Ettie, who was born and raised in London, is a phenomenon in the music industry because of her lyrical alchemy, which transforms cultural touchstones and personal histories into pure alt-pop gold. She is able to compose alternative pop songs that speak to the anxiety that is felt by millennials because of the gift of being able to play with words. Ettie, who has a degree in...

Parmy Dhillon brings a searing kind of emotional gravity to his new single "Nashville", a track that manages to sound exactly like the specific exhaustion of staring at a ceiling fan in a hotel room three thousand miles from home. Coming out of Naarm, Dhillon has somehow bottled the very air of Tennessee humid, heavy with history, and thick with the tension of unfulfilled...