Rapper-singer Ivy Sole just turned 25, so she’s finally realized how little she fully understands about life and her music reflects just how hungry she is to make sense of the world around her. As a Charlotte, NC native and current resident of Philadelphia, Ivy’s sound draws on a diverse set of influences. Sole is the product of the gospel and soul upbringing afforded by her hometown, the mainstream R&B and backpack hip hop of the late 90s and 2000s, and an organic obsession with indie rock that she’s cultivated into a soundscape that's all her own.   Sole's debut mixtape project EDEN was released in April 2016 to a welcoming community of hip-hop heads and hipsters alike, and it was ranked #27 on Bandcamp’s Best Albums of 2016 list. In 2017, she released the two-part project EAST and WEST and was featured as Spotify’s Fresh Finds spotlight artist. After 3 projects, two tours, and a lot wisdom gained, the unsigned indie returned full force with her first full-length studio album, OVERGROWN, which released in September. Rapper-singer Ivy Sole just turned 25, so she’s finally realized how little she fully understands about life and her music reflects just how hungry she is to make sense of the world around her. As a Charlotte, NC native and current resident of Philadelphia, Ivy’s sound draws on a diverse set of influences. Sole is the product of the gospel and soul upbringing afforded by her hometown, the mainstream R&B and backpack hip hop of the late 90s and 2000s, and an organic obsession with indie rock that she’s cultivated into a soundscape that's all her own.   Sole's debut mixtape project EDEN was released in April 2016 to a welcoming community of hip-hop heads and hipsters alike, and it was ranked #27 on Bandcamp’s Best Albums of 2016 list. In 2017, she released the two-part project EAST and WEST and was featured as Spotify’s Fresh Finds spotlight artist. After 3 projects, two tours, and a lot wisdom gained, the unsigned indie returned full force with her first full-length studio album, OVERGROWN, which released in September.

Originally from Trinidad & Tobago, singer Blossom calls Portland, OR home. She spent her childhood playing in a steel drum band with family members and that set the tone for her taste in instruments & energy that she uses in her music today.   Blossom is an eclectic R&B jazz-singer who today feels right at home on stage. While it took her some time to grow in confidence, since 2014 she has been creating and performing non-stop. The positive effect music has had on her life is something Blossom now strives to share with the youth in her community. The city has recognized her talent and in addition to being constantly sought after for shows she has also received accolades such as being named one of Willamette Week’s best new bands in 2017.   In the last few years she has released multiple collaborative projects. In the summer of 2017 she released a project with producer Hot16 titled Tease. In the summer of 2018 she linked up with Ripley Snell for the dreamy EP Clout Atlas :: Dormiveglia. On her upcoming album, due out Spring 2019, the focus is solely on Blossom and her story. For Blossom this new album is a coming of age story.  

The history of pop music is one of reinvention, littered with instances of people who, cut off from resources, from representation, have turned inward, mined themselves and remade culture in their own image. Musical-cum-cultural movements like hip-hop, dance music, and punk all began like that: untutored kids deconstructing the music of the time and reassembling the pieces into a world in which they could see themselves. And so the story goes with Parisalexa, Seattle’s premiere triple hyphenate—singer-songwriter-producer—who continues to forge her own brand of R&B tinged pop with the raw materials of the past.