Gloria Kim, Kaz Moon, & Extra – Rolling Stone

Whether or not it’s a heartfelt ballad like “Winter With out You” or a dance pop quantity like “omg” and “Finest U Had,” the music of LA-based artist Gloria Kim hooks you from the get-go. The Korean-American singer-songwriter, producer, and DJ layers her candy, dreamy vocals onto lush soundscapes to create standout earworms; since beginning out in 2019, her songs have amassed over 150 million streams so far and earned her nominations for the Hollywood Music in Media Awards and the Worldwide Songwriting Award. Her work has additionally been featured in a number of movies and TV reveals, together with the award-winning Fox sequence Empire.

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Chinese language-American singer-songwriter Kaz Moon (actual identify Cody Yao) performs a delightfully unorthodox fashion of bed room pop that makes dissonant sounds and disparate genres mesh collectively fantastically. His perceptive, enigmatic lyrics, coupled together with his charmingly lo-fi manufacturing method, have received him a rising loyal fanbase. Earlier this yr the Dallas-bred New York Metropolis transplant dropped his newest EP STAR ANISE, which mixes droll guitar pop, drifty beats and samples, and sharp, usually charmingly self-deprecating lyrics.  Having not too long ago accomplished a North American tour with Korean indie rock band SURL, Moon is planning to launch one other challenge later this yr.

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Composed of Korean-American vocalist Annie Ko and guitarist/producer Toby Hwang, the Seoul-based electro-rock duo Love X Stereo create dreamy, immersive songs that blend synthpop with alt rock, punk rock, ambient synths swirls and singer Ko’s ethereal whispers. Amongst their many accomplishments, the dynamic pair has performed SXSW twice, clinched a finest digital dance album nomination on the 2017 Korean Music Awards and contributed to soundtracks for the Ok-dramas Love Alarm, Summer season Strike and Cheese within the Lure.  This previous weekend Love X Stereo dropped “Lucid / Desires,” the lead single from their upcoming EP 안녕 ÄNɎƏŊ (안녕 is a Korean phrase for each “good day” and “goodbye”), a collaboration with the LA-based avant-pop artist DA1SY DØØM that’s scheduled to be launched this June.

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Indian-American singer-songwriter/producer/dancer Rhea Raj was drawn to music at an early age, studying Bollywood dance from her mom when she was solely two and later competing on American Idol as a young person. Now at 23, she’s already carried out at SXSW, NY Vogue Week, the United Nations and numerous music festivals world wide, and has been chosen as a 2023 Gold Home x Spotify Futures Music Artist and a 2020 Songwriters Corridor of Fame x BMI award winner. Her daring and horny choreography and sultry, badass anthems about girls empowerment have earned her a loyal worldwide fandom (dubbed “The Rheaverse”). It’ll in all probability solely be a matter of time earlier than all of us are jamming to “Exterior,” “Style That (Mwah),” “Satan In A Gown” and different bangers by this mega-talented star.

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Led by Tongan-American vocalist and guitarist Bean Tupou, Bay Space band Strive the Pie blends Polynesian influences with indie-rock and nation in vividly poetic songs. Their music units weighty subjects like demise, grief and rebirth, towards distorted, Nineties-tinged guitar swirls. Final yr the quartet—which additionally contains drummer Nick Lopez, bassist Bailey Lupo and guitarist Laine Barriga—launched its second full-length album, the superb A Widening Burst of Perpetually.

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Along with his effortlessly easy stream, catchy hooks and funky basslines, this multi-platinum Filipino-American rapper and producer has cemented his standing as a Bay Space hip-hop star. Along with having his songs featured in movies and TV reveals like Blindspotting, Area Jam: A New Legacy and Insecure, P-Lo—whose precise identify is Paolo Rodriguez—has produced hits like Flo Rida’s “GDFR,” Yo Gotti’s “Act Proper,” Kehlani’s “All Me” and extra. Rolling Stone not too long ago included his 2017 observe “Put Me on Somethin’” on our checklist of the 100 Biggest West Coast Hip-Hop Songs of All Time, and his newest album STUNNA is chock-full of bangers too.

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The New York Instances not too long ago described her as one of many Asian girls “pop stars taking heart stage,” and we’ve obtained to agree with the paper of file on this one. Vietnamese-American artist Dolly Ave melds components of pop, rock, R&B, soul and digital to provide her personal distinctive model of genre-defying music. “I grew up in circumstances that had been out of my management the place I felt like I may by no means depart small city Missouri,” she says. “I need somebody to take heed to my music, somebody not in an enormous metropolis to be impressed realizing that I too began my profession with a webcam, a dream and no actual music expertise.” Her full-length debut album This Is Our Time is slated to come back out in July.

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Huge Phony’s soothing, low-key acoustic sound and intelligent, heartfelt lyrics may remind listeners of folks legends like Elliott Smith and Nick Drake. Born and raised in New York Metropolis, Huge Phony, whose actual identify is Bobby Choy, moved to South Korea after falling in love together with his mother and father’ native nation and is presently based mostly in Seoul. The indie folks musician has written songs for numerous movies and TV reveals like The Good Physician and for legendary artists reminiscent of Andrea Bocelli and the Korean punk outfit No Mind. He additionally presently co-hosts The Noonchi Podcast. Choy says that his uncommon stage identify is a reference to The Catcher within the Rye and “a continuing reminder to remain first rate and humble.”

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Beloved by EDM followers throughout the globe, LA-based Chinese language-American DJ and producer Yultron is thought for placing on electrifying stage performances and engineering high-octane EDM tracks, oftentimes in collaboration with different heavy hitters reminiscent of Jay Park, Marshmello, REZZ and plenty of others. Yultron delivers nice visuals too, accompanying tracks like “Imma Be A Raver,” “Hell on Earth” and “Let’s Get Down” with music movies that may usually be outrageously trippy. Yultron has performed at Lollapalooza, EDC Vegas, HARD Summer season and different notable music festivals and might be launching his “Rave To The Grave” tour this July.SEE ALSO:  Elephante, XIE

This Orange County native shot to fame in 2020 after posting his songs to TikTok and gaining tens of millions of followers due to his mixture of addictive melodies and uncooked, relatable, usually hilarious lyrics about topics like rising up queer. (“Like I’m watching a Disney film and the couple will get it on / However who ought to I have a look at, is it Shang or Mulan?” in “Boy Bi”), relationships (“Your starring function, performed the a part of my lover / Coronary heart spilled, however ran by the gutter” from “in my head”) and different teenage points (like  “that buddy,” his tackle faux friendships), The singer-songwriter, who’s of Taiwanese, Chinese language and Peruvian descent, is quick turning into the voice of Gen Z and a rising star to look at. And as his upcoming sophomore EP guarantees to ship one more batch of hits, we’ll probably be listening to rather a lot extra of him very quickly.

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