After 11 years spent touring and headlining festivals, 20-plus charting hits and hundreds of millions of streams, Chicago duo Louis The Child is anything but unseasoned. Robby Hauldren and Freddy Kennett exude youthful energy, but they’re first and foremost professionals who push the boundaries of what dance-pop can be.

Always working to lift listeners’ spirits, poignant whimsy makes Louis The Child the duo that it is, and all of these elements shine through bright as ever on their sophomore album, The Sun Comes Up. Its 13 tracks explore a variety of tempos, rhythms, genres and moods, filtering it all through the unique choices and perspectives only Louis The Child can deliver.

The 2018 EP Kids at Play was sophisticated enough to be an album for any other group, and by the time their debut LP Here For Now dropped in 2020, the duo solidified itself as masters of elevated pop construction and conceptual approaches to feel-good sing-alongs. Soon after, Hauldren and Kennett created the Black Marble mixtape and visual album. Taking cues from house, juke, techno, moombahton and more, it was wildly unique both to its references and to anything the duo had yet released.

The Sun Comes Up is a return to form that celebrates curiosity, childlike wonder, and gut instinct. From the opening grooves of “Believe It” to the wall of sound on “I’m Not Giving Up,” this album plays like a field trip through a sunny sky. It’s a new chapter for Hauldren and Kennett, one that brings them back home, and they can’t wait to take this show back on the road.

Based in LA and originally from Illinois, multi-platinum artist K.Flay, born Kristine Flaherty, started rapping and writing songs on a lark while attending Stanford University, and soon began releasing her self-produced mixtapes. In 2017 she released her major label debut album Every Where Is Some Where, earning two GRAMMY Award nominations for the album’s iconic smash single “Blood in the Cut” and sending her to arenas around the world with her kinetic live set. As a songwriter, musician, and producer, she’s lent her talents to numerous collaborations, working with Fitz and the Tantrums, Bishop Briggs, Tom Morello, Louis the Child, Kaskade, Walk the Moon, Imagine Dragons, grandson, The Regrettes, Two Feet, MisterWives, and more. Whether working on her own music or with others, K.Flay’s output remains rooted in her undeniable lyrical skills, an element she attributes to her innate love of language and its infinite possibilities. This spring she announced her fifth studio album MONO – due out September 15th. The LP is her first for Giant Music and is her first since going suddenly and completely deaf in her right ear at the end of last summer. Although K.Flay’s hearing loss deeply informed her songwriting on MONO, the album marks the start of a new era for the artist who explores an entire spectrum of existential questions and complex matters of the heart and mind on the LP. Additionally, K.Flay wrote an original song “T-Rex” for Neflix’s groundbreaking new animated film Nimona which was released last month. A relentlessly boundary-pushing artist with more than 1 BILLION streams and 100K+ tickets sold, K.Flay continues to commit herself to constant growth by holding herself to higher and more rigorous standards in every aspect of her artistry.

slenderbodies returns and invites you to immerse yourself in their fourth album, “the sugar machine” out this september. The indie pop duo, comprised of Max Vehuni and Benji Cormack, have spent the last two years exploring the wistfulness of lost youth, and the fleeting moments we pursue to try to feel innocent euphoria again. Dive into an energetic, euphoric and nostalgic new sound as the pair stretch their roots beyond the breezy, silky grooves of their original catalog.

Enter “the sugar machine” and give yourself to the highs and lows of your own nostalgia, dream up some old dreams, and escape into the music.