{"id":46157,"date":"2024-03-16T18:36:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T18:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/7-artists-shaping-the-sound-of-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-03-16T18:36:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T18:36:28","slug":"7-artists-shaping-the-sound-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/7-artists-shaping-the-sound-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Artists Shaping the Sound of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-kypbrf eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-c31d457\">Dear listeners,<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It\u2019s Jon \u2014 I\u2019m filling in for Lindsay today for a very special installment of The Amplifier. By way of introduction, I\u2019ve been a pop music critic at the Times for \u2026 around 15 years? (Let us not speak of that further.) I am also the host of Popcast, our weekly music podcast, and the co-host, with Joe Coscarelli, of Popcast (Deluxe), our YouTube conversation show. Like and subscribe!<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The primary reason I\u2019ve enjoyed this job for so long is that it\u2019s never boring. Surprise lurks around every corner and in every online wormhole. New artists with novel twists on old ideas \u2014 or, from time to time, wholly new ideas \u2014 emerge constantly. Pop is centerless and ambitious and forever mutating. If you think things are stagnant, you\u2019re not listening hard enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And so here\u2019s a list of seven emerging artists who I think have real potential, from a range of genres and styles: People you might want to pay attention to in order to get a taste of what this year, and probably the coming ones too, will sound like.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-55f1d192\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Listen along while you read.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-5797532b\"><span><br \/><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">1. Tanner Adell: \u201cFU-150\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There\u2019s about to be a tremendous amount of discourse about Black inclusion and exclusion from country music, owing to Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s forthcoming album, \u201cCowboy Carter.\u201d But there are countless Black artists who have been working on the front lines of Nashville for years. For a taste of someone with an extremely modern approach to country hybridity, try Tanner Adell\u2019s \u201cFU-150,\u201d a startling blend of rural flexing, hip-hop production flourishes, R&amp;B harmony and pop certainty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u25b6 <strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Listen on <\/strong>Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-5780970a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">2. Nettspend: \u201cWe Not Like You\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the emerging scene of post-post-rage rappers who are riling up SoundCloud and TikTok, the teen rapper Nettspend stands out for a flow that\u2019s cheerily slurry, rapping over beats that convey both exuberance and disorder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u25b6 <strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Listen on <\/strong>Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-151db94\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">3. Xavi: \u201cLa Diabla\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The young singer Xavi is part of the surge of Mexican and Mexican American music that\u2019s been making its way into global pop over the last couple of years. Of all his generational peers, he\u2019s perhaps the biggest sentimentalist, singing with desperation and conviction on \u201cLa Diabla,\u201d which has gone to No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u25b6 <strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Listen on <\/strong>Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-537ad039\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">4. That Mexican OT: \u201cGlocks &amp; Hammers\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Houston rap was thriving and gaining long-overdue attention in the late 1990s into the 2000s, it was notable for the way that it deployed slowness. The current rising Houston star That Mexican OT is a clear inheritor of that style, and matches it with a high degree of lyrical dexterity, like tap dancing in molasses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u25b6 <strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Listen on <\/strong>Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-f61961c\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">5. Bizarrap and Young Miko: \u201cYoung Miko: BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 58\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of last year\u2019s breakout performances came from Young Miko, a Puerto Rican singer and rapper so casually gifted at both of those skills that she effectively stole \u201cFina,\u201d her collaboration with Bad Bunny, from the host. This subsequent collaboration, with the relentless Argentine hitmaker Bizarrap, is futuristically sensual, a sound of breakouts yet to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u25b6 <strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Listen on <\/strong>Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-15h6bi9 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-324f0b15\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">6. Buggin: \u201cAll Eyes on You\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hardcore has been thriving and expanding for the past few years, with numerous utterly neck-snapping bands working sweaty house-show and D.I.Y.-festival circuits. But few of these bands are as limber and loose as Chicago\u2019s Buggin, which makes music that\u2019s testy, gritty, funky and, somehow, refreshingly airy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u25b6 <strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Listen on <\/strong>Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Come widdit,<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jon<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"css-kypbrf eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-1d9a7fe6\">The Amplifier Playlist<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u201c7 Artists Shaping the Sound of 2024\u201d track list<\/strong><br \/>Track 1: Tanner Adell, \u201cFU-150\u201d<br \/>Track 2: Nettspend, \u201cWe Not Like You\u201d<br \/>Track 3: Xavi, \u201cLa Diabla\u201d<br \/>Track 4: That Mexican OT, \u201cGlocks &amp; Hammers\u201d<br \/>Track 5: Bizarrap and Young Miko, \u201cYoung Miko: BZRP Music Sessions, Vol. 58\u201d<br \/>Track 6: Buggin, \u201cAll Eyes on You\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear listeners, It\u2019s Jon \u2014 I\u2019m filling in for Lindsay today for a very special installment of The Amplifier. By way of introduction, I\u2019ve been a pop music critic at the Times for \u2026 around 15 years? (Let us not speak of that further.) I am also the host of Popcast, our weekly music podcast,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manitimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}