Welcome back to our weekly NMF roundup. Here’s what we think you should be listening to this week!

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Restart - Tilly Louise

IYL: MAYBANK, Clementine, chokecherry

i’m tilly! when i was picking my gcse’s a high school geography teacher told me i ‘wouldn’t achieve anything by doing music’ so here we are…

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Not Quite Gone - Alfie Jukes

IYL: Reagan Beem, Ashley Singh, Tom Millichamp

Hey! My name is Alfie Jukes :) I’m 21, and I like to write songs. My favourite film is Fantastic Mr Fox, and I have an apple juice tattoo in honour of it (iykyk). I hope you enjoy the contents of my busy mind in music form x

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Sad Songs - Maggie Gently

IYL: The Total Bettys, Joy Weather, Biitchseat

Maggie Gently (she/her) is an indie/alt-rock artist based in San Francisco. Originally from New England, Maggie moved across the country for a girl (now, her wife), and in the process, fell in love with transitions, slowness, and California. Maggie Gently’s music is melody-driven and heartfelt — a big-city indie rock fascination with an unmistakable emo accent. Her songs are about queer love, inner healing, signs from the universe, and the power of interiority.

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Learn To Die - Shiny Penny

IYL: Jordan Brown, Nixaide Lopez, Becky Higg

First comes death, then comes Life. 

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PRITTY - Your Future Ghost

IYL: Michael Gribbs, Bethany Joy

Your Future Ghost is the new dirty synth-rock project of Billboard-charting singer/songwriter and musician Kate Voegele and the multifaceted songwriter, producer, and composer Michael Grubbs. When they first met, the two were an unlikely partnership. Voegele was a rising pop starlet, signed to Interscope Records, and Grubbs was a rising voice in the Brooklyn indie-pop movement. The duo first met on the set of the CW hit TV series One Tree Hill, both added to the show alongside acts like Kid Cudi, Tegan & Sara and Band of Horses to showcase their music. Striking up a fast friendship and mutual creative respect, the two began collaborating musically over zoom during the pandemic. After months of studio sessions in Austin, Texas, intermingled with lively backyard taco breaks, Your Future Ghost was born. Kate Voegele reveals the catalyst for their creative fusion, "our voices blended in a way that inspired us both to write in this unique hemisphere of a sound neither of us had ever really explored before in our solo projects." The two soon performed their signature dirty indie synth pop at the internationally recognized Art Basel festival in Miami to an overwhelming response affirming their artistic direction.

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Kiss - Blu DeTiger

IYL: Remi Wolf, spill tab, MICHELLE

DEBUT ALBUM “ALL I EVER WANT IS EVERYTHING" OUT MARCH 29th

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Secret - Peach PRC

IYL: Keep Your Secrets, Grumpy Plum, WRENN

Peach PRC takes the things you only say on text to close friends (or exes) & turns them into pop that shimmers as much as it singes. The rising pop star packs an often-unbelievable journey from writing & recording in her bedroom to social media phenomenon into smart, slick, & sweet songs with a bold bite. Peach PRC has +1.7B TikTok views, combined audience of +4M social followers, +180M streams & attracted acclaim from Billboard, Rolling Stone, Vogue AU, NME & more. Peach PRC released viral first single 'Blondes' before follow-up 'Colourblind', ultimate kiss-off to the worst ex ever 'Josh', self-proclaimed girly camp pop 'Symptomatic', and 'Heavy'. Liberating single 'God Is A Freak' had everyone talking incl. pop titans Billie Eilish, FINNEAS & Justin Tranter, before teaming up with GRAMMY-nominated songwriter Bonnie McKee on 'Forever Drunk'. Debuting at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, Manic Dream Pixie EP incl. singles 'Kinda Famous', 'F U Goodbye' & 'Perfect For You' which pays tribute to Paris Hilton’s 2006 smash 'Stars Are Blind'. Peach received multiple ARIA Award noms (Best Pop, Best Video, Best Artwork), a TikTok Award (Music Act of The Year), & travelled the globe, performing sold-out debut headline tours in Aus, USA & UK + special performances supporting BLACKPINK, Splendour in the Grass, Spilt Milk, Falls, & Spin Off Festivals.
Now Peach PRC sets the stage for new music in 2024. As always, there’s no shortage of passion, power, & pink. It is Peach PRC after all…

