ARTIST PROFILES

playMYmusic.FM was all over the map this month, both musically and geographically. We spotlighted several more artists from the sizzling...

LA-based singer Lorely Rodriguez found her stage name during a tarot reading with a friend. When The Empress card was turned over, she...

Arkansas native Abbey Smith is a singer who has a powerful, deeply soulful and personal approach to music. She has been candid about the...

Buffalo’s own Reign of Kindo (a.k.a. Kindo) is now headquartered in New York City. Kindo formed in 2006 and has released its work...

MURS is an artist who raps from the heart. He isn’t afraid to allow listeners a searing look into his personal life, which in the past...

The three members of Camilo Séptimo played in various bands as part of Mexico’s indie music scene before forming in 2013. Singer Manuel...

Trumpeter/producer Josef Leimberg is one of those musicians who’s very well known to other players but not to casual music fans. He has...

Kokoroko is an eight-piece Afrobeat ensemble based in London.  When trumpeter Sheila Maurice-Grey and Onome Ighamre were traveling in...

If you’ve roamed the UK music festivals in the summer, you’ve probably encountered a singer whose songs stay in your head for days. That...

Trumpeter Yazz Ahmed is known as the high priestess of psychedelic Arabic jazz. Though born in England, she spent part of her childhood...

Colombian-born, Toronto-raised Lido Pimienta is a musician with a mission. Besides being a singer, Pimienta has also earned a degree in...

Jono McCleery is a singer from London.  His first album, Darkest Light, was crowdfunded and released in 2008. The Skinny called the...

As we continue to highlight emerging talents from the UK jazz scene, the focus this week turns to singer Yazmin Lacey. The...

Singer/songwriter Anna Leone brings a soulful elegance to her music. Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, her early influences were formed by...

Simian was a four-piece English group formed in Manchester which included Simon William Lord on vocals, lead guitar, keyboardist Jas...

Manchester’s Matthew Halsall is a community-minded musician.  Not content to play, produce, DJ, and compose, the trumpet player also...

A linchpin of the Washington, DC music scene, Priests is a band and so much more. Not content to write, perform, and release their own...

The Big Moon is an all-girl indie rock band from London. In 2014, Juliette Jackson was a bass player and songwriter in search of a band....

It isn’t often that one comes across a jazz bandleader who is playing the tuba.  Another fixture on the smoking hot London jazz scene,...

Shame is a five-piece post-punk band from South London. The group naturally exudes an attitude one would expect from the name, and the...