All Things Go Music Festival

Mitski

Hayley Williams

Brandi Carlile

Ethel Cain

MUNA

Lola Young

I’m Lola Young, a South London girl with a big mouth and an even bigger love for making music. At 23, I’ve been lucky enough to create songs that speak to people on a global scale, blending the chaos of heartbreak, self-discovery, and everything in between into sounds that feel real and unapologetically me.

My official debut album, This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway, is all about raw emotion—love, rage, humor, and finding myself. It’s not just pop music; it’s a mix of everything I’ve ever loved, from hip-hop and indie to art-pop and grunge. Working with incredible producers like Jared Solomon (Solomonophonic), Conor Dickinson, and even SZA, I spent six months crafting these songs, pouring my life into every lyric. Tracks like “Don’t Hate Me” and “Conceited” have gone viral, connecting with people in ways I couldn’t have imagined.

I started out young, writing songs at 11 and performing in open mic nights around London. The Brit School gave me some grounding, but it’s the years of gigging in pubs and finding my sound that really shaped me. Since signing to Island at 18, I’ve released EPs, gone viral on TikTok (shoutout to my best mate Lily West for filming those DIY vids), and gained a fan base that includes Madonna—still can’t believe that one!

My music is rooted in real life: messy relationships, mental health struggles, the highs and lows of being young and figuring it all out. I grew up listening to legends like Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac, and Prince, but I’ve always found my own way. I think that’s why my songs resonate—they’re brutally honest, sometimes funny, and always true to me.

With a sold-out U.S. tour and This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway finally out there, I’m ready for whatever comes next. Fame is scary, sure, but I just want people to relate to what I’m saying. If my songs make someone feel a little less alone, then I know I’m doing something right.

Zara Larsson

Sienna Spiro

Magdalena Bay

Father John Misty

Slayyyter

Del Water Gap

Tinashe

Robby Hoffman

She & Him

flipturn

Balu Brigada

The Beaches

Wolf Alice

Ninajirachi

The Beths

CMAT

International pop star. Writer of songs. Fearer of bugs. Girlboss of the Very Sexy CMAT Band. Once, twice, three times a loser at 2024’s BRITs, Mercury Music Prize and Ivors. Has just released her album, EURO-COUNTRY, which will no doubt rectify these errors.

Selected praise for EURO-COUNTRY:

The Guardian 5/5

“A rolling sea of charm, chaos, substance, sadness and piercing insight – and yet more proof this nascent star is in a class of her own”

The Telegraph 5/5

“The flame-haired Irish singer is exactly what the industry is crying out for”

The i 5/5
“(CMAT) is a singular artist and EURO-COUNTRY is the album of the year”

Rolling Stone UK 5/5

“A catchy, important and hilarious album from a singer who is deservedly set to be the breakout star of 2025”

Pitchfork
(CMAT’s) new album overflows with comedy, tragedy, and self-lacerating wit. It’s a bold statement from a true original.

Rico Nasty

Rebecca Black

Jensen McRae

SYML

SYML is the solo venture of Seattle artist Brian Fennell. Welsh for “simple”—

he makes music that taps into the instincts that drive us to places of

sanctuary, whether that be a place or a person.

Fennell’s latest offering, Nobody Lives Here, marks his clearest, crispest

writing. Written, recorded, and produced by him and his longtime collaborator

Brian Eichelberger, it is fueled by the keen understanding that life is a

contradiction, a fleeting moment. But as we accept the presence of loss, we

can still welcome others into our space with melody, lyrics, a slide guitar, or a

cello’s hum. His sense of humanity is his musical compass. As an artist,

Fennell takes license to both gut and be gutted. “If the dark inspires the good,

that’s a good thing to be honest about,” he says.

He released his self-titled debut album in 2019, which includes the multi-

platinum song “Where’s My Love” and the Gold Record fan favorite “Girl.” His

2023 sophomore album, The Day My Father Died, described by NPR as

“euphoric,” was recorded at Studio X with renowned producer Phil Ek and

features collaborations with Elbow’s Guy Garvey, Lucius, Sara Watkins of

Nickel Creek, and Charlotte Lawrence. His music has become the soundtrack

to countless films and TV shows and was used by Lana Del Rey on the song

“Paris, TX,” from her Grammy-nominated 2023 album.

With over four billion streams, the multi-platinum artist looks at grief, loss,

mortality, and the passing of time directly in the eye, unwavering and

harmonious.

