Discovering the new music underground around the globe
Metal/Review Love Ghost x Cinnamon Babe - Do You Like Me Now?
Welcome to Love Ghost, a musical project that combines rock, grunge, metal, emo, and other genres. The songs tackle trauma and mental health challenges. Selected for Rockpalast (broadcast throughout Germany), they have played live on four continents. In Mexico, they have collaborated with artists including Adan Cruz, Santa RM, Dan Garcia, Ritorukai, Go Golden Junk, Wiplash, Blnko, ND Kobi, and upcoming songs with Rayben, among many others. They have gained co-signs from Rolling Stone Magazine, Playboy, TimeOut Mexico, and many others.
Post-Punk/Review LOLOCRASH - Loulou
Discover the LOLOCRASH group, a bold mix of style and universe imagined by Léonard Stefanica, a multidisciplinary artist with an innovative vision. Their album, also called "lolocrash," invites you to party and breaks the codes. Léonard Stefanica, in a few words born from an early musical awakening and a chance meeting with an illustrious Russian teacher. Léonard Stefanica, known by his stage name LOLOCRASH, is a multifaceted artist.
Pop/Review Living With The Storm - New Animal Culture
A merging of electronica, trip-hop, progressive rock, and ambient music, Living With The Storm is the solo project of Jim Bryant, also remotely known for being one half of Hero Monk and, in the dim and distant past, one third of Earth Calling Alice. Since starting the project during lockdown, Jim has remained prolific, releasing the 'Purpose of the Planet' and 'Wolf' EPs, the albums 'Between Two Hurricanes' and 'Memoria', which was described by one reviewer as “an art-pop masterpiece,” and, in 2024, ‘New Animal Culture’.
Pop/Review Lucy Wroe - Heartbeat Wipers
Lucy Wroe is a London-based artist releasing music without boundaries. Her creativity is influenced by changemakers spanning all genres, from Charli XCX to Radiohead, Kate Bush, and Caroline Polachek. Always looking to move forward, every release hits the refresh button. In 2022, the mellow-pop EP “Same World” triggered a surge in writing with long-time collaborator Tom b. This led to the release of “Better” in 2023 and the electronic-pop EP “WAVES.”
R&B/Review Love Ghost x ND Kobi - God Damn
Welcome to Love Ghost, a musical project which combines rock, grunge, metal, Emo and other genres. The songs tackle trauma and Mental Health challenges. Selected for Rockpalast (broadcast throughout Germany), they have played live on 4 continents. In Mexico, they have collaborated with artists including Adan Cruz, Santa RM, Dan Garcia, Ritorukai, Go Golden Junk, Wiplash, Blnko, and upcoming songs with ND Kobi, Rayben, and many others. They have gained co-signs from Rolling Stone Magazine, Playboy, Billboard Latin America, and many others.
Pop/Review LAZA! - I Don't Care!
Luiza Lale's husband and she started creating tracks together in lockdown... She met Ana Gracey, and they hit it off immediately. Chris, their producer, is in the USA, and because the world was shut down, it actually seemed to open up, as distance was not an issue as everyone was locked in their own homes!
Electronic/Review LOCKDOWN - Badlands
LOCKDOWN is an electrifying synthwave project with retro cinematic influences, pulsating electronic beats, and immersive soundscapes.
Rock/Review La Need Machine - These Old Jeans
La Need Machine is a fast-rising Seattle band with a fresh, genre-bending sound. La Need Machine combines the best of Indie Rock, Americana, Indie Pop, and Punk-and-Roll for a sound that adds a new dimension to the “Seattle Sound.” Fans and music writers alike refer to La Need Machine songs as “ear-worms” that you want to listen to again and again. La Need Machine aims for music that rocks, inspires, and supports the community at large.
Hip-Hop/Review Luh Kai - No Cuffin
Luh Kai is an up-and-coming drill rapper and singer from Atlanta, Georgia. His fresh delivery and poetic cadences set him apart from other artists. His goal is to make music that everyone can feel.
