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Having a foot in two different worlds isn’t an easy balancing act, but it’s one that DMV rapper-producer redveil pulls off gracefully. With new project learn 2 swim that came out April 20, he establishes himself as a torchbearer for hip-hop’s progressive, vulnerable future whose triumphant, soulful beats tie back to the great records of the ‘90s and early ‘00s.

“Feeling like you’re not 100 percent into any group can feel uncomfortable, but you can really spin it into a beautiful thing and reach more people than you would have being in one or the other,” he says.

Songs like “new info” and “p.g. baby” crackle with warm samples and pointed, purposeful rapping. Meanwhile “shoulder” and “working on it” recall redveil’s underground roots, featuring heady, baritone raps exploring themes of grief and personal acceptance. “Diving board” is the record’s thesis statement, a triumphant coming-of-age anthem that plays off of redveil’s recurring use of water as a motif to explore life’s fluidity.

“I create worlds filled with sunshine and water,” Marcus says of the sonic landscapes he aims to craft with his music and it’s clear his auter abilities have grown tremendously since breaking out with 2019’s Bittersweet Cry and 2020’s Niagara. Each time redveil goes away, he emerges with a new skill, and on learn 2 swim that’s a heightened knack for hooks and richer song structuring.

redveil has high-profile opening gigs with Denzel Curry and Freddie Gibbs this year and wrote much of learn 2 swim with the goal of thrilling live audiences. With this new record, he’s made something people can really luxuriate in and feel affirmed by, like a day spent beachside with loved ones.

Described by triple j Roots ’n All as singing “with the wisdom of an old soul”, this songwriter has been turning heads and melting hearts with her vintage Folk Rock sounds. Owning the stage, Little Wise delivers a damn good dose of Melbourne swagger. Paying homage to some of the great song writers that have come before her, Little Wise sings from the heart, laying bare the life of a thirty-something who is trying to have it all.

In 2020, she released a live EP featuring a pared-back selection of reinterpreted versions of songs from her acclaimed 2019 album sophomore ‘Want it All’.

With the release of‘Want it All’, Little Wise has been enthusiastically embraced by the Melbourne scene, with The Basement Discs describing the album as “a shining example of focused and refined song-craft.” Recorded at The Aviary Studios, the album harks back to a classic pop-rock landscape, with hook-laden guitars and driving drums, overlaid with a freshness that springs from Little Wise’s come-hither vocals. SCENESTR described the title track as sitting “somewhere between the growl of PJ Harvey and simmering tension of The Velvet Underground”.

‘Want it All’ follows the 2016 Little Wise release, ‘Silver Birch’, which was featured on PBS and RRR and won ‘Best Debut Release’ in the Rhythms Magazine Writers’ Poll. Little Wise’s first overseas appearance was at the famous Bluebird Cafe in Nashville and she has also showcased in New York City. She has toured widely back home in Australia, with recent festival appearances at Nannup, Tamworth, Mount Beauty, St Kilda Live ’n Local and more. She has supported Frazey Ford (CAN), The Audreys and Dan Parsons.

Golden Vessel is an artists from Brisbane, Australia, who crafts a unique blend of electronic music with hip-hop, R&B and alternative pop influences, resulting in a sound that can be likened to a mix between Mount Kimbie, Toro y Moi and Arcade Fire.

“I want to convey in my music everything I love about music. Whether it’s incorporating different genres into one song, or different processes and homages to different times” – Max Byrne

Since 2016 Maxwell Byrne, aka Golden Vessel, has given us two independently released eps – Before Sleep (2016) & Right/Side (2018) – plus two albums – SLOWSHINE which was released in 2019 via Exist Recordings (ANZ) and Ultra Music (ROW), and colt that was released in 2020 via sumoclic which he co-owns with his good friend and long-time collaborator, Akurei.

There has also been a collection of stand-alone singles – Control, Borrowed Time & Cant Stay – as well as a song titled Hesitate which features one of his regular collaborators Emerson Leif, and has become one of his most successful releases to-date with over 25 million streams on Spotify alone.

Golden Vessel has completed three Australian headline tours as well as supporting the likes of Willow Beats, The Kite String Tangle, Jai Wolf and Sofi Tukker across Australia. He was also the main support for BAYNK on a 13-date North American tour in February 2019, he performed five showcases at SXSW 2019 and then embarked on his own 21-date North American headline tour in July 2019.

Throughout 2020 Golden Vessel kept himself quite busy making the final touches to his second album colt. He gave us three exceptional lead singles – midwest, littlebitwild (feat. Mallrat) & that’s us (feat. The Nicholas & Rei So La) – which helped build quite a bit of anticipation for the album’s release. When that time came around colt was met with much praise and attention from fans, industry peers and music curators around the world, and it has since collected over 11 million total streams across Spotify alone.

In 2021 Maxwell launched a few new side-projects including an indie-rock band called Lucky Idiot and a lo-fi house project called 1tbsp, he gave us an epic 10-minute single & short film titled “getforward” (directed by Harry Deadman), and he also teamed up with San Holo’s label bitbird for a one-off release called “Jersey City”, which was a co-release with fellow Brisbane artist rei so la.

Maxwell has also ben busy working on his next Golden Vessel album which is scheduled to hit the stores in June 2022. Just recently we were treated to the first taste of that album with new single ‘eee’, which has him teaming up with two of his good friends and regular collaborators, rei so la and Abraham Tilbury.

Ben Cheng Tsun Yin (Chinese: 程浚彥; born 17 July 1994), better known by his stage name Tyson Yoshi, is a Hong Kong independent singer, songwriter, and MV director. He made his debut in 2018 with his single To My Queen.

Career
Tyson Yoshi attended Sedbergh School in the United Kingdom and later studied interior architecture at the University of Brighton. In 2018, he started producing music in Taiwan and debuted with the single, To My Queen. In July 2019, he became famous with Christy, a song written to his girlfriend. Christy went on to accumulate more than one million views on YouTube, the first of his songs to do so.

The name "Tyson Yoshi" derives from his first name's initialism, "T.Y". "Tyson" was one of his middle-school nicknames, and "Yoshi" is from Yoshinoya, a food chain found widely across Hong Kong.

Tyson Yoshi started as an independent singer in 2018. His first album, 1st, was released in 2019. He is one of Hong Kong's best-known hip hop artists and rappers, with over two million streams on Spotify in more than 100 countries in 2019. In 2021, his popularity surged again after his performance in Music is Live with Terence Lam, Keung To and Jer Lau. As of 2022, Christy has garnered more than 20 million views on YouTube.