Hadley Kennary is a pop singer-songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee, with a heart and soul that travels across the country. She is an artist, fusing poetics prose into her lyrics, coalescing that prose with melodic sounds. Hadley hopes to continue to connect with those around her, something that stems from the will to truly love herself, so she can love others.

When you’re able to go out [into nature]...you have yourself, your thoughts, your feelings, and a bunch of open land. It provides a lot of clarity and allows you to reach within yourself a little bit to a greater degree than when you’re in the city and you’re always connected to something else.

The music that New York musician Ryan Zuli Jr. makes, under the moniker Zuli Jr., stays with you. It is deeply emotive, drawing from personal reflection and patient songwriting. Not only that, but the songs are total earworms—deeply inspired by the current magnates of R&B and pop music, but maintaining a tether to the foundation of classic rock.

Part 1 of “All That Has Come Apart/Once Did Not Exist,” Sonny Falls’ new album, is an exploration into how adversity can be a catalyst for positive growth and change. The rock album pulls you along an undefined narrative into Sonny Falls’ life, where the focus rests on the storms that follow the calm. Although the songs can be heavy, Ensley punctures the compounded tension with a throbbing guitar chord or a humorous chorus.

“I grew up hearing a pretty simple story,” Daniel said. “There's this grandfather that talks to his grandson and the grandfather says he had two enemies, that two wolves live within anyone: jealousy, malice, envy, greed, hatred, bigotry. The second is love, peace, mercy, kindness, hope, justice. And the grandson responded with ‘Which one of these will win?’ His grandfather responded with, ‘The one that you feed.’”

Noah Chris is a 21-year-old artist making moves for himself in Chicago. He brings about the vibrancy of love we need so much right now as he finds solace in Chicago as a home and music as a way to connect with people and learn from one another. A poetic soul who shapeshifted into the music scene, Chris implements the sounds of both R&B and hip-hop into his music with the fusion of acoustic undertones that make you wanna sit back and vibe for the entire duration of this pandemic.

Music has been a consistent line of passion for Gray as a man finding a place in the world . As a child, Gray was heavily influenced by his father’s independence and love for the classic RnB of the ‘80s and ‘90s. At the age of eleven, Gray fell in love with music, specifically the sound emitted from the trumpet. As he grew, the music he created fell back in love with him—a voice that demanded others to listen.

D-Composed is revolutionary. Led by two Black women, the chamber music collective builds experiences that immerse audience members into a world of Black composers, Black musicians, and Black culture. In an industry where—once again, dead white guys dominate—D-Composed’s Founder and Experience Curator, Kori Coleman, and Artistic Director, Danielle Taylor, create space for Black voices to be heard.

The Chicago-based musician has spent much of her career drifting between the city’s various music scenes, floating through their cosmos and absorbing what she can before moving on. She describes herself as a wanderer. The effects of this wanderlust can be heard in her music: shapeless, genreless, somewhere in the gravity between jazz and post-punk and gospel and trip-hop. drea, though, uses simpler terms: “It’s like blue-purple. The sound Chicago usually makes is orangey-red, and I appreciate orangey-red, but that’s just not what I do.”