DISCOVERING THE NEW MUSIC UNDERGROUND AROUND THE GLOBE
Rock/Review Komaframe - Overthinking
Komaframe, the talented multi-instrumentalist from Roma, Italy, has emerged as a solo artist after a rich history of playing in various bands. With a desire to explore new musical horizons, Komaframe brings a fresh and innovative approach to the music scene, captivating audiences with a unique blend of sounds and textures.
Rock/Review Sheldon Mashugana - Monster Mash
Sheldon Mashugana is the comedic alter ego of Dallas-based performer Dean Morgan, a multi-talented artist who has built an impressive catalog of 18 slapstick comedy films on YouTube. Known for his goofy, feel-good persona, Sheldon Mashugana represents everything joyful and lighthearted in entertainment, offering audiences a much-needed escape from everyday stress. Recording primarily at Justin Pierce Music studio in Dallas, Texas, Morgan has cultivated a strong creative partnership with producer Justin Pierce, who handles the mixing and production duties.
Pop/Review Joe Nilson - Cuando despiertes con él
Joe Nilson is a Dominican singer-songwriter based in New York City and the artist behind NL Latin Music. After years devoted primarily to songwriting, he is now stepping forward as a recording artist, bringing his own voice to songs rooted in personal experiences and emotionally driven storytelling. His music explores Latin genres, including bachata, salsa, and Latin pop, combining traditional influences with contemporary production.
Pop/Review Lacey Lune - The Capital Club
Lacey Lune is a genre-fluid pop auteur whose work moves between retro soul, glam-pop, noir electronics and bruised singer-songwriter confession. Her previous releases established a shape-shifting vocalist with a taste for self-mocking glamour, emotionally volatile hooks and arrangements in which seemingly incompatible styles collide without losing their centre.
Rock/Review Steven Luke - Seasons (To Be Human)
Steven Luke is a Lancashire-based independent singer-songwriter creating classic rock and pop-rock with heart and honesty. Drawing on classic rock ballads and melodic influences, his music pairs warm, powerful vocals with lyrics that explore love, loyalty, friendship, faith, and the quiet courage of staying close through hard seasons. Songs that feel personal, relatable, and timeless.
Pop/Review ErickOscar - A Glimpse of Glory (Country)
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.
Folk/Review Katya Redpath - Time Changes Everything
For singer-songwriter Katya Redpath, the songs on "Time Changes Everything" have roots stretching across continents, generations, and histories, both grand and intimate.
Folk/Review Josh Orange - The Fire & The Call
Josh Orange is an Australian/Irish folk rock band, formed in 2004. Founding members Gordon Burke and Andrew Wass shared digs in Sydney’s suburb of Glebe. The band recorded their first album "Big Day Tomorrow" in 2005 with band mates Blaine Munnings and Alex Miller.
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.
