Audio Underground is a weekly radio show and podcast dedicated exclusively to unsigned and independent artists. No algorithms. No major label gatekeeping. Just real music discovery, curated by hand.Every week, host blckjcksn brings you artists you haven&#39;t heard yet but need to, from across the country and around the world. Deep interviews, full artist features, and the kind of music that gets lost in the mainstream shuffle. Audio Underground exists because the best music rarely finds you on its own.Part of the Sonic Scout Radio global network. New episodes every week.

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🎙️ Episode 46 of Audio Underground brings you seven unsigned, independent artists from seven cities across two continents, all hand-picked with zero algorithms and zero label influence.🎵 Lexi Algar opens the show. Based in Long Beach, California, she&#39;s a multi-instrumentalist and self-taught singer-songwriter whose voice draws comparisons to Karen Carpenter. She quit her job to pursue music full time and has been an independent artist ever since.🎶 Indigo Syndicate follows out of Nashville, Tennessee. This self-produced trio makes genre-fluid electronic pop with R&amp;B and indie edges, and has already earned multiple Apple Music editorial placements and a spot on Live Nation&#39;s Ones to Watch playlist, all without a label.🎤 AyEmEyeAre is an eighteen-year-old artist out of Toledo, Ohio. We feature two tracks off his debut album T.C.O.L., including a collaboration with fellow independent artist Captiøn.🎧 okleland is a fifteen-year-old from Nova Scotia, Canada, who taught himself to write, record, mix, and master his own music. We feature two tracks, one of which is a collaboration with kitz.🌲 focal is the project of Zach Sroka, a bedroom artist from northeast Minneapolis. We feature two tracks off his album Porches, recorded entirely on his own.🌍 Petravita is a Stockholm-based rapper, poet, and songwriter, born in Seattle and educated in England. He brings two tracks alongside producer Talman, blending hip hop and spoken word into something distinctly his own.🔥 As Rome Burns closes out the episode. This four-piece alt-rock band from London brings raw energy to THREE tracks, including the perfectly titled &#34;I Think You Should Leave&#34; to close it out.🎧 Every artist featured today is unsigned and doing it entirely on their own terms. Follow them, support them, and tune in every week for more handpicked independent music.📲 Follow Audio Underground at @audio.underground.

Audio Underground Episode 46

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Audio Underground Episode 45: The Memphis Episode🎙️ Welcome back to Audio Underground, the show dedicated exclusively to unsigned and independent artists. No algorithms. No gatekeeping. Just real music from real people.Episode 45 is the Memphis Episode, and every artist featured today calls Memphis, Tennessee home. Three artists, three completely different sounds, all on the same side of the same fight. This one is dedicated to Black Memphians and every underrepresented community in that city that keeps creating, keeps pushing, and keeps showing up.🎵 Featured Artists:🔥 Pippotchi opens the show with Color Blind, Soul On Fire, and Give Me Grace. Memphis hip-hop with heart, depth, and a whole lot of intention.⚡ Max Boost and the Power-Ups bring something harder to define. Experimental funk meets roots rock in a way you genuinely have to hear to understand. We are featuring Funky Once Again, Get Ready For Us Now, and Graveyard Dirt.🌊 Bleu Levees closes out the episode with a full async interview woven between four tracks, Memphis 94, Alchemy, Butterfly, and Switch The Knob. Born in New Orleans, raised by Memphis after Katrina, and one of the most thoughtful voices in independent hip-hop right now. His new album Not the Normal South drops this summer.🎧 Audio Underground airs on Sonic Scout Radio. Personally curated every single week. If you are hearing these artists for the first time, that is exactly what this show is for.👍 Like, subscribe, and come back every week for more music the algorithm will never find for you.

Audio Underground Episode 45

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🎙️ Audio Underground Episode 38 is here and this one hits different.Four completely independent artists. Twelve songs. Zero label interference. Just real music from real people doing it entirely on their own terms.🎸 Eyal Pik is a London-based psych-pop artist originally from Israel who built his entire career from scratch on the open mic circuit in Camden. His brand new single The One dropped March 20, 2026. Sister Bliss of Faithless says his songs should be played in stadiums. We believe her.🎤 Nur-D is Minneapolis hip-hop artist Matt Allen. Emmy winner. Best New Minnesota Artist 2019. Hip-hop for everyone who has ever felt a little different, made by someone who has spent his entire career proving that different is exactly right.🎵 Ovven is Nashville indie rock songwriter Owen Burton, Chicago bred and restless at heart. His debut album Gnawing At The Cord is out now and SiriusXM Outlaw Country is already calling it an instant classic.🎶 Saltydog is a six-piece funk jam band from Duluth, Minnesota, born on the banks of Lake Superior. The Grateful Dead crossed with Smokey Robinson. A midwestern psychedelic cowboy revue. Their third album Runnin Again is out now and they are out on the road constantly.🌍 Audio Underground airs daily at midnight, 3PM and 8PM CDT on Sonic Scout Radio, a 24/7 independent internet radio station dedicated 100% to unsigned and independent artists. Every song on Sonic Scout Radio was chosen by a human being who actually listened to it. No algorithms. No AI.📱 Download the free Sonic Scout Radio app on the App Store and Google Play and take us everywhere you go.

