Some compilations just gather names; ‘Ω (OHM)’ wires them together. The new EP from OPCD and HAUS OF MATTERS is the product of their ‘Apollo Project’—a five-week collaboration pairing five rising artists with five aspiring…
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Put a rapper and a producer in the same room and you usually get a feature. Put these two in it and you get a collision. ‘VOLTAGE 29000’ is the first joint single from AT…
One of the first choices independent artists face is simple: Should you use free music distribution or pay for distribution upfront? There is no single answer for every artist. The best choice depends on your…
Getting your music on Spotify playlists can make a real difference to a release. A good playlist placement can bring new listeners, trigger algorithmic activity, build social proof and help your track keep moving after…
Not every journey needs to hurry. ‘Snail Song’ is a cross-border indie-pop single that follows a snail’s unhurried way home, carried by the warm piano and dreamy vocals of two scenes meeting in the middle—Bangkok’s…
Some records sound like a destination; ‘Midnight Highway’ sounds like the drive there. The latest from Baby Jane—the Los Angeles dark dance-electronic artist with more than 935,000 monthly Spotify listeners—turns the image of a straight,…
Some songs arrive without ever raising their voice. ‘足る’ (taru)—a word that means having just enough—is the first joint single from Prod.Dex, the Seoul-based J-Pop producer behind more than 11.4 million Spotify streams on ‘Where…
Some music persuades without saying a single word. ‘Don’t get me wrong,’ the new single from jazz pianist Dj.Girin—an artist with a combined social following of more than twenty thousand—is exactly that kind of record:…
Some songs describe attraction; ‘Tempo’ makes you feel it speed up in real time. Seoul-based artist KAN (Lee Joonseok), whose album ‘Drive’ earned a spot on YouTube Music’s dance-pop curation, returns with a single that…
The cover of youyon’s ‘Sound Bath : Circles of Breath’ is a wheel pose — back arched, hands and feet on the floor, body open to the ceiling of a sunlit room. It is not…
