"I see the black diamond express train as she starts off for hell, the bell is ringing hell bound, hell bound... Next station," chants the deep voice of an American Baptist preacher over the loudspeakers as five musicians prepare their instruments onstage. The recording is from...

Canadian-native Craig Bjerring, also known as Old Seed, has been living and making down-tempo folk music in Germany for over five years. After a few years of increasingly frequent visits, Germany became his home base. At the end of this year’s tour he will have played music across the entire continent.

“Ordinary Madness” is the title of Regensburg lounge band JoJo Effect’s second album. Their success, however, has been anything but ordinary, and “Ordinary Madness” recently hit number one on download charts in Taiwan.

“Four Berliners and a guy from Buenos Aires”—that has been the formula behind Berlin alternative rock band Novochild’s success since Argentinean singer Leandro joined the band in 2006. With lyrics in English and Spanish, the group is ready to make a name for themselves internationally. They’ve already toured extensively through Germ

YG speaks to Futuresounds winners Three Fall about their music and debunks some myths about jazz