Athens underground artist chriss! cuts through the midnight gloom with his latest single, “Oh Shi!” Recorded during an instinctive two-hour blur using only a phone and wired Apple earbuds, the release captures pure lightning before second-guessing can ruin the charge. There is something compelling about that level of bare-bones commitment treating minimal tools not as a limitation, but as an open conduit to unfiltered...

One such game-changer is Livi Jacobs, a diamond in the rough from Vienna, Austria. We sometimes experience a musical extravaganza that gently changes our view on music and its intrinsic potential, going beyond the bounds of sound and emotion. Jacobs is ready to set the music world ablaze with his unique blend of country's endearing authenticity, rock's edgy rebellion, and folk pop's endearing openness. Vienna, Austria-born Jacobs...