INDEPENDENT MUSIC-SCENE DATA JOURNALISM
We measure the frequency of the underground.
Ground Frequency reads the world's live and underground music scenes through data — 22,289 tracked venues in 109 countries, and 18,040 artists tracked — 15,142 of them scored for momentum every week.
DATA AS OF 2026-10-22
Scene index
2026-W43
TRACKED EVENTS · TRAILING 28 DAYS
COVERAGE-WEIGHTED — EVENTS ANNOUNCED BY TRACKED VENUES. METHOD
The Magazineartists and venues — stacking week over week
ALL PIECES →VOCAL1 on fileTHE WHOLE LANE →
ROCK / BAND12 on fileTHE WHOLE LANE →
ZUMSOYTAN · INSTAGRAM
RISINGROCK / BANDW42THAILAND
Zumsoytan Films the Isan Songbook as a Party Band, Then Plays Museum Siam
Zumsoytan is a group of friends with a YouTube channel, a TikTok and a Facebook page, and a habit of filming Thai country songs as if the party had just started. One of its sessions has passed five million views. Our file holds no live dates for it at all.SOUTHEAST ASIA DESK
PANTEÓN ROCOCÓ · INSTAGRAM
RISINGROCK / BANDW42MEXICO
Panteón Rococó Books Estadio GNP Seguros for the Anniversary, Then Steps Away
Panteón Rococó started in a Mexico City preparatory school in 1995. Its anniversary tour ends in a stadium on 26 December, and the band has said what follows: an indefinite time off the stage. Our Mexican list picked the band up in the last stretch before the pause.LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN DESK
AUSTIN TV · INSTAGRAM
RISINGROCK / BANDW40MEXICO
Austin TV Returns to Polyforum Siqueiros With a New Album and Tour
The band released MA in September and booked a national run. Our file shows the surge but holds no dates from before the announcement.LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN DESK
THE BLUETONES · INSTAGRAM
RISINGROCK / BANDW40UNITED KINGDOM
Thirty Years After Expecting to Fly, The Bluetones Play It in Full
Thirty years after their debut pushed Oasis off the top of the albums chart for a week, all four original Bluetones are taking it back out, in full. The band also turned up on our Spain chart this week. That part is our filing error. The tour is the story.WESTERN EUROPE DESK
DJ / ELECTRONIC7 on fileTHE WHOLE LANE →
WALLI · INSTAGRAM
RISINGDJ / ELECTRONICW42FRANCE
Spades Shared Mondays at Eden Ibiza This Summer, and walli Was in the Booth
walli is a DJ and producer and the founder of Spades, a party name that co-hosted Monday nights at Eden Ibiza this summer. The records come out on small house labels; the dates live on ticket pages rather than in the press. Our French list caught the movement before anyone wrote it up.WESTERN EUROPE DESK
WEE MAN · INSTAGRAM
RISINGDJ / ELECTRONICW40UNITED STATES
Before Bruno Mars Walks On, Anderson .Paak Works the Stadium as DJ Pee .Wee
Our United States chart lists him by his Instagram name, .WEE MAN. The tour bills him as DJ Pee .Wee, the vinyl alias of Anderson .Paak, and names him for every date of Bruno Mars's first global stadium tour.NORTH AMERICA DESK
BIMBOW · INSTAGRAM
RISINGDJ / ELECTRONICW37FRANCE
Bimbow Ranks Seventh. The Diary Is Empty.
A surge in the French rising chart places this electronic act near the top. Our touring ledger for the trailing month records nothing. The score exists without a room to verify it.WESTERN EUROPE DESK
PRETTYPINKMUSIC · OFFICIAL CHANNEL
RISINGDJ / ELECTRONICW36GERMANY
Pretty Pink Rises. The Ledger Is Empty.
A surge in the German rising chart points to an electronic artist with a massive following and zero documented dates. The paper trail exists elsewhere, but our room count remains blank.WESTERN EUROPE DESK
POP / HIPHOP3 on fileTHE WHOLE LANE →
AOTO · INSTAGRAM
RISINGPOP / HIPHOPW40JAPAN
Between Two Sold-Out Rooms, AOTO Released 'Still Blond, Stay Gold'
A debut album in February, a sold-out one-man tour in September, and a new video released in the week between its two nights. AOTO enters our Japan chart this week, and the listings explain the entry better than the numbers do.EAST ASIA DESK
SLAYYYTER · INSTAGRAM
RISINGPOP / HIPHOPW35UNITED STATES
One Video Is Carrying Slayyyter's Whole Channel.
She tops the deepest artist chart we score. Her own YouTube tells a stranger story: a single upload with sixty-seven times the reach of the next one.NORTH AMERICA DESK
F5VE · INSTAGRAM
RISINGPOP / HIPHOPW35JAPAN
Japan's Fastest-Rising Account Sold Out London in a Minute.
f5ve chart third in Japan this week on the steepest follower curve in our whole queue. The clearest evidence for it is a room in Tottenham, a venue upgrade of roughly seven times, and a catalogue sung entirely in Japanese.EAST ASIA DESK
WORLD MUSIC5 on fileTHE WHOLE LANE →
GABRIEL LENER · OFFICIAL CHANNEL
RISINGWORLD MUSICW37BRAZIL
The Chart Says Gabriel Lener. The Diary Is Empty.
