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ANNIE & THE CALDWELLS (2025) Can't Lose My (Soul)

Genere: Funk, Soul, R&B, Gospel

Simili: Sly & The Family Stone, Galactic & Irma Thomas, The Staple Singers, Aretha Franklin, Carla Thomas, Mavis Staples, Ruth Brown, Chaka Khan, Charles Bradley

Voto Microby: 8

Preferite: Wrong, Don’t You Hear Me Calling?, Can’t Lose My Soul

BRIAN D'ADDARIO (2025) Till The Morning

Genere: Baroque pop ’60 - ‘70

Simili: The Lemon Twigs, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Beau Brummels, The Pretty Things, The Left Banke, Silver Apples, The Zombies, Colin Blunstone

Voto Microby: 8

Preferite: Till The Morning, Nothing On My Mind, Song of Everyone

CAR SEAT HEADREST (2025) The Scholars

Genere: Indie-rock, Rock-opera

Simili: Nirvana, Green Day, TV On The Radio, Algiers, Cloud Nothings, Bloc Party

Voto Microby: 8.5   

Preferite: Deveraux, The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man), CCF (I’m Gonna Stay With You), Reality

ERIC CHURCH (2025) Evangeline vs. The Machine

Genere: Contemporary Country-rock, Outlaw country

Simili: Ryan Adams, Steve Earle, Waylon Jennings, Chris Stapleton, Amos Lee, Ray Wylie Hubbard, The Mavericks, Will Hoge, Buddy Miller, Zac Brown Band

Voto Microby: 8

Preferite: Hands of Time, Bleed On Paper, Storm In Their Blood

LOUIS PHILIPPE & The Night Mail (2025) The Road To The Sea

Genere: Chamber pop, Baroque pop

Simili: High Llamas, The Divine Comedy, Richard Hawley, C Duncan, Badly Drawn Boy, XTC (Apple Venus), Beach Boys, E.L.O., Kinks, Left Banke, Todd Rundgren

Voto Microby: 8

Preferite: Where Did We Go Wrong, All At Sea, La maison sans toit

MATT BERNINGER (2025) Get Sunk

Genere: Dark Singer-songwriter

Simili: The National, Simon Joyner, Bill Callahan, Mark Eitzel, Mark Lanegan (acoustic), Damien Jurado, Sivert Hoyem, Chris Eckman, Bill Fay

Voto Microby: 8

Preferite: Silver Jeep, Little by Little, Bonnet of Pins

MORGAN MYLES (2025) Live From Apogee Studio

Genere: Classic Rock, Rock-blues

Simili: Beth Hart, Dana Fuchs, Layla Zoe, Elles Bailey, Sue Foley, Shemekia Copeland, Ana Popovic, Anders Osborne, Andy Aledort, Albert Cummings

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Don’t Live In It, Take Me To The River, Overthinking

PULP (2025) More

Genere: Glam-rock, Britpop

Simili: Suede, David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker, Richard Ashcroft, Scott Walker, Mansun, The Divine Comedy, Bernard Butler

Voto Microby: 7.8

Preferite: Grown Ups, Got To Have Love, Tina

SOUTHERN AVENUE (2025) Family

Genere: Retro-Soul, R’n’B Stax/Motown ’70, Memphis Soul, Funky

Simili: Aretha Franklin, Lisa And The Lips, The Excitements, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

Voto Microby: 8

Preferite: Long Is The Road, Upside, So Much Love

THE HEAD AND THE HEART (2025) Aperture

Genere: Folk-rock

Simili: Mumford & Sons, Fleet Foxes, The Lone Bellow, Of Monsters And Men, The Decemberists, Lord Huron

Voto Microby: 8

Preferite: Beg Steal Borrow, Cop Car, After The Setting Sun

TUNDE ADEBIMPE (2025) Thee Black Boltz

Genere: Indie-rock, Electropop

Simili: TV On The Radio, LCD Soundsystem, Algiers, Everything Everything, Bloc Party

Voto Microby: 7.7   

Preferite: Drop, ILY, Magnetic

TY MYERS (2025) The Select

Genere: Country-rock, Americana

Simili: Jesse Welles, Anderson East, Ryan Bingham, Chris Stapleton, Nathaniel Rateliff, Brent Cobb, Aaron Raitiere, JD McPherson, John Craigie, Ray Wylie Hubbard

Voto Microby: 7.5

Preferite: Too Far Gone, Real World Now, Can’t Hold Me Down

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BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY (2025) The Purple Bird

Genere: Folk, Country

Simili: Simone Felice, Hiss Golden Messenger, Shovels & Rope, The Palace Brothers

Voto Microby: 7.6

Preferite: London May, Boise Idaho, The Water’s Fine

CRYS MATTHEWS (2025) Reclamation

Genere: Country-soul, Americana, Singer-songwriter

Simili: Valerie June, Rhiannon Giddens, Margo Price, Ruby Amanfu, Yola, Aisha Burns

