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Pabllo Vittar

twntythree — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 05:56:52 +0000

Award-winning Brazilian pop star and drag queen Pabllo Vittar is a global force. Ever since conquering the Brazilian market with her sensational 2017 debut album, Vai Passar Mal, which featured club-ready singles ‘K.O.’ and ‘Corpo Sensual’, Vittar has exploded into an international phenomenon. She is the most-followed drag queen on social media with 35+ million followers across all platforms and has earned glowing editorial coverage in Rolling Stone, Paper, Vogue Brazil, GQ Brazil, Harper’s Bazaar, Gay Times, and countless other outlets. With her feel-good pop anthems, Vittar has not only released multiple smash-hit albums, including Vai Passar Mal, 2018’s Não Para Não, 2020’s 111 (her first trilingual release in Portuguese, English, and Spanish), and 2021’s Batidão Tropical, she has collaborated with legions of pop acts, including Major Lazer/Diplo, Anitta, Charli XCX, Thalia, Rina Sawayama, Marina & The Diamonds, Lauren Jauregui, and MC Carol. She has also performed all over the world at major festivals, including Coachella, Lollapalooza Argentina/Brazil/Chile, Estereo Picnic, Primavera Barcelona/Porto, Melt Festival, and more.

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Pachyman

Sam Ford — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:52:14 +0000

Pachyman is the musical project of Puerto Rican-born, Los Angeles-based musician Pachy Garcia that’s amassed an international following on the back of a dub reggae sound that pays homage to genre masters like King Tubby and Scientist not only via technique and form but through a kindred pursuit of bleeding edge, boundary-expanding sonics.

Another Place, his fifth album for ATO Records due out May 23, is Pachyman’s most daring project to-date, one that builds upon its forebears by leaning into the idiosyncratic elements lurking beneath previous projects. In doing so, it synthesizes the myriad scenes that have recontextualized the methods and aesthetics of dub — from pioneering synth-pop weirdos like William Onyeabor and Yellow Magic Orchestra to Basic Channel’s amniotic dub techno — into a sound that, while still anchored in dub reggae’s glorious walls of sound, is undeniably Pachyman’s own.

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Panchiko

twntythree — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:11:32 +0000

Panchiko are a four-piece indie rock band from Nottingham, England consisting of lead vocalist and guitarist Owain Davies, guitarist and keyboardist Andrew “Andy” Wright, bassist Shaun Ferreday, and a drummer named John. Panchiko’s members were childhood friends with cheap equipment, who founded the band in 1997 as teenagers. On 21 July 2016, a 4chan user reported that they had found a copy of D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L in an Oxfam charity store in Sherwood, Nottingham. The songs, affected with disc rot, were shared via Mega and Zippyshare download links. The record became a cult classic through circulation on the Internet such as through the YouTube channel dismiss yourself, until Owain and the other members of Panchiko were contacted by their fans through Facebook.

The band released their “D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L” EP in 2000, which was recorded in their room, as well as another EP titled “Kicking Cars“. On February 16, 2020, D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L was remastered and re-released online along with three tracks from Kicking Cars by the band, exactly 20 years after its official release.

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Parissa Tosif

twntythree — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 01:53:44 +0000

Known to many as the vocalist and co-writer of the electronic duo Vallis Alps, Parissa Tosif has long navigated two worlds: the luminous pulse of modern pop and the spiritual inheritance of her Iranian ancestry. In a landscape where much of pop music trades in surfaces, Parissa Tosif offers depth — a mirror held up to memory, identity, and the quiet resilience of ordinary lives in extraordinary times. With the spirit of household classics as Kourosh Yaghmaei and Googoosh to James Blake and Sevdaliza, her music is a bold contemplation of connection to place from the place of the diaspora.

