By: Josh Kitchen / November 26, 2025 All photos: Amanda Verdadero LA-based New Jersey transplant Kirsten Izer wants to get real. After dropping her poignantly relevant The Perfect Hire  EP earlier this year, she’s already back with a brand-new single, “Anyone But Me,” where she examines feelings of insecurity and imposter syndrome that anyone trying to make sense of life in the modern world can relate to. Izer has been hungry for a life in music since she was just ten years o

By: Josh Kitchen / November 25, 2025 Photo Credit: Helena Wolfenson Sergio Sayeg has only been making music under the moniker Sessa for six years now, but the São Paulo native’s classically Brazilian-influenced oeuvre sounds as if it’s been floating around in the musical ether for decades. Earlier this month, Sessa released his third studio album, Pequena Vertigem de Amor , and it’s his best one yet. On his first two records, Grandeza  and Estrela Acesa , Sessa leaned into m

By: Josh Kitchen / November 21, 2025 Photo Credit: Ryan Molnar When Jordy and Ben met in Liverpool in 2022, neither of them expected they’d end up starting a band together—let alone write and record a full-length album and have it out on a major label within a couple of years. But sometimes the alchemy is just right and the stars really do align. Jordy, who hails from Hawaii, was studying at University in Liverpool when she met Ben, who’s from Manchester. She’d been playing a

By: Josh Kitchen / November 20, 2025 Photo Credit: David O'Donohue You've probably seen Diana Silvers' face. From the cool and mysterious Hope in Olivia Wilde’s coming-of-age hit Booksmart , to Maggie in the horror-thriller Ma —co-starring Octavia Spencer in the titular role about a group of teenagers who befriend a lonely older woman only for things to spiral into something much darker—Silvers has already made a name for herself in film, TV, and modeling. Diana Silvers - Fro