If there’s one genre that feels like home to me, it’s shoegaze, that dreamy blur where distortion meets emotion, and melodies melt into waves of sound. It’s the kind of music you feel. It’s cinematic, nostalgic, and endlessly introspective, which is exactly what I try to channel into my own songs. My trip to Niagara Falls For the past year, I’ve been curating a playlist that captures the essence of what shoegaze means to me, a mix of my original tracks and the artists who sha

Hey, Lazulis, As an artist weaving my own path, I’m always listening, learning, and absorbing. These days, I’ve been especially drawn to three musicians, my current favorites, whose work excites me, inspires me, and pushes me into new creative territory. So here they are, in no particular order: Wisp, Glare, and Whirr. What my setup for recording and producing music looked like in a Berklee Dorm Wisp Wisp is the musical alias of Natalie R. Lu, a rising Gen Z artist from San F

What's up Lazulis? I believe that every coming-of-age story deserves its soundtrack, and my Sweet Sixteen Concert was exactly that: a night to come together and celebrate music and life. I performed a mix of my original songs and covers of some of my favorites, including Arctic Monkeys, Chappell Roan, Nirvana, and more. My originals, indie rock, new and unreleased at that time, were shells of what they were to grow to be later. And the covers? They were my personal reinterpre