Audio Underground Episode 38

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🎙️ Episode 39 of Audio Underground is dedicated to the memory of Stephen John Learned of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dad, this one&#39;s for you. 🖤This week we open with a pre-release exclusive first spin of &#34;Baby Blue&#34; by Split Second out of the West Midlands of England. Levi Husbands steps into the lead vocal role and Jack Barnett is back behind the drums. &#34;Baby Blue&#34; drops this Friday. You heard it here first. 🎵Then we head to Nova Scotia where 16-year-old okleland is making dream pop like a seasoned veteran. Two tracks this week, &#34;wouldyoufallinlove&#34; and the instrumental &#34;Ethereal.&#34; The future is genuinely bright for this kid. 🌊From there we go deep into New York City psych-pop with Human Love, the reformed lineup of The Dig, featuring &#34;Black Void&#34; and &#34;Goldmine.&#34; If you know The Dig, welcome back. If you don&#39;t, you&#39;re about to. 🗽Duluth Minnesota&#39;s Indecent Proposal gets three songs this week including the brand new &#34;Tears in Rain,&#34; released the same week they opened for Third Eye Blind. It will wreck you. Also featuring &#34;Feeling Good&#34; and &#34;The Cage.&#34; 🎸Minneapolis rapper Prof brings &#34;High Priced Shoes&#34; and &#34;Creek Boy&#34; while out on a major North American tour with Yelawolf and That Mexican OT. Stophouse Music Group. His label. His rules. 🎤Violet Fox is 18 years old and made &#34;Knots&#34; with a producer who worked with The Strokes. She found Audio Underground on Reddit. We found each other at exactly the right time. ✨And we close with CHEESE SHOP. Nineteen-year-old Miriana put out &#34;Heavy&#34; and her mom believed in it enough to bring it to this show herself. That&#39;s what this is all about. 🧡Seven artists. Twelve songs. Zero algorithms. All unsigned. All independent. All hand picked. 🎶New episodes every day at 4AM, 10AM, and 8PM CDT on Sonic Scout Radio. Find us on TikTok and Instagram at @audio.underground.

Audio Underground Episode 39

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🎵 Audio Underground Episode 40 is here and it is one for the books. This week&#39;s lineup brings together nine independent artists from across the globe, handpicked and personally curated the way every episode of this show has been since day one.🎸 This week&#39;s featured artists:🌊 The Winter Sloths — Fergus Falls, Minnesota 🎸 Riatto — Normandy, France 🌿 Something Wilder — Los Angeles, California ⚡ Har Mar Superstar — Twin Cities, Minnesota 🎤 j solomon — Philadelphia/Los Angeles 🔥 Indigo Syndicate 🎵 Benjamin Santo — Rome, Italy 🎶 Daniel John ✨ Yevgeniya — Dubai🎙️ Hosted by blckjcksn on Sonic Scout Radio. Audio Underground is your weekly source for the best unsigned and independent music on the planet. No algorithms. No gatekeepers. No major label artists. Just music that deserves to be heard.🔔 New episodes every Tuesday. Follow @audio.underground on Instagram and TikTok and follow @sonicscoutradio for more.

Audio Underground Episode 40

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🎙️ Episode 41 of Audio Underground is here and it is one of the best ones we have ever put together.🎸 Har Mar Superstar – Minneapolis legend Sean Tillmann sits down for an exclusive interview ahead of his only scheduled show of 2026. He opens up about life since covid, the changes in his personal and professional life, new music in the works, and the possibility of debuting a brand new song live for the first time.🎸 Beaker – Oxford, UK. An all-female indie rock band reunited after 25 years with their powerful comeback single 50 Men, a fierce tribute to Gisele Pelicot and every survivor like her.🎸 Bridge 55 – Wolverhampton, UK. Back after a 20 year hiatus with their debut single Auditorial Flowers, already receiving international radio play. Frontman Joe Karchud joins us for an exclusive interview about the comeback and the sold out homecoming show at the Wolverhampton Arts Centre this October.🎸 okleland – Young independent artist out of Nova Scotia with an indie pop sound that is absolutely worth your time.🎸 Max Boost and the Power-Ups – Memphis, TN. Genre-bending, gloriously unhinged, and completely their own thing.🎧 All independent. All unsigned. All unfiltered. Audio Underground with blckjcksn on Sonic Scout Radio. New episodes every week.

