New Music Friday 4/5/24

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

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Stand Up - Double A-Ron

IYL: Jdillon, Akintoye, Billy Marchiafava

Aaron Burton, also known as “Double A-Ron” is a 22-year-old, independent artist emerging from Abbotsford, British Columbia Canada. Aaron’s genre-less versatility within his discography makes his music stand out from the vast majority of artists on the rise. As an independent musician, Aaron writes, records, and engineers all of his original songs in the comfort of his bedroom.

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Slipping In The Dark - Mascots

IYL: You Know The Drill, Home Wrecked, Gold Route

Mascots is a pop punk band from Cincinnati, Ohio. The band was started in the summer of 2014 by five friends in the suburbs of Cincinnati, where they released their debut EP titled “Nothing To Lose” in January 2016. After the release, the band played numerous shows throughout the Midwest until February 2017 when they released their second EP, “The Good In Me” which was recorded, mixed, and produced by Seth Henderson (Real Friends, Knuckle Puck, Homesafe) at Always Be Genius Recording Studio. The band went back to Seth again for their third EP, “Time To Time”, which was released in October 2017. Over the summer of 2017, Mascots won the opportunity to play the main stage of the Vans Warped Tour alongside bands such as Beartooth, Hands Like Houses, and Neck Deep.   The band has played shows with Tiny Moving Parts, Everyone Leaves, Microwave, A Story Told, A Will Away, Life Lessons, Hot Mulligan, The Weekend Classic, and many others.

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Sitting Pretty - Alfie Jukes

IYL: Tom Millichamp, Oliver Keane, Only the Poets

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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Ghost Town Road - Smallpools

IYL: Magic Man, The Coulurist, CRUISR

Nashville/LA indie-rockers Smallpools erupted onto the scene with their head-turning opening statement, “Dreaming” (now RIAA Certified Gold). The song surged to the top of the HypeMachine chart; quickly earning the band support from alternative radio stations across the country, multiple late-night television appearances, and a home on the road as the opening act for Twenty One Pilots, Walk the Moon, Grouplove, and Two Door Cinema Club on their national tours. Smallpools then released their acclaimed, debut album LOVETAP! and spent the majority of the next two years selling out venues nationwide in support of its release.

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good grief - Con Davison

IYL: Wingman, Poolboy, Aldrich

con davison is a producer based in austin, tx. in addition to his solo work, he was a member of Bad Bad Hats for many years and has contributed as a producer, mixer, and multi-instrumentalist on records with Alabama Deathwalk, Aldrich, Carrellee, Keep for Cheap, Dreamspook, Poolboy, Beemer and many others.

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if it wasn't for you - Noah Cunane

IYL: conner, RAFAEL, Jutes

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Older - Lizzie McAlpine

IYL: Gracie Abrams, boygenius, Leith Ross

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Guy I Used To Be - Lawrence

IYL: Couch, Sammy Rae & The Friends, Melt

As NPR writes, “siblings Clyde and Gracie Lawrence are not your typical pair.” Clyde Lawrence and Gracie Lawrence have been writing songs and listening to countless Stevie Wonder, Randy Newman, and Aretha Franklin records in their family’s New York City apartment since they were little kids. After years of playing together, they officially created Lawrence, an eight-piece soul-pop band comprised of musician friends from childhood and college. The band has since gained a devoted following for its high-energy, keyboard-driven sound, which features tight, energetic horns and explosive lead vocals. In July 2021, Lawrence released their album, Hotel TV, and became the first band to release music under Beautiful Mind Records, the label of Grammy-winning producer/songwriter/artist Jon Bellion, who co-produced and co-wrote the songs on the album. The album’s lead single, “Don’t Lose Sight,” was featured in an international Microsoft commercial, which propelled it into the Top 20 on the USA Shazam Pop Charts, and also hit #33 on Top 40. In 2023, the band joined The Jonas Brothers on their four month, sixty-five show tour across North America. They have released singles "i'm confident that i'm insecure," "23" and "Guy I Used To Be" while working on their upcoming album. They played “23” and other new music live during their set at Jingle Ball in 2023.
In 2024, the band announced their upcoming album, Family Business, along with North America and Europe tours this year.

