Artists like The Japanese House

Muna is an American indie pop band consisting of Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin, and Naomi McPherson. They released two studio albums with RCA Records, About U (2017) and Saves the World (2019), before signing with independent label Saddest Factory Records, which released their third studio album, Muna, in June 2022, and Dancing on the Wall in May 2026.

Margaret Debay Rogers is an American singer-songwriter and record producer from Easton, Maryland. She received widespread recognition after her song "Alaska" was played to artist-in-residence Pharrell Williams during a master class at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts in Manhattan in 2016. She has released two independent albums, The Echo (2012) and Blood Ballet (2014), and three studio albums, Heard It in a Past Life (2019), Surrender (2022), and Don't Forget Me (2024). She was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2020.

Dora Jarkowski, known professionally as Dora Jar, is an American bedroom pop musician. She has released a studio album, two extended plays, and three singles as of 2024. She has been included on Vogue's "22 Rising Musicians Set To Rule 2022" and Alternative Press's "Rising Artists" lists, among others.

Samuel Holden Jaffe, known as Del Water Gap, is an American musician and record producer from Sharon, Connecticut, now based in Brooklyn, New York. He has released three studio albums with Mom + Pop Music.

Wet is an American indie pop group from Brooklyn, New York. The band's first two albums—the 2013 self-titled EP and 2016 Don't You—are credited to Kelly Zutrau, Joe Valle, and Marty Sulkow. In March 2018, Wet released a single, "There's a Reason", as a duo of Zutrau and Valle. Signed to Columbia Records, Wet was named the most promising group in music by The Fader in 2015.

Yumi Zouma are a New Zealand alternative pop band from Christchurch. The band consists of Christie Simpson, Josh Burgess, Charlie Ryder, and Olivia Campion (drums). The band's name is an amalgamation of the two friends who encouraged the group to start writing together.

Michael Todd Gordon, better known by his stage name Mk.gee, is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist. His career began in 2017 with the release of his debut single "I Know How You Get". In 2018, he followed up with two EPs Pronounced McGee and Fool, before releasing his debut mixtape A Museum of Contradiction in 2020. In 2024, Gordon released his debut studio album Two Star & the Dream Police. Aside from his own work, Gordon has collaborated as a songwriter and producer with various artists, including Dijon, Omar Apollo, Kacy Hill, Fred Again, Bon Iver, and Justin Bieber.

Kacy Anne Hill is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and former model. She is best known for her guest appearance on Travis Scott's 2015 single "90210", which received quadruple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Mikaela Mullaney Straus, known professionally as King Princess, is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actor from Brooklyn, New York. She was signed to Mark Ronson's label Zelig Records, an imprint of Columbia Records. In February 2018, she released her debut single "1950", from her debut extended play (EP) Make My Bed, released later that year. The song was a commercial success, charting in multiple territories, and was later certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Her second single, "Talia", was certified gold in Australia by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). King Princess released her debut studio album Cheap Queen in 2019 to widespread critical acclaim. She left Zelig Records before the release of her 2025 album Girl Violence, which was released by Section1. She made her acting debut in the 2025 show Nine Perfect Strangers.

Sabrina Mae Teitelbaum, better known as Blondshell, is an American indie rock singer, songwriter and musician based in Los Angeles, California. Following an early pop-leaning career under the name BAUM, Teitelbaum debuted Blondshell in June 2022 with the single "Olympus". She has toured with acts including Suki Waterhouse, Horsegirl, and Porridge Radio and has performed at South by Southwest, Austin City Limits Music Festival, and on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Her self-titled debut album was released on April 7, 2023, via Partisan Records, receiving positive reviews.

Madison indie whose songs run cool with a shoegaze bruise.

Isabella Sophie Tweddle, better known under the stage name Billie Marten, is a British singer-songwriter and musician from Ripon in North Yorkshire. Her stage name came from her family's desire to keep her real name private because her music career started when she was a teen. She first came to prominence at the age of twelve when a video on YouTube of her singing garnered thousands of views. She released her first EP at the age of fifteen in 2014, and her second EP a year later. At the end of 2015, she was nominated for BBC's Sound of 2016 award. She has since released five full-length albums: Writing of Blues and Yellows, Feeding Seahorses by Hand, Flora Fauna, Drop Cherries, and Dog Eared, all of which have received critical acclaim. Her style can be described as singer-songwriter and folk.

Indigo De Souza is an American singer-songwriter from Spruce Pine, North Carolina. Her third album, All of This Will End, was released in April 2023. Her fourth album, Precipice, was released in July 2025. She has been noted for creating "intimate, anxious indie rock songs [that] wrangle with disappointment and relationship challenges," with personal and confessional lyrics.

Hippo Campus is an American indie rock band from Saint Paul, Minnesota. Their musical inclinations appear to be firmly rooted in the UK and Australia, drawing inspiration from artists such as Little Comets, Last Dinosaurs, Bombay Bicycle Club, and King Krule. They are signed to Psychic Hotline in the United States and Transgressive Records in the United Kingdom. The band has performed at South by Southwest, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Summerfest and Reading and Leeds Festivals, Hinterland Music Festival, as well as on Conan. Hippo Campus were named one of NPR Music's favorite new artists of 2017.

Melina Mae Cortez Duterte, better known by her stage name Jay Som, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and mixing engineer. Initially presenting an indie rock sound, she released her debut studio album Turn Into in mid-2016. She followed this with Everybody Works in 2017, Anak Ko in 2019, and Belong in 2025.

Sunday (1994) is an English-American dream pop band based in Los Angeles, California. The group consists of Paige Turner from Los Angeles, California, Lee Newell from Slough, England and Jason Puma from Lima, Peru.