June 2, 2026

After working on Dexter and The Moonrocks for three years, Rich is watching the payoff: “Freakin’ Out” has garnered more than 100m streams in two months and remains parked on Spotify’s Today’s Top Hits. She’s also celebrating In Color’s first Top 10 at Alternative with “Headlights,” May signings TALK, MOD SUN and Hendrix Frankenreiter, as well as scheming up some elephant-sized surprises for July. At the tender age of 13, Rich ran Chicago’s biggest Justin Bieber fan Twitter account, making her invitation to his recent secret Roxy show feel especially well-earned. When will he play a venue we’re not banned from?

Carson led digital strategy for Tyler Childers’ Snipe Hunter, which culminated in the artist’s first Grammy win (Best Country Song for “Bitin’ List”). She also helped steer Doja Cat’s Vie and LISA’s solo debut, Alter Ego, which led to her first Coachella appearance. She’s now focused on building the runway for The Red Clay Strays’ Grateful, due June 5—from booking live choirs to tease the single to a larger-than-life Stagecoach set. Back when she interned at Columbia, Carson built the AR filter for Harry Styles’ Harry’s House. Our internship mostly involved screwing up lunch orders.

For Henderson, the ride from the Phoenix airport to the studio with DJ Dahi while making 21 Savage’s i am > i was remains a career-defining moment, meeting a longtime inspiration who lived up to the work and then some. Now Third and Hayden is expanding into distribution with a model built on genuine artist development, prioritizing the human behind the music rather than just the songs. A former church drummer, Henderson fronted a 9th-grade rap group with her friend Latoya. We had a chess club with our imaginary friend Albert.

Among other career highlights, Lopez shot Polyphia and Steve Vai on Downtown L.A. rooftops, coordinated Bad Omens’ leap from 2000-cap clubs to sold-out arenas and helped land Spiritbox’s 2026 Grammys performance (all in heels). At Culture Wave, she’s prepping Spiritbox’s Tsunami Sea U.K./EU Tour—the band’s first arena headliners—alongside Loathe’s Australian headline debut and touring projects from Kittie, Thousand Below and Neck Deep. Lopez sees only a black void when asked to picture something. That’s what we see when asked to picture our career.