This month’s UnderDogs Across Borders concert is perhaps our most genre-diverse offering to date, featuring performances from across the musical spectrum and beyond.
Tonight and through October, your support of UnderDogs Across Borders helps us bring the UnderDogs to New Orleans for NOLA MusiCon 2025, taking place Oct. 28-30. More details about our plans are coming very soon!
Our September 16 lineup includes:
Impactful spoken word artist Jazzy the Uncontrolled Goddess
Our next installment of UnderDogs Across Borders: The Concert Series will take place live from Helping Our Music Evolve in Nashville on Tuesday, September 16 from 7-9 p.m.
Co-hosted by Nicolas Soul (with an assist from the guy writing this post), our next UnderDogs Across Borders concert is perhaps our most genre-diverse offering to date, featuring performances from across the musical spectrum and beyond.
Our September 16 lineup includes:
Impactful spoken word artist Jazzy the Uncontrolled Goddess
If you’re in Nashville, join us at H.O.M.E. (615 Main St., Suite G1, Nashville). If you’re not, join us from absolutely anywhere in the world with internet on our YouTube channel. As always, we kindly ask you to make a $10 suggested donation to our UnderDogs Across Borders campaign, which you can do anytime by clicking on this link!
TONIGHT! We’re going live from 7-9 p.m. for the first-ever UnderDogs Across Borders benefit concert. Join us as we present a genre-diverse interstate lineup featuring independent artists from within the Underground Music Collective community.
By supporting UnderDogs Across Borders, you are empowering UMC to open the gateway to even greater collaboration. Your support bolsters UMC’s presence at major conferences and festivals in North America and Europe, while helping us build a stronger, more sustainable music industry that is ripe with fresh opportunities for our artists.
Winter chill got you down? Our freshly-updated From the Soul playlist has the fire to keep us warm!
Vibrant textures, passionate vocals, and dynamic soundscapes are the order of the month here. We’ve added a bunch of new selections — including some from legends and Grammy nominees — that have come our way through various means, and we think you’re sure to find something that moves you as soon as you hit “Play.” Don’t let us keep you any longer!
Track listing: Charles Wigg Walker – This Love is Gonna Last Laura Nanou – I Try Nadia Turner – Missing You (Live) Nashmia – Butterfly Cymande ft. Celeste – Only One Way Otis Zheng – Wake Up Yola – Symphony Casey Russell – Patience Cliff Beach – The Work Mobley – Y’r Ghost The Wood – Let it Loose Beth White – Pretty Baby Kelly Finnigan – Count Me Out Luke Jenison – Heartbreaker Watermelon Funk – AFRODESIAC Fox Jackson – Like That Shawney Rainne – Cry Me A River mister pablo – Enough Miranda Powell ft. Ryan Prewett – HIGH SCHOOL MADNIK – These are the days
Finding true love means not giving up when times are tough; it means weathering the storms and resolving to find the brighter days ahead.
Nashville-based soul singer Beth White takes us through these ups and downs with her new single, “Pretty Baby,” a dreamy R&B offering that smooths out love’s rougher edges.
“‘Pretty Baby’ is a dichotomous song about the peaks and pits of love,” White said. “The verses navigate negative intrusive thoughts regarding one’s relationship and its future, while the choruses are the resolution to questioning, and reflect understanding and calmness in the one you love.”
“Pretty Baby” was recorded at Skinny Elephant Recording in East Nashville, and was co-produced by White alongside Ryan Connors. White performed all vocal duties on the track, while Connor serves as its sole instrumentalist.
It’s been a little while since we’ve done one of these, hasn’t it?
Yet, with excellence all around us, it’s clear that many of the submissions we’re receiving deserve a deeper dive. And so, today marks the triumphant return of Songs You Should Hear!
Get started with these, and be ready for more on the way, every Friday at UMC!
Artist:Â JT Loux Song:Â look into my eyes Genre:Â Indie Rock/Alternative Why You Should Hear It: The course of true love never runs smooth — and it can be made even more complicated when you’re loving from a distance. Underneath this tune’s prevailing warmth is a clear and present longing, inspired by the reality of “loving someone, but they are 2,000 miles away.”
Artist: Rex & The Rhythm Song: Umbrella Genre: Hip Hop/Soul/Alternative Why You Should Hear It: Who’s ready for some April showers? This tune’s breezy sonic landscape juxtaposes well with its lyrical content, artfully illustrating the conflicting emotions experienced after a breakup.
“‘Umbrella’ is about a relationship abruptly ending, even though the forecast appeared to show clear skies and warm weather,” Rex said.
Fun fact: Rex has had the opportunity to open for artists including Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson, Ashanti, and Lauryn Hill — and, after opening up this “Umbrella,” it’s easy to understand why!
Artist: Spence Brown Song: By My Lonely Genre: Hip Hop Why You Should Hear It: If you’ve ever dealt with haters, this one is for you. Brown has proclaimed this fiery new track the “anti-hater anthem”; and with how hard this one goes, it might just provide the push you need to overcome doubt.
Brown says, “As an artist, it’s always hard to deal with haters, but if you can remind yourself that what you do is good at the end of the day, you can just laugh it off. Personally, I’ve always had a hard time dealing with haters, so I made this song to remind myself that it doesn’t matter what other people think. I can get this done without their opinions!”
