Duckwrth is a sonic shapeshifter whose music blurs the boundaries between funk, rap, soul, and alternative pop. With each release, he builds a vibrant world of rhythm and emotion—equal parts grit and groove, rawness and refinement. His sound is cinematic yet deeply human, a reflection of an artist unafraid to evolve in real time.

On stage, Duckwrth transforms that vision into a visceral experience. His performances are charged with energy and intimacy, fusing live instrumentation, dance, and storytelling into a genre-defying spectacle. Fresh off his acclaimed album All American Fckboy and first headline tour in years, Duckwrth continues to push music—and himself—beyond expectation, inviting audiences everywhere into his ever-expanding creative universe.

Cure for Paranoia is a hip-hop collective redefining the boundaries of modern rap with a sound inspired by legends like Outkast, The Roots, Odd Future and A Tribe Called Quest.
Famed for their genre-bending approach and magnetic live shows, the group blends soulful instrumentals, razor-sharp lyricism, and infectious grooves with a mission to uplift.

Cure for Paranoia isn’t afraid to speak their minds—championing mental health awareness and inspiring confidence in listeners through their honest, thought-provoking songwriting. With two Dallas Song of the Year awards to their name and three-time finalist status in the NPR Tiny Desk Contest, they’ve proven themselves as creative trailblazers and powerful
voices in the Southern music scene.

Whether you’re looking for socially conscious anthems, feel-good vibes, or a reminder that you’re not alone in the struggle, Cure for Paranoia is here to bring positive energy—and a cure for the ordinary.
Cure for Paranoia’s critically acclaimed full-band live show, featuring WE THEM GRAYS, blends the components of live instrumentation and dance music into the classic sensibilities of rap, R&B, funk, and jazz.

Their thriving fanbase has brought Cure for Paranoia
to stages like The Hollywood Bowl, South By Southwest, and the NPR Tiny Desk Concert Tour
(as two-time finalists of the worldwide NPR Tiny Desk Contest) and reigning Dallas Hip-Hop Group of the Year from the Dallas Entertainment Awards in 2025. The band also repeated in the Song of the Year category, winning back to back with “Love (Again)” in 2025 and “From Texas” in 2024.
In 2025, Cameron is dropping a verse a day called Project25. Every day. All Year.

Cameron McCloud isn’t just a rapper; he’s a living, breathing testament to the power of art as a weapon against the demons of the mind and the constraints of a world that wants to put you in a box. Before he was the brazen frontman for Cure for Paranoia, he was ThatKidCam, a Dallas kid with a lyrical ferocity that seemed to be searching for a container. He found it in a
viral moment, freestyling for the queen Erykah Badu herself, a moment so electric it was less a break and more a coronation. But the band name isn’t just a brand; it’s a manifesto. A direct and defiant acknowledgment of his diagnosis with bipolar paranoid schizophrenia.

For McCloud, the music isn’t just a career, it’s a “cure,” a soul-infused hip-hop antidote to a
chaotic mind. He’s the embodiment of the rock star ethos in a rap star’s body, a self- described “queer artist” who once hid his identity but now wields it as a sharp, unblinking truth. His songs are now a form of radical resistance, a refusal to be silenced, a protest
against societal expectations, and a chronicle of his ongoing, triumphant, and often messy,
journey toward self-discovery.

Elise Trouw has spent most of her life counting.

As a child in rural Fallbrook, California, she could tell you exactly how many stairs were in her house – though she might skip one just to land on an even number. Before she had words for it, Elise was tracking the rhythm of the world: steps in multiples of four, chairs in symmetrical rows, piano notes practiced at 5am in precise sequence. Her parents eventually made her wait until 6am.

This early obsession with order and balance would later lead her to the drums, where everything clicked. “Drumming was like a physical manifestation of how my brain already worked,” she says now. “Counting subdivisions, staying locked into the groove – it just made sense to me.”

It also offered something else: protection. Behind the kit, she didn’t have to be the center of attention. She could participate without exposing too much.

That changed when she began to sing.

Best known for her seamless one-woman-band videos and genre-blurring musicianship, Elise rose to fame in the late 2010s through viral live-looping mashups and meticulous multi-instrumental performances. Her debut album, Unraveling, released as a teenager, led to a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and a two-week tour opening for Incubus. With no label or manager at the time, Elise was suddenly in green rooms and industry meetings where she was both admired and underestimated – navigating adult spaces while still barely out of high school.

“I didn’t realize until later how much I felt like I had to be palatable,” she reflects. “I wanted to be seen as likable. As someone who could play well and sing well and look good doing it, even if that meant not being my full self .”

Even her songwriting during that time was shaped by a desire to connect – sometimes by leaning into what she thought people wanted to hear. “I wasn’t always writing from a deeply personal place,” she says. “I was still figuring out what I was allowed to say.”

But while she was performing onstage, another project was taking shape in secret.

Her new album The Diary of Elon Lust, out February 13th, 2026 via Midtopia, is the most radical departure of her career – and also the most honest. It’s a satirical concept album told through the persona of Elon Lust: a twenty-something male alter ego who embodies a cocktail of entitlement, objectification, and weaponized likability. Part archetype, part confession, part cautionary tale, Elon is made up of things men have said to Elise. Or to her friends. Or to you.

“I started writing these songs as a joke,” she says. “But over time I realized – they weren’t completely jokes. And suddenly, they were the only songs I was writing that felt real.”

Across 14 tracks – each one a diary entry of sorts – The Diary of Elon Lust dissects modern masculinity through playful, uncomfortable, occasionally absurd vignettes that blend humor and social commentary with deeply personal truth. The songs are bolder. The lyrics are sharper. The satire is pointed – but never preachy.

