Watch Oxis perform “Fry” and “Piranha” live at The FADER

Watch Oxis perform “Fry” and “Piranha” live at The FADER

The Los Angeles-based singer makes electronic songs sound like mini epics. Los Angeles-based singer Valentina Cy only began uploading songs under the name Oxis in 2023 but has already released seven albums. That prolificness doesn’t seem to dampen her ability to create consistently innovative-sounding, soft-hearted love songs using just electronic bleeps and clipped guitar loops….

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Theodora’s globe-trotting pop is France right now

Theodora’s globe-trotting pop is France right now

Gen F: Theodora’s globe-trotting pop is France right now The 22-year-old singer makes songs to unabashedly live to using sounds from France’s diaspora. By Steffanee Wang Photographer Liesel Fritsch The FADER’s longstanding GEN F series profiles the emerging artists you need to know right now. There’s a lyric on Theodora’s breakout single “KONGOLESE SOUS BBL”…

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Juana Molina invents her own pop language

Juana Molina invents her own pop language

The boundary-pushing Argentinian artist discusses megalomania, ego death, and her new album DOGA. Photo by Verena Algranti Juana Molina’s grandmother lived on the ninth floor of a Buenos Aires building with a slow, noisy elevator. Riding up and down on runs to the corner store below, Molina would sing, improvising against the ugly, squealing drone…

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