Before Bianca Espino revealed herself as an artist to the public eye, she had a living room full of instruments that had no business being there. Her dad immigrated from the Philippines to Canada with little to his name. When he landed on new soil, the first thing he purchased was not an apartment – it was a guitar and a piano. Not long after that, a church he frequently attended was throwing out their drum kit. He pulled it from the dumpster and hauled it back as a welcomed addition to his...

Vax , raised in West Palm Beach, Florida, just turned 17 this week . Beginning his music journey in 2021, Vax grew what started in his bedroom into a catalog of 170 songs released under this stage name – which is 10 times his own age. Through independent releases and self-directed marketing, he steadily amassed a fanbase made up of roughly 2,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. Things shifted this past November when he shared the snippet for what would become his biggest track to date, “ Bobby...

“You can only reward yourself for being solid.” Yves! tweeted that before anyone was listening. That line wasn’t a slogan or aimed at an audience - it was a rule he set for himself. At 19, the Massachusetts-raised artist grew up in the Boston area, where there wasn’t a prominent music scene to lean on. That never stopped Yves! , who quietly began teaching himself how to record music at age 13. It didn’t start as anything serious at the time, but Yves! says “encouragement from those around...