Kashus Culpepper

Alabama-born country crooner Kashus Culpepper encompasses the sound of the South. A student and reverent purveyor of Southern music – country, soul, blues, folk, and rock – Culpepper’s husky, sandpaper growl bellows like a freight train over self-penned stories that are as raw and real as they are haunting. Finding his voice in church as young as five years old, it wasn’t until 2020’s global pandemic that Culpepper went from listener to performer, picking up a guitar and learning cover songs to play at barrack bonfires in Rota, Spain during his deployment with the Navy. Covers soon became originals, and once he landed home on U.S. shores, Kash played dive bars up and down the Mississippi Gulf Coast, making a name for himself with the fresh-yet-reminiscent sound that oozes from his very being. Crashing into prominence now, Culpepper has already sold-out headline club shows throughout the South despite never formally releasing a single song, also opening shows nationwide for sound pioneers like Charles Wesley Godwin, Charley Crockett, and NEEDTOBREATHE. With Nashville taking notice, Culpepper found a musical home at Big Loud Records, and just dropped his first three career singles “After Me?,” “Who Hurt You,” and “Out Of My Mind.” MusicRow hails Culpepper as “thoroughly gripping,” and with the promise of more music on the way in 2024, The Tennessean predicts how one of their 10 Nashville artists you need to know for 2024's “forthcoming material could offer…significant acclaim.”

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KOYO

There’s a lot of musical history on Long Island, especially when it comes to hardcore and punk. It was that heritage that the six members of Koyo wanted to pay homage to with their band. Formed in 2019, the six-piece, now five piece – vocalist Joey Chairamonte, guitarists Harold Griffin, TJ Rotolico and Mike Marazzo, bassist Stephen Spanos and drummer Sal Argento – all played in different bands in the scene but had been friends for years. It was when they all happened to be home at the same time that idea of a new project was floated and Koyo started life. They managed one gig before the pandemic hit, but the subsequent downtime allowed them the time to really hone their craft and the direction of the band. As such, Koyo exists both in the past and the present. That’s something you can hear in the music they’ve released to date, but especially within the fabric of “Ten Digits Away”, the first song that they’ll be releasing on Pure Noise Records. A seamless blend of hardcore and emo, it infuses elements of the latter into the framework of the former to create a song that bristles with energy and emotion in equal measure while creating something new and unique in the process.Koyo is now the project – above all the others they’ve been involved in – that its members are most focused on. That care and dedication can be heard easily in “Ten Digits Away”. Recorded in a studio on a farm in Flemington, NJ by Such Gold’s Jon Markson, it’s a song that also captures and reflects on – in trademark Koyo style – the tentative and temporary nature of existence. But within that fragility is also an urgent call to make the most of the time we have while we have it – because it could all end at any moment. To that extent, “Ten Digits Away” transcends time to position Koyo at the beginning of the next phase of its existence. Truthfully, it wasn’t meant to become a priority, or even last this long, but there’s something about this project that its members can’t shake. Nor do they want to.

LØLØ

Born and raised in Toronto, LØLØ has become an undeniable gem in the city's pop scene. The singer-songwriter has created a striking presence with her effortlessly cool attitude and alluring ability to captivate an audience. Between her witty lyrical style and infectiously catchy production, LØLØ's music has garnered critical praise, including Billboard, who noted she "further evokes pop-punk icons like Avril Lavigne and Paramore. In 2021, LØLØ signed a publishing deal with APG and a record deal with Hopeless Records, before embarking on her first tour, The Pop Punk's Still Not Dead Tour, with New Found Glory, Less Than Jake, and Hot Mulligan. In 2022, she performed on Sad Summer Fest, Lollapalooza, and toured with Leah Kate in the UK/EU. This year, LØLØ will be touring Europe with Sueco, before a lengthy North American Tour this fall with Boys Like Girls, State Champs, and 3OH!3.    In late 2022, LØLØ collaborated with Simple Plan for a re-release of their classic track "I'm Just A Kid." LØLØ's first release in 2023 "5,6,7,8" featured Travis Mills of girlfriends, and her latest single "omg" was released May 12th.

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