https://www.groundfreq.com/We measure the frequency of the underground.enThu, 22 Oct 2026 08:30:05 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w42/united-states-pyramid-scheme/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w42/united-states-pyramid-scheme/The venue tops the United States room index this month. Its own calendar tells a denser story than the ledger currently holds.North AmericaFri, 16 Oct 2026 10:05:47 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w42/south-korea-jaehwan/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w42/south-korea-jaehwan/A street singer climbs the South Korean chart without a single documented venue booking. The digital record shows a pavement audience that our live music index cannot yet map.East AsiaWed, 14 Oct 2026 16:05:38 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w42/thailand-zumsoytan/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w42/thailand-zumsoytan/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 AsiaWed, 14 Oct 2026 10:05:36 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w42/mexico-panteon-rococo/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w42/mexico-panteon-rococo/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 & CaribbeanWed, 14 Oct 2026 00:57:42 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w42/france-walli/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w42/france-walli/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 EuropeWed, 14 Oct 2026 00:54:13 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w40/united-states-wee-man/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w40/united-states-wee-man/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 AmericaSun, 04 Oct 2026 10:11:08 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w40/germany-garagen/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w40/germany-garagen/The room sits on a former industrial site in Cologne-Ehrenfeld. Its current standing rests on three documented nights and a narrow margin.Western EuropeSun, 04 Oct 2026 10:11:08 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w40/mexico-austin-tv/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w40/mexico-austin-tv/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 & CaribbeanSun, 04 Oct 2026 09:51:13 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w40/united-kingdom-the-bluetones/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w40/united-kingdom-the-bluetones/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 EuropeSun, 04 Oct 2026 09:51:13 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w40/japan-aoto/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w40/japan-aoto/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 AsiaSun, 04 Oct 2026 09:51:13 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w38/france-novelists/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w38/france-novelists/A surge in our French rankings points to renewed momentum for the metalcore act. Verified touring dates and independent releases provide the context our ledger cannot capture alone.Western EuropeTue, 22 Sep 2026 07:09:16 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w38/united-states-yearn/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w38/united-states-yearn/A rank surge in the United States chart points to momentum. The paper trail behind it is a nine-date circuit through secondary rooms.North AmericaTue, 22 Sep 2026 07:09:16 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w38/spain-amnesia/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w38/spain-amnesia/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 EuropeTue, 22 Sep 2026 07:09:16 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w38/brazil-grupo-tedejota/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w38/brazil-grupo-tedejota/A five-place surge in Brazil suggests momentum. Our ledger of documented shows does not. The rise is real but the paper trail is currently invisible to our desk.Latin America & CaribbeanTue, 22 Sep 2026 07:09:16 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w38/japan-noa-aburasoba/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w38/japan-noa-aburasoba/A rank surge in Japan coincides with a nationwide run of rooms. Our ledger catches the dates but misses the label machinery behind them.East AsiaTue, 22 Sep 2026 07:09:16 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w37/united-states-zach-dubay/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w37/united-states-zach-dubay/A drummer sits fourth in our United States rising index. Our ledger shows zero dates. The paper trail suggests a career built entirely off our radar.North AmericaFri, 11 Sep 2026 10:05:58 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w37/brazil-gabriel-lener/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w37/brazil-gabriel-lener/A massive surge in Brazil places him narrowly behind the leader. Our touring ledger, however, records nothing. The rise is entirely digital.Latin America & CaribbeanThu, 10 Sep 2026 10:51:45 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w37/france-bimbow/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w37/france-bimbow/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 EuropeThu, 10 Sep 2026 09:54:37 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w37/thailand-makara/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w37/thailand-makara/A surge in Thailand places the band narrowly behind K Plai. Our ledger records zero domestic dates to explain the climb.Southeast AsiaThu, 10 Sep 2026 09:27:50 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w37/united-kingdom-warehouse/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w37/united-kingdom-warehouse/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 EuropeThu, 10 Sep 2026 09:25:03 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w36/thailand-monkankaenkoon/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w36/thailand-monkankaenkoon/A luk thung veteran enters the Thailand rising index at rank twenty. Our file holds a single documented appearance to explain it.Southeast AsiaWed, 02 Sep 2026 10:05:39 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w36/germany-pretty-pink/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w36/germany-pretty-pink/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 EuropeWed, 02 Sep 2026 09:49:09 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w36/germany-hafen-49/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w36/germany-hafen-49/Hafen 49 leads our German room index by a narrow margin. Its documented record covers only six appearances. The rest of the summer remains unverified.Western EuropeWed, 02 Sep 2026 09:49:09 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/united-kingdom-max-dean/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/united-kingdom-max-dean/One name came out on top of our United Kingdom rising chart this week. The paper trail behind it is short. The touring diary, which we can check, is not.Western EuropeTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/united-states-slayyyter/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/united-states-slayyyter/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 AmericaTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/brazil-natanzinho-lima/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/brazil-natanzinho-lima/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 & CaribbeanTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/south-africa-shimza/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/south-africa-shimza/He leads South Africa on our chart with an audience sixteen times larger on Instagram than on YouTube. What he does publish there is almost entirely sets, filed by the room they were played in.AfricaTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/united-kingdom-mph/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/united-kingdom-mph/The United Kingdom's #3 this week signed to a major in April and put out a record with Skrillex ten days ago. Our appearance file on him names five places and no venues — and two of those we deleted this week.Western EuropeTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/mexico-valgur/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/mexico-valgur/Mexico's #2 this week is a sibling duo from Juchitán, Oaxaca, twelve years and three records into the work. What moved is not the catalogue — it is a touring diary that now runs on both sides of the border.Latin America & CaribbeanTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/mexico-palomazo-norteno/https://www.groundfreq.com/features/2026-w35/mexico-palomazo-norteno/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 & CaribbeanTue, 25 Aug 2026 22:01:26 +0900