Voto Microby: 8

Preferite: The Difference Between, Cancel Culture, Suit and Tie, Sister’s Keeper

DOVES (2025) Constellations For The Lonely

Genere: Indie pop-rock, Neo-prog

Simili: Starsailor, Elbow, Ocean Colour Scene, Keane, Sea Power, Spiritualized, Madrugada, Echo & The Bunnymen

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Last Year’s Man, Renegade, Saint Teresa

DREW & ELLIE HOLCOMB (2025) Memory Bank

Genere: Americana, Country-pop-rock

Simili: Mason Jennings, Zac Brown Band, Stephen Kellogg, Buddy Miller, Donavon Frankenreiter, Shovels & Rope

Voto Microby: 7.5

Preferite: We Can Go Dancing, Carry The Water, Bones

ELTON JOHN & BRANDI CARLILE (2025) Who Believes In Angels_

Genere: Pop-Rock ‘70

Simili: Billy Joel, Cliff Richard, George Harrison, Abba, James Blunt

Voto Microby: 7.5

Preferite: Never Too Late, Swing For The Fences, The Rose of Laura Nyro

GALACTIC & IRMA THOMAS (2025) Audience With The Queen

Genere: Soul, R&B, Gospel

Simili: Aretha Franklin, Carla Thomas, Mavis Staples, Ruth Brown, Allen Toussaint

Voto Microby: 8.2

Preferite: Lady Liberty, Puppet On Your String, People

HAMILTON LEITHAUSER (2025) This Side of The Island

Genere: Indie-rock

Simili: The Walkmen, David Byrne, Vampire Weekend, Sam Fender

Voto Microby: 7.6    

Preferite: Knockin’ Heart, Ocean Roar, This Side of The Island

JASON ISBELL (2025) Foxes In The Snow

Genere: American acoustic Singer-songwriter

Simili: Brent Cobb, Hayes Carll, John Prine, Colter Wall, Ryan Adams, Johnny Blue Skies, Simon Joyner, Johnny Cash

Voto Microby: 7.5

Preferite: Gravelweed, Foxes In The Snow, Crimson and Clay

JESSE WELLES (2025) Middle

Genere: Americana, American Singer-songwriter ‘70

Simili: Jesper Lindell, John Mellencamp, Ryan Bingham, Ryan Adams, Chris Stapleton, Shooter Jennings, Steve Earle, John Craigie, Taylor McCall

Voto Microby: 7.5

Preferite: Horses, Why Don’t You Love Me?, War Is A God

JONATHAN HULTEN (2025) Eyes of The Living Night

Genere: Prog-Folk, Gothic Singer-songwriter

Simili: Barclay James Harvest, Sivert Hoyem, Gravenhurst, The Strawbs

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: The Ocean’s Arms, The Dream Was The Cure, Riverflame

LARKIN POE (2025) Bloom

Genere: Rock-blues, Classic rock

Simili: Tyler Bryant, Elles Bailey, Shemekia Copeland, Samantha Fish, Beth Hart, Janiva Magness, Ana Popovic, Mike Zito, Albert Cummings

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Mockingbird, Bluephoria, Easy Love Part 1

MUMFORD & SONS (2025) Rushmere

Genere: British Folk-rock

Simili: Fleet Foxes, The Lone Bellow, Of Monsters And Men, The Decemberists, Lord Huron

Voto Microby: 7.6

Preferite: Rushmere, Truth, Caroline

PATTERSON HOOD (2025) Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams

Genere: Alternative Country-Rock, Indie Folk-Rock

Simili: Drive-By Truckers, Jeff Tweedy, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Will Hoge, Neil Young, Mark Olson, Wahahatchee, M. Ward,  Simone Felice, The Palace Brothers

Voto Microby: 7.6

Preferite: A Werewolf And A Girl, The Forks of Cypress, Last Hope

PIERS FACCINI & BALLAKE' SISSOKO (2025) Our Calling

Genere: Folk, Etnica, Malian blues

Simili: Tamino, Toumani Diabatè, Jake Xerxes Fussell, James Elkington, Vieux Farka Tourè, Nathan Salsburg

Voto Microby: 7.8

Preferite: If Nothing Is Real, I Wanted To Belong, Go Where Your Eyes

THE LATHUMS (2025) Matter Does Not Define

Genere: Indie pop-rock ’80-‘90, Britpop

Simili: The Proclaimers, The Housemartins, The Last Shadow Puppets, Arctic Monkeys, The Coral, Inhaler

Voto Microby: 7.5

Preferite: Long Shadows, Leave No Stone Unturned, Until Our Bitter End

THE WAR AND TREATY (2025) Plus One

Genere: Soul, R&B, Country-soul  

Simili: Yola, Ruthie Foster, Bettye LaVette, Mavis Staples, Sharon Jones

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Love Like Whiskey, Stealing A Kiss, I Can’t Let You Go, Leads Me Home

THE WATERBOYS (2025) Life, Death and Dennis Hopper

Genere: Heartland Rock, Potpourri rock

Simili: The Wallflowers, World Party, Jackie Leven, Hothouse Flowers, Wolfstone

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Ten Years Gone, The Tourist, Hollywood ’55, Golf They Say, Hopper’s On Top

