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North Carolina rapper TiaCorine was primed for a massive 2023 after a steady multi-year rise that reached new heights with her 2022 album, I Can’t Wait, and its breakthrough single, “Freaky T.” And then she literally lost her voice. “Last year was really hard for me,” Tia tells Rolling Stone on the latest episode of “On Your Radar.” “My voice was messed up, I had to have vocal cord surgery, I was on tour most of the time, I had a lot of shows I needed to finish out.”  On top of all that, she was trying to…

Jessie Murph just wants to work: “I’m in a state, right now, of just hustling,” she tells Rolling Stone on the latest episode of On Your Radar. “Any chance I get, I’m writing, any chance I get, I’m in the studio — it’s all I care about, it’s all I want to do. I have so much to say — so, so much to say… I have so much music that I’m just ready to let go.” The musician — whose sound is “a little country, a little hip-hop, it’s a little soul, and it’s a little pop,” as she puts it — is coming off a big breakout 2023:…

Palestinian-Chilean musician Elyanna carries the sounds of her culture in both her spirit and artistry. On the latest episode of Rolling Stone‘s On Your Radar, the 22-year-old recalled the surreal experience of bringing the Arabic language to Coachella last year but also extending that influence and inspiration to her recordings through sampling her grandfather — who used to be a poet — or singing songs she wrote with her brother about feeling melancholic in Palestine. “I was born and raised in Nazareth, Palestine.…

The Scarlet Opera don’t let gender define them. The five-member rock band spoke to Rolling Stone for the On Your Radar video series to discuss a special celebrity fan, dive into their recent released “That Kind of Woman,” and share their dream collaborations. The Scarlet Opera first felt successful, bass player Daniel Zuker says, after selling out the West Hollywood rock club Troubadour, with no songs releases. Frontman Luka Bazulka says that Neil Patrick Harris happened to be a fan of their music and after a…