Our regular look at artists worth paying attention to now.
Three acts with new music, growing momentum and a reason to get on your radar before everybody else catches up.
– WORDS BY JAMBALOO EDITORIAL TEAM
Hurricane Wisdom
Photo By Eric Jordan
Hurricane Wisdom has spent the last couple of years moving quickly beyond North Florida. “Giannis” did much of the early work, but 2025’s Perfect Storm and Perfect Storm: Sorry 4 The Rain turned that attention into something more substantial, with both projects reaching the Billboard 200. This year he landed in the XXL Freshman class and followed it with another record almost immediately.
Weathering The World arrived August 7 through Rebel/gamma, with Gunna and Chance The Rapper among the guests. The bigger names make sense given where Wisdom is now, but his appeal still comes from the way he sits between melodic Southern rap and something rougher around the edges. He can stretch a line into a hook without making the song feel like it was built entirely around finding one.
“Barbie Doll,” with Chance, is probably the easiest point of entry, while “LIVING UP” pushes further away from the obvious Florida references and into Afrobeats. There is a lot happening around Hurricane Wisdom right now, but the interesting part is that the music has not started sounding like somebody trying to catch up with his own momentum.
Adult DVD
Leeds six-piece Adult DVD have spent the last few years working out how much dance music they can fit inside an indie band without either side becoming decoration. Synths and guitars pile into each other, rhythms borrow freely from acid house and rave, and the songs still retain the scruffiness of six people playing together in a room.
The band signed to Fat Possum at the beginning of 2026 and will release their self-titled debut album on September 25. Recorded and produced by the band in Leeds, the record pulls together hook-heavy indie, groove-driven post-punk and clear ’90s acid house influences.
Their latest single, “Rolling Face,” arrived August 11. It follows “Real Tree Lee” and “Cowboy On Aisle Three” and is probably the clearest example yet of why Adult DVD are becoming difficult to keep inside the usual UK indie-band conversation: deadpan vocals, rave keyboards and a rhythm section that sounds far more interested in making people move than standing around watching a guitar pedal.
Coco & Breezy
Coco & Breezy have been around club music long enough that calling them new would be ridiculous. The twin DJs and producers have played Coachella, EDC, Movement, Red Rocks and Hï Ibiza, while working with or remixing artists including Aluna, Jamie Jones, MK and Janelle Monáe.
Their latest single “Follow The Rhythm,” made with Detroit producer Dantiez, arrived July 31. It is straightforward house music in the best sense: built around movement, repetition and a hook that does not need much explaining.
That directness has become increasingly useful as house music keeps moving outside its traditional audience. Coco & Breezy understand the difference between making club music accessible and sanding everything interesting out of it. “Follow The Rhythm” lands firmly on the right side of that line.
