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The Austin 100: Fuvk

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Hometown: Austin, Texas

Genre: Indie Pop

Why We're Excited: At first, the artist known as fuvk — named for a typo and pronounced in a radio-unfriendly manner — toiled in self-imposed anonymity befitting a maker of shy bedroom pop. But Shirley Zhu has since expanded both her profile and her sound. "Skipper" is an enchanting fragment of folk-pop breeziness; at 93 seconds, it appears poised to bloom into a gargantuan chorus, only to dissipate like a fine mist.

Listen to fuvk's "Skipper"

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Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)