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It’s one thing to be a singer, another to write your own music, and almost unheard of to also release your own novel. The multifaceted artist Skela, however, takes DIY to the next level. Born and raised in New York City, the songstress-turned-novelist recently released Project 10–an ambitious visual album of 10 songs and music videos filmed throughout her hometown–as a countdown to the announcement of her first original novel, Building You Up, due out later this year.

Kelly Zutrau, frontwoman of dreampop darling Wet, bumped into filmmaker Alfred Marroquin on a side street near his house in Williamsburg last spring. It wasn’t exactly an accident. I saw Kelly in the street a couple of times and I kind of just swooned,” he told Brooklyn Magazine. “Kelly’s writing, her vocals, the melody are…