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Cailin Russo

Sam Ford — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:53:54 +0000

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Camp Cope

twntythree — Mon, 09 May 2022 01:52:20 +0000

Founded in Melbourne over home job tattoos, Camp Cope – Georgia Maq (songwriter, vocals, piano, acoustic & electric guitar), Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich (lead bass guitar) and Sarah Thompson (drums & percussion) – have been a force since the release of their self-titled debut album Camp Cope (2016). Their critically-acclaimed follow-up How to Socialise & Make Friends (2018) debuted at #6 on the ARIA Charts with incredible international acclaim including NPR (“Every unpolished moment stuns with turn-of-age earnestness”), The New Yorker (“The words, as raw as the band’s nervy energy, spill out as though she’s been holding them in forever”) and The Guardian (“In 20 years, young women especially will approach her and thank Camp Cope for encouraging them to pick up a guitar and tell their own stories”). Widely loved both in Australia and abroad and the album’s galvanising lead single, ‘The Opener’, shook up the Australian music industry. Both global and personal circumstances prompted Camp Cope’s change of perspective when work on Running With The Hurricane began in late 2019 – but when the pandemic struck a few months later, it forced a hiatus. The world had stopped and suddenly, there was no rush to get an album out and head back on the road. The trio got to just create art for art’s sake, without worrying about how it would perform. But it wasn’t just time Camp Cope had on their side. Running With The Hurricane finds the trio more confident and more skilled than ever before. Making the album the band knew their instruments like the backs of their hands; they were assured enough to ask for what they wanted in the studio. After years of fierce friendship and often relentless tour schedules, they had become innately comfortable as collaborators. Together they levelled up their skills, approach and sound. The resulting sound is still recognisably Camp Cope, just a little softer, a bit more relaxed and much more refined. Running With The Hurricane is an album concerned more with creating beauty than noise and, undoubtedly, is their strongest work yet.

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Caroline Polachek

twntythree — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 01:40:05 +0000

Desire, I Want To Turn Into You is Polachek’s first album release since her 2019 experimental pop masterpiece PANG which cemented her as a generational talent. Her profile has grown exponentially since – landing her everywhere from the direct opening spot on Dua Lipa’s 2022 North American Future Nostalgia Tour, Coachella, Lollapalooza, Glastonbury, Primavera, All Points East, Governors Ball, Pitchfork Music Festival and Outside Lands, along with late-night performances on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Late Night Show with James Corden. Standout viral tracks like ‘So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings’ have contributed to the album’s 175M global streams and counting.

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Carriers

Sam Ford — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:39:38 +0000

Carriers’ — the project helmed by Cincinnati, Ohio’s Curt Kiser — music has become something of an Ohio talisman, and Curt a true hometown hero. “I have a beautiful, symbiotic relationship with Cincinnati,” he says. Some of Cincy’s most enduring civic entities agree.

During the fall 2024 NFL season, the Cincinnati Bengals tapped him to play a set during a Monday Night Football game. He and his dad (“trust me, he shreds”) rocked out in front of 60,000 fans. Shake It! Records, one of The Queen City’s most beloved local vinyl shops, is working with Carriers on a series of special vinyl LPs. John Curley of Cincinnati alt-rock legends The Afghan Whigs recorded Now Is The Time For Loving Me, Yourself & Everyone Else at his studio. And, finally the Carriers project recently signed to Brassland, an esteemed Brooklyn label co-founded by one of Cincinnati’s most renowned 21st century cultural exports, The National. (That band’s drummer Bryan Devendorf contributed to Curt’s last LP and, in return, Curt did session work on The National’s pair of 2023 albums.)

Love for Carriers extends well beyond Cincinnati city limits. Carriers has opened up for the likes of Big Thief and Damien Jurado and, in summer 2024, nabbed opening slots on tours with Band Of Horses and Fruit Bats. Sharon Van Etten even listed Carriers in the “Recommended Listening” section of the liner notes for her 2019 LP Remind Me Tomorrow.

“When I was 19 years old, I looked to the heavens and asked what I should do with my life,” says Kiser. “I sat on my porch in Cincinnati’s Camp Washington neighborhood and proceeded to write one of the first songs I’d ever written on my own. It’s taken a few hundred songs to feel confident in it, but I’m there now.”

