What artist have you recently started really listening to?

Utsu-P and The Ohayogozaimas I did not realize there was an entire world of Vocaloid metal, which further led me to falling in love with J-metal overall 🤘

https://youtu.be/sLLQFLXz6VE

The northern boys!! Hands down the best rap music made by 70 year white dudes from northern England!

Louis Prima.

Black Pumas

Foxy Shazam.Their self-titled album slaps

Miss construction 🤤

They're EBM, great 2 albums.

Rockbitch!!!! Awesome stuff

Igorrr

Antoha MC and KUKIKODAN.

The former, Antoha MC, is a Russian rapper who I like for his dark atmosphere and melodic accompaniment that complements his humming raps.

The latter, KUKIKODAN, is a Japanese band whose lyrics and music seem to reflect on the everyday passing of daily life.

Recently to me is like 3-4 years. And I have given more bands a little more of a listen that I had originally written off when they got big. Shinedown, in this moment, and ghost were all bands that I had originally written off, but after listening to more, I actually really enjoy.

Beyond that, there's a French song I've been pursuing since I bought gran Turismo 7 that I've been dieing to find the artist name, despite it showing on screen whenever it changes, I never think to look, because I'm busy doing something else, I'm just like, "ooh this is that song I love!" And by the time I think to look in the corner, it's gone.

Edit: finally found it! Lous and the Yakuza, song called amigo!

It's kind of funny because I've been listening to heavy metal for decades, but I just recently really got into Megadeth.

Castle Rat.

A few weeks ago I realised that aside a couple of two big hits I didn't know any songs from Blondie.

I started with the first album, I'm liking it. I'll keep it in rotation a few more months before jumping to the next one.

I've never been into pop music, but I am absolutely hooked on Nilufer Yanya.

Remember Bobby McFerrin? "Don't Worry, Be Happy."..?

His daughter is also fabulous:

Madison McFerrin

Absent Moon by Chuck Salamone

I've recently gotten into the drift/phonk genre (as well as some adjacent genres), and have enjoyed the way that most of the prominent artists in the genre all collab with each other, and shine light on newer artists entering the scene. None of them seem to be taking themselves too seriously, either, so there's a very fun energy to the scene. It's still a fairly new genre, so there's a lot of experimentation going on. It reminds me a lot of the early days of dubstep, with new sounds and a similar high-energy feel to the music. It's also got some pretty varied influences, from eastern European electronic tropes to Latin American and reggaeton inspirations.

The artist I've been listening to the most lately has been Deathpixie, a virtual artist (like Gorillaz or Dethklok) who just recently signed with Mau5trap, which is probably the most "mainstream" move I've seen in the genre so far. But I've also been jamming the likes of Pinkii, Pro6lema, ProdGX, Kordhell, RoboPup, Raizhell, Demxn, etc.

King Gnu. They’re known for their songs used in anime, but they have more great songs outside of that.

Teddy Swims

Tommy Newport or Lynks