The Stars of Disaster started playing together in February 2019, in Pittsburgh, but the songs started coming in 2014. Anthony Schiappa had made a go of it as an airline baggage handler in upstate New York, an academic in NYC, and an exile in Scandinavia. After returning to his Steubenville, OH, basement, trying to stave off the terrors of clock-punching and memory, he rediscovered his childhood love of making loud music.

“One Woman Man” is a story about a couple that isn’t going to make it. A lack of trust leads to isolation and heartbreak, despite caring for each other deeply. They go through scary times together, and while that can bring some people closer together, it isn’t always enough. 

New album, In the Trough of the Wave, will be released on June 11, continuing a theme of loneliness; an urgent need to connect and an inability to do so. 

Further The Lion is a rock n’ roll band from Hamilton, Ontario. Formed during their final year of high school in 2007, Brent Etherden (vocals/bass) and brothers Jordan (guitar) and Greg Kopoian (drums) have played across the country, sharing stages with artists like k-os and Yukon Blonde.

New single, “Never Be The Same,” was written over the course of eight years and takes influence from different parts of Etherden’s life and a variety of songwriting styles. Emotional and expressive, “Never Be The Same” reminds the listener that sometimes something profound can happen to you that changes you to your core… and it’s not always a negative thing.

Born and raised in Kazakhstan, Astana, Daneliya Tuleshova is a global phenomenon with a mature voice that’s far beyond her years and stops people in their tracks. She has won multiple vocal competitions and in 2019, she was a Top 6 Finalist on NBC’s hit show America’s Got Talent, raking in millions of YouTube views on YouTube, garnering national press attention, and even performing on stage alongside award-winning pop sensation Ava Max… and Tuleshova was only 13 years old.

Four years in the making, her debut single, “Like You Used To,” is a romantic, energetic and relatable number that came to fruition via Zoom (courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic). 

Sunshine & The Blue Moon capture our collective anxiety from MAGA-era tension by exploring its overwhelming darkness through the same psychedelic grooves that originally sought to overpower that brand of bad vibes with blasts of sonic light. On June 25, they offer bright, joyful voices in the fight against apathy and evil forces on their second full-length album, Born 2 Boogie.

Title track “Born 2 Boogie” crashes and shuffles with sinister-sounding guitars as it slips into a hypnotic groove, as singer Kai Davey-Bellin conjures images of dance halls burning as everyone descends into revelry. 

Born 2 Boogie simultaneously amplifies the good vibes of ‘60s psychedelia while wrestling with the demons that the last few years have re-loosed on the world. “Do as Grandma said: don’t watch the flowers grow,” Davey-Bellin sings on “Born 2 Boogie” over the jangle of tambourine. “There’s time for that when you’re dead.”

Mikayla Menzies is a dreamer who has been through her share of mental health struggles while growing up in the suburbs of Ottawa, ON. Engulfed in waves of grief after her mother’s passing, Mikayla found relief in rebellion. Trying to swim through the isolating waters of losing a loved one, she found herself a mess.

New single, “Mess,” is raw and evocative, carried by Mikayla’s poetic, singer-songwriter lyricism. A swirl of faded lavender and grey, the production on “Mess” almost makes it sound submerged – an accurate representation of how grief feels.

Canadian singer-songwriter Lucas DiPasquale draws on his love for hip-hop and alternative music to produce a unique style of bedroom pop. His notable collaborations include Popcaan and Assassin, and Grammy-award winning producers MOJAM (Sam Smith) and Stephen McGregor (Vybz Kartel).

When writing his new song, “Begging For The Tide,” DiPasquale envisioned the object of his affection as a “warm wave of ocean water.” Picture yourself on the beach at dusk, gazing at the setting sun and sky filled with that dark yellow and blood orange colour… lamenting the fact that you aren’t with the person that you like.