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Independent Pop Artist AZSH Releases Self-Titled Debut Album June 5, 2026

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2 days ago

May 20, 2026

Olivia Long

A Five-Year Story of Becoming, Anchored by Grammy-Winning Producer Luis “The Dro1dz” Salazar

“Every song was a season. Every season was building toward Endless Summer.”

Independent Miami-based pop artist AZSH (pronounced “Ash” / Ashley C. Arkels) releases her self-titled debut album on June 5, 2026 — a transformational dance pop record that recontextualizes five years of independent releases into one unified arc, anchored by the previously unreleased culmination track Endless Summer (Extended).

The 12-track album reframes eleven singles released between 2021 and 2026 into a single transformational story — from the restless call of EW2GO, through the breakthrough of Limitless and the perspective of Hope on the Horizon, to the harvest of Endless Summer. The tagline “Every song was a season. Every season was building toward Endless Summer” captures the central premise: every track is a chapter in a woman’s becoming.

A Body of Work, Not a Debut

AZSH is not a new artist. Working entirely independently — without label support — she has released roughly three singles per year since 2021, alongside four music videos released between 2022 and 2025 and three visualizers in 2026. The body of work has built a real audience: 1M+ streams across DSPs, 976,000+ YouTube channel views with 42,800 subscribers (her largest platform), 7,000 lifetime Shazam tags, and 5,300+ radio spins worldwide. Her cover of In the Air Tonight charted #30 in House on iTunes US, and Feel the Love earned a Spotify editorial placement on the Soulful House playlist.

Combined plays and views across platforms approach two million.

“This album is really a reflection of a season of life transformation for me, and I’m incredibly grateful that I’ve had the opportunity to create, collaborate, and express my experiences through music,” says AZSH. “I’ve sacrificed a lot for this project, and I’m so happy it can tell a little piece of my story and inspire others.”

Grammy-Winning Production

The focus track Endless Summer (Extended), along with album cuts Mood, On My Way, and Like That, was produced by Luis “The Dro1dz” Salazar — the Grammy-winning, Miami-based multi-platinum producer/songwriter (member of production teams The Dro1dz and The Swaggernautz) whose credits include Sebastian Yatra, Maluma, Anitta, CNCO, Farruko, Chayanne, and Wisin, with a Latin Billboard #1 (“Ya Quiero” — Domino Saints) to his name.

The Sound: Miami Pop

AZSH calls her sound “Miami Pop” — uplifting dance pop built for movement, sometimes introspective, sometimes sensual. Drawing from afro house, soulful house, big room, and tropical house textures, the album sits firmly in the dance pop lane but moves with range across sub-genres: Limitless leans into big room, Paradise into tropical house, Hope on the Horizon into soulful house, while Cool to Be Kind carries an afro-tinged feel. The focus track Endless Summer (Extended) is the album’s afro house arrival point — a deliberate next direction that builds on everything that came before. For fans of Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus, Robyn, and Kylie Minogue. Multilingual touches — a Spanish verse on Cool to Be Kind and the multilingual hook on Like That (“Andiamo / Vamos / Allons’y / Let’s go”) — reflect AZSH’s Miami location and global pop sensibility.

Endless Summer — The Single Rollout

Album focus track Endless Summer leads the album’s public-facing campaign. A complete DJ pack — including the radio edit (2:40) and extended mix (3:52) — drops exclusively on Beatport on May 22, 2026, two weeks ahead of the album release, with radio promotion launching May 18 across electronic and dance music markets. The DJ pack expands to all other DJ platforms on June 5 alongside the album.

Album Tracklist

EW2GO
Paradise
Our Time
Mood
Like That
Runaway
On My Way
Hope on the Horizon
Limitless
Always
Cool to Be Kind
Endless Summer (Extended)

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Nick Mulvey releases live album ‘Dark Harvest Live’

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5 hours ago

May 22, 2026

Don Reed

There’s something quietly radical about Nick Mulvey. His songs don’t shout for attention, yet they demand it. His music has always felt like a slow-burning invitation, to listen more closely, to step outside the noise, to feel, even when it’s hard. In a world brimming with distraction he cuts through, offering something rare: music that is unafraid to go deep.

With his most recent albums, ‘Dark Harvest Pt.1’ and ‘Dark Harvest Pt.2’, released via his own Supernatural Records label, Mulvey finds himself in a new state of artistic independence and empowerment. The albums saw Mulvey working alongside a cast of world-class collaborators, including the legendary producer Jimmy Hogarth (Amy Winehouse, Paolo Nutini), the boundary-pushing Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins), and the globally renowned Parisi Brothers (Ed Sheeran, Fred Again) and were born out of the catharsis of a tough few years that Mulvey has undergone recently in his personal life.

“For me Dark Harvest Pt.1 tracks the descent and grief that hit me in the last three years, during the losses and challenges I faced”, Mulvey explains. “Often brutal, these years have tenderised me, as I know they have others. Making this music carried me through. Dark Harvest Pt.2 is the first fruits after a deep winter, songs that tell of a new creation and a clarified faith”, he further reveals.

The next phase of this process is ‘Dark Harvest Live’, a gorgeous live offering. The album captures what anyone who has seen Nick Mulvey live will recognise, the feeling of a room that has briefly, genuinely, become one thing. With his ability to weave an experience that is felt as much as it is heard, his live performances don’t just entertain, they transcend to create a chorus of unity, a communion of sound and feeling. Through his intricate guitar figures, that seem to spiral endlessly and serve as a vehicle for his words, few artists so seamlessly bridge the sacred and the everyday.

“Dark Harvest is about surrender and what grows after the breaking. These live recordings are that same journey, only with an audience in the room sharing it. I’m proud of these shows. Something was working and I wanted there to be a recording of it. I’m feeling fortunate that I get to go out in May and do it all over again“, says Mulvey.

Mulvey’s music carries the poetic weight of Leonard Cohen, the introspective fragility of Nick Drake, and the hypnotic, polyrhythmic pulse of West African guitar masters like Ali Farka Touré. From his early days studying ethnomusicology in London, to guitar in Havana and then onto co-founding the Mercury-nominated Portico Quartet, Mulvey’s journey has never been conventional. His shimmering debut solo album, ‘First Mind’ (2014), established him as a standout force in modern music—earning him a second Mercury Prize nomination and acclaim for his hypnotic, finger-picked guitar work and deeply poetic lyricism. His follow-up, ‘Wake Up Now’ (2017), expanded his sonic and thematic scope, weaving global rhythms, environmental consciousness, and a call for collective awakening into anthems of hope and action. With ‘New Mythology’ (2022), Mulvey delved further still into the spiritual and mythic dimensions of songcraft, delivering compositions that felt at once ancient and urgent, intimate and universal.

Onstage Nick’s journey has taken him from sell out European and US solo tours to The Pyramid stage at Glastonbury and London’s The Royal Albert Hall and Hammersmith Apollo. Offstage, Mulvey is a devoted father of two, recently returned to the UK after years living abroad, and quietly in the middle of one of the most creatively fertile periods of his life.