Atwood Magazine proudly presents our 2026 Artists to Watch – the top 50 rising stars, boundary-pushers, fearless storytellers, and undeniable new voices set to take over your speakers and shape the year in music!

10. The Bug Club – Very Human Features [Sub Pop] Photo courtesy of The Bug Club In a year of hiatus ending returns, there was something quite pleasing about The Bug Club sharing their fourth …

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The world of rock is ever-changing, and some of the biggest acts in the world wrote the albums that the rest of the scene used as a blueprint.

BOY GOLDEN BEST OF OUR POSSIBLE LIVES SIX SHOOTER RECORDS Cowboy hats and colorful shirts can be a deceiving thing for musicians. For a general set of listeners that rely on musical snippets it would immediately indicate that who they have in front of them is your regular cow poking country singer whose life dream […]

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JUSTFOLK BEST OF JUSTFOLK 2012-2025 INDEPENDENT You can be on the scene for a while, get a solid fan base, but not get the full recognition your music really deserves, particularly if you take the independent way and don’t care much about social media. You probably need more than just Bandcamp and YouTube presence. That […]

Brian Coney celebrates the isolationism and destructiveness of the Canadian jazz punk trio Nomeansno's first essential album, Sex Mad.

WRABEL UP ABOVE NETTWERK Being a long time on the music scene can often keep you in the shadows, or like in the case of Wrabel, it can gain you a serious following, as the singer songwriter so far has some 4 million views on various streaming services. His latest album, up above, just might […]

The power in Kraftwerk's music lies in how they persuade us that the human – sweaty, inefficient, psychologically noisy – is the least necessary component of the future.

While the idea of having a '19th Nervous Breakdown' sounds like a hellish experience, The Rolling Stones wanted to instead poke fun at the idea on the song.

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A look at 'Escalator over the Hill', a truly strange, ambitious jazz opera that shows just how far out a jazz album can go, for better and worse.

Apparently I fell in love with the idea of crime stories intersecting with the supernatural at a younger age than I realized. My first attempts to write short stories came in the fifth grade, when …

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