Latest "Ready to Bust" Articles

• Podcast: Ready to Bust Class of 2026

  Mar 27, 2026 • min read

  By Austin King / Editor

  Austin King and Andrew Curse run through PornCrush’s Ready to Bust 2026 list, breaking down the new and rising performers they think are poised for a major year. They open with a brief intro and a note that Lola Valentine is stepping away from the industry to deal with personal issues, then move…

• Ready to Bust: 21 Performers Who Could Explode in 2026

  Mar 26, 2026 • min read

  By Austin King / Editor

• Ready to Bust: 15 Performers Who Could Explode in 2025

  Mar 19, 2025 • min read

  By Frank Lotion / Contributor

  Sometimes, you can just sense it. Whether you’re following their social media accounts, watching their scenes or listening to praise from directors and colleagues, you can often identify “the next big thing” in porn. Or at least someone who has the potential to be. Most of the time the buzz centers…

• Ready to Bust: 15 Newcomers Who Could Explode in 2024

  Feb 20, 2024 • min read

  By Frank Lotion / Contributor

  During the first week of school, the halls always buzz about the “new kid.” Before every football season, fans get excited about the incoming rookies. Agents in the music and film industries are always on the lookout for fresh, new talent. In other words, society is obsessed with newcomers. The…

• Ready to Bust: Elizabeth Skylar

  Oct 26, 2023 • min read

  By Austin King / Editor

  Before she reads over her call sheet or packs a bag for set, Elizabeth Skylar tends to a more important order of business most mornings before work. She gets her children ready for school. “Family first,” Skylar says. “Then porn.” Just four months into her career, Skylar appears to be juggling both…

• Ready to Bust: Nichole Saphir

  Oct 19, 2023 • min read

  By Austin King / Editor

  Nichole Saphir has a confession to make. “I’m super shy,” the 26-year-old head-turner says. “I’ve always been very self-conscious.” In many ways that’s difficult to fathom. Whether she’s twerking at a pool party, surfing at Venice beach or dancing in the crowd at an indie alternative concert,…

• Ready to Bust: Madison Wilde

  Sep 26, 2023 • min read

  By Austin King / Editor

  Forget the ritzy studio sets. Or even the comfort of her own bedroom for an amateur shoot. Instead, surging newcomer Madison Wilde picked a rather unlikely location to record her first piece of adult content. McDonald’s. Or rather, the parking lot at McDonald’s. Wilde was an 18-year-old employee at…

• Ready to Bust: Serena Hill

  Aug 23, 2023 • min read

  By Austin King / Editor

  It was a phone call Serena Hill never wanted to make. Earlier this week—just a few days before her anticipated debut scene for Blacked—the surging porn newcomer had to cancel for health reasons. Hill didn’t have an STD. She didn’t test positive for COVID. And she wasn’t suffering from flu-like…

• Ready to Bust: Raven Lane

  Aug 17, 2023 • min read

  By Austin King / Editor

  Just six months into her career, Raven Lane already has a bucket list of performers she’d like to shoot with one day. “I absolutely adore Ryan Reid,” Lane says. “She's so cute and I love her tattoos. I feel like she would be super cool. I love Jill Kassidy. I think she's beautiful. Aidra Fox,…

• Ready to Bust: Millie Morgan

  Aug 10, 2023 • min read

  By Austin King / Editor

  *Multiple times per month, PornCrush will highlight a surging performer who is less than one year into her career in “Ready to Bust.” Please send us a message if you are interested in being featured. She’s performed in short plays in men’s prisons, worked in an old folks home, lived in Joshua Tree…