🇳🇿 Vanessa Tottle — Invisible Rose
🎛️ Electronic / Trip-Hop • August 21, 2026
Born alone at a Wellington hotel bar, complete with real field recordings of cocktails being shaken and poured, Invisible Rose turns distance and longing into a wonderfully cinematic trip-hop landscape.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/album/5NzNvJUzNReomvBdoviJnZ?si=jhkrBUPdQDS4fU8nRA0Hhg
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🇫🇷 Marla Fredonne — Figer le soleil
🎸 Rock • April 4, 2026
That impossible wish to freeze a perfect moment before it disappears. Figer le soleil captures happiness at its brightest, and most fragile.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/track/3L8Zor2WjANHWrtImEv5Ou
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🇮🇹 J&M Band — Italian Job
🎛️ Electronic / Dance • August 24, 2026
Dark, bitter and deliberately provocative, Italian Job opens the door to the band’s new album with a bleak look at the world around us, and little interest in sugar-coating it.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/track/0J7fBdleU7okG4FpgmGcmf?si=f071c6076b6d48cf
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🇫🇷 David Fl’y — Summermood
☀️ Chill / Feel-Good • August 16, 2026
A little escape from anxious times: light, warm and deliberately feel-good, Summermood sounds like happy summers resurfacing unexpectedly in your memory.
🎧 Listen: https://soundcloud.com/davidflmusic/summermood
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🇺🇸 Jo Wilburn — Winds of Change
🎸 Rock • July 19, 2019
Love can arrive like a gentle breeze and leave like a storm. The title track of Jo Wilburn’s concept album looks back at a relationship and asks the painfully universal question: how did we get here from there?
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/2zU5h4EOcy25UOFYS557Zu
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🇨🇦 Walters Fall — Weary Wings
🎸 Alternative • August 7, 2026
For anyone who has carried too much for too long. Weary Wings turns exhaustion, hidden scars and that last reserve of strength into a song about somehow continuing to move forward.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/1Vc0L0CWE6rjRwVheMhUZC?si=4ceca21c1b354fca
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🇷🇴 Tweener — Fallin’
🎸 Alternative • April 11, 2025
Part personal experience, part Vanilla Sky inspiration, Fallin’ brings Tweener back to the Salon with an emotional, imaginative song after their earlier appearance with Dancing.
🎧 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=298Bzyxh_uo
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🇬🇧🇪🇸 The Sanctity Of Crows feat. Across The Frostlands — The Waiting Room
🔥 Metal • August 13, 2026
A track from the Time concept album gets a new life with Veronica Moonray on vocals. Dark, dramatic and unapologetically epic — a collaboration that clearly deserved a second chapter.
📲 Discover: https://685d5ab873b77.site123.me/
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🇩🇪 The Kind Machine — With You
🎸 Rock • August 3, 2026
When tomorrow suddenly stops feeling guaranteed, what really matters? With You confronts mortality and unfinished dreams while finding hope in the people who make us want another day.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/6unPHmHbxIB1zrju94DSSp?si=f7b5557d766d4a88
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🇮🇹 J&M Band — Un eroe
🎸 Rock • August 7, 2026
Who gets called a hero — and who benefits from the story? Sung in Italian, Un eroe questions manufactured heroes and the narratives power creates around them.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/track/629uggnOG1ZJXZkbSrC8Qq?si=03338d0028094d68
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🇩🇪 SCHANZ — A Shadow from the Attic
🎸 Rock • March 13, 2026
A stay in an old castle ruin sparked this wonderfully gothic idea: a lonely spirit trapped there for centuries, wanting nothing more sinister than someone to finally talk to.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/1qfoJZHRC2AjSHAHtns39o?si=b74b1370f3c24feb
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🇮🇪 Taylor D — Goodbye
🎸 Indie Pop-Rock • July 29, 2026
Sometimes walking away isn’t failure — it’s self-respect. Goodbye is about escaping the people and situations that erode your self-worth and choosing peace instead.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/5PbhYrim2us62q3B5iZLgS
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🇺🇸 Gizmosophy — No More Time
🎸 Alternative • July 31, 2026
A dead-end town, a downward spiral, and one essential question: how do you get out? No More Time looks at the trap — but also searches for the escape route.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/7kSXqxK4WceFidTi8w7b9e
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🇺🇸 Ana & Gene — See Me Smile
🎸 Rock • May 15, 2026
Part of Ana & Gene’s socially conscious songwriting, this is music about fighting back, overcoming what holds us down, and finding a way toward something better.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/6ZPtx5KXINZt8q9wCN8yGK
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🇺🇸 Ana & Gene — I Feel Alive So Alive
🎸 Rock • May 15, 2026
A celebration of self-acceptance and that liberating moment when other people’s opinions finally stop defining you. Be yourself. Be happy. Feel alive.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/6ZPtx5KXINZt8q9wCN8yGK
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🇺🇸 Somebody’s Ghost — Forgive Me
🌾 Dark Folk • August 3, 2026
Into the tall pines we go: an outsider, an angry mob and a confrontation nobody survives. Forgive Me is an atmospheric murder ballad steeped in desperation, regret and ghostly voices.
