Check out some of Girl Gang Music’s favorite discoveries in the genres of alt rock, dream pop, and indie rock below.
Hey Cowboy! – Mesmerize
This synth pop drio hails from Austin, T.X. and packs a dreamy indie rock style.
Lydia Luce – Face and Figure
Check out the latest new single from Nashville artist and multi-instrumentalist Lydia Luce, with a stunning music video.
Ashaine White – right here
Inspired by the likes of Radiohead, Nirvana, Ella Fitzgerald and Lianne La Havas, Ivor Nominee, Ashaine White’s moody self-defined grunge-soul tells the vivid stories of herself and others.
Bathe Alone – In Your Wake
The moniker of Atlanta-based multi-instrumentalist Bailey Crone, Bathe Alone took form in 2018 after Crone joined forces with producer Damon Moon, who saw potential in her unique blend of punk-geared drumming, wandering synths, and delay-drenched ambient guitar. A classically trained musician, Crone had been performing around the Peach State’s indie scene in various bands since she was a teenager, and as Bathe Alone, she has gained a newfound trust and confidence in her voice, which hauntingly floats through hazy, atmospheric melodies that draw comparisons to dream-pop icons Beach House and Alvvays, plus shoegaze standard-bearers Cocteau Twins.
Samantha Margret – GENTLE
Samantha Margret says she writes music for the girl who wants to own her history, her body, and her feelings.
Isadora Eden – BloodyMary
Mixing elements of indie rock, shoegaze, and gothic folk, Eden is blending genres to make what she and her collaborator Sumner Erhard affectionately call fuzz folk. It is music for walking home alone to after a party, doom scrolling til the sun comes up, and then driving around your abandoned hometown pretending you’re actually going to call your high school best friend. This feeling manifests across 11 tracks on Eden’s new LP titled forget what makes it glow. The album evokes real life horror as it channels the not so great memories of religion, nostalgia, love and loss.
Spilltab – window
Inspired by artists like Litany , Japanese House, Steve Lacy, and ELIZA, LA-based spill tab incorporates threads from various genres to weave a soundscape that’s dreamy, sharp, colorful, and dairy-free.
Kami Keyhoe – hate ur f**cking self
Fusing old and new soul to create a sound that undeniably dances between genres, the 19-year-old artist to watch is also fluent in playing drums and possesses a particular attention to production that is inherently tangible.
After a string of single releases since 2021, Kami prepares for the release of her debut album, due out this spring. She also preps her upcoming show at LA’s notorious Peppermint Club on March 18th.
Though music has always been a part of what makes Kami the budding artist she is today, having played music since the age of 6. She began her music journey learning to play the drums and then graduated to writing her own music and eventually performed back-up vocals in a band with her two sisters.
At 16, the band split ways but Kami kept pursuing music, teaching herself how to produce and engineer from her own bedroom. Over the past three years, Kami has been churning out tunes everyday and has a catalog of over 100 unreleased songs, and counting. Kami has found her sound and she is finally ready to start showing the world who she really is with her forthcoming project.
Grooblen – Twiggy Molts
All of the art, ridiculousness, and endless ideas in their head brings Ellie Stokes to describe their music under one, made-up, oh-so-goofy word: Grooblen. Reflecting surreal, pensive, haunting, and at times silly themes in their music, San Francisco’s Ellie Stokes is a flailing dinosaur trapped in a young person’s body using art to help herself and others heal and transport them to another flippity-dippity musical world very unlike the one we all currently live in.
Lyyn – Coyote
After releasing the smoldering single “Heat Wave”, which debuted at #2 on Spotify’s Indie Pop Editorial playlist in 2020, the New York-based pop artist Lyyn is launching her highly-anticipated comeback era with her new single “Coyote”.
Inspired by Lyyn’s lifelong love of ‘90s dreampop and children’s folktales, “Coyote” is a shimmering elegy of an untamable love that was never meant to stay. It opens with moody, evocative vocals and wildlife samples supported by half-broken piano chords before unfurling into a chorus surprisingly bursting with molten-gold warmth.
As described by Lyyn: “‘Coyote’ was one of the first songs I wrote coming out of the pandemic and it manifested quite a memorable and spooky encounter. On a last-minute trip out to L.A. to record with my producer Noah Barer, I actually had doubts about whether or not the idea that became ‘Coyote’ could take shape up until the night before our first ever in-person session. Feeling nerves, I took a long sunset walk around the Silver Lake Reservoir to clear my head. Stopping to take a picture by a more secluded area, I suddenly hear a loud rustling and turn my head straight towards the face of a living, breathing coyote less than 20 yards away! I back up slowly, terrified I’ll be chased, but the coyote simply looks at me curiously before running off. After I’m back to safety and catching my breath, a thought occurs: ‘well, if there was ever a sign from the universe that I should put out a song, then that damn well was it!’”
Olivia Reid – Wounds (Healing)
A calming vocalist with a strong pen, songs by Olivia Reid rest well within the soul, with tempos mirroring the pace of a steady heartbeat, and lyrics that articulate the most intimate parts of the human experience. Her production style blends indie acoustics with exploratory electronic pop soundscapes, landing listeners in a visceral sonic world.