DISCOVERING THE NEW MUSIC UNDERGROUND AROUND THE GLOBE
Pop/Review Linuss - Go To Her
Linuss is a bedroom pop artist based in Los Angeles. The project culminates the recent creative iterations of singer, songwriter, and guitarist Michael Glines, who is best known for his work as the driving force behind alt-indie band Vues.
Rock/Review Mark Winters - Boundary Layer (Radio Remix)
Texas-based indie-rock musician Mark Winters is many things: a soulful songwriter, a witty poet, a passionate musician, an entrepreneur, an optimist, a family man, and a bonafide rocket scientist! His biggest influences are John Mayer, Tom Petty, and Jason Mraz.
Rock/Review Kiss Hello - Death by Misadventure
Kiss Hello is a band from Los Angeles, consisting of Linus Landucci and various collaborators. His 2018 debut album, Songs for Shell Beach, took on an ambient tone, melding organic instrumentation with heavy digital sampling and layering.
Rock/Review Loose Bolts - Could I Stay Here?
Resembling a similar creative situation as Tame Impala or Prince, Loose Bolts is the solo outlet of songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Ian Brice. What started in 2015 as a Florida-based, heavily Folk Punk-influenced side project to a Blackened Death Metal outfit has blossomed into a Nashville-based one-stop shop for all your Indie/Pop/Rock cravings (and those are just the main umbrellas).
Pop/Review Carter Lagrant - Follow The Rules
Carter Lagrant is a Ukrainian songwriter based in Warsaw, where his house-influenced EDM, experimental hip-hop, and alt/rock influences melt into dissonant and dark modern pop. Singing breathlessly over groovy, distorted instrumentals, he speaks about present-day social issues like violence, inequality, love, and hate.
Metal/Review Lazywall - Ghadin Nod
Lazywall are a Moroccan rock trio whose oriental rock/metal hybrid is a tagine of traditional Arabic time signatures and instruments and powerful altrock. Singing in Arabic, the band covers topics like climate change, social injustice, integration, and corruption with a visceral intensity that removes language barriers and unites cultures.
Punk/Review Strange Company - Overrated
Made up of accomplished members of the South Wales music scene, Strange Company are a three piece rock outfit from Swansea, Wales. Born out of the anxiety and isolation of a worldwide lockdown, their music speaks to the doom, disaster, and eventual hope felt the world over.
Rock/Review Vargen - The Bitch In Me
Vargen (translates as "The Wolf" in Swedish) is the stage and recording name for acclaimed Bob Dylan interpreter and singer-songwriter Reine Johansson. His first original single, Mindy Morning, has, in a short time, become Vargen’s most streamed song on Spotify and has been frequently played on Indie radio and on Swedish radio.
Pop/Review Ruby Tingle - Fountainia
Ruby Tingle is an award-winning audiovisual artist and performer represented by No Such Thing Records and PAPER Gallery. Her practice is concerned with the reconstruction of familiar forms and presenting the extraordinary as authentic. Expanded collage spans performance, installation, sound, work on paper, and interventions with museum collections.
Pop/Review The Artist Ren - Under the Bleachers
The Artist Ren formed during COVID in 2020, and most of the songs are influenced by Lauren's experiences and emotions during the COVID lockdown.
Pop/Review Winnie Gotmilk - Music for Bunnies
Winnie Gotmilk is a French musician and producer currently based in Warsaw, Poland. He uses a blend of acoustic and synthetic instruments to create quirky and catchy experimental pop songs with a spiritual undercurrent.
Rock/Review Spy From Moscow - Soldier Song
Spy From Moscow is a London-based songwriter who, for the last 6 years, has been impressing audiences in Europe and the UK with his explosive and magnetic live shows.
Rock/Review Rich Antony - If I Had Your Love
Rich Antony's newest project is called "eMpTy". The first single, "If I Had Your Love," was released on May 19th, 2023.
Rock/Review Rokita - Spring Break
Rokita (Original Michigander) and the stars have finally aligned to allow him to bring you music the way that he has been inspired by music. Looking for fresh, original, and upbeat music that will leave you feeling euphoric? Look no further than Rokita's classic rock style.
Pop/Review Em Ly - Sunlight
Em Ly is an Australian artist. She has two children and loves hiking and exploring rock pools with them. She's happiest when singing and floating in the ocean. Em is a passionate mental health advocate and takes inspiration from her lived experience of mental illness. Singing and writing lyrics is a therapeutic process.
Electronic/Review ProntaCorde - Music Of My Life
ProntaCorde is the solo project of Jose-Alberto Gallegos, hailing from the underground music scene in the heart of CDMX. Fueled by a passion for creating music that breaks down barriers and blends different genres, ProntaCorde brings a fresh and alternative sound to the scene.
Folk/Review David Moore - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
David Moore writes the majority of his songs on acoustic guitar, and although he considers his style to be loosely based on folk-rock, his writing spans genres from pop to blues to progressive country to even some ambient instrumentals.
Pop/Review Daniel de Boer - Fly Away
Dutch bassist and singer Daniel de Boer worked many years as a freelance musician and composer (including for the Metropole Orchestra, the Celebrity Edge Theatre Ensemble, and Holland Opera) before his desire to start his own project brought him to Berklee College of Music in Valencia, Spain.
Rock/Review THE HYBRIS - The Game Of Cat And Mouse
THE HYBRIS is an international alternative rock project by three friends. In the past, they lived in Germany and played in various bands playing rock, punk, and alternative music before they were spread all over the world. Today they live in Nice, L.A. and Cologne, but they still make music, and more than ever.
Rock/Review Strange Souvenirs - Coma Cluster (feat. Cameron James Laing)
Strange Souvenirs breathe new life into the world of drab color by numbers pop with their unique shizoid blend of delicate, danceable, and disorienting music. True to their band name, every release unveils a new, unexpected side of the duo, reverberating as audio anomalies and strange sonic souvenirs from distant dimensions of sound.