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A My Listening Party event

Discover Fest.

Two nights of live independent music. A new world of artists, sounds and discoveries waiting to be heard.

December 31, 2026 — January 1, 2027
6 PM – 12 AM Central Time · Both nights

The next Discover Fest

Two nights.
Possibilities beyond the stage.

Across two evenings, independent artists bring their music into a world built for discovery.

The first broadcast begins
December 31 · 6 PM CT
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The Artists

Someone you don't know yet might become your favorite.

New voices. New perspectives. The next lineup is coming into focus.

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The Performance Schedule

Two evenings of unexpected discovery.

December 31 and January 1. The complete performance sequence will be revealed.

6 PM – 12 AM CT · Both nights

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The next world is forming

Something extraordinary is taking shape.

Discover Fest is more than a date on the calendar. It is a chance to hear what you haven't heard yet.

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Past Discoveries

Moments From the Stage

A glimpse into the performances that brought the first Discover Fest world to life.

Past Discoveries

Explore the Past.

Revisit the artists, moments and performances that brought the first Discover Fest to life.

Explore the Discover Fest Archive ↗

One world to discover.
An entire music ecosystem to explore.

The music continues beyond Discover Fest.

Continue Exploring ↓
Artist Spotlight
G.Lynn editorial portrait
In Focus G.Lynn
Independent Artist · New Orleans

G.Lynn

New Orleans, Louisiana

She doesn’t just tell you what happened. She makes you see it.

G.Lynn’s music unfolds like scenes from a life already lived. Her vocabulary is vivid, her perspective deeply personal, and her delivery gives every thought somewhere to land. But it is her cadence that makes you stay.

Her life doesn’t sit behind the music. It lives inside it. Artist Spotlight · Editorial Perspective
Behind the Music

The Story Behind the Sound

G.Lynn has the kind of flow that makes you listen to the words twice. Not because they are difficult to understand, but because there is usually more inside them than you caught the first time.

Her vocabulary gives the music imagery. Her personal experiences give it weight. And her cadence controls the way each story moves, shifting naturally between conversation, reflection and poetry.

There is an old soul in the writing, but nothing about it feels borrowed. She is a young woman documenting a life she is still living—a mother, a newlywed wife, a painter and a New Orleans artist.

Across her body of work, the records begin to feel less like individual songs and more like chapters from the same book. The memories, lessons and changes are there. It is deep, raw and unmistakably hers.

Issh Thats On My Mind artwork by G.Lynn
Featured Record

Issh Thats
On My Mind

G.Lynn

One record is only an entrance. G.Lynn has built a body of music filled with memories, observations and pieces of her life. Start here, then keep listening.

Listen to the Record ↗
Enter Her Creative World

Pull Up a Chair.
There Is a Lot to Hear.

Start with one record, then another. Follow the cadence, the vocabulary, the memories and the changes. Taken together, the music begins to feel like chapters from a life still being written.

Meet the Featured Artist   →
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THE OFFICIAL MY LISTENING PARTY CHART UPDATED WEEKLY

TOP 50

Fifty records moving through the independent music ecosystem this week. A place to discover what listeners are playing, and the artists making it.

Star — Hunter Singleton featuring Develop 01

THIS WEEK'S NO. 1 RECORD

Star

HUNTER SINGLETON FEATURING DEVELOP

A modern-day love song with an upbeat tempo that you can groove to.

LISTEN TO RECORD
Throw Some Money — Hunter Singleton featuring Ceddie 03

HOLDING STRONG

Throw Some Money

HUNTER SINGLETON FEATURING CEDDIE

New Orleans bounce like you've never heard.

THE LIVING CHART

04 — 49

Every week, listener activity shapes the records moving through the chart.

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THE FINAL POSITION

50

FIFTY RECORDS. ONE INDEPENDENT ECOSYSTEM.

The chart moves every week.

INDEPENDENT MUSIC IN MOTION NEW ARRIVALS

Fresh Drops.

Something new just entered the room.

New sounds. New voices. Your next favorite record could be waiting on the other side.

