Three-time GRAMMY® award winner Lucy Dacus is a musician, performer, storyteller, and widely regarded as “one of the best songwriters of her generation” (Rolling Stone). She has released three full-length albums under her name: 2016’s No Burden, 2018’s Historian, and 2021’s Home Video. This year she’s back with her fourth studio album Forever Is A Feeling after a career-defining year with boygenius, her band with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. boygenius' the record landed #1 on the UK, Irish and Dutch album charts, #1 on Billboard’s Vinyl Album chart, and #4 on Billboard 200 and was named a top 10 album of 2023 by Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Billboard, Variety, and many more. Dacus has performed on Saturday Night Live, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and CBS This Morning. 2025’s Forever Is A Feeling will be released via Geffen/Interscope on 3/28.

Djo – the musical project of actor / producer / songwriter Joe Keery known for his work in blockbuster projects as Stranger Things and Fargo – announces his highly anticipated new album The Crux. The follow-up to Djo's 2022 album DECIDE, which featured the blockbuster hit "End of Beginning,” The Crux will be released on April 4th on AWAL. Djo has also announced a major 2025 global tour. The Djo - Back On You Tour will feature Post Animal as support on all North American, UK and EU tour dates. The Crux was co-produced by Keery and his long-time collaborator Adam Thein. It's an album of impeccable craftsmanship. Unlike Keery’s previous albums - bedroom recordings centered around synths - The Crux spotlights lush guitars and instrumentation reminiscent of late 60’s and 70’s pop. It's an album full of loss and yearning, but also one full of wit and gratitude. The album was written all over the world in a particularly fertile period for Keery - where he was grappling with the transience of his other job, being untethered and away from his friends and family. But to make the album he settled into the legendary Electric Lady Studios in his adopted home of New York City. The Crux not only showcases his ambitious scope, but also his skills as a deft multi-instrumentalist and songwriter (all songs were written by Keery or in collaboration with Adam Thein). The first single “Basic Being Basic,” with Oberheim OB-X8 synths and falsetto refrain, has its final verses shrewdly skewer the (often online) tropes of modern day posturing. “It’s kind of a shot fired to anyone who's trying to be of the moment,” says Keery. Listen to the song HERE.

From the off, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory is sonically different from Van Etten’s previous work. Writing and recording in total collaboration with her band for the first time, Van Etten finds the freedom that comes by letting go. The result of that liberation is an exhilarating new dimension of sound and songwriting. The themes are timeless, classic Sharon – life and living, love and being loved – but the sounds are new, wholly realized and sharp as glass. Reflecting on this new artistic frame of mind, Van Etten muses, “Sometimes it's exciting, sometimes it's scary, sometimes you feel stuck. It's like every day feels a little different – just being at peace with whatever you're feeling and whoever you are and how you relate to people in that moment. If I can just keep a sense of openness while knowing that my feelings change every day, that is all I can do right now. That and try to be the best person I can be while letting other people be who they are and not taking it personally and just being. I'm not there, but I'm trying to be there every day.” Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory is a quantum leap in that direction. - Lol Tolhurst

Formed by lead vocalists and songwriters Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, acclaimed indie band Lucius is best known for their sinuous harmonies and highly-original, pop-noir musical artistry. The group, which includes multi-instrumentalists Peter Lalish and Dan Molad, have released three albums, and toured the globe, cultivating a passionate following for their ingenious art-pop creations and exhilarating live performances. The gifted melodicists and songwriters bring a startling level of musicianship to Lucius — which is evident in the astounding talent they’ve collaborated with over the course of their prolific 16-year career.

Released in 2013, Wildewoman, Lucius’ debut album, featured the enduring single “Two of Us on the Run” and set off a wave of critical acclaim including Rolling Stone, who called the album’s updated 60’s girl group sounds “fresh and thrilling.” On their second album, 2016’s Good Grief, the Los Angeles-based group mined their influences to create an album NPR called, “Rapturous,” and expanded their quickly growing fan-base even wider. 2022’s 80’s dance-inflected LP Second Nature, produced by Brandi Carlile and Dave Cobb, included “Next to Normal,” one of NPR Music’s top songs of the year, and the sparkling disco-gemmed “Dance Around It,” featuring Carlile and Sheryl Crow.

