DISCOVERING THE NEW MUSIC UNDERGROUND AROUND THE GLOBE
Pop/Review Moon and Aries - In the Silence of the Hills
Moon and Aries is a transatlantic music duo (Jordana Moon from Kelowna, Canada & Tom Aries from Cologne, Germany) creating cinematic, emotionally immersive soundscapes that blend trip-hop, indie, and atmospheric electronic music. Working across continents, the duo writes, performs, and produces all music themselves—combining original songwriting, organic instrumentation, and detailed production, with no AI-generated music, vocals, or lyrics.
Pop/Review Dave Hill Jr. - Sunrise State of Mind
Dave Hill Jr. is a Seattle-based singer-songwriter, drummer, and author of Doubt Riding Shotgun. He came up as a drummer, backing other people's songs for years before he ever stepped up to sing his own. He releases a new song essentially every month, a pace that keeps him honest and gives listeners a steady thread to follow rather than a long wait between albums.
Blues/Review Stefano Jeff Blues - THE SUITE
Stefano Jeff Blues is an independent artist whose music begins with the blues but refuses to stay within its boundaries. Blending blues, jazz, blues-rock, gospel, and contemporary R&B with cinematic atmospheres and electronic textures, he creates a personal language built around guitar, piano, synthesizers, space, and silence.
Classical/Review Sergiy Bolotny - Little Dutch Rhapsody No. 3 Capriccio Amsterdam
Sergiy Bolotny is a Ukrainian-born concert violinist, composer, and assistant second concertmaster with the Noord Nederlands Orkest (NNO) in the Netherlands. Educated at music academies in Lviv, Kyiv, and Vienna, Bolotny has built an international career spanning classical masterworks, chamber ensembles, and original contemporary compositions. His ongoing Ukrainian Caprices and Little Dutch Rhapsodies cycle fuse historical European folk heritage with concert-level solo string virtuosity.
House/Review Novaix Onyx - Close
Novaix Onyx is a Korean-American rapper and the first artist signed to Novaix Entertainment. Her sound sits between UK dance music and Korean pop — garage, house and bassline production with a rapper-first vocal, written in English with Korean woven through the hooks. Novaix Onyx is a disclosed AI artist. The songwriting, lyrics, arrangement, creative direction and mixing decisions are human; the performance and visuals are generated.
Cinematic/Review Komár Zsolt - Celtic Tale
Komár Zsolt is a Hungarian composer and music producer creating orchestral, neoclassical, and cinematic fantasy music. His work combines recurring themes, story-shaped structures, and immersive world-building, drawing listeners into enchanted forests, forgotten ruins, and emotionally charged journeys. Every release is composed and produced as human-created music, with performance and expressive detail at the center.
Rock/Review Highway Wolf - Lone, Never Alone
Welcome to the adventures of Highway Wolf, a unique musical project led by Mick Hellman and his creative partners, Tal Morris and Amber Morris, who create a sonic experience through a collection of reimagined classics. Highway Wolf takes us on a transformational journey, relatable to anyone challenged by The Call and all that comes with answering The Call. The songs are of the human experience, and through the howling and longing of the Highway Wolf, listeners come to understand these stories through another lens.
Metal/Review Watch Me Die Inside - Fantasy Girl
Watch Me Die Inside is the work of Aleph, an artistic universe that documents the modern human in a state of internal collapse. Through Fragments, the project exposes states suspended between function, identity loss, emptiness, and resistance. Multiple Fragments form an Autopsy: not merely a collection of songs, but the dissection of a psychological wound. The audience is not treated as passive listeners but as Witnesses – observers of a condition that is not softened, only made visible.
Electronic/Review Sienná - Ema
Born in the ancient city of Kyoto, Japan, and currently based in Oslo, Norway. Sienná's electronic music typically represents a distinct cross-cultural blend often marketed as East-meets-West sound. She actively avoids typical copycat music trends. Her avant-garde soundscapes fuse experimental, house, jazz, classical, and traditional-contemporary Japanese music.
R&B/Review Tracy Pham - U WISH
Tracy Pham is a Denver-based artist whose life moves between two very different worlds: medicine and music. Currently working as a nurse while pursuing the path toward becoming a hematologist, Tracy brings the same sense of care and human connection she experiences in everyday life into her music. She is part of nrLabel, a Vietnamese-rooted collective whose members are based across the United States, Poland, Finland, and Vietnam.