Audio Underground Episode 41

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🎸 Episode 42 of Audio Underground belongs to Minneapolis.Seven unsigned, independent artists from one of the greatest music cities in the world — hand-picked, personally curated, no algorithms, no label pull. Just music that deserves to be heard.🎸 Bright Young Things — vintage-edged indie pop born from three of the city&#39;s best bands 🎸 Knife Emoji — a debut album critics are already calling one of the year&#39;s most original 🎸 St. Anthony Mann — experimental indie folk built around poetic lyrics and obscure arrangements 🎸 Eat At Home — four self-produced releases of genre-blending folk-rock from Ben Wagner 🎸 Sidedoors — warm, confident indie pop that rewards a close listen 🎤 Tall Paul — Anishinaabe hip-hop with a chorus sung entirely in the Ojibwe language 🌿 🎤 MaLLy — South Minneapolis conscious hip-hop, McKnight Fellow, four albums deep and fully independentEvery artist unsigned. Every track hand-picked. No algorithms touched this. 🎸🎙️ Audio Underground airs weekly on Sonic Scout Radio — a 24/7 independent radio network where every show is human-curated by passionate, knowledgeable presenters who live and breathe independent music. No label influence. Ever.Follow every artist featured tonight and share this episode. 🎸 Independent music grows one listen at a time.

Audio Underground Episode 42

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🎙️ Audio Underground is back with Episode 43 — and this one hits different.Seven independent artists. Seventeen tracks. Every single one hand-picked by a real human being who loses sleep over music like this. No algorithms. No labels. No shortcuts.🔥 This week on Audio Underground:🎤 Caption — genre-bending hip hop out of Woodstock, Georgia, opens the show with a personal intro and two tracks that grab you immediately 🌊 Francie Moon — psychedelic surf rock that feels like a perfect afternoon filtered through something beautifully strange 🎸 Cat Elliott — bold, dramatic indie folk from London with influences ranging from Pink Floyd to Alanis Morissette 🏙️ Wilmah — Brooklyn indie pop with an exclusive interview, three tracks, and a story that starts in a spare bedroom in Buffalo 🤘 Ben Lapidus — comic punk makes its Audio Underground debut courtesy of an America&#39;s Got Talent standout who is genuinely one of a kind 🎵 j solomon — indie pop that hits deep, ahead of a live show you need to go see 🌿 Rita Nelson — the perfect closing note on a really special episode💬 Real music. Real artists. Real stories. This is what independent music sounds like before the world catches up.📻 Stream live on Sonic Scout Radio at sonicscoutradio.com 📲 Follow @audio.underground on TikTok + Instagram

Audio Underground Episode 43

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🎙️ AUDIO UNDERGROUND | EPISODE 44 TEACHER APPRECIATIONEvery artist on this episode spends their days in a classroom shaping the next generation — and then goes home and makes music that matters.🏫 This week we honor the teachers.Not with a card. Not with a gift card. With an hour of music made by the people who actually showed up every day and gave something real to their students.Every artist you hear tonight teaches. Not as a side note. As a calling.🎸 THE ARCANES | Brainerd Lakes Area, MinnesotaBrass rock. Funk. Jam band energy. Fronted by music teacher and PhD Jordon Goebel, The Arcanes bring five tracks tonight including songs from their 2018 self-titled debut and their most recent singles. A new album, Forest for the Trees, is on the way.And this week, Jordon&#39;s student — my son Paxton, a graduating senior heading to college to study Music Therapy — is co-hosting and introducing every single one of their songs.Full circle doesn&#39;t even cover it.🎵 Six Eight / Another Night / Up In The Light / Black Holes / What a Day🎸 THE WINTER SLOTHS | Fergus Falls, MinnesotaNick teaches music K through 12. Band. Orchestra. Choir. General music. Every grade level, every skill level, fourteen years running. He also plays guitar in The Winter Sloths and sat down for an async interview that every teacher — and every former student — needs to hear.New music is coming from The Winter Sloths. Follow them now and be there when it drops.🎵 Little Demon / Fake It / Photosynthesize🎸 THE DUSK HOLD | Olive Hill, KentuckyBobby and Jared Salyers are high school English teachers living in the Appalachian hills of Kentucky. They started a band after losing their closest friend, David Jones, to cancer in 2023. Jared had never played an instrument. Bobby pulled into his driveway with a brand new drum set and told him he was playing anyway.The Appalachian hills are in the music. So is their mastery of the English language. Their full interview is on the Audio Underground YouTube channel. You need to hear it.🎵 Hard To Love / I Don&#39;t Need You Anymore📻 Audio Underground airs weekly on Sonic Scout Radio 🌐 sonicscoutradio.com 📱 Download the Sonic Scout Radio app — App Store &amp; Google Play ▶️ Full episode on YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/6bBAmni4_gs" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/6bBAmni4_gs</a> ⏰ Air times: 4:00 AM, 10:00 AM &amp; 8:00 PM CDTAll unsigned. All independent. All real. No algorithms. No AI-generated music. Just a host who cares about the music and the people who make it.🎧 Follow @audio.underground on TikTok and Instagram

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Audio Underground Episode 44

Audio Underground is a weekly radio show and podcast dedicated exclusively to unsigned and independent artists. No algorithms. No major label gatekeeping. Just real music discovery, curated by hand.

Every week, host blckjcksn brings you artists you haven't heard yet but need to, from across the country and around the world. Deep interviews, full artist features, and the kind of music that gets lost in the mainstream shuffle. Audio Underground exists because the best music rarely finds you on its own.

Part of the Sonic Scout Radio global network. New episodes every week.