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Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan

IYL: MUNA, Lucy Dacus, boygenius

Currently rhinestoning a cowgirl hat or something *✲☆⋆(˘ᴗ˘)

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is it too late? - Almost Monday

IYL: Landon Conrath, young friend, COIN

almost monday is dawson daugherty, cole clisby, and luke fabry from san diego, california

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Fireworks & Rollerblades - Benson Boone

IYL: Thomas Day, Matt Hansen, Lauren Spencer Smith

Benson Boone's intimate, diaristic pop songs are constantly evolving as he quickly becomes a global hitmaker. His latest single, the viral smash hit "Beautiful Things," quickly soared into the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 after topping charts across the globe. In 2023, MTV named Boone their Global PUSH Artist for October, while his PULSE EP generated tens of millions of streams. After headlining a sold-out tour across North America and Europe, he ended the year with the release of his moving single “To Love Someone.” The PULSE EP was preceded by his 2022 piano ballad “Before You” and the Walk Me Home… EP, which included his breakout single “GHOST TOWN” — Boone's first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 and a Top 25 hit at both Top 40 and Hot AC radio. It also became his first RIAA-certified Gold record, followed by “In The Stars,” which is now certified Platinum. First discovered by Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds, Boone was quickly signed to Reynolds’ Night Street Records in partnership with Warner Records in 2021. He is reaching new heights in 2024, with over 2 billion career streams to date, an upcoming world tour, and a hotly anticipated debut album on the way.

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Creatures In Heaven - Glass Animals

IYL: alt-J, Saint Motel, Cage The Elephant

Having given life to the record-breaking, international hit ‘Heat Waves’ from the critically revered Dreamland, the globally adored and platinum selling British band Glass Animals have announced their fourth studio album, I Love You So F***cking Much (due July 19), along with their 2024 'Tour of Earth'. ‘Creatures in Heaven’ is the sublime first glimpse into 10 intimate love stories set against the backdrop of the universe, affirming that “human connection and the love between us is much bigger, more important, and more complex than anything else”.

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heartbreaker - The Macarons Project

IYL: Garamerica, Ify Alyssa, Hedi (The Girl with the Hair)

Ree & Dito started their musical journey as a passion project in 2014. The Canada-based Indonesian duo began uploading their music to YouTube and the response was amazing. By 2017, their fanbase began to grow rapidly, which inspired them to create content regularly. The idea behind the name, The Macarons Project stems from their desire to intertwine the wide array of “flavours'' (genres), with their mellow acoustic style.

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Burnt Away - Liam Brock

IYL: Riley Furey, Tessas, Zach Beaver

Medina, Ohio! The first year of Liam’s career was focused primarily on streaming, which led to his breakout debut single ‘Beach Bum’ reaching over 25,000 streams, also securing radio play and an interview on Akron’s 88.1 WZIP. The surf-rock EP titled ‘Scorched’ followed suit months later, and his year was rounded out by releasing a two-pack of singles on his 20th birthday titled ‘Stalled/Trying To Feel It’. The second year of his career focused solely on making music and performing it live with his band. From his first show in Akron with 200+ attendees during April of 2023, all the way to becoming the last-minute headliner during his first-ever performance at one of Cleveland’s most historic venues (the Grog Shop), he has worked tirelessly to refine his live set. Now that 2024 is just on the horizon, Liam’s goal is to merge the two disciplines and continue to attack music with everything he has. He is coming off the back of a successful run with his first single in over a year titled Words which got coverage from Sheesh and Playdate Media, and he is returning with a new release every 2 months in 2024.

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Lie Detector - Allison Ponthier

IYL: Trousdale, Frankie Lou, Charlie Adams

Born from the beautifully strange imagination of a wide-eyed misfit raised in the Dallas outskirts, Allison Ponthier’s songwriting hints at her country roots through her heart-on-sleeve storytelling and crystalline vocal work. Her lyrics whimsically portray the lucid confessions of a shy teen coming to terms with her queer sexuality in a Texas suburb much like the football-obsessed town of Friday Night Lights, further heightened to create a world inspired by the Camp warped eccentricities of Henry Selick, Vincent Price, and Elvira. Allison’s music and visuals follow her own self-reflection as she left the Bible Belt for Brooklyn in search of community despite not knowing anyone in New York—an initially disastrous move that ultimately inspired her own breakthrough on both a personal and artistic level. Overwhelmed, friendless, and struggling to keep up with rent, Allison began embracing the calamity of being a self-identified goody-two-shoes Texan living in the epicenter of brazen East Coast hipsterdom. Bringing such a depth of attention to every aspect of her music, Ponthier began building an extravagantly realized version of the world she retreated into as a kid back in Texas: a place where difference is endlessly celebrated.

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