Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento

Stomp Clap 2.0 era is here.

Ah!

We had like the Lumineers and Mumford and Sons, like this is the new version of that, I feel like.

Yeah, there's three main artists that I've been sort of keeping tabs on.

The first one is Jesse Wells.

He's an Arkansas singer-songwriter.

He's often compared to like Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan.

His whole thing is singing the news.

So he's cranking these songs out.

Like, you know, he's made songs about what's happening in Gaza, about the Trump administration's trying to draw links between Tylenol use and autism.

there's two other artists one of them is Monrovia he's an Afro-Appalachian singer that also has this very sort of earthy folk sound his music is really about identity in a lot of ways but also protests oppression and the government and like a lack of collective care and empathy in today's society do you see the man on the street just fighting for immunity you can write him off as a lunatic but

And then the third one is Jensen McRae.

She's like an indie rock folk singer of the 21st century.

And, you know, she's open for Moona and Noah Khan.

And she's like a folk artist with a more acoustic pop angle.

But she's also released a few protest songs on her social media channels that aren't, like they're not on her albums.

She's just someone who will respond to something big happening in the news by writing these songs and posting them directly on TikTok and Instagram.

I feel like this very folky Americana thing is having a really big moment.

And because it is aesthetically reminiscent of that like 60s, 70s Bob Dylan, Joan Baez thing, I think it only makes sense that we're also getting people who are adding a political layer back into that music with this aesthetic.

Exactly.