A&R Factory

Jfons made an altar out of his beats while taking gospel to the streets in his mash-up of old-school hip-hop and RnB, Gospel Song (Tell Somebody). Keeping the production raw and locked and loaded with emotion, there’s an urgency to the piety, giving the impassioned vocal harmonies an ensnaring presence and strength as boom-bap beats punctuate cinematic old-school hip-hop moti...

For his latest single, the independent breakthrough artist Dreamo hooked up with Gaddy before soaking the sound of summer in wavy saturation, giving his afrobeat-tinged RnB-adjacent release an oceanic expansiveness while never compromising on the intimacy it pulses through; the dream pop guitars jangle through choral distortion, tempering the trap beat and adding plenty of co...

The EDM pop duo, TROUBLE, which has a shot of becoming as iconic as Paris Hilton and Nicole Richey with their Y2K aesthetics and infectious attitude, anchored their debut floor-filler, Bad Boy, in siren-esque angst and an infallible recognition of their own self-worth; crashing in as this generation’s wave of aural feminism. The four-to-the-floor beat, ferociously riling in a...

Darkwave synth pop got its swagger back in the enigmatic single and debut music video, Dead/Basic by the alt-indie trio, Bushwick Princess, who may not hide their influences, in this case, it’s a mash-up of Thriller-era Michael Jackson and Depeche Mode, but originality still slithers from the single, which gyrates through the shadows of 80s pop and the strobe lights of electr...

MODISTE injected the intensity back into synth-pop with their sophomore single, Shadows; a strobe-lit spell of longing, hunger, and surrender, which rejects the cloying trend of saccharine etherealism by adopting the visceral spellbinding veracity of Siouxsie Sioux while maintaining an irrefutable mainstream crossover appeal. The Louisville trio pulled from the dark glamour o...