In 2024, SYML launched the imprint, FIN. Recordings, a collaboratio

Naïka

Ryan Beatty

Wes Parker

hemlocke springs

Once upon a time, there was an artist named hemlocke springs who dared to create fantastical
worlds by weaving hyper-personal tales into exuberant, ’80s-inspired art-pop anthems. Now
residing in the faraway land of Los Angeles, the singer, songwriter, and producer born Isimeme
“Naomi” Udu was crowned a bedroom pop star in 2022 with her first songs ever “gimme all ur
luv” and “girlfriend,” released while in graduate school for health informatics. Bestowed with
early praise for those singles’ quirky melodies and bubblegum synths by DIY icons like Grimes
and Steve Lacy — and dubbed one of Chappell Roan’s favorite artists — she swiftly went on to
open for tours by fellow world-builders Doja Cat and Ashnikko (and shall sally forth with Conan
Gray next). And her era-transcending catalog continues to capture new fans, with DOECHII
going live on social media this year to walk her fans through “girlfriend,” saying, “This song is
not even of this time. It surpasses this time. It’s incredible … She’s so good, she’s a rockstar, it’s
crazy.” But now, hemlocke pushes her whimsical work to new genre-defying heights, revealing
the next level of her theatrical artistry on her debut album, the apple tree under the sea.
The apple tree under the sea is a fever dream of a concept album in which our hero, hemlocke
springs, sets off on a journey of self-discovery — one that requires her to confront the chaos
and repression of her past in order to claim the full, liberatory life she once didn’t even know
was possible. Sprinkled with references to her Christian upbringing with Nigerian immigrant
parents, the project begins with her coming across a red apple — a symbol of knowledge or
“worldly” things, as hemlocke explains, and then tracks her inner transformation as she unpacks
the traumatic memories and longheld beliefs that held her back from self-acceptance.
“I grew up very religiously — Christianity is very pertinent in Nigerian culture and the Black
community — and I was also obedient to my elders,” hemlocke says of her childhood years in
Concord, North Carolina. “This album starts with a character going through the desert who says,
‘I’m going to do your will.’ They could be saying it to God or a man, but then they come across
the apple. It’s about me being in this bubble, and realizing that being in that bubble was tougher
than I thought, and then finally getting out and exploring who I really am.”
hemlocke set out to create a larger-than-life, style-tripping, medieval-coded project after making
the single “sever the blight,” where she sings of being locked in a basement longing for a lover
like a princess in a tower (“Love is miles away / Will I still wait here for you?”) while the beat
switches from baroque string plucks to driving ’80s synths. The song and its eye-popping video
inspired NME to write, “This is creativity of the highest order, with an attention to detail and
eccentricity few other new artists are doing in the pop space.” It fired up hemlock, too: “That
song inspired me to broaden my horizons with the album, to get out of my indie-pop comfort
zone and explore different genres. When I listened back, I felt transported to a new world.”
Accordingly, hemlocke displays her most adventurous songcraft and playful vocals yet while
co-producing the apple tree under the sea with close collaborator BURNS (Lady Gaga, Britney
Spears, Charli xcx). There are choral sections, glitchy electronics, ornate pianos, rock guitar,
Janet Jackson-esque drum breakdowns, and flourishes of strings and fairylike sonics — even
the sound of hooves hitting cobblestone. To illustrate the disorientation she felt while emerging
from her cocoon, she dramatically gasps and wails on songs such as “heads, shoulders, knees,

and ankles,” which was inspired by a formative nightmare of fighting off an attacker: “With all the
choler and vexation that he rankles / You’d think I’d have the strength to chop this little man!”
As hemlocke finally commits to biting the apple — “I took the wrong turn down to Hollywood
and now I’ll turn forever,” she sings over gothic drums on “(sense)is” — the album becomes a
confectionary explosion of electronica. She revels in her newfound sexual liberation over
squelching bubble sounds and sensual groove on “set me free,” and then declares on “be the
girl!” that she’ll never return to her past self. “It’s not exactly bittersweet — there’s a feeling of
euphoria,” Springs explains, “but the song also is saying that I’m still on this journey.”
The oldest song on the apple tree under the sea dates back to seven years ago, when springs
was getting her bachelor’s degree in biology at Spelman College. It was a completely different
experience from her sheltered early life, when she grew up listening to her parents’ gospel
music, singing in choir, and quietly learning how to make music on Garageband. Meeting new
people — of different backgrounds and sexualities — was eye-opening, she says: “It was a very
distinct switch from my upbringing, where I was banned from dating or having sleepovers.”
It was at Dartmouth, though, getting her master’s, that she began uploading the songs she’d
made in her free time — then quickly deleting them out of embarrassment. That is, until 2022,
when Grimes commented on “gimme all ur luv,” a self-production of glittery synths and yearning,
offbeat vocals praised for “bringing the fun back into pop” (FLOOD Magazine). Then hemlocke’s
effortlessly catchy second single, “girlfriend,” blew up on TikTok after she posted a teaser of her
dancing awkwardly to it while dressed as Dionne from the 1995 teen flick Clueless. A perfect
storm of nostalgia and endearing eccentricity, the song propelled her as an emerging artist who
would eventually garner acclaim for her ebullient, eclectic debut EP, Going…Going…Gone! As
Teen Vogue wrote, “Springs’ music is difficult to define, which, truthfully, is part of its undeniable
charm.” The project foreshadowed her ability to mine complicated emotions and the knack for
immersive experimentalism that she’s pushing to new heights on the apple tree under the sea.
“Music was always my escape, it was nice to create that world for myself,” hemlocke springs
says. Now with her debut LP, she’s fully writing her own story — dreaming up thrilling new
narratives for her life and art by bringing that apple into existence and taking a huge bite.

Stella Lefty

Haute & Freddy

Rochelle Jordan

Grace Ives

Tiny Habits

Zolita

Trousdale

Love Spells

Violet Grohl

Susannah Joffe

natalie jinju

Glom

googly eyes

Kevin Atwater

Jake Minch