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New music for 2023

Guardian music writers meet the thrilling new artists set for success in 2023

4 January 2023

  • Samia.

    Samia: the singer-songwriter with violent hooks, famous parents and a sensational second album

  • ‘At one point I was supposedly Taylor Swift’ … DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ.

    DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ: the cheeky dance producer who’s been mistaken for Aphex Twin

3 January 2023

  • ‘Put on a beat and I’ll say a lot’ … Clavish.

    Clavish: the quiet London rapper who lets his aloof music do the talking

  • Nyokabi Kariũki lying in a field among flowers

    Nyokabi Kariũki: the Kenyan composer using field recordings to conjure Nairobi from afar

2 January 2023

  • George Riley portrait.

    George Riley: the R&B songwriter and club kid who is switching on the joy

  • ‘The weirder side of guitar music’ … (L-R) Harrison Charles, Joe Nash, Sam Wilson, Arthur Nolan, Olivia Morgan and Oscar Tebbutt of Blue Bendy.

    Blue Bendy: the south London post-punk pop band who fried Wire’s brains

30 December 2022

  • ‘This could be my last chance’ … (L-R) Echo Marshall, Nathaniel Van Osdol and Lu Racine of Thus Love.

    Thus Love: the small-town trio creating clangorous, fabulous post-punk pop

  • ‘Be the voice that you need for yourself’ … Monaleo.

    Monaleo: the Texas rapper moving from body bags and breakups to killer bars

29 December 2022

  • Fresh sounds … Jennifer Loveless, Skaiwater and Lana Lubany.

    Ukrainian hardcore, Nigerian alté and Red Bull-soaked bloghouse: 2023’s most promising musical newcomers

    From Memphis rap to Manchester post-punk and Laurel Canyon-worthy beauty, a new generation is coming this way
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