For fans
Your weekly shortcut to great music. Open the letter, press play, and find something new to love.
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Every week, fans get put on to new music, and the artists behind it get the listeners they deserve.
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your taste
Five tracks and three albums every week, the kind of music that's easy to miss.
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your fanbase
Learn what actually worked for artists who broke through, and get your music in front of listeners who care.
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as an artist
Honest feedback and a direct line to get your music heard.
One home for new music.
For artists
Your music, in front of real fans. Submit to be featured, tell your story, and find the listeners who’ve been waiting for it.
Submit your musicThe newsletter.
The music worth your time, delivered every week. Chosen by ear, never bought.
- The 5 tracks you need to hear The five tracks I can't stop playing, and why each one earned its place.
- From the Vault Three albums worth your time, from last Friday or fifty years ago.
- The Next Wave Go inside the artist's mind. A rising artist I believe in, in their own words: their process, their influences, and how they're getting there.
- How They Made It Every other week: a breakdown of how an independent artist actually broke through. The releases, the first big moment, what moved the needle.
- Never any paid placements No artist can buy their way into the newsletter. Every pick is there on merit.
- A direct line to me A short note from me in every issue. Hit reply anytime, I read every message.
Regular price $6 $5 /month · founding rate
That's just $1.15 a week, locked in for as long as you stay.
Limited founding spots.
Founding members get access to the private Founders' Community.
Waitlist members get 48-hour early access to founding spots.
Join the waitlist$5/month USD. One letter every week.
For artists.
I review every submission and feature the music I stand behind. Signed or independent, everyone is welcome.
Want written feedback on your track, or other ways to get your music heard? Email me →
How it works.
- 1
Send it
Drop your track through the submission form.
- 2
I listen
Every submission gets a real listen, start to finish.
- 3
Hear back
I aim to respond within a week. The ones I believe in make the letter.
Good music shouldn't need a label, a budget, or a viral moment to be heard.
Why I started this.
I've watched a lot of people, my friends included, make great music that never reaches more than a handful of listeners. Ascenova is my way of changing that: a place where small artists with music worth hearing actually get heard.
It's also what I love most, sharing music with people. So every week I bring the two together: the tracks worth hearing, and the artists behind them.
Independent and founder-led. Every submission is heard by the person who writes the letter. No algorithm, no middleman.
Hear them first. Watch them grow.
Founding members lock in $5/month, for as long as they stay.
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