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ANNA B SAVAGE (2025) You & I Are Earth

Genere: Alternative singer-songwriter, Indie folk-rock

Simili: The Weather Station, Penelope Houston, Sharon Van Etten, Weyes Blood, Grace Cummings, Basia Bulat, Phoebe Bridgers, Joni Mitchell

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Donegal, Mo Cheol Thù, I Reach For You In My Sleep

CHRIS ECKMAN (2025) The Land We Knew The Best

Genere: Dark Singer-songwriter, Goth-country

Simili: Simon Joyner, Mark Eitzel, Johnny Cash (American Recordings), Mark Lanegan (acoustic), Damien Jurado, The Walkabouts, Sivert Hoyem, Bill Fay, Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen

Voto Microby: 7.5

Preferite: Laments, Last Train Home, The Cranes

DAVID GRAY (2025) Dear Life

Genere: Singer-songwriter 2.0, Folktronica

Simili: Ben Howard, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Nick Mulvey, Harrison Storm, (Nick DrakeàEd Sheeran)

Voto Microby: 8

Preferite: Leave Taking, Sunlight On Water, After The Harvest

INHALER (2025) Open Wide

Genere: Rock ’80, Brit-pop

Simili: U2, The Killers, Strokes, Sam Fender, The Maccabees

Voto Microby: 7.6

Preferite: Your House, Eddie In The Darkness, Concrete

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER, JULIE FOWLIS & KARINE POLWART (2025) Looking For The Thread

Genere: Folksinger

Simili: Bonny Light Horseman, Anais Mitchell, Joan Shelley, Sarah Jarosz, Laura Veirs, Iris DeMent, Nancy Griffith, Shelby Lynne

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Looking For The Thread, A Heart That Never Closes, Satellite

MATT BERRY (2025) Heard Noises

Genere: Psychedelic pop ‘60

Simili: The Coral, Gruff Rhys, Pretty Things, Silver Apples, Zombies, Love, The Doors

Voto Microby: 7.5

Preferite: Why On Fire?, Wedding Photo Stranger, Sky High

SAM FENDER (2025) People Watching

Genere: Heartland Rock, Electric Singer-songwriter

Simili: Gaslight Anthem, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Turner, Billy Bragg, Brian Fallon

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Nostalgia’s Lie, Crumbling Empire, Arm’s Lenght

SHARON VAN ETTEN (2025) Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

Genere: New wave, Synth pop

Simili: St. Vincent, Caroline Polachek, Eurythmics, Lykke Li, Debbie Harry, Depeche Mode, Torres, Courtney Barnett

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Idiot Box, Afterlife, Southern Life

SIVERT HOYEM (2025) Dancing Headlights

Genere: Dark Singer-songwriter, New wave

Simili: Madrugada, Nick Cave, Wovenhand, Mark Lanegan, Cousteau, Duke Garwood

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Love Vs. The World, Summer Rain, Dancing Headlights

SQUID (2025) Cowards

Genere: Post-rock, Kraut-math rock, Alternative Rock

Simili: Black Midi, Pere Ubu, Neu!, Can, Black Country New Road, Gentle Giant, The Smile, Pop Group, Gang of Four

Voto Microby: 7.5

Preferite: Building 650, Crispy Skin, Cro-Magnon Man

THE DELINES (2025) Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom

 Genere: Noir country-soul  

Simili: Cowboy Junkies, Spain, Richmond Fontaine, The War and Treaty, Yola

Voto Microby: 7.8

Preferite: Maureen’s Gone Missing, Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom, Don’t Miss Your Bus Lorraine

THE GENTLE SPRING (2025) Looking Back At The World

Genere: Indie Pop, Chamber pop

Simili: The Field Mice, Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura, Aberfeldy, Tracyanne & Danny, The Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, The Orchids

Voto Microby: 7.7

Preferite: Untouched, The Girl Who Ran Away, Looking Back At The World

THE VEILS (2025) Asphodels

Genere: Chamber pop, Singer songwriter

Simili: Nick Cave, Aqualung, Embrace, Tindersticks, Sivert Hoyem, Tom Odell

Voto Microby: 7.8

Preferite: Melancholy Moon, Mortal Wound, The Ladder

THE WEATHER STATION (2025) Humanhood

Genere: Alternative Singer-songwriter, Indie Folk

Simili: Joni Mitchell (Hejira), Anna B Savage, Red River Dialect, Sharon Van Etten, Weyes Blood, Basia Bulat, Phoebe Bridgers, Cassandra Jenkins

Voto Microby: 7.5

Preferite: Neon Signs, Window, Humanhood

TUNNG (2025) Love You All Over Again

Genere: Folktronica

Simili: Devendra Banhart, Andrew Bird, Patrick Wolf, Espers, Nick Mulvey, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Will Oldham

Voto Microby: 7.5

Preferite: Didn’t Know Why, Snails, Deep Underneath