Nighttime teems with possibilities. Underneath its blanketing presence we can be ourselves, indulge our love, and chase our passions.

We toil through the day with a mask on, making ends meet, trying to be positive, and, often, suppressing our aggression and our creativity. But the night is ours. 

For the artist simply known as Benta, seizing the night became a reality two years ago after a dream. Previously, the artist had left behind a successful music career that developed during his teenage years.

Through mad scientist sessions with a drum machine, analog synths, and recording hardware, he’s reemerged with an aesthetic that melds indie pop song structures with rugged hip-hop beats. Lyrically, this is a dark catharsis for Benta. 

He uses music to sublimate his aggression through depicting shadowy snapshots of characters struggling with toxic intrapersonal and interpersonal dynamics.

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beccs is an indie pop artist hailed as one of NYLON Magazine’s “favorite cool girls”, A John Lennon Songwriting Finalist, and an “indie-pop vocalist of astonishing candor” by the HuffPost. Holding up a mirror to herself and society at large, beccs confronts and heals audiences with a soul-stirring voice that is as dynamic as it is vulnerable. Steeped in music from birth, fearless on stage from childhood, beccs – Becca Gastfriend at the time – was an innate songbird. She moved to New York to study acting at Tisch School of the Arts, where she began gigging and making her first record. Blending a playful modern songwriting with a powerful voice akin to classic 60’s Laurel Canyon, the indie pop artist has been critically acclaimed by Refinery29, NYLON, Atwood Magazine, Huffington Post Queer Voices, Popdust, LADYGUNN and featured on The BUILD Series with Monet X Change from RuPaul’s Drag Race for her queer-inclusive Christmas music video "Before This Christmas Ends". The SXSW Official Artist opened for Pussy Riot at Adhoc x Audiofemme’s unofficial SXSW showcase in March 2024 in Austin TX. beccs’ forthcoming EP stay moist is a bold, edgy indie pop record “bursting with color, soulful vocals…[and] a hook you won’t get out of your head.” –The Daily Skimm. 
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