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Ghosts, Grenades, & Getaways - Spencer Jordan

IYL: Paige Keiner, Hayden Joseph, Cameron Hawthorn

Semi-professional attention whore. Writes sarcastic songs about deep emotional issues. Stream his music so he can finally afford therapy :)

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Great Decisions - Judah & the Lion

IYL: Adam Paddock, Colony House, Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors

Judah & the Lion's Revival comes at a moment of rejuvenation and evolution for the band, both personally and professionally, with a world looking to get back to normal. Judah Akers and Brian Macdonald return with the band's fourth album that aims to channel the energy and spirit presented at the beginning of the group’s journey. Revival is a collection of songs that speaks to the band's return to innocence and hope through reclamation. They look inwards on life’s changes as a group that still finds energy in innocence after touring for 8 years and reaching heights on the Billboard charts and earning awards like iHeart Music’s Best New Alternative Rock Artist of the Year in 2018.

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Small Talk - Kayla DiVenere

IYL: Lucy Deakin, Caroline Dare, Victoria Anthony

i write songs about things i experience, and i hope you can relate in some way ❤️ thanks for stopping by :p <3

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STANNA - Lana Lubany

IYL: zeyne, Zeina, Naika

the west + middle east = Lana Lubany <3

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Doing Better - FLETCHER

IYL: Lauren Sanderson, Zolita, Hayley Kiyoko

IN SEARCH OF THE ANTIDOTE. album out 3/22. pre-save now.

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Iconique - Emeline

IYL: emlyn, Cloudy June, Stela Cole

“makeout with a stranger” out now!! 💋

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Pretend - teo glacier

IYL: dray tyg, Karri, siopaolo

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A Good Thing - Handsome Jack

IYL: Dirty Streets, Datura4, Howlin' Sun

Playing a lean, hard-grooving fusion of blues, R&B, and garage rock they call "boogie soul," Handsome Jack are a rock band from Lockport, New York, a city not far from Buffalo. The band logged plenty of miles on their touring van and released a handful of self-released discs before they hooked up with the respected indie label Alive Naturalsound , which gave them their first nationwide release with 2014's Do What Comes Naturally, a swaggering exercise in '70s-style blues rock. 
 Handsome Jack were formed in 2004 by guitarist and singer Jamison Passuite, Joey Verdonselli on bass, Phil Allport on guitar and keyboards, and Steve Sandman on drums. While the founding members were still teenagers when they began playing out, they'd already developed a strong taste for classic rock, boogie, and blues, and by 2008, Handsome Jack had recorded their first self-released album, Heatseeker, and hit the road on their first cross-country tour. In 2009, Sandman left the group and Chad Salmeri took over behind the drums; he made his recorded debut with the band on the EP Prologue, and in 2011 the band released its second full-length album, Super Moon. More touring followed, including dates where the band shared stages with the likes of Blue Cheer, The Sheepdogs, Gov't Mule, The J. Geils Band, and The Hold Steady. In 2014, the band struck a deal with with Alive Naturalsounds , and went into the studio with Zach Gabbard of Buffalo Killers and Mike Montgomery as producers. Handsome Jack's third full-length album, Do What Comes Naturally, was released in the fall of 2014. After lots more live work, Handsome Jack went through some personnel changes when Phil Allport and Chad Salmeri left the group. Jamison Passuite became Handsome Jack's sole guitarist, and Bennie Hayes signed on to play drums, and this power trio edition of the group cut their second album for Alive Naturalsound, 2018's Everything's Gonna Be Alright.