One of the unexpected highlights of the recent South By Southwest conference in Austin was the reappearance of the UK’s Charlotte Church--the still-young vocalist who, at the age of 27, is a recording veteran now in the midst of a dramatic stylistic shift.

The Welsh-born, one-time child star, who began her career as a classical singer via her 1998 album Voice Of An Angel, is now returning with sophisticated, sometimes dark music with echoes of goth, prog and unexpected experimentalism, evidenced most recently by her new release One & Two. The independently-released album is a compilation of the first two of five planned EPs by Church--and it is wildly, unexpectedly good, featuring her unmistakable, soaring voice in a highly appealing thoroughly contemporary context likely to appeal to an entirely new audience.

Y! Music was fortunate enough to grab some moments with Church in Austin earlier this month, during which time she performed two songs from One & Two in a stripped-down but still

Willy Moon (Photo: NBC)If you’ve found yourself humming the anthemic “yeah yeah, how you like me now” chorus that set a rainbow of colorful iPods a’bouncin’ in Apple’s recent TV spot—you’re not alone. The artist responsible for the foot-stomping tune, Willy Moon, has managed to carve out a name for himself in short time as both an innovative soundmaker and style influencer.

Moon, 23, has engineered his image since leaving his native New Zealand for London at age 18. A self-described “autodidact” who dropped out of school at age 16, Moon traveled Europe and settled for some time in Berlin, where he was inspired by retro pop music and began writing his own material in earnest.

Returning to London, he adopted a sharply groomed, midcentury suit-and-slicked hair look to offset his modern-sounding musical production—a combo that attracted attention right away when he released his first single via MySpace in 2010. He scored a record deal with Island Records, who put out his first EP.

By 2012 he caught the eye of

While the Big Green Bus was in Miami, Florida for some sun and fun at Art Basel, Maps & Atlases met up with the bus for a session at the Young Arts Foundation. The band is a Chicago based indie rock group, known for their math rock stylings. Their most recent LP, Beware and Be Grateful, came out earlier this year.

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