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Floodlights

Grace Eire — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 22:11:09 +0000

The project of Louis Parsons, Ashlee Kehoe, Archie Shannon, Joe Draffen and Sarah Hellyer, Floodlights first gained global attention with their 2019 EP Backyard and 2020 critically acclaimed debut album From a View, before returning in April 2023 with their crowning second studio album Painting of My Time. With widespread support across BBC Radio 6 Music, Radio X, The Line Of Best Fit, Still Listening Magazine, CLUNK Magazine, NME, triple j, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald and more, their inimitable songwriting has been praised by Double J as “big-hearted, emotionally honest rock”, establishing them “as one of the most formidable live acts in Australia in this decade so far” by Rolling Stone.

Floodlights have evolved and grown their live show into an all-encompassing experience with tours in Australia and the world over, including sold-out shows and festival appearances at Pitchfork Paris, End of The Road, Green Man, Haldern Pop, SXSW Austin, as well as Laneway, Meredith Music Festival, VIVID LIVE and support slots for The Killers, black midi, Amyl & The Sniffers and Pavement.

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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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DJ Suzy

twntythree — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:26:27 +0000

The project of DJ Suzy is embedded in meticulous word-building, with a sound that takes shape through earnest depictions of connection in the digital age. Since the release of her debut single ‘Wings’ in 2023, DJ Suzy quickly returned with her debut mixtape Haunted Disc in late-2024 and Haunted Disc (Remixes) in 2025, which featured tracks including ‘Digital Girl’, ‘Caught By A Wind’ and her own funk remix of ‘Digital Girl’.

Heavily championed outside of her home in Stockholm, DJ Suzy has found support in international tastemakers, notably with global stations including Apple Music (Next Up), NTS Radio, BBC 6Music, The Lot Radio and KEXP. Organically accumulating over 2 million streams for ‘Digital girl – funk remix’, she has also received praise from the likes Nina Protocol, marg.mp3, Saint Virgil, Hidden.NY and more for her output that “exists at the intersection of beloved scenes, mixing the moody ambience of Copenhagen indie with the Y2K-glitz of the Janet Jackson dance-pop renaissance” (Soundfynd).

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Odette

Maia Bilyk — Tue, 16 May 2023 06:53:23 +0000

Born in Bath, England and raised in Eora / Sydney’s inner west, Odette grew up with her parents’ patchwork, eclectic tastes. From her mother’s love of pop and dance music driven by her Ximba ancestry, to her father’s pomme-punk, skater-boy nonsense, she grew up surrounded by music, and fell in love with its power to help the self endure difficult moments. Releasing her debut album To a Stranger in 2018, which paved the way for her groundbreaking follow up Herald in 2021, Odette has consistently carved a lane of her own with her unique blend of confessional piano-led balladry and spoken-word poetry.

Receiving immense critical acclaim and chart success, having earned a total of four ARIA Award nominations including Breakthrough Artist, Platinum Certification for ‘Lights Out’, plus three further Gold Certified singles under her belt, she has continued to captivate audiences with her charismatic stage presence and witty banter across her headline tours in Australia, UK and Europe, festival appearances including Splendour in the Grass, Falls Festival, Yours and Owls, and support slots for the likes of Sam Smith, City and Colour, The Teskey Brothers and more.

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ICYKOF

twntythree — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:22:07 +0000

ICYKOF is a London-based DJ and producer of Jamaican heritage who’s quickly becoming one of the most essential new voices in electronic music. Drawing from the deep soul of Detroit techno and Chicago house, his sound lands somewhere between the rhythm of Detroit luminaries such as Robert Hood and Kevin Saunderson and the energy of London’s underground — raw, souful, and built for the future. Since launching his debut EP Zero Sugar on Rave Nuit, ICYKOF has sparked a groundswell of acclaim, with support from Richie Hawtin, Laurent Garnier, Radio Slave, DJ Bone, TSHA, Anja Schneider, and DJ Pierre.