A massive surge in Brazil places him narrowly behind the leader. Our touring ledger, however, records nothing. The rise is entirely digital.LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN DESK
MONKANKAENKOON · INSTAGRAM
RISINGWORLD MUSICW36THAILAND
Monkankaenkoon Charts High. The Ledger Shows One Night.
A luk thung veteran enters the Thailand rising index at rank twenty. Our file holds a single documented appearance to explain it.SOUTHEAST ASIA DESK
NATANZINHOLIMAOFICIAL · OFFICIAL CHANNEL
RISINGWORLD MUSICW35BRAZIL
The Record Is the Recording. Natanzinho Lima Prints the Number on It.
He carries the largest audience on any chart we publish this week. His biggest uploads all come from one live DVD — and one of them has the streaming milestone written into its title.LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN DESK
SERCA MUSIC OFICIAL · YOUTUBE
RISINGWORLD MUSICW35MEXICO
One Voice, Two Rows: Our Mexican Chart Counted Rosendo Cantú Twice.
He is #1 this week fronting Los Cadetes de Linares, and #3 as one quarter of Palomazo Norteño. The stadium date our file held for the second act never happened — and nobody said so out loud.LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN DESK
THE ROOMS6 on fileTHE WHOLE LANE →
THE PYRAMID SCHEME · PYRAMIDSCHEMEBAR.COM
THE ROOMSW42UNITED STATES
Pyramid Scheme Books Four Nights in Grand Rapids This Week
The venue tops the United States room index this month. Its own calendar tells a denser story than the ledger currently holds.NORTH AMERICA DESK
KÖLNTOURISMUS GMBH
THE ROOMSW40GERMANY
Inside the Former Truck Garage on Oskar-Jäger-Straße Where Garagen Operates
The room sits on a former industrial site in Cologne-Ehrenfeld. Its current standing rests on three documented nights and a narrow margin.WESTERN EUROPE DESK
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THE ROOMSW38SPAIN
Amnesia Turns Fifty and Books the Present Tense
The San Rafael institution marks half a century this season. Our room index suggests the anniversary is being marked with bookings rather than nostalgia.WESTERN EUROPE DESK
THE WAREHOUSE · VIA GOOGLE MAPS
THE ROOMSW37UNITED KINGDOM
Leeds Warehouse Tops the Index. The Room Is Changing.
Our United Kingdom room chart places this Leeds venue ahead of every rival. A new residency and an imminent capacity expansion complicate the picture.WESTERN EUROPE DESK
0 FILED THIS WEEK · 34 PIECES ON FILE · 416 SIGNALS FIRED · NOTHING PUBLISHED THAT THE DATA DID NOT TRIGGER
Rising · Artists16 country charts
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KR
South Korea
1,495 SCORED
1
Bandsanbo산보90.1
Bandsanbo산보90.12
Hon'z혼즈89.8
Hon'z혼즈89.83
Bojvck200288.3
Bojvck200288.3
US
United States
4,409 SCORED
1
Earthangell໒ა90.7
Earthangell໒ა90.72
Thee Sinseers90.6
Thee Sinseers90.63
XKYLAR90.6
XKYLAR90.6
GB
United Kingdom
1,416 SCORED
1
S•ʜ•ᴀ•ᴠ•ᴀ•ɴ•ᴀ89.9
S•ʜ•ᴀ•ᴠ•ᴀ•ɴ•ᴀ89.92
The Apaches89.8
The Apaches89.83
TheYummyFur89.7
TheYummyFur89.7
DE
Germany
1,036 SCORED
1
Agatha Is Dead!90.6
Agatha Is Dead!90.62
HALF ME90.0
HALF ME90.03
Dana Roosy Techno DJ & Producer89.6
Dana Roosy Techno DJ & Producer89.6The Roomsvenues ranked by who plays them
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WHY A SECOND VENUE MEASURE
The venue chart below ranks rooms on their own follower momentum, which favours the new and cannot see the established. This one ranks them on the momentum of the artists documented on their stages.
87 ROOMS QUALIFY · HIGH-CONFIDENCE APPEARANCES ONLY · TRAILING 365 DAYS
Rising · Venuesvenue accounts with the fastest-moving following
US
United States
5,286 SCORED
1
The Cardinal Bar91.2
The Cardinal Bar91.22
The Dune Room90.7
The Dune Room90.73
Foxtail90.5
Foxtail90.5GB
United Kingdom
2,376 SCORED
1
Bar 5789.9
Bar 5789.92
Onsite Records89.8
Onsite Records89.83
The Roguery89.7
The Roguery89.7DE
Germany
1,525 SCORED
1
KuBuS91.0
KuBuS91.02
Allégresse90.7
Allégresse90.73
Studio 5589.7
Studio 5589.7
IT
Italy
1,386 SCORED
1
The Globe - Arci Ragusa90.1
The Globe - Arci Ragusa90.12
Pablo Listening Bar89.9
Pablo Listening Bar89.93
Il Convento89.8
Il Convento89.8