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Since graduating from Berklee College of Music in 2015, Joe Holt has spent his time recording original music and touring, bringing his intricate fingerstyle guitar and intimate storytelling to new audiences across America. His new album Tired of Trying (prod. Charles Humenry) led Ear to the Ground Music to call Joe "the real deal in folk songwriting.” With credits including opening for Steve Forbert and Parker Millsap, and playing legendary stages like The Bluebird Cafe (Nashville), The Whisky A Go Go (Los Angeles), and The Bitter End (NYC), Joe aims to validate NPR’s 2020 claim that “Joe Holt continues to use his first-person perspective for good.”

Joe Holt is a folk-rock singer/songwriter originally from England, who graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2015.

Joe has released four EPs and three full length albums. He has toured around America for nearly a decade, playing venues like Club Passim (Boston), the Hard Rock Cafe (Boston), Rockwood Music Hall (NYC), The Bitter End (NYC), the Bluebird Cafe (Nashville), the Whisky A Go Go (Los Angeles), and has received airplay on over 60 radio stations internationally. After the moderate success of his early releases (and a successful Kickstarter for his debut album), Joe's 2017 full length album The Person I Admire charted nationally on AAA radio, notably #3 in Redway, CA. Joe has been named Artist of the Week at WERU (Bangor, ME) twice. The song “As Bad as It Seems” from Joe’s 2018 EP Something Louder - EP was featured on NPR's All Songs Considered blog in March 2018. The following full length album A Bigger Fire came out in June 2019, with an accompanying national tour alongside Austin Blair Campbell, and received placements in Spotify editorial playlists including Fresh Finds - Six Strings.

Joe's next EP It's What We Give was released on June 5th, 2020. The first single, “People in New York,” was featured with an accompanying live video on NPR in March 2020. A rumination on selfishness and emotional hardness in an unforgiving city, the song became Joe’s most successful single to date; NPR's Cyrena Touros writes in her feature, “Joe Holt continues to use his first person perspective for good." His highly anticipated new record Tired of Trying was released on May 27, 2022, and lauded by Obscure Sound as “stirring, eloquent songwriting."

Other credits include opening for nationally touring acts including Steve Forbert , Parker Millsap, Davina and The Vagabonds and Ian Fitzgerald, scoring the short film The Race, releasing music as Black Alder and booking his own tours.

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Imagine hope appearing as a human being-- this definitive Samba track tangos with potential love and performs a pas-de-deux with two competing modes of Hope’s offerings. A brassy vamp with lamenting trumpets converge with threatening strings as the repeated, even disgusted delivery of “Hope you whore, hope you whore” reveals the titular character’s sinister duplicity.

The first of a series of collaborative singles to be released by soul singer PaviElle French and producers Lazerbeak and Professor C, "Roll With It" is a feel-good neo-soul track with a fresh take on the 70s soul sound. No matter what difficulties life may bring, you gotta "Roll With It" and make the most of each and every moment. It's a song that is sure to make your day start off in the right light.

Empowering multi-platinum singer songwriter Mimoza returns with a new single. Entitled “Madly”, the romantic pastel-dipped pop anthem explores self-love, knowing your worth, and never settling for second best. “Madly” encompasses an intense array of deep emotions such as pain, heart, and strength all in one record. Featuring emotive piano chords and swelling synths under Mimoza’s striking melodies and signature soul-drenched vocals, “Madly” is the perfect soundtrack of self love.

Self love has always been a huge topic close to Mimoza’s heart. With her last big record “Young Queen”, she honored her roots and mother who raised her to think highly of herself. These important values pertaining to self love and respect are once again accentuated in “Madly”. Mimoza, who directed and produced the stunning music video for “Maldy” takes modern romance to another level.

On the video, Mimoza confides, “My concept for the video was ‘modern romance.’ I think we often romanticize how beautiful life would be if that one person fell in love with us but what if we romanticized falling in love with ourselves first?” Mimoza teaches us to still wear a crown, even with a broken heart and shows us once again that the most important relationship is the one we have with ourselves.

Mimoza is signed to Universal Music Group and has over 100 million streams across platforms. She further co-wrote the multi-platinum Billboard charting single “Kings & Queens” by Ava Max.