While Elise’s past work has always showcased technical brilliance, Elon Lust allows for something more: vulnerability, messiness, agency. The drums are still there, the grooves still tight. But this time, Elise isn’t hiding behind them. She’s stepping forward, even if it means letting go of perfection.

Social media was the launchpad for Elise’s early success. Her live-looping videos drew millions of views across Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, and helped her build a fanbase outside the traditional industry gatekeepers. But it also came with a cost. “It gave me visibility,” she says. “But it also exposed me to things no one would say to my face. There’s a specific kind of cruelty that comes from anonymity online..”

She doesn’t read comments anymore. Or if she does, only on good days.

And while The Diary of Elon Lust may sound like a sharp left turn, it doesn’t invalidate what came before. “I’m proud of Unraveling,” she says of her debut. “It was where I was at. It was real in its own way. But I was 17, and I wasn’t comfortable being fully honest in my songwriting yet.”

This new project is different.
“This album might feel like a big departure, but it’s the first time I’ve felt free in my songwriting —it’s my humor, my perspective on the world,” she says. “Even though these songs come from my own experiences, I hope people hear them and understand too.”

Blueprint (aka Printmatic), is an emcee/producer from the city of Columbus, OH who began his career with the release of a couple unassuming cassette tapes in 1999. The success of those tapes at a local level inspired he and his crew to form their own independent label, Weightless Recordings, and led to national and international distribution of their releases. Those early recordings eventually spread to the internet (still new at the time), and propelled the Weightless crew to national recognition, as a part of the fast-rising Columbus hip-hop scene that included acts like Illogic, Camu Tao, RJD2, Copywrite, Greenhouse Effect, DJ Przm & Spitball, J. Rawls, and The MHz.

With Blueprint at the production helm, Weightless Recordings went on to become the most successful independent hip-hop label in the history of Columbus, releasing records from Blueprint, Illogic, Greenhouse Effect, Envelope, and Zero Star – which created strong local and national followings. The press took note as well and XLR8R Magazine featured Weightless Recordings as one of their “Labels to Watch,” and Blueprint was listed by URB Magazine in their Next 100 issue.

Although his initial buzz came from his work as a producer, the formation of Soul Position with instrumentalist RJD2 pushed Blueprint into the spotlight as an emcee. The duo signed to independent powerhouse label Rhymesayers Entertainment, and released three critically acclaimed projects (Unlimited, 8-Million Stories, and Things Go Better with RJ & Al), that were featured in outlets like Spin, URB, XLR8R, and Hiphopsite.com among others.

In 2005, Blueprint released his debut solo release 1988, touring the United States and Canada extensively, and over the course of the next four years proved to be one of the most prolific artists around by releasing two solo EP’s (Blueprint Who & Blueprint vs Funkadelic), two instrumental albums (Sign Language & Chamber Music), two Greenhouse EPs (Electric Purgatory Part One & Two), and his his genre-defying sophomore album Adventures in Counter-Culture in 2011 on Rhymesayers Entertainment.

In 2012, Blueprint added the title of author to his list of accomplishments, self-publishing two books: The Making of Adventures in Counter-Culture and Word is Blog: Volume One. Blueprint also released his b-side collection Deleted Scenes in 2012 and his collaborative Greenhouse album with Illogic, Bend But Don’t Break, in 2013. Not one for slowing down, Blueprint has released solo albums Respect the Architect in 2014 and King No Crown in 2015, and the Vigilante Genesis EP (his collaboration with Aesop Rock) in 2016. His first film, titled King No Crown, was released in the fall of 2017 and won the Best Feature Film award at the 2017 Columbus Black International Film Festival. He quickly followed up the film in 2018 with his fifth solo album Two-Headed Monster and followed it with a 65-city tour. After a brief hiatus during Covid, Blueprint returned in 2024 to release the long-awaited Falling Down EP and his full-length album Vessel in 2025, accompanied with a 52-city tour.

In his over 20 years as a full-time artist, he has been on the cover of the Columbus Alive five times, the cover of Ghetto Blaster Magazine, been on the front page of MTV.com, had his video in regular rotation on MTV & MTVu, and toured the United States (15x), Canada (8x), & Europe (5x). His Soul Position crew has headlined a sold-out nationwide tour, and he has toured with acts such as Atmosphere, Macklemore, Murs, Brother Ali, Living Legends, Evidence, Blowfly, Islands, Grieves, and Eyedea & Abilities on his way to becoming one of the most respected artists in underground hip-hop.

Dave the Fave and MCMD are the rappers. Spin Master Mugen is the DJ. Together, they are Dedicated Servers – a trio of multi-faceted creators who represent Boise and harness an energy unlike any other. Between creating, writing, performing, DJ’ing, Twitch acting, reviewing movies, and parenting, it’s always “showtime” for the DS and they aim to entertain. Dave the Fave and MCMD have been flexing their verses over hip hop beats for awhile, but upon meeting Spin Master Mugen, they’ve turned their attention towards a more funk-oriented sound and look forward to bringing more of that to audiences, and particularly, Treefort. Don’t fight the urge to move at a Dedicated Servers show. Follow the groove and let your body move.

When Rachel Couch, Angela Heileson and Ivy Merrell started The French Tips at the end of 2016, their goal was to learn a few covers to channel their femme fueled rage. What followed was their debut record of crunchy garage rock bangers It’s The Tips. After taking off 2020 to focus on existential angst, they returned to the studio in January. Set to release in 2022, their sophomore album All The Rage carries the torch of dance infused hella riffs that propelled their first record to moderate regional esteem.