Here are the nominees for the 33rd annual
#GLAADawards
, which honor media for fair, accurate, and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues.
We were lucky to have
@greysonchance
stop by our LA office yesterday and sing us a few songs. 👏
If you haven't listened to his music, you can find him here 👇
Actors, writers and directors are collaborating on a charity auction with proceeds going towards helping crew members whose healthcare benefits are currently at risk during the strike.
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lauren's first ever billboard is up in LA at the intersection of sunset & parkman ave!
it's a great day to go on a drive down sunset, blast 'in between,' and give her new billboard some love ❤️
Step inside a place both wonderful and strange 🎥
@finneas
gave us a tour of his childhood home & studio
and opened up about his music & working with his sister
@billieeilish
on her debut album
on the latest
#SPACES
, an
@AWAL
+
@Kobalt
Original:
.
@LaurenJauregui
on the importance of empathy: "everybody's living from their own pasts...and how it informs the way they see the world. you have to be mindful of that whenever you want to get close to somebody"🫂
watch the full interview with
@shanboody
:
“I know all these Mexican kids are thinking that they have to be workaholics, but our parents did all the hard shit so we can do what we want to do. We’re raised differently. We can take a different path.” -
@_omlar
we're not crying, you are 😭
happy birthday to the talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference queen
@mxmtoon
Nothing but respect for
@R3HAB
👊
Not only did he drop a fire album, but also the instantly-viral track “Rumors” with
@SofiaCarson
; which generated over 1.5M streams its first weekend.
See how R3HAB’s song, along with others, performed.
To
@AllieX
, being her own label "means that I get to make my own artistic and financial choices."
"It means that I'm a part of the business, as opposed to just being a face of a business."
Hear her story ➡️
#IAmMyOwnLabel
#FeelingX
more money ≠ better results
Kimberly, aka
@kihmberlie
, is living proof of how to make $50 feel like a high-budget shoot, garnering 100s of 1000s shares on her creatively resourceful photos.
get the full scoop on how she makes magic here:
"I feel like I'm riding a wave...I want to see where it goes. It's kind of weird, but very cool."
Get to know Cuco (
@Icryduringsex
) and his new single "CR-V" ahead of his
@coachella
appearance 👇
Self-care, hard enough as is, can prove particularly difficult for the creators among us.
Tour life brings additional challenges. This
#mentalhealthawareness
month, we spoke to 11 AWAL artists to talk about their adjustments and how to stay sane on tour:
laufey’s top 5 books by female authors 📚
1. the secret history - donna tartt
2. the joy luck club - amy tan
3. blue nights - joan didion
4. rebecca - daphne du maurier
5. sex and rage - eve babitz
“It's about freedom.. I want to innovate and be able to experiment with the way I release music. I want to be the new wave for artists who want to release music differently.” -
@kimpetras
✨
See why Kim chooses to define her sound & herself on her terms 👉
⚠️NEW⚠️
we’re launching the 1st ever AWAL merch store!
we’ll be partnering with artists to creative-direct ✨limited edition✨collections, where 100% of net-profits will be given to a charitable org of their choosing that empowers social good!
"i love songs that are really specific. in the specificity, people can see themselves in the song. people substitute [my experience] for their own version in their own lives.” - djo on the specificity of "end of beginning", rolling stone uk (2024)
“I spent $3K on a car for a fan and got 400,000 impressions on Instagram, that would have cost me $9K in ads to get the same. You tell me what makes more sense.”
UK’s
@example
dropped some gems in our latest
#DECODED
:
djo on what "end of beginning" means to him: "'end of beginning' is [about] saying goodbye to a certain part of your life, and it being a sad thing, but also looking onward."