Ones To Watch

Finn Wolfhard is an artist who perhaps needs little introduction. After all, the young multi-faceted creative spent the better part of his adolescence and young adulthood leading one of the biggest TV shows of the 21st century. As the curtain falls on Stranger Things, it might be easy to run to the knee-jerk headline — “What’s next for Wolfhard?” The answer is immediate for anyone lucky enough to witness the evolution of Wolfhard, the creative, outside of his biggest intellectual property to date.

On her debut album CASA X CASA, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Elia transforms different "houses" into emotional landscapes, using each one to tell the story of her emotions and identity. Raised in Morovis, Puerto Rico, she discovered her love of music while growing up in the church, later pursuing theater and eventually becoming known as "the theater kid." She soon realized music was the path she wanted to follow and remembers her parents' hesitation when she first opened up about pursuing it.

Photo by Daniela León As it turns out, I had seen Magi (pronounced: Mahd - j - eye) Merlin live many moons ago in 2023, at a crowded House of Vans in Mexico City - opening for Omar Apollo. I had almost forgotten about it, until we sat down to talk at a skatepark in Brussels, and realized we had once before inhabited the same space, and that without any of us knowing it, some of the songs she performed that night would become part of her debut album: POWER HOUSE.

Alternative pop artist Genevieve Stokes is back with her third album, Hiding Places. After releasing three lead singles, “Medicine,” “Charming,” and “Poltergeist,” it became clear Stokes is at her most assured. Hiding Places as a whole captures “the quiet moments that shape us,” and while entirely embedded with Stokes’ personality and style, this album will undoubtedly resonate with fans of artists like Phoebe Bridgers, Dora Jar, The Army the Navy, and Regina Spektor.

We don’t have enough room in our hearts for the love MARIS generates; she's someone you cannot afford to doubt or ignore. Talented, vibrant in every quality, and with a voice that ruins any other singers for you, we cannot champion MARIS enough. With her latest single, "Losing People’ those sentiments are doubled down.

A bright color, a bright persona and a bright future, the color REDD. represents this international artist well. Music is the bloodline, melody the propulsion, REDD. Is a beating heart of energy & their latest single is a pop heart attack we needed to have. Popping off as a punk confessional, the collision of big drums, choruses and staccato lyrics is a real ‘life’ lesson and endemic to their remarkable songwriting and journey. Wanting as ever to dig in, discover, and be curious we dialed up REDD.

Producers are the architects of the music we listen to every day. They are part of what makes a song a hit, what helps shape an artist’s identity, and so much more. Jamaica, globally celebrated for its reggae and dancehall legacies, has been the foundation of several genres in the music industry today. Rvssian is a pioneering producer who has spent his career breaking cultural barriers, dominating the charts, and bridging Jamaican rhythms with the global Latin music scene.

Pop-star-in-the-making Seanna Pereira is taking listeners on a trip through the Love Department with her new EP of the same name, charting a course through indifferent lovers, explosive chemistry, and partners who just don’t know how good they’ve got it. Love Department’s six-song collection shows off Pereira’s accessible songwriting, with lyrics that are both simple and cutting, as well as pop production designed to get you on your feet and dancing.

Photo by Ben Foster The saying ‘timing is everything’ hits harder when you’re a musician putting out your first body of work. For Macy Todd, it hasn’t always been easy to trust time’s plan. Now that her debut EP pretty ruthless is finally arriving, it’s clear everything was meant to be. Upon listening to her music for the first time, it’s impossible to not be immediately taken by Todd’s naturally fortified vocals and genre-bending sensibility.

Memory rarely lives in black and white. It’s a warm, tangled collage of chaos, nostalgia and growth. But within those emotions lies a clarity that shapes how we show up to the world around us, to our relationships and ultimately to ourselves. On First Times, GUS captures the fleeting, bittersweet nature of self-discovery through themes of love, change and the pains of growing up.