British-American act Raynes have wasted no time making themselves heard. Signing with Sony Music Publishing less than a year after their inception, the group has since released six singles and four EPs, performed at BottleRock Festival in 2025 and at sold-out venues across the US and the UK. Now, their singular blend of pop, folk, and world music is being featured on television shows, commercials, and tastemakers’ playlists, earning them hundreds of thousands of monthly listeners and millions of streams across platforms. Mat Charley and Joe Berger, both born and raised in North Dakota, met in college, where Mat––the band’s producer and multi-instrumentalist––was usually skipping class to write songs. “Joe introduced himself to me because I ‘looked cool,’ as he put it, and off-handedly mentioned that he played guitar. Within a week or so we were spending most nights in my room working on songs,” recalls Mat. Before long, the two had recorded a handful of demos and realized that the songs were good enough to build a band around.
