to cling too tightly to the “good old days,” not to get lost in nostalgia, and not to dream too far ahead into a future that has not yet arrived.

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Way Out West: Discover Gothenburg Between Sound, Sea and Urban Life

“Thank you for being here, and thank you for having me,” said American pop darling Chappell Roan as a warm rain and the opening piano to her ballad “Kaleidoscope” began to cut through the cool Nordic air. “My music traveled all the way here, this is so awesome,” she added earnestly, giving some much-needed oxygen to her airtight Swedish debut at the country’s premiere music festival, Way Out West.
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“Whatever you decide happiness means.” — A Conversation with Jade LeMac

Committing to someone is something truly beautiful, especially in today’s world. And I don’t mean this out of some distorted, false nostalgia that things were better in the past — not at all. But life has become faster, fuller, more crowded. To consciously choose a person, whether in a relationship or a friendship, feels like something rare and deeply precious. That is, at least for me, the inspiration behind Jade LeMac’s new song “Running Home” — a track that carries the warmth of reassurance and the lightness of summer.
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Seventeen Years in the Park: The Magic of Outside Lands

For seventeen years, Outside Lands has exisited and for seventeen years Outside Lands has provided moments you can only make with your friends at Golden Gate Park. Bringing around 225,000 people to the bay to enjoy over 110 of their favorite artists, local beers and wines, a wide-variety of foods, and of course art installations that were sometimes created by eventgoers themselves. This years festival felt like a home-coming for many, the main event that’s looked forward to all year long and it did not disappoint.