🎧 Watch: https://youtu.be/UmcpBH4xMzc
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🇦🇺 Myles O’Flaherty Music — The Elongated Tale of Peter Plosive’s Dad Named Gary…
🎸 Rock • August 28, 2026
Gary. Larry. Peter Plosive. A pretty scab. A goose, a moose, a secret guest — and, naturally, Miss Pablo the cat. Myles is back, doing what Myles does best: turning glorious musical chaos into its own universe. 😄
🎧 Listen: https://show.co/dSGyt7p
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🇪🇸 Across The Frostlands — The Fruits Of Peace {A Cry For Peace}
🎛️ Electronic • March 17, 2026
A deeply personal cry against war, taken from a 17-track album dedicated to its innocent victims. Music as protest, compassion, and a reminder that nobody should feel alone in the darkness.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/048WIb2Br231dKvt0Jai1A
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🇦🇺 Royal Commission — Red Light District Library
🎸 Alternative • August 7, 2026
Melbourne retail life becomes indie storytelling: helpful Nonnas, matchmaking attempts, glamorous granddaughters and supermarket flirtation. Funny on the surface, with an interesting question about choice underneath.
📲 Follow: https://www.instagram.com/royalcommissionband/
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🇺🇸 Ryan Pinnick — Beer Girl
🌾 Folk • July 24, 2026
Boy walks into a bar. Boy falls for bartender. Bartender is already taken. A wonderfully familiar barroom story for anyone who’s ever developed a hopeless little crush over a cold beer.
🎧 Listen: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=MUeEGP4ffIg
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🇫🇷 Messphodil — Summer Bike Ride
☀️ Pop • July 9, 2026
Sunshine, two wheels and nowhere particularly urgent to be. A fresh, lightweight summer track built around the simple pleasure of a beautiful day on a bike.
🎧 Watch: https://youtu.be/Jv2woF4yEr4
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🇫🇷 Victor Soulivet — Forteresse
🏰 Cinematic • May 5, 2023
A cold fortress, buried secrets and an impossible romance between a knight and a princess separated by two kingdoms at war. A song where the past still whispers through the walls.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/2UB8WnwhTJqtbvggsjOyym
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🇩🇪 Gengvej feat. Flavio Concini & Gautam — Stop Counting The Days
🎛️ Tropical / Deep House • July 24, 2026
Warm synths, summer atmosphere and an important little wake-up call: stop waiting for life to begin. Let go of the fear, escape the overthinking, and start living now.
🎧 Listen: https://soundcloud.com/gengvej-97031950/gengvej-flavio-concini-gautam
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🇮🇹 J&M Band — Century of Deception
🎸 Rock • July 20, 2026
A fast look backwards at a hundred years of manipulation, power and the uncomfortable feeling that ordinary people may simply be pieces on someone else’s board.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/track/6LcxKleydBPi21wuwWwh5m?si=a5e1897256ca4d85
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🇮🇹 J&M Band — Gypsokong
🎸 Alternative / Balkan • July 9, 2026
A joyful thank-you letter to music itself, packed with Balkan flavour and wandering energy. Made to lift your spirits, move your feet — and perhaps unexpectedly hit you right in the feelings.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/track/52j8kYxDD0OYbV0EgH3uWJ?si=60c9120603464240
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🇧🇪 The Electrozixx — Tu n’en finis pas
🎛️ Electronic • July 11, 2026
A fresh cut from The Electrozixx’s latest EP, bringing another Belgian electronic discovery into the Mitxoda universe.
🎧 No listening link was included in the submission.
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🇨🇦 Crash World — Devil’s Right Hand
🎸 Alternative • May 29, 2026
Spies, false identities, Cold War shadows and John le Carré-style intrigue. Devil’s Right Hand asks whether that clandestine world disappeared — or simply learned how to hide better.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/2xUTYWdIgsUUdluL76eUpi?si=659394ca11ae49cf
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🇦🇷 Claudio Fondo — Todavía
🌾 Folk / Nueva Canción • March 6, 2026
Nylon strings, soft accordion and intimate vocals frame a quietly defiant love story: two people holding onto each other despite family, church and the whispers of an entire town.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/track/31pX6hUDKt5MKPkAJY8mjm?si=7f1f6a7cb6714cb6
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🇬🇧 The Sanctity Of Crows — A Sea Of Mysterious Particles
🌌 Experimental / Ambient • July 23, 2026
No grand story this time — just the pleasure of exploring sound until something strange and beautiful emerges. Add a little quantum foam and deliberate mystery, and the title suddenly makes perfect sense.
📲 Follow: https://www.facebook.com/thesanctityofcrows/
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🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇴 Lunar Paths feat. VAUI — W.T.B.
🎛️ Alternative / Electronic • June 27, 2026
A spy-radio sample, organic drums and layered electronics unexpectedly become a sharp take on fast fashion. “Want to buy” turns into “now it’s in the landfill” — catchy music with something worth thinking about underneath.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/album/6SWh1ZxAlnmRL7E496XHG3?si=4_7UcEGrSZyE0eHbwBuZ7Q
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🇺🇸 Seems Like Tuesday — Nothing’s Harder Than Goodbye
🎸 Rock • June 11, 2026
Whether it’s a lover, a friend, or someone you’ve lost forever, some goodbyes simply refuse to become easy. A straightforward rock song built around one painfully universal feeling.
🎧 Listen: https://open.spotify.com/track/43N3YuhMXUjqZzq4onnZWj?si=ekkjJHPtQP2kphGPqzlcZA
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🇺🇸🇩🇪 Flawed Theorem — The Dying of the Art
🔥 Rock • July 3, 2026
A furious warning about generative AI, authenticity, and what happens when we surrender too much of our creativity and agency to machines. The track doesn’t quietly debate the issue — it barrels straight into it.
🎧 Listen: https://too.fm/flawed-theorem-the-dying-of-the-art
