Taiwanese bedroom pop artist Layton Wu is an easy-going guy who wants to make music for fun. Make no mistake: while his music and visual aesthetic heavily borrows from 90s nostalgia and bedroom pop, Layton ...
There’s something about tomemitsu (Martin Roark)’s music that gravitates you towards warmth. That fuzzy feeling is there on the artist’s most popular song, “In Dreams,” where he’s singing over scratchy, distorted production. It’s scattered here ...
The songs of Houston-based musician Bowen marry low-key R&B dreamscapes with bedroom pop production–a winning combination that has found success for many up-and-coming musicians. But while the young musician is still tinkering around with his ...
While Toronto-based musician Freddy Kwon has released a handful of singles and EPs under the name freddyboy so far, he’s no newcomer to the scene. Kwon played guitar for The Kents, a band who created ...
With the advancement and proliferation of music mixing software, making your own music has never been easier. Currently, bedroom pop, the genre of the burgeoning twenty-something musician, is glaring proof of that. Pop music–or music ...
It’s been nearly two years since Toronto-based singer/producer/director Monsune (Scott Zhang) first released his debut single “Nothing In Return.” An R&B-inflicted song filled with qualms about unexpressed love and nerves layered atop soaring harps and ...
In most cases, debut songs are very straightforward. Most have an obvious chorus, a memorable (and often catchy) hook, and production that’s safe and familiar. First impressions are everything. Maybe that’s why we were so ...
It’s been a great couple of months for 19 year old Manila-based artist Denice Quimbo. A full-time film student and part-time musician, Quimbo (who goes by the name Ruru online) made waves in the Internet ...
Now that the Internet has become an integral part of this generation, “making it” online as a singer seems more like a fever dream than anything else. Playing covers of your favourite songs and putting ...
At the tail-end of 2017, Toronto-based singer/producer Monsune (Scott Zhang) released his debut single “Nothing In Return” to little fanfare online. This was, after all, the work of a then-unknown 19-year old creator with just ...