Fusing a gritty, grunge-infused aura with traditional folk-inspired musicality, Naz & Ella channel their anger and frustration at the world through tightly wound harmonies and intricate guitar riffs.

Raina Sokolov Gonzalez is a Brooklyn based singer and composer with her musical roots deep in the New York free jazz scene and a wealth of musical experience already under her belt.

Treasure’s sound doesn’t easily fit into any boxes. His eclectic music tastes and obvious joy in subverting the norm shine through; a left field and intelligent take on trap, r&b and hip hop, visiting glitchy jazz, playful production and soulful harmonies along the way.

Tommy Newport, a British born singer/songwriter living in Wichita, Kansas, got pretty famous by mistake at the age of sixteen. His self-recorded album released under his birth surname Milmine accidentally racked up millions of streams when he released it just for his friends and family to enjoy in 2016.

Expect 70s folk-horror inspired dreamy, hypnotic melodies, intimate and haunting lyrics, and a sensual sparseness and quiet that will leaving you wanting to discover more.

Dreamt up by Ola Poroslo and Oli Rushen and launched in September 2020, PHAT Bristol is an artist run initiative composed by managers, producers and media practitioners with politics at it’s heart.

Founded by Ngaio in the back room of popular Easton haunt The Plough in 2018, Booty Bass has become a space that celebrates different cultures from across the world, mixed with much loved UK sounds

Making his way up through the ranks with trumpet in tow, a stack of live performances already under his belt and with the release of his debut EP ‘Songs for Player 2’ earlier in March, is Alt-Pop/Jazz-Funk producer and songwriter Lyle Anderton. By night he transforms into LYLE!, and he is definitely here and definitely has something to say.

What happens when you combine electronic dance music producer Glue 70, the post-punk, shoegaze, grunge sounds of Freak Slug, and mix them up with a healthy dose of Manchester’s underground scene? You get ZULA.

Indie-Electro duo Mass House, made up of childhood friends Tom and Dylan, are our new favourite Brummies washed ashore on the muddy banks of Bristol. They have been busy in lock down honing their synth-driven tongue-in-cheek sound, and on the back of a series of virtual live gigs, including Bristol Beacon’s massively successful Bristol Takeover, as well as curating the charity compilation album ‘Quarantine Machine’, they have a stack of new music to bring to us fresh for 2021.

Melding Ellie’s distinctive dreamy, distorted vocals, her passion for surrealism and storytelling, and Will’s driven, glitchy, beautiful soundscapes and original production, it is a distinct and compelling invitation into the world of Robbie & Mona

Introducing Czafari.; a British Black female singer songwriter, with a force and voice to be reckoned with. She started out making music and performing professionally at ther age of seventeen in 2016, releasing her first EP ‘Human Legitimization’ and making strides in the local and national jazz, soul and r&b music scenes, including performing at the Cheltenham Jazz festival in 2018.

Grandmas House are an all-female surfy post-punk band currently living together in Bristol; regulars on the live music scene here before the lock down hit. We’ve spent some time recently catching up with Yasmin, singer and guitarist, Poppy, singer and drummer, and Zoe, backing vocals and bass.

Joe is a freelance musician living and working in London. Graduating from Birmingham University in 2019, he was regularly performing across the country, including festivals, gigs and live sessions for BBC Radio 6 Music.

If you think Los Angeles and everything to come out of it is sun-drenched and candy-saturated, you need to think again. Therapist by day and Dark Synth-Riot artist by night, LA-based Violent Vickie proves this and she is on the up; making dark, soulful, electro-punk with the ethos and message to match.