Perhaps we’ll hear more from Carriers’ ever-expanding songbook in 2025.

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Chanel Beads

twntythree — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:04:29 +0000

The project of New York-based musician Shane Lavers, his 2024 debut album announced Chanel Beads as a new force in experimental music. At once a hazy relic and a digital snapshot of the human experience, Your Day Will Come captures the many contradictions of modern existence and the strange infiniteness of the digital world. Though he incorporates the scrappy sonics of post-punk, the gripping sentimentality of pop tunes, and the spectral artifice of electronic music, Lavers blurs lines through unconventional song structures that build into transcendental climaxes, as on acclaimed singles ‘Police Scanner’ and ‘Embarrassed Dog’. As he intentionally prints his songs down to embed fried artefacts and ghostly remains, the resulting songs have a time-collapsing quality, both transitory and timeless. Praised locally across fbi radio (Packet Feature Album), triple j, 3RRR, PBS FM and more globally through Pitchfork, PAPER, Perfectly Imperfect, NTS and The Lot Radio among others, his debut was cherished as “complex, melancholic music that intentionally resists being placed in time” (Crack Magazine).

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Chanpan

Sam Ford — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:10:50 +0000

Chanpan began when Grace Dumdaw and twin brothers Lance and Matthew Tran decided to busk in Chinatown, NYC. Since then, they’ve been praised by Vogue as a “very cool New York band” and named as one the “Riot Grrrls of 2025” by Numéro Tokyo. The trio’s individual accolades in politics, community organizing, and film & television have also been featured by The New Yorker, HBO, Billboard, CNN, and more.

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Chitra

twntythree — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 05:58:48 +0000

A three-year in-the-making endeavour, Chitra’s music is the vessel for an old soul growing up and navigating the world with a firm lens of the present. Growing up in the Bellarine Peninsula, her adolescence as a coastal kid – jubilant and carefree – shines across her vocals and production work. Though the instrumentation and melodies appear as breezy, catchy jaunts, Chitra’s magnetism lies in catching listeners off guard with her astute observations of relationships, the world, and her place amongst it all.

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chlothegod

Sam Ford — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:42:08 +0000

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Christopher Rountree

Sam Ford — Thu, 16 May 2024 16:10:49 +0000

Christopher Rountree is the 3-time GRAMMY-nominated composer, conductor, and band leader best known as the Founder and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles new music collective Wild Up. 3 BPM, his debut album as a composer out July 12 on Brassland, finds a lineup of musicians — including the “brilliant” (LA Times) piano duo HOCKET, the widely acclaimed violist Nadia Sirota, and various members of Wild Up — embarking on a novel musical architecture of Rountree’s conception.

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Clara La San

Maia Bilyk — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 01:28:49 +0000

Renowned for her richly personalised, effortless style of hook-rich songcraft, Clara La San is a composer, producer, and singer who has developed a resounding reputation for writing and arranging songs that feel instantly familiar and timeless, with a distinctly fresh appeal. The 2023 self-release of her single ‘In This Darkness’ earned her solo sound 100s of millions of plays on streaming services, pinpointing her status among the prized songwriters of her generation. A perfectionist, the Manchester, England based singer/songwriter and producer pulled her Jam City-assisted Good Mourning mixtape – featuring ‘Let You Go’, her spare and hypnotic 2014 breakthrough – within a couple years of its 2017 release.

By the time she issued her equally heady and heartfelt debut album Made Mistakes, La San had been intermittently active for a decade, and had collaborated with the select likes of Yves Tumor, Bicep, Goron City and Bryson Tiller. Whilst her music is patently steeped in a holistic listening of myriad musical strands – from early 00’s R&B to contemporary rap instrumentals – she braids her influences with inspirations from cinema scores and up-to-the-second sound design to express a singular style of soul for the 2020s and beyond. This palpable sense of classically emotive but modernist production is matched by a rare ability for realising top line vocal melodies, layered in blushing harmonies that instantly imprint on the memory and have kept her growing and devoted fanbase, including many other artists and peers returning for more.

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