Photo by Austin Cieszko Emma   Wellons makes music the way she’s always lived with it: curiously, instinctively, and without hierarchy. Performing under the name emory, the Los Angeles-based artist and producer has built a world where hyperpop, folk, indie and techno coexist – often within the same song. It’s a sound shaped by early beginnings playing drums in church at age ten, years of experimenting with whatever instruments and software were within reach, and a willingness to let things be...

Photo by Elizabeth Marsh mercury is the indie rock project of Maddie Kerr, a Tennessee-based songwriter from the rural outskirts of Franklin whose music is built on emotional honesty and quiet intensity. Formed in 2022, the project quickly found its footing through songs written during a period of personal hardship, with tracks like ‘Born in Early May,’ ‘ Special,’ and ‘Crick’ capturing moments of uncertainty, vulnerability, and self-reckoning. For Kerr, songwriting has always been a way...

Photo Courtesy of Universal Music Group Lily Lyons has always lived between places. As a teenager, she spent eight-hour drives shuttling between London and Somerset, tracing the stretch of motorway. Those journeys became her earliest classrooms. In the backseat, headphones on, she absorbed the softness of Simon and Garfunkel, Nick Drake, Nora Jones, and Joni Mitchell, finding in their tenderness a version of herself that didn’t yet have space in her day-to-day world.  Since releasing her...