Got something you think we should hear? What are you waiting for?! Shoot it our way, and you could be featured in an upcoming edition of Songs You Should Hear!
Rock and roll is alive and well, as you’ll hear throughout the first half of this week’s UMC20.
This week’s compilation is frontloaded with a variety of electric guitar sounds and turbo-powered swagger. But, as always, there’s something for everyone this week. Americana lovers will want to pay close attention to the middle of the playlist, while pop, soul, and hip hop fans will particularly enjoy the latter portions.
And, as always, we’ve got some useful nuggets from that Official Podcast of ours waiting for you at the end. Check those out — especially if you fancy yourself an artistpreneur!
Track listing Another Dead Rockstar – 1985 (Can You Help Me) Gloom Girl MFG – Crimes The Mad Sugars – Lost Among the Avenues The Fever Haze – Last Night I Killed a Man JT Loux – look into my eyes Lurve – Run, Get Drunk, and Fall in Love Again Lone Tree – Miss You OPIATE – Lay Black Suit Devil – Passage Medium Build – Knowing U Exist Old 97’s – Somebody Travis Feutz – Utah The Flying Raye – The Ballad of Leslie Cochran Swamp Dogg ft. Jenny Lewis – Count The Days Annie Scherer – You Like The Blues Eliza Hardy Jones – Counterfeit Rex & The Rhyhtm – Umbrella Lindsey Lomis – Long Way Down pher, – moon Spence Brown – By My Lonely
Between the 20 songs that comprise the UMC20 Best of March 2024, and the two latest, completely epic episodes of our Official Podcast, The Quinn Spinn, our end-of-month compilation contains nearly three-and-a-half hours of listening enjoyment!
Get it while it’s here. Next Wednesday, we’ll drop the first all-new UMC of April. Soak up the memories from the month that has been!
Track listing Bootsy Collins ft. Snoop Dogg, Fantaazma, Wiz Khalifa, and Dave Stewart – The Influencers Spence Brown – Scotch Thoughts Miles Squiers – 24 Hours Game Changer – Just Sayin’ Adam Paddock – Sweet Ohio Light Izzy Rage – Wreck TsukiMai – Selenophile Cardiac Half – Gloom YEARB4 – BABY I’M DYIN’ The Minimum Wage – Everyone Is Pepperwood – Drowning The Ghost Club – If I Fell (Don’t Wait Here For Me) Crow and Gazelle – Take It Away Max McNown – Dead Set Dustin Kensrue – High Scalers Kat & Zach – Winter Flower Bronco Redahan – High on Lonesome The Kentucky Gentlemen – Beg Your Parton Mikayla Lewis – All is Well Rome – Forever
Hyperpop? We’ve got it. Soulful hip hop? Yep. Americana and rock? Check and check. We even lead off with a new, disco-inspired cut.
Every week, we task ourselves with the responsibility of providing 20 fresh, interesting new tracks. Thanks to you, our job is never too difficult. These tasty jams — plus not one, but TWO episodes of our Official Podcast — should keep your ears, hearts, and minds satisfied all week long.
Track listing Helena Hallberg – Surprisingly Disco Titans of Siren – Daytrip Game Changer – Just Sayin’ Spence Brown – Scotch Thoughts Izzy Rage – Wreck TsukiMai – Selenophile Rose Starring – Violently Sad Cardiac Half – Gloom The Trampoline Delay – Excuses Excuses Alisa Amador ft. Quinn Christopherson – I Need to Believe Sam Gyllenhaal Band – Mary Does (Acoustic) Sarah Gargano – Red Solo Cup The Atomic Age – Heart Sarah Free – Sober Laney Jones – Stay at Home Crow and Gazelle – Take It Away Patrick Davis – Southern Roots Brother Dege – Turn of the Screw The Kentucky Gentlemen – Beg Your Parton Mikayla Lewis – All is Well
From song to song, and moment to moment, you never quite know where this week’s edition of UMC20 is going to go.
There’s a lot of genre-bending goodness throughout the playlist. You’ll hear plenty of instances where elements of one genre sneak their way into another.
And, of course, there are two bonus tracks, because we’re releasing two episodes of The Quinn Spinn per week now. One highlights the journey of an exciting new artist; while the other, just released today, shows a different (i.e.; the original) side of our Official Podcast. Past meets present, indeed!
Track listing Foundation Mecca ft. Carissa Kohne – Brand New Cyrille Aimee – Here Fuchsia – Backseat Blues Malcolm DeWayne – Amethyst Nights Jasce – River EMMI IIDA ft. Peachkit – Higher Self Aaron Lee Tasjan – The Drugs Did Me Flyin’ Hot Saucers – Ollantaytambo Deidre – Every Breath You Take Andrea von Kampen – Such Love Does Gabrielle Grace – Both Ways Lindsey Lomis – Long Way Down Kitty Coen – yellow light Steve Conte – Shoot Out The Stars Old 97’s – Where the Road Goes Frontier Ruckus – I’m Not the Boy Parker Barrow – Back to Birmingham Sarina Haggarty – Lipstick to Myself Emily Ann Roberts – Whole Lotta Little (Cabin Sessions) Armchair Boogie – Livin’