In addition to their work with Lucius, the GRAMMY-nominated Wolfe and Laessig are among the most sought-after vocalists in popular music. The pair are members of Joni Mitchell’s famed “Joni Jam” crew and have graced songs by dozens of contemporary and legendary artists alike including: Carlile, The War on Drugs, John Legend, The Killers, Harry Styles, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Black Pumas, Jeff Tweedy, and Ozzy Osbourne, just to name a few.

In 2023, Lucius signed with Fantasy Records and will release their fourth full-length album in 2024.

Rachel Chinouriri is 2024’s most exciting British breakout star. With the release of her debut album What A Devastating Turn Of Events she cemented her reputation as one of the UK’s most accomplished young songwriters. Making the album was a cathartic experience for Chinouriri: by putting the challenges and joys of her life so far under a microscope she traverses themes of life, death, home and belonging, mental health, love and letting go with unflinching honesty, resulting in a one of the most unique indie pop records in years. What A Devastating Turn Of Events landed in the Top 20 of the UK Official Charts and led to Rachel securing her first two BRIT Award nominations (Artist Of The Year, Best New Artist), following previous nominations for an Ivor Novello award, multiple Rolling Stone UK awards and being tipped on the BBC’s coveted Sound Of poll. Following the album’s release she played a triumphant and emotional set on Glastonbury’s The Other Stage, sold out her UK headline tour and starts 2025 by supporting Sabrina Carpenter on all dates of her Spring UKand Europe arena tour. With her fiercely loyal fanbase, the ‘Darlings’ behind her, and over 2.4 million monthly Spotify listeners, Chinouriri has clocked up over 233 million global streams to date. Over years of experimenting with musical stylings, highlighted in her exploratory 2021 Four° in Winter project, Rachel began to hone a style totally her own with her 2022 EP Better Off Without, blending her signature delicate vocals with pure indie instrumentation. She has been praised by the likes of The Observer ("brimming with fresh ideas"), NME (“consistently charming”), GQ (“Chinouriri is set to dominate”), BBC Radio 1, Later… With Jools Holland and more. Elsewhere, she’s received recognition and support from the likes of Adele, Lewis Capaldi, Sam Fender and Hollywood darling Florence Pugh, who starred in the video for Rachel’s single ‘Never Need Me’.

Willson, Ashe’s third studio album, is a triumphant follow-up to her debut album Ashlyn and sophomore album Rae. (2 billion career streams, 1 million IG, 1.3 million Tik Tok) The third in the installment, and her surname, Willson is a strong return to Ashe’s songwriting roots and marks her return to Nashville, where she started her career after graduating from Berklee College of Music. A record about her life-altering divorce changed her life for the better, "Moral of the Story" went viral mere weeks before the pandemic in 2020 - leading to billions of streams and global tours for years before it led to a career burnout. She took a pause, moved back to Nashville where her career had started and took some time to reset and re-center herself. She bought a home and renovated it herself. When she was finally convinced to join a friend’s writing session, she fell back in love with music again. She came home from the session and the first song of what became Willson poured out of her. She was back. Willson is about staying true to who you are, coming back to yourself after losing yourself, and understanding that it’s all part of the human experience. This is the first album Ashe will be releasing independently, after parting ways with previous label of 7 years. She is the primary songwriter of the album as well as the creative director for the project visuals. Willson feels sticky and sweet - like getting bit by a mosquito on a hot, summer day.

Sunday (1994) is a story of love. A love that turns lonely long-haul flights into emotional dramas, and bad apartments into settings. A love that starts with a meet-cute and never ends. A love that was born out of music, bonded by music, and now explored in music. Sunday (1994) is a soundtrack.

Directed by Sofia Coppola’s angst or John Hughes’ faith in the feeling, we open on a scene of Paige Turner and Lee Newell in their one bed on Kenmore Avenue in Koreatown. The year is 2020, police helicopters buzz overhead and their dog barks incessantly. It’s a Sunday, but a bittersweet one.