Formerly known for creating The Unknown Vlogs — a YouTube phenomenon with over a million subscribers — ICYKOF helped define an era of streetwear content and cultural storytelling. Now fully immersed in music, his practice explores the intersections of identity, nightlife, and sound with the same fearless instinct that built his name in fashion. Whether on record or in the booth, ICYKOF’s vision is uncompromising, magnetic, and undeniably next.

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Beaks

twntythree — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:07:11 +0000

Beaks is the project of multi-disciplinary Anna Francesca from Vienna, weaving revealing poetry through bodied anthems, landing somewhere in between waking life and a dream-sequence. With a visceral blend of indie, pop, punk and electronic, Beaks’ music cuts through the noise of a burgeoning landscape. In 2023 she released her debut single ‘I Dropped the Bottle’, which has since seen over 4 million streams and performed across tours in London, Tokyo and Berlin, cementing Beaks’ position as a resonate and immersive artist.

A multidisciplinary artist, Beaks studied photography and graphic design while working as an international model, having walking for high-profile brands including Celine, Vivienne Westwood, Miu Miu, Chanel and more. Modeling, however, was always a side quest. Always feeling pulled to creativity, her poetry and growing body of work, Beaks filters snapshots of life through her own writings, sometimes existentialist, sometimes orientated towards the pressure of modernity – or both.

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WALKER

Maia Bilyk — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 02:51:59 +0000

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aleksiah

twntythree — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:02:47 +0000

Fans and industry alike have been all about aleksiah since her debut single ‘Fern’, with triple j adding follow up singles ‘Ant Song’, ’24’, ‘Getting Older’, ‘Batsh*t’, ‘Clothes Off’ and ‘The Hit’ to full rotation. Released in July, aleksiah’s sophomore EP cry about it brought us viral hits ‘Clothes Off’ and ‘The Hit’, quickly earning spots amongst aleksiah’s top singles. Recently featured in Rolling Stone Australia’s ‘Females in Focus’ and ’Up-And-Coming Australian Artists’ lists, along with support from Vogue, aleksiah has gone from turning heads to well and truly in the spotlight. Adding to the love, aleksiah was named triple j Unearthed’s 10th most played artist of 2024 and was nominated for Unearthed Artist of the Year at the J Awards.

Acknowledged for her successes to date, aleksiah took out four awards at the 2024 South Australian Music Awards for Best New Artist, Best Solo Artist, Most Popular Pop Artist and the APRA AMCOS Emily Burrows Award. With Australian artist management company Chugg Music (Lime Cordiale, Teenage Dads) and Copenhagen-based Stellar Music (James Blake, Maximillian), aleksiah’s story is just beginning.

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Headaches

twntythree — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:26:43 +0000

Having made and released music under the pseudonym E^ST since 2014, Gadigal land/Sydney based vocalist, songwriter and producer Headaches emerges with a DIY ethos and a sonic evolution that pulls towards more intricate, enigmatic electronic production. In 2024 Headaches released Making Friends with the Space Around Me, a collaborative album with Golden Vessel (1tbsp), before releasing their debut solo EP Looking For Something New which cultivated fans across triple j, triple j Unearthed, KEXP, FBi Radio and more.

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Lady Shaka

Amber Gallant — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:14:07 +0000

Lady Shaka is a DJ and interdisciplinary artist of Pacific Island, Indigenous Māori and Cape Verdean descent originally from Aotearoa (New Zealand), based in London, United Kingdom. Her musical selection is a representation of both her queer identity as a fem queen and her connection to the moana (ocean) and the diasporas she belongs to. Lady Shaka is a part of the new generation of young Pasifika artists that aim to re-indigenise and challenge the mainstream with music and art that is both cultural, ancestral and representative of the Pasifika experience. She was recognised for her efforts at the 2023 Pacific Music Awards and was awarded the ‘Creative New Zealand Award’ that recognises Pacific Island musicians creating genre bending contemporary music in the industry.

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