Stories That Captivate And Elevate
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LA composer Yuxuan Liu scores film, games and concert halls by a rule he calls Experiential Composition: if the music doesn’t move him physically first, it isn’t ready.
Songwriter Hillg Tedsang wrote “April Apocalypse” about refusing to cry at a busy intersection. Released August 14, 2026, it is the first single from the Toddy Tang album “Rebuild Sunday.”
Hollywood has its famous attorneys. This isn’t a list about them. LA Note looks at 12 entertainment lawyers in Los Angeles building the next generation of practices in film, TV, music, IP and the creator economy.
Artur Nasyrov left Russia in 2022 and landed in Los Angeles in late 2023. As artxxnas, he has turned his body, his exile and his training as a landscape architect into one interconnected practice — music, body-made paintings, clothing and performance. His new single “STAR,” out 13 August 2026, is the English-language declaration at the center of it.
Australian artist-producer Roger K pairs a kalimba hook with an Afrobeat groove on “Didn’t know I was running out of time,” out July 24, 2026 — and spends his off-hours reviewing other independent artists, nearly every day, on RogerKReacts.
Terra Olympia, the 12-track electronic album by Greek composer George Voukanos, arrived worldwide Aug. 14, 2026 on Melody Spirit Records. Full tracklist and the myths behind it.
From Seville, screenwriter J. H. Allely has earned nearly 70 international honours for emotional sci-fi scripts like SYNNOIA — no move to LA required.
Grammy-nominated producer-turned-artist James Artissen goes dark pop on “Blank Face,” a cinematic single about what expressionless faces hide — out now on Humble Sound Records.
After a 2023 road traffic accident left him in a coma and tetraplegic, the Lincoln-based rapper rebuilt his voice through music therapy — and wrote a 14-track concept album about remembering the coma as the peaceful part. Out 24 September 2026 on The JOHKER Records.
The Naples-area singer-songwriter’s debut single sets Pirandello’s theory of masks to lush orchestral alt-pop — with hand-stitched collage visuals covered by Exibart, praise from Happy Mag, and an afterlife as an English-teaching resource on Tune Into English.