Pop/Review Legna Hernandez feat. Love Ghost - Tiana
Legna Hernandez, with over 17 million followers on TikTok and more than 4.7 million on Instagram, is one of Mexico's most-followed public figures. This past year, she finally decided to pursue the music she always loved. Bands such as Paramore, Avril Lavigne, and Halsey, among others, have been her influences since her teenage years, shaping her style, outfits, makeup, and now her music.
EDM/Review LX8 - Quantum Blue
LX8 is the name used by Henry Chebaane, artist, writer, producer, set designer and filmmaker to collaborate with music artists, vocalists and sound engineers around the world. Since the 1980s he has been a big fan of electronic music in all its variety, so that's his main toolkit but other genres are under development. He thinks that everything that we perceive as our ‘reality’ is made of waves of probability and that is what creates our universe.
Hip-Hop/Review Love Ghost - TIME TRAVEL
Love clings to you forever, whether you’re in it or out of it. Like an apparition you can’t shake, it never leaves. Love Ghost’s music conjures a style equally informed by Seattle tradition and Souncloud-era fearlessness. Love Ghost is for the misfits, and their music mostly deals with personal battles of mental health.
Classical/Review laisve - Oscillations
laisve is a collective featuring ex-members of the post-punk band The Communion. Their influences are Can, Mark Hollis, Frank Zappa, DJ Shadow, Classical, Mogwai, Morcheeba, and Orbital.
Pop/Review Loren Heat - Breathe (SOS)
Loren Heat is an upcoming singer/songwriter from Middlesbrough in the North East of England. The musical influences of Dua Lipa, Years and Years, Rita Ora, Slayyyter, and Mabel form the foundation for their dark pop-leaning songs. With tastemaker support from the likes of BBC Introducing, Notion, Earmilk, CULTR, and Music Crowns already under their belt, Loren Heat is quickly making their unique voice heard.
Electronic/Review LOCKDOWN - Replicant
LOCKDOWN, an electronic project by Jonathan Fair, is back with an invigorating second release titled "Replicant." After the initial success of the dark and melodic debut "Vengeance," this new song nurtures the mind with slick and polished rhythms and precision clock-like beats that carry a powerful sonic monorail of textural and exotic sounds.
Rock/Review Love Ghost - THE SPEED OF DREAMING
Love clings to you forever, whether you’re in it or out of it. Like an apparition you can’t shake, it never leaves. Love Ghost’s music conjures a style equally informed by Seattle tradition and Souncloud-era fearlessness. Love Ghost is for the misfits, and their music mostly deals with personal battles of mental health.
Dance/Review Lesley Gore - You Don't Own Me (The Heroic Enthusiasts Remixes)
ECR Music Group’s November 2023 deluxe-edition rerelease of the acclaimed final album of Lesley Gore (fully restored, remixed, and remastered by the album’s original producer and ECR founder, Blake Morgan), has fueled an extraordinary resurgence for Gore around the world. Now, ECR label-cousins and accomplished electronic-music duo The Heroic Enthusiasts have created two powerful remixes of Gore’s 2005 version of “You Don’t Own Me.”
Rock/Review Love Ghost x Helian Evans x MONDE - Luna Azul
Love clings to you forever, whether you’re in it or out of it. Like an apparition you can’t shake, it never leaves. Love Ghost’s music conjures a style equally informed by Seattle tradition and Souncloud-era fearlessness. Love Ghost is for the misfits, and their music mostly deals with personal battles of mental health.
Cinematic/Review Leonardo Barilaro - Interstellar Notes
Dr. Leonardo Barilaro is a pianist, composer, and aerospace engineer. And he will play the first piano concert on Mars. His compositions can be described as Contemporary Space Music, where he merges piano solo, prepared piano, synths, and embedded a wide range of experiments. Born in Venice, Italy, Leonardo Barilaro discovers the piano at the age of 6 and astronomy at 9.
Rock/Review Luke Tangerine - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) feat. Carlos Ucedda
After the resounding success of their original single "I Adore You" in 2023, the dynamic duo of Luke Tangerine and Carlos Uceda have teamed up once again. This time, they're diving deep into the annals of music history to reinvigorate the iconic 80s hit "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" by Dead or Alive.