Melanie Martinez's creative drive and talents have always distinguished her from other musicians. After releasing her platinum-certified 2015 debut album, Cry Baby—which reached No. 1 on Billboard's alternative albums chart and has amassed over two billion streams worldwide —she conceived and directed a video for each song on the album. These mini-movies traced the traumas and insecurities experienced by the album's character, Cry Baby.
 
Melanie’s sophomore album and film, K-12, is another ambitious triumph. K-12's music is a vibrant and singular melting pot of low-key hip-hop, soulful pop and indie-leaning electro. K-12's universe is an expansion of the one introduced in Cry Baby. Using lyrics rich with metaphor, songs address the struggle to find a place to belong—including within friendships, the physical world and romantically—even when fitting into society feels like an uphill battle.
 
To accompany the album, Martinez wrote and directed a 90-minute movie (also called K-12) that incorporates the album's music and mirrors the themes and characters introduced. Filmed on location in Budapest, Hungary, the movie focuses on Cry Baby (portrayed by Martinez) and a class of students who find themselves trapped in a horror house-like residential school. As they experience the usual grade school rites of passage—a lunch room food fight, the embarrassment of gym class, a romance with nefarious intentions, courses taught by checked-out teachers— they have to figure out a way to escape.

"adam&steve" is the new project from songwriter and internet personality, Elijah Daniel and Billboard charting producer Sam F.

Kassange is a Dutch Electro, House and Hyper-Pop DJ who’s based in Stockholm, Sweden. Influenced by his experience in the colourful Amsterdam queer scene, the silver lining throughout Kassange’s work is a push against the conventional in order to build an imagined hyper reality. Similarly, his DJ sets are all about reimagining what club music can be. In a world where we are taught to think in boxes and categories, Kassange’s aim is to create an energy that blurs those lines. Through a carefully curated catalogue of electronic music with a wide array of influences such as 90’s euro-dance, hip hop, trance and electro-pop, Kassange creates a playful and high energy musical experience anywhere he touches base.

“De l’audace, encore de l’audace, et toujours de l’audace.”

Majestic Music

On Tour in North America & Europe: https://www.apashemusic.com/tour
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North America: mary@minttalentgroup.com

Europe: paul@primarytalent.com

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