ARTIST HIGHLIGHTS:

2021 ASCAP POP MUSIC AWARD WINNER

CO-WRITER OF “KINGS & QUEENS” BY AVA MAX

#1 U.S. POP ITUNES CHARTS

#1 U.S. AIRPLAY CHARTS

6X GOLD, 5X PLATINUM, BILLBOARD TOP 10, #1 GERMAN APC, OVER 650 MILLION STREAMS TO DATE

100 MILLION COMBINED STREAMS AS A SOLO ARTIST

Los Angeles based pop singer and songwriter Mimoza is known for her explosive anthems and utterly infectious songwriting. Her most recent hit is the single “Kings & Queens” by Ava Max, which impressively went platinum in twelve different countries and reached No. 1 on the U.S. Airplay Charts. This success isn’t just a coincidence. In fact, Mimoza has proven herself over and over again ever since the age of 17. After years of writing hits for other artists and receiving gold and platinum plaques, Mimoza is ready to focus further on her solo music with her upcoming single “Madly” set for release September 9th. “Madly” follows Mimoza’s commercially successful “Young Queen” released in 2021, which was written as a love letter to her home country, and her Albanian roots. Paying tribute to her mother and all moms who raise their daughters to see themselves as ‘young queens’, the powerful pop anthem impresses with soulful vocal tones and big bold instrumentation. Her new single “Madly” encompasses an intense array of deep emotions such as pain, heart, and strength all in one record. The romantic pastel-dipped pop anthem explores self-love, knowing your worth, and never settling for second best. The song begins with an emotionally charged piano driven verse, and soon culminates into a climatic soaring chorus full of fervor for an intoxicating listen. Aiming for the next pop crown, Mimoza is relentlessly forging her own path and not looking back. This queen is here to stay.

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Today, LA-based electropop artist & producer Jordi Up Late is back with a brand new single entitled “HOAX.”

Speaking on her latest track, she wrote:

“I’ve never thought of myself as a particularly sweet or bubbly person. I get moody and I get annoyed and I need space. So when I found myself in a relationship with a happy go lucky type, the personality imbalance created a creeping disillusionment. The tension festered over time into my feeling he was either fake or emotionally one dimensional. Either way the relationship became a ‘hoax’ and disintegration was inevitable.

The lyrics and concept flowed easily after I created the synth riff and the backbone of the song. After producing the rest of the track, I brought on BRUX, an electronic powerhouse, to co-produce and bring it home.Then I passed it on to Amy Dragon to master. From conception to finish, ‘HOAX’ is a female-engineered single.”

Jordi Up Late recently signed with WRKSHP, a new music-based lifestyle company kickstarted by Multi-Platinum, Grammy-Winning producer Che Pope and serial entrepreneur Dan Gilbert, headquartered in Detroit. She is set to release more new music this year.

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Melancholic is a song about losing yourself, and feeling like you’re about to give up. Jagger wrote the line “I’m in your arms but I can’t feel your touch”, thinking about how that line is a message to someone you love trying to explain how you feel. “Just let me be melancholy” is supposed to give off the feeling of letting go and just letting yourself feel “melancholy” or melancholic. The song title being Melancholic was supposed to be a little ironic as the feeling being described is a lot stronger than melancholy. This song for anyone who struggles with their mental health, relationship with themselves, or is just going through something right now. The hope is for everyone who hears this song uses it as inspiration, and feels more hopeful and uplifted after listening.

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Rapid-rising American-Trinidadian musician LATENIGHTJIGGY ends his trilogy and begins his ascent to global music notoriety, with the release of his highly anticipated EP, Flavors 3. In the works for over a year and produced by frequent collaborators Kontraks and Chooky, Flavors 3 is already receiving high praises from editors and supporters across all platforms.

Delicately fusing a range of genres including Latin, Afrobeat, R&B and Pop, LATENIGHTJIGGY continues his good form, serving up one of the most exciting projects of the year, so far. Laced with soft acoustic riffs, effective percussive elements, and a slew of magical melodic instrumentals, LATENIGHTJIGGY kicks the project off with the instantly infectious Afrobeat/Reggaeton blended opener and focus track “What More?” and the romantic and dreamy follow up “Circles”, before heading straight into smash hits “Úsame” and “Nela”, the latter earned Jiggy nearly 30k tiktok followers in less than 48 hours.

Although the end to the brand that put Jiggy on the radar of artists and producers like J Balvin and Rvssian, Flavors was just the seed planted for what is about to blossom into one of the most dynamic artists of this generation. Look out for his debut album set to release mid 2023.

ABOUT LATENIGHTJIGGY

Trinidadian-American artist, songwriter and producer, Robert Goodwin p.k.a. LATENIGHTJIGGY hails from a community in Gaithersburg, MD where he learned to speak spanish and fused it effortlessly into his own style of genre-bending pop music. At the age of 8, he started singing and playing clarinet and saxophone. By his teenage years, he had taught himself to play piano and began writing and producing music. Frustrated with looking for artists to record on his tracks, he began writing and recording himself, crafting the sound we hear today.

Since emerging on the scene in 2019 with his first official release, Flavors, he has gained millions of streams across the platforms and has featured on records with some of the most sought after artist like Eladio Carrion and Mora and has teamed up with platinum producers DVLP & Capi, The Rudeboyz, Symone Dice, and Dimelo Flo. His 2020 follow up, Flavors 2, debuted on the Latin Apple Music charts. This year, he was named Tiktok’s June Artist to Watch and the face of Spotify’s Mixto Campaign.

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