New Jersey native STORi is a quirky songwriter taking a new spin on RnB, not just with her strong melodies, but with her unique rapping style and razor sharp lyrics.

STORi‘s newest release, Forgot My Underwear, followed last month’s track, My Crown, which impressively featured wrapper 50 Cent. The infectious, heavy bass teamed with edgy lyrics will instantly have you craving more.

The fierce blonde has also worked alongside Taj Jackson and renowned vocal coach of Katy Perry and Alicia Keys, Craig Derry. Be sure to check out the rapper’s fascinating Tumblr with an in depth bio and striking images.

Words: Lauren James

Liverpool just can’t stop churning out great new music at the moment. I don’t know about you but it seems to me that I can’t tune into Amazing Radio for more than an hour at the moment without hearing Merseyside-made tunes be they from the psychedelic, folk-pop of Stealing Sheep, the pounding anthems of Jethro Fox or Kankouran or else just the straight up garage punk of new addition to the playlist Spring King.

In amongst the smorgasbord of talent sits a cornerstone of Liverpool’s current crop of musical magic… All We Are. Despite having formed little over a year ago, the band already have two EPs and countless tour dates under their belt, all driven by the kind of work ethic and positive outlook that would make most modern musicians grown and pull the duvet over their face. By no means the most talked about band on Merseyside at the moment, nevertheless, All We Are have both the creative spark and the live credentials to be a truly breath-taking proposition whether on record or in the flesh.

Their most recent offering, a four track EP titled We Hunt released earlier this year via Payper Tiger Records, is a heady mix of psychedelic folk complete with shimmering guitar textures, catchy melodies and the type of harmonies that seem to envelope you upon first listen. There’s hint of Sufjan Stevens in places, Death Cab For Cutie in others, but overall the sound that this three-piece create is unique. Trainspotting is an eery piece of ambient, folk pop with gently building guitar parts and the kind of boy-girl vocals and appreciation that sometimes less is more that made the XX‘s debut album so beautifully understated. What’s more, the incredible piece of cinematography that accompanies the track was thought up, directed, shot and edited by the band themselves led by guitarist and film-maker Luis Santos. Meanwhile, the band’s most recent single Cardhouse contains the kind of rousing, gang vocals that make Arcade Fire such a force on the live circuit.

Despite releasing two four-track EPs in the last year alongside tireless gigging everywhere from Norwich to Norway, the band are already in the process of recording towards another release later in the year. Here at amazing, we’re waiting with baited breath.

We Hunt is out now on Payper Tiger and is available to stream on the band’s amazingtunes profile.

Processed beats and a deep, chugging bass riff introduces new track, Fang, from Brooklyn’s ERAAS. They set up a dark landscape; driving, rythmic and atmospheric before a beautiful melody descends – albeit shrouded in an ethereal haze.

The vocal is a thin veil that is delicately swallowed by the insistent bass-line, taking the whole thing swirling and tumbling towards a restrained hiss of feedback.

The band’s debut album is due on October 1st on Felte Records and promises to inhabit that ghostly section of the mind that conjures the darkest of dreams and hallucinations.

Watch out for more from ERAAS at their amazingtunes.com profile.

Sometimes, we don’t quite know where to start… Waves of Fury certainly don’t lend themselves to pigeonholes or simple genre tags. Instead they present us with a strange blend of jagged rock ‘n’ roll, soul and all-out big brass sounds. It shouldn’t work. Everything about it tells our ears that something is wrong. But damn it, why can’t we stop tapping our feet! We’ve begun to love it. It’s bold, it’s charming and it’s completely mad.

New single, Businessmen’s Guide to Witchcraft storms in with a howl of feedback and resolute, almost arrogant horns announcing the band’s intent on fusing trashy punk influences with polished soul sounds. The track, alongside B-Side Papa Sam, establishes the band ahead of the release of their eponymous debut album due this October.

Businessmen’s Guide to Witchcraft is out on the 27th August through Alive Natural Sound.

Half Welsh, half Iraqi, producer Dauwd has made quite some noise on the UK Bass scene with his newest EP What’s There. The 26 year old fuses electronica and house beautifully, creating a whole new level of soothing music.

Creatively, Dauwd works with natural rhythms, discovering a fresh organic sound; fans of Burial and Joy Orbison should immediately check this guy out. Dauwd is in fact the multi-cultured producer’s real name, his Asian roots are the influence for the Arabic pronunciation of David.

The talented producer is currently based in the seaside town of Brighton, a far cry from his small farming hometown in Wales where he first discovered his passion for music playing bongos in a soul band.

Our buddies at The Line Of Best Fit are also fans, describing Dauwd‘s tunes as “some of the most beautifully, carefully produced music we have heard in a long time” (and who are we to argue?), whilst BBC Radio 1 DJ Giles Peterson gushed, “love it love it love it.” Catch Dauwd at the highly anticipated Dockville Festival in Hamburg and the Outlook Festival in Croatia later this month.

Watch out for more from Dauwd at the Pictures Music record label profile on amazingtunes.com.

Words by Lauren James

For those of you with an ear to the ground, MAUSI are a band who’s name you’re no doubt more than familiar with. Having impressed us all with debut release Sol, the North East based four-piece have been locked away planning, writing and, if their current website is anything to go by, creating more stunning visuals to accompany their sound.

There’s a lot of chat about their half Italian heritage and their (very attractive) front woman Daisy – which in the end is entirely superfluous given that the music they make can more than stand its ground.

We’re big fans of their particular brand of blissed-out golden pop, and the new Chad Valley remix, set to be a B-side come the 6th of August, is no exception. He takes what was a straight-up sunny pop song and through slowing the pace and highlighting the vocal, he’s managed to tease out a certain kind of heat that we didn’t know it had.  If we don’t get to hear this at 1am on some long summer night then something is very wrong.

Watch out for more from the band at their amazingtunes.com profile.