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The Old Ceremony
Chapel Hill institution The Old Ceremony plays lush, literate cinematic folk rock. Now in their twenty-first year and having toured extensively in the US, Canada, and Europe, they have seven albums under their belt, including their newest album, Earthbound, released in October 2024 on Robust Records. They are especially known for their live shows, which bring their powerful songs together with spontaneous energy and musical interplay, making each night a new experience. TOC is led by songwriter Django Haskins, and includes vibes/organist Mark Simonsen, bassist Shane Hartman, violinist Gabriel Pelli, and drummer Nate Stalfa. Website · Bandcamp · Facebook
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MICO – IN:BETWEEN TOUR
23-year-old Filipino-Canadian artist MICO creates emotionally charged alt pop rock that blends the hook-heavy nostalgia of 2000s/2010s pop punk with modern hyperpop and alternative influences. Born and raised in Toronto, MICO (real name Miguel Veloso) first built a devoted audience online through Discord performances, TikTok, and self-released music before evolving into a rapidly rising global act. Following a series of breakout releases and sold-out headline tours across North America and Europe, MICO now steps into his boldest era yet with his debut album When the Lights Turn On via Columbia Records. Written during a whirlwind year of constant travel, personal upheaval, and rapid growth, When the lights turn on captures the emotional chaos of growing up in real time, exploring identity, nostalgia, heartbreak, online perception versus reality, and the strange experience of outgrowing the places and people that once felt like home. Balancing hyperpop chaos, soaring pop hooks, and explosive alternative energy, the album showcases MICO’s most personal and ambitious songwriting to date, cementing him as one of alternative pop’s most exciting new voices. Website · YouTube · Instagram· Spotify · TikTok
Liam St. John
Liam St. John is a Spokane, WA-born, Nashville-based rock and alt-country artist — a blues-tinged singer and songwriter who first turned heads with his viral streamer “Dipped In Bleach” in 2022. Liam has since built a devoted fanbase with chart-topping projects, and his debut full-length studio album Man of the North, released September 2025 via Big Loud Rock, features collaborations with Houndmouth and Grammy winner Molly Tuttle, expanding his sound further into Americana and rock & roll. With 235K+ Instagram followers, a 57-date North American headline tour under his belt, and 2026 international dates including C2C (Country to Country) in Rotterdam, Berlin, and London, Liam is one of the most compelling live performers emerging from Nashville today. Instagram · TikTok · YouTube
The John Wood Band
The John Wood Band is a soulful, six-piece indie rock band out of Wilmington, NC. The band formed at UNCW, led by lead singer and songwriter John Wood, who is known for songs such as Coffee On The Beach and Dry Eyes. With six pieces in the band, you can always expect a dynamic and electric set. They have played alongside acts such as Congress The Band, Winyah, Harvey Street, Innlet, The Vegabonds, Wim Tapley, and Easy Honey. Catch The John Wood Band on tour all year long! Instagram · Spotify
Mei Semones
On the night of the Fourth of July, fireworks over Mei Semones’ Brooklyn block were competing with something more primal. Up and down the street, dogs answered each burst with a long, ragged howl of their own. Semones, alone in her apartment with her guitar while the rest of the city celebrated outside, found she didn’t mind the solitude. The howling struck her less as a cry for help than as a kind of greeting: proof that she was never really by herself, not with music always keeping her company. By morning, she had the seed of the title track for her sophomore album, Howl.”Sometimes making music feels like howling into the universe,” Semones says. “I make music because I like it, because it feels instinctual — but it also connects me to people close and far. I like to think of this music as my howl.”It’s a title that might invite a familiar story of pressure and release, but Semones sees songwriting differently. Nothing was bottled up, she says, waiting to come pouring out. Music is simply something she does, every day, because it feels natural to her. That idea runs through Howl, an album that embraces the full range of her experiences rather than settling into a single emotional register. Tenderness and joy coexist with grief, self-doubt and memories of loss — the same range audible in a sound that can move from delicate fingerpicking to distorted, rhythmically restless swells within a single song.At 26, the Brooklyn-based Japanese American guitarist and singer-songwriter — already named an Artist to Watch by The New York Times and Stereogum, and Artist You Need to Know by Rolling Stone and The FADER — has developed a sound that brings together jazz, bossa nova, samba and grungy math rock without treating any of them as separate worlds. Her bilingual songwriting works in much the same way. Few songwriters weave between languages as naturally as Semones does, slipping between English and Japanese within the same song — sometimes the same line — and letting both languages become part of the music itself. As she puts it, writing in both languages “felt more true to myself.”Growing up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Semones began playing piano at age four on an instrument gifted by her Japanese grandmother before picking up electric guitar at 11, inspired in part by Marty McFly’s performance of “Johnny B. Goode” in Back to the Future. Semones also spent summers as a child in Yokosuka, Japan — where her grandmother lived — attending a local elementary school for two weeks each year and spending long afternoons catching cicadas, playing soccer, building things with mud, and searching for rhinoceros beetles. Those unhurried childhood experiences would later shape her 2024 EP, Kabutomushi, named after the very beetles she would catch with her school friends in Yokosuka.In high school, she was introduced to jazz through greats like Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery, and around the same time she discovered bossa nova through João Gilberto’s recordings. She later studied music with a focus on guitar at Berklee College of Music. Website · Instagram · YouTube · TikTok
La Sécurité
La Sécurité (Montréal/Tiohtià:ke) is a collective whose art punk is equal parts: jumpy beats, off-kilter arrangements and minimalistic melodic hooks; run through an insomniac filter, the result of excessive exposure to the city’s neon lights. The music is all about living dangerously, perfectly agreeable to being blasted onto dancefloors; while the lyrics share the ethos of the Riot Grrrl movement, and celebrate the autonomization of women, friends (mean and nice) as well as benevolence. Since coming together in the Spring of 2022, they have been invited to perform noteworthy events such as SXSW, End of the Road, The Great Escape, and Reeperbahn, also touring alongside The Go! Team (2024) and The Rapture (2025). Following the release of Polaris Music Prize 2024 long-listed debut Stay Safe!—as well as its joyous offspring Stay Safe! REMIXED—with Mothland, the five-piece offered singles “Detour” and “Ketchup”, setting the stage for a new influx of D.I.Y. sonic gems, this time also teaming up with Simon Raymonde’s seminal British imprint: Bella Union. Hence, the motley bunch continues to meander the fringes of punk, new wave and krautrock, mischievously flouting stylistic form every chance they get by way of sophomore long-player Bingo!, released on June 12th, 2026 via Bella Union (World) and Mothland (Canada/United States). Bandcamp · Facebook · Instagram · YouTube
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