Tag Archives: 2023-future-25

Growing up with a dad in the Army, Samara Cyn moved around a lot, living in at least six different states by age 20. At the time, she hated it — like most teenagers, she just wanted to belong. But those experiences ended up fueling her 2024 EP, The Drive …

Stephen Wilson Jr. was racing home to Indiana to see his dying father when his sister called to tell him he was running out of time. Partway there from Nashville, he pulled over to have one more conversation with the man he was named after. “I said goodbye to my …

At the core of Jim Legxacy’s music is a potent clarity of emotion. The London-based musician’s 2023 mixtape Homeless N**ga Pop Music deployed samples like globs of glitter spread across a posterboard: a Miley Cyrus song, the watermark for a Nigerian MP3 website, a snippet from the U.K. grime classic …

Wunderhorse frontman Jacob Slater’s Wi-Fi is spotty— “Fucking nightmare on my end,” he says. He’s taking this Zoom call from the south of Morocco, where he’s spent the last four Januarys “surfing and doing nothing else.” The 28-year-old U.K. musician has grown accustomed to this kind of reset every so …

A few years ago, Jasmine Cruickshank found herself adrift. After coming out as trans, the English singer-songwriter got divorced and decamped from Bristol to Manchester, where she slept on floors and discovered a new wellspring of inspiration: her true self. “I really struggled, in the years leading up to my …

There are five versions of Rachel Chinouriri on the cover of her debut album, What a Devastating Turn of Events. One is settled on the edge of a love seat in the front yard, scribbling notes into a journal. Another is carrying a few bags to the trash. A third …

In an era when more music is being released each day than in the entire year of 1989, according to one estimate, it takes a singular talent to cut through the noise. Enter Hanumankind, the curly-haired, tatted-up, India-born rapper who broke through last summer with his viral single “Big Dawgs,” …

Before the viral Tiny Desk session that put them on the map last year as one of the most exhilarating acts in Latin music, the duo of childhood friends CA7RIEL and Paco Amoroso toiled in obscurity for seven years, honing their craft in their native Buenos Aires with underground rock …

Nsqk owes a lot to a broken-down computer his uncle gave him when he was in middle school. “He had given me his old laptop with, like, Windows Vista on it,” the 26-year-old artist remembers with a laugh. “It barely worked.” Yet somehow, Nsqk — whose real name is Rodrigo …

Late last spring, Lorén Aldarondo was halfway through her shift waiting tables when her phone buzzed. It was her music manager, which puzzled her because he typically didn’t call when she was on the clock. Curious, she answered, and was told she needed to get on a conference call immediately. …