That was the day the band began, but it had been on the drawing board for nearly a decade. “When we met, I was like ‘Oh we’re going to have to spend forever together,’” Lee says to Paige, recalling their first meeting backstage at a show. Soon after that meeting, 10 years ago, he moved his life from Slough to Suburban California, into Paige’s busy Italian family home, which is a whole other film scene in itself. Despite having played in bands for years prior, this is where Lee found his musical soulmate, combining his British indie streak with her affliction for wistful pop and her family’s classic rock vinyl collection. Their relationship was always going to be musical, so they mark the day the band was born from that very first moment.

“I've learned everything I know about songwriting from being with you so much, and we write so much music together,” Paige tells Lee. “You're underselling yourself,” he cuts in. “She’s always had an amazing natural instinct for writing and singing. I’m a billion times better songwriter now than I was before we started working together.”

“It feels like this band has been 10 years in the making,” they said. Both have been in other bands and projects prior, Lee having been in Viva Brother as Paige explored alt-pop as Xylo, but Sunday (1994) feels like the band of their life.

“I feel like it knew what it was from the moment we started writing it. We didn't really have to question what it would sound like or feel like, or even what the artwork would look like. We already knew,” the pair explained.

From the second Paige played the progression of ‘Tired Boy’, made up of the first chords Lee taught her to play on guitar, the project was brought to life as a thorough and vibrant thing. It was always going to be Sunday, stylised with Paige’s birth year like a movie. It was always going to be wistful, poetic pop meeting indie and grunge. It was always going to be cinematic and vaster than anything they’d ever done before. And it was always going to be the two of them.

“It sounds so obvious to say, but when you enjoy making something, it tends to be quite good, because it comes from a real place. It's not a place of desperation or trying to make something work. It just works,” Lee explained of those days writing in Koreatown. Finally pulling together all of the ideas they’d shared throughout their 10 years together; their debut project came together quickly and effortlessly.

Having both squirrelled away precious lyrics and thoughts for years in waiting for this moment, Sunday (1994) is a montage of everything that had come before for the couple, both together and separately. On ‘Our Troubles’, Lee’s pen takes the band back to Slough and moments of personal struggle before having ever met Paige. Now sang through her voice, it’s a healing sound. Similarly, in ‘The Loneliness Of The Long Flight Home’, a reference to the Tony Richardson film, The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, Paige’s voice is lent to a love song about leaving her, when they navigated long distance from opposite sides of an ocean. Not only is it beautiful, but it makes them better. “He'll bring out different sides to me or places that I wouldn't necessarily go to,” Paige says. “He'll play me something and be like, ‘Can you sing this?’ and it might be darker than what I would write, but there’s no apprehension.”

All coming to fruition and entering the world outside of their apartment like two characters walking onto the screen, Sunday (1994) are ready for their premiere. Along with their enigmatic, anonymous drummer, ‘x’, their sound is cinematic in the truest sense. It’s music you can imagine characters running through airports to, racing after love. They’re songs for bedroom floor tears or the first time two hands touch. It’s a release that captures a love story, and every love story that has ever and will ever happen, in all of its sweet, daydreaming and dramatic beauty.

Barely 20 years old, the Atlanta-based emo-folk duo hey, nothing – Tyler (he) & Harlow (they) – wades through complex emotions with sharp wit and humor. They have sold out runs of headlining shows, garnered notices from the likes of NPR Music, Alternative Press, Pigeons & Planes, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, & more. They hit ~100k total streams per day, with their fanbase on both TikTok and Instagram swiftly approaching the 300k mark each. 2024's Maine EP — written, fittingly, in a small cabin in the middle of Maine — was a major breakthrough moment for the band, incorporating earnest and cutting lyrics that pull directly from their experience of the hardships of growing up too early, too fast. They’ll continue carving a bold path forward with a new EP, 33°, on 2/14; they’ve already been announced as part of the lineups for 2025's Kilby Block Party and Bonnaroo, and they’ll be announcing more 2025 tour dates soon.