From seductive club bangers to therapeutic, night-time-cruising tunes, Slater has solidified his role as a tastemaker and star of the new wave of alternative music. Since 2013, Southern California’s rising underground sensation, Slater, has blended the best elements of alternative, pop, and hip hop into a new, unique sound all of his own. Smooth, chill, and infectious, his niche style is as reminiscent of early 00’s pop, hip-hop, and rock hits as it is innovative and fresh. As a member of the Vada Vada collective, Slater is no stranger to experimentation. With the success of ESI (2021), Slater is set to drop his much anticipated follow up album, ESI 2. 

Heaven Schmitt, the front person of Grumpy, keeps their friends close and their exes closer. The keyboardist and bassist are Heaven’s ex girlfriends, and the drummer is their ex-husband (the guitar player and Heaven never dated but there was one night when Heaven thought they might kiss but they didn’t). The deep intimacy shared between the band’s members might explain the tantalizing sense of desire that echoes from song to song in Grumpy's growing catalog, and Heaven’s live band of exes also speaks to the way the Grumpy project is built on balancing beauty and ugliness, pleasure and pain, and recognizing that you can find truth and healing even in life’s most brutal moments. While based in Nashville, Schmitt released their debut LP Loser in 2020. In 2022, they moved to NYC and transformed the project, leveling up adjacent to a buzzy corner of the Brooklyn scene. Their EP Wolfed, released in 2024 on Bayonet Records, is a steamy, goofy & introspective collection of songs - a healthy mix of former folk influences with new elements of hyperpop. Wolfed is vulnerable, amusing, and cartoonishly dramatic at the same time - Grumpy has emerged from a period of turbulence with a stronger stride.