Discovering the new music underground around the globe
Jazz/Review Ari Joshua - Let's Do It Right Now
Ari Joshua is a dynamic musician and performer whose sound is as diverse as his upbringing. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, and raised in Seattle, WA, Ari's passion for music was evident from a young age.
Rock/Review Love Ghost - Veneno
Love Ghost is an enigmatic and ethereal band that has been making waves in the music industry. They recently returned from playing at the Rockpalast festival in Germany, following in the footsteps of iconic bands like Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, and R.E.M.
Hip-Hop/Review Sunny V - Pas De Transpiration (No Sweat)
Sunny V is a rapper, lyricist, and emcee from New Orleans, Louisiana. His music is direct, witty, and energetic, with a vibrant lyrical flow that reminds listeners of the greats in the genre, including LL Cool J, Nas, and Method Man.
Rock/Review Danny Henry - Danny's Bar ft. Syd Straw
Danny Henry is a singer-songwriter from Milford, CT. Danny started playing piano at fifteen in Connecticut and moved out to Los Angeles after college in a 1995 Toyota Corolla Wagon with nothing but two garbage bags of clothes, a snow cone machine, a keyboard, and a box of Beach Boys records.
Pop/Review StarAV - ocean / wastebag
StarAV is the vocalist/songwriter and Faithloss is the producer. They met in the online SoundCloud hyperpop community. They are both huge fans of Corbin (Spooky Black), Kensuke Ushio, and The Weeknd.
Pop/Review Genuine Leather - Even If I Could
Genuine Leather is lofi synthpop singer songwriter Chris Galis from Austin, Texas. His eclectic musical soundscape is the direct consequence of cheap beers and messing around with his older brother's Tascam tape recorder and Yamaha synthesisers, having just been dumped.
Rock/Review Near Death Experience (NDX) - Lightning
Psychedelic Rock'n'Soul Superheroes Near Death Experience (NDX) are a four-piece band from Ealing, London. Since forming in 2016 and playing Glastonbury 2017, they've gained a reputation for powerful, emotive live performances and a "shimmering psyche-tinged rock'n' soul" sound.
Gospel/Review Kell Bailey - Faithful God (featuring Mariah Lanee, Jeremy McKain)
Musician, songwriter, and producer Kell Bailey has been making music for as long as he could remember. Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, at around the age of 6 he discovered he had the gift of playing by ear.
Electronic/Review JSDavani - imaginary vowels
JSDavani is a multi-instrumentalist, he participated in the experimental music and arts scene in Atlanta, GA from 2006-2014, and during that time performed and collaborated with a number of local artists and groups (white lions, khovicoobah, butterface, mengele, ponypayroll bones, among others).
Pop/Review Evoletah - Calliope Dreaming
Evoletah is a collaborative group formed in 2005 by Matt Cahill. Matt first came to prominence in the early 90s as the lead singer of award-winning indie rock outfit ‘The Violets’. Following the band’s dissolution and a brief sabbatical, he returned in 2005 with the studio-based creation Evoletah.
Rock/Review Queen Daxene - Barnstormer
Queen Daxene is an exciting studio project from London-based musician Alex Denny. Alex signed a publishing deal with Warner Chappell and has written songs all his life.
Pop/Review Ilan Bell - About You
Based out of New York City, Ilan Bell is an indie singer-songwriter who has already gained widespread attention for his much-anticipated debut album, American Love. Joining forces with Grammy-winning producer Paul Falcone (Jay-Z, Beyonce, Tom Odell), Ilan Bell delivers a series of understated ballads alongside more anthemic tracks that callback to the 60s and 70s while still pushing the sonic envelope.
Folk/Review The Dust Collectors - Outside In
The Dust Collectors are an alternative folk band from Calgary, Alberta. After years of playing separately in different bands, the four long-time friends quickly moved from garage jams to songwriting.
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.