Pop/Review SEGANA - Midnight Masquerade
SEGANA is a Sydney-based pop duo redefining nostalgia for a global audience. The brainchild of Joshua and Derrick, two distinct artists who share an appetite for music that spans genres and generations, SEGANA seamlessly blends 1970s and 80s melodic richness with a sleek, modern pop edge. The result is a sound that feels both timeless and bracingly current.
Folk/Review Hamish - Significant Others
Hamish is a British musician who has been on the subculture scene in the UK for 3 decades. He founded the now famous Rabbit Hole at Glastonbury Festival, where he specialised in backing young, up-and-coming talent from all genres. His music is known for its melody and storytelling and has a substantial fan base who love his stuff.
Rock/Review Joseph Turner & The Dudes of Hazard - Backbone
Joseph Turner & The Dudes of Hazard is a brand new indie/alternative outfit that your folks would call “pretty good actually” after four beers. Built around acoustic guitars, sharp songwriting, and a love for atmosphere, the project blends indie, dark Americana, and alternative influences into songs that feel both road-worn and alive. There’s dust in the air, endless roads ahead, and enough emotional trouble in the trunk to snap the suspension.
Reggae/Review C'batch - I Guess You Want It This Way (Reggae) - Tribute to Ernest Ranglin
Stephen H. Cumberbatch, professionally known as C’batch, is a composer, producer, guitarist, and independent recording artist from White Plains, New York. A longtime ASCAP member, he is also a keyboard, synthesizer, and sampler programmer whose work spans R&B, soul, dance, funk, reggae, jazz-influenced, and cinematic music. C’batch’s musical history reaches back to New York’s influential early-1980s dance scene.
Electronic/Review Vela Jones - Frequency - Turn Me Up
Created as a boundary-pushing modern artist identity, Vela Jones exists at the intersection of music, imagination, and technology. Rather than relying on novelty, the project focuses on timeless songwriting, strong hooks, and emotionally resonant themes. Musically, Vela Jones moves between art-pop, alternative pop, synth textures, and cinematic atmosphere. Visually, the project presents a sleek futuristic aesthetic that supports a deeper narrative world.
Electronic/Review Jenuel - Body
Meet Jenuel, a 19-year-old rising talent from Orlando who's carving out his own lane in the music scene with an infectious creative energy. Drawing inspiration from powerhouse artists like Juice WRLD, Justin Bieber, and Bruno Mars, Jenuel channels diverse influences into a sound that's unmistakably his own. What sets this young artist apart is his authenticity—writing primarily from personal experiences while keeping his creative lens open to the world around him.
Rock/Review Gordo Bardot - Big Bad Fire
Glasgow-based artist Gordo Bardot is a multi-talented musician who writes, performs, produces, and mixes their own material, showcasing a rare level of artistic independence in today's music landscape. With an extraordinary creative output that has seen over 75 songs written and demoed in less than a year, Gordo Bardot is experiencing a remarkable period of artistic fertility, embracing the momentum of inspiration as songs continue to pour out effortlessly.
Pop/Review ErickOscar - Hold The Light
ErickOscar has been playing acoustic guitar and writing songs for more than thirty years. He grew up listening to music every weekend — usually ballads and love songs — and still treats the guitar as therapy: a way to work through what a day leaves behind. Born in Panamá, Erick has lived in the United States for 34 years and became an American citizen decades ago. Work has also taken him to postings across nearly every country in Latin America.
Jazz/Review d'Z - Inner Child (feat. Emmie te Pas)
Based in Arnhem, Netherlands, d'Z is an award-winning composer and producer who has carved out a distinctive space in contemporary jazz and soul music. With an impressive track record that includes the AEE Music Awards' "Best Jazz Single" for "ONE" and the InterContinental Music Awards' "Best Song of Europe in the European Jazz Genre" for both "SUNLIGHT" and "FLOW," d'Z has demonstrated a consistent ability to craft compelling musical narratives.
Folk/Review Hamish - Singing in My Soul
Hamish is a British musician who has been on the subculture scene in the UK for 3 decades. He founded the now famous Rabbit Hole at Glastonbury Festival, where he specialised in backing young, up-and-coming talent from all genres. His music is known for its melody and storytelling and has a substantial fan base who love his stuff.
