Rozette (Jenn Beaupré) is a Calgary-based singer/songwriter and international vocal coach who has been sharing her big, powerful and technically masterful voice across North America for the past decade. During this time, she has appeared on Canadian Idol and Stampede City Sessions, performed at the Vancouver Olympics, opened for the Moscow Ballet, won the Calgary Stampede’s Most Promising Young Artist Award, and sang the national anthem at several NHL games.

“People are hard to hate close up. Move in.” This quote by Brené Brown resonated with Rozette, whose new single “Salt in the Water” conveys that we all want the same thing: To love and be loved. To feel safe. To see and be seen. Underneath all of the opinions, and the often divisive issues in our society, we are more the same than different. We are all doing our very best.

Jenn’s vocal style is bold, agile, and eclectic—think Bette Midler meets Norah Jones with a splash of Katy Perry. With the grit of Lady Gaga, the attitude of Pink and the old-soul maturity of Adele, Jenn is a captivating stage performer. She’s digging up her soulful, piano-laden roots with her forthcoming EP, Roze Coloured Glasses. 

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Evil Tongues has developed a gritty cinematic sound with soaring anthemic melodies and raw personal lyrics. The Toronto-based pair, Jennifer Di and Mike Allain, bonded over their eclectic range of musical tastes and saw an opportunity to take to the stage, inspired by a shared love of the sounds that defined the ‘80s and the UK music scene.

From a young age, Jennifer has always been pretty focused on going after her dreams, which comes with a lot of sacrifices. Time with family, friends, relationships, location, and as much as she doesn’t regret any of the decisions that she’s made to get here, every now and then a little voice inside her head questions has this all really been worth it?

And if everything falls apart, will anyone be there to catch you? Or have you sacrificed too much? The song “Catch Me” was written about one of those conversations that she had with herself.

“Catch Me” was mixed by Juno award-winning engineer Kevin Dietz (The Glorious Sons, Billy Talent, Alexisonfire) in Toronto and mastered by Grammy award-winning Emily Lazar and Chris Allgood at The Lodge Mastering in NYC.

“I think it’s easy to feel like you’re the only person that questions what you’re doing with your life, or feels like you have no idea what you’re doing with your life,” says Jennifer. “I wanted listeners to know that they’re not alone, and we all go through periods of questioning if everything we’ve risked is really worth it in the long run.”

Musician and poet Yoyo Comay, also known as Sufferin Mall, is releasing Crushed, an album which follows a somewhat tortured romantic connection and finds the artist writing pop hooks for the first time.

Crushed features “Latency,” co-produced with Casey Moon, a song which explores the feeling of one’s nervous system being overloaded with infatuation. It’s a pop track of tension and release, exploring feeling out of sync and delayed gratification. Stop-start energy mirrors the feeling of desire.

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Ryan Wayne is a Canadian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He first came to recognition as a founding member and songwriter in the critically-acclaimed, award-winning band The Warped 45s (Pheromone Recordings).

“Wherever You Land” started as a hypothetical letter to the late great John Prine in the wake of his death in the early days of the pandemic. His new single brings forth the message that life is precious. None of us are exempt from the fates of illness, old age, or dying. There is beauty in the small things.

In early 2022, after several years away from touring and recording, Ryan suffered two strokes. As part of the healing process, Ryan was drawn back to the music world and began the final production and mixing on a series of self-produced songs with Malcolm Burn (Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Patti Smith, Daniel Lanois) that will comprise the record, Crow Amongst the Sparrows (2023).ThankReplyShare

Music and (literal) movement have defined DJ Karaba’s entire life. Karaba was born in Grenoble, France and, at the age of seven, moved to Montreal. Her first love was dance, and she danced for some of pop music’s heaviest hitters such as Drake, Camila Cabello, and Selena Gomez, as well as appearing in numerous music videos and award shows. Eventually, she found her way to DJing and music production, a thought that had been bubbling up in the back of her mind for some time.

New single, “Mad Mess,” was a new approach to writing music for DJ Karaba because it was the first time she wrote while channeling her anger. She was stuck in a frustrating situation when she produced this song, and needed to release some feelings which led her to go with a darker sound and vibe.

The Délivrance EP represents 3 years of hard work and dedication. It is very much afro house, tinted with other sounds that have inspired DJ Karaba. Together with Stephen Ramsay of Young Galaxy, DJ Karaba co-produced the 5 track EP and collaborated with other artists such as Mopao Mumu and Afrikan Drums.

“I felt like I was learning another form of art and that’s always something that I really love to do,” explains DJ Karaba. “The project has literally shown me that sky’s the limit. I come from a dance and DJing background and here I am releasing my first EP. It is kinda surreal to me! I really hope this inspires a younger generation of female producers that it is possible.”

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The best artists are ones that are able to render diverse and complex themes into a few incredible minutes of words, melody and rhythm. apollonio’s hope is to bring the same truth to his music, most recently through his cavernous new song “We Had A Time”. Big life experiences, particularly relationships, can be both incredibly difficult and wonderful at the same time; and complex to wrap your head around when it’s over.

Swallowed by OCD for the better part of a decade, it was in the solitude of the pandemic that Marc Apollonio discovered himself again. Years had disappeared into the mental disorder and his marriage broke up. It’s an existential experience that, for many, is akin to grief. Something major in one’s life is gone and will never be the same.