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Pegg x Van Dyke Parks

Sam Ford — Mon, 19 May 2025 16:40:11 +0000

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Peter Manheim

Sam Ford — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:36:10 +0000

Peter Manheim is a drummer and percussionist from Evanston, Illinois. In 2012, he completed his bachelors degree in music at Oberlin Conservatory. While at school, he was fortunate to study with drumming masters Billy Hart and Jamey Haddad, both of whom became extremely important mentors to him. Upon completing school, Peter moved to Brazil, where he spent six months traveling, performing, and studying Brazilian drums and percussion. He subsequently returned to Chicago, where he lived until 2016 when he relocated to New York City.

Peter is currently based in Brooklyn and performs regularly around the city as well as nationally and internationally with a variety of bands. His debut EP, “In Time” was released on April 11, 2023, on Northern Spy Records. His first full-length album, Early Waves, is due out June 6.

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Phil Fresh

twntythree — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 05:28:35 +0000

Phil Fresh is a uniquely diverse artist, songwriter and producer based in Sydney, Australia. Since the release of his 2017 debut record Excursions Of Love, Fresh has worked tirelessly to continually refine his musical style, incorporating influences from Hip-Hop, Pop and RnB.

Fresh’s tracks have led to rotation adds on triple j Unearthed, and additions to multiple streaming service playlists including Spotify’s ’New Music Friday’s’ and Apple Music’s ‘Best of the Week’. Fresh is also no stranger to support across radio, from frequent airplay on both triple j and FBi Radio, while attracting music video plays on MTV. 2019 saw Fresh on main support for both Kaiit and imbi on their respective national tours, while embarking on his own Australian east coast tour. Following the 2020 release of ‘OH MY GOD’, the Bread Club collab ‘Forever’, a support slot alongside Triple One, and a feature alongside CLYPSO on Kwame’s track ‘TOMMY’S IN TROUBLE’,

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Phoebe Bridgers

twntythree — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:51:36 +0000

Phoebe Bridgers is a singer-songwriter from Pasadena, CA. Beloved in equal measure for her deceptively subtle voice and her meticulous, incisive lyrics, her solo records Stranger in the Alps (2017) and Punisher (2020) have been accompanied by a number of collaborations, including the supergroup boygenius, with whom Bridgers won three Grammys for 2023’s the record. Her songs are hallmarked by a kind of intimacy that’s hard-found in contemporary music, and scale between the macro and the micro with an ease that’s matched only by her towering, prodigious way with words.

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POND

Amber Gallant — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:19:35 +0000

POND are one of the most versatile, inquisitive, and accomplished bands in the psychedelic rock vanguard. Made up of Nicholas Allbrook, Jay Watson, Joseph Ryan, James Ireland, and Jamie Terry, POND was formed in 2010 in Fremantle, Western Australia. However, it wasn’t until the release of their 2013 record Beard, Wives, Denim that POND went from a group of musicians and friends to an internationally touring band. Today, POND boasts an impressive catalog of recorded music, spanning ten critically-acclaimed albums. Since its beginnings, POND’s prowess in the live arena has also been well documented. Sharing the stage with artists such as Flaming Lips, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys and more, they have also been on major festival lineups worldwide like Glastonbury, Coachella, Splendour in the Grass, and The Great Escape.

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Portraits of Tracy

Sam Ford — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:44:34 +0000

After setting online circles alight as a teenager in her bedroom in Baton Rouge, the elusive producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Portraits of Tracy became a fascinating contender for the pop music’s evolution.

Q: From Where Do Our Primal Instincts Originate A: MTV! (out July 24) marks a confident new stage in her evolution, one where she reintroduces herself in glorious technicolor. Disruptive, experimental, and ultra-vivid, Tracy’s sound draws on indelible memories: a childhood spent locked into DC hardcore, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and when MTV reigned supreme.

It’s a playful successor to 2023’s Drive Home: an extraordinary statement of autonomy and sonic freedom, the 18-track concept record is an analogy for Tracy’s own journey in accepting herself as transgender and finding her voice as a Black, queer teen raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Through the lens of Junie, the album’s central character, Tracy frantically whips between elements of classic rock, hip-hop, R&B, soul, and psychedelic indie rock to tell a story of family, belonging, and the importance of staying true to your gut — all guided by her prodigious musical talent.

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