Gen Pop - PPM66Gen Pop started in Olympia, Washington in 2016. Four faces in the same mirror all with a different reflection. It's not high brow or low brow but unibrow. Don't bother making musical comparisons, speak instead in terms of the mood, which, for lack of a better term, may be described as "tense". We've all had the feeling of careening headlong into a wall, eyes wide but seeing nothing, so you'll know what to expect. BUT if you must, think Swell Maps

structure and texture

and if you're a newcomer

I dedicate my music to that invisible part in all of us

viola and cello performing a mix of styles from jazz to classical to fiddle music to pop

and ARCTURUS

Then came Thérèse and Mermaid Bar - Thérèse is about a misunderstood girl trapped in a painting and Mermaid Bar is about a girl who tries to end her life by jumping into the Hudson River and instead becomes a mermaid

000 people attending the annual International Competition - the groups featured here are "Queens of Harmony

The dulcimer is a percussive stringed instrument that is seen in various forms across the globe

Mastiff weaponizes their world-weariness and wit with brutal sludge and volatile

MapFund Award and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and has served on the Board of Advisors for Composers Now

nuanced and layered"

Research conducted by Francisco Luengo and others into sculptures depicting medieval instruments has opened up a world of sounds