Explore Fresh Drops
Still Screaming by Yo Boi
And Never Did by Spike Evans
No Hook by 24Trav
INDEPENDENT MUSIC LIVES HERE. ENTER FRESH DROPS

My Listening Party City Series

Sounds of the City

New Orleans 001

Music, place, culture and the streets that shape the sound.

New Orleans at night, with historic balconies and warmly illuminated streetlights

Where the ecosystem began

The City That Made My Listening Party

Every city has a rhythm.

Every neighborhood has a story.

Every artist begins somewhere.

My Listening Party began in New Orleans.

Today those same streets inspire artists from around the world.

Independent music lives here. Sounds of the City New Orleans

THE INDEPENDENT MUSIC JOURNAL ✦ OCTOBER 2026

Independent music lives here.
Guitarist leaning back into a performance on a blue-lit stage

COVER STORY · INDEPENDENT ARTIST EDITION

The World Still Needs Independent Artists.

Why originality, perspective and lived experience still matter in a world where music is everywhere.

EXPLORE COVER STORY
SOUNDCHECK / 01

THE EDITORIAL DESK

Beyond the record.

There is always another story beneath the music. The one we don't hear when the song ends.

FEATURED ESSAY 02 / SOUNDCHECK

The Other Side of the Dream.

Music is not the problem. The business is.

Some of the most beautiful songs ever written never became careers. Not because they lacked talent—but because somewhere between the studio and the world, the music stopped moving.

READ THE EDITORIAL

SOUNDCHECK ORIGINAL · EPISODE 001

PLAYLIST TEST

Real listeners. One independent song. One honest decision.

EPISODE 001 Spoil Me HUNTER SINGLETON FEAT. DEVELOP
NOW TESTING

FIRST LISTEN

Spoil Me

Hunter Singleton featuring Develop

LISTEN TO THE RECORD Audio connection pending
EXPLORE THE FULL EPISODE

YOUR FIRST REACTION

The song is over. What happened?

Don't overthink it. What would you really do if this song came through your headphones?

NO RATINGS. NO INDUSTRY LANGUAGE. JUST THE LISTENER AND THE RECORD.

Music doesn't have to be for everybody.
It only has to connect with somebody.

THE JOURNAL CONTINUES

The SoundCheck journal is only beginning.

More stories. More perspectives. More reasons to listen closely.

OPEN SOUNDCHECK

MY LISTENING PARTY BROADCAST NETWORK

My Listening Party

ON AIR

Independent Frequency

Broadcasting independent music, conversations and culture every day.

Music. Voices. Stories. Broadcasting from the My Listening Party community.

Independent Music · Conversation · Culture
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Live Radio
The station
is always on.
What’s playing now, what’s coming next, and your entrance into My Listening Party’s 24/7 broadcast.
Live · 24/7
Now Playing
My Listening Party Radio
Independent music in continuous rotation from the My Listening Party community.
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Coming Next
More Independent Voices.
Music · Conversation · Culture
Enter the 24/7 Station
03 Original Programming

The Voices Inside My Listening Party Radio.

Original conversations, artist stories, culture, and music programming that turn My Listening Party Radio into a living network — not just a stream.

My Listening Party Radio Network · Original Programming
Meet the McCovins
Meet the McCovins

Life.
Culture.
Music.
Marriage.

With DJ Ren + G-Lyn

And whatever comes up.

DJ Ren and G-Lyn bring marriage, music, New Orleans, and everyday life to the mic. No script. No perfect answers. Just two people talking about life as they know it.

Monday · 8 PM CT Conversation + Culture
Feature Series

The Story
Behind The
Record.

Before the song becomes the song.

Behind the Record goes inside the creative decisions, people, process, and moments that shape a record before listeners ever hear the finished version.

Feature Series Artist Stories
Behind the Record
My Listening Party Original Programming

What’s On The Network.

A focused programming slate built around independent music, real conversation, artist stories, and the people behind the work.

Monday · 8 PM CT Recurring

Meet the McCovins

DJ Ren + G-Lyn on life, music, marriage, New Orleans, and whatever finds its way into the conversation.

Enter Show →
Feature Series Artist Stories

Behind the Record

The stories inside the records — how they are made, what they mean, and what listeners rarely get to hear.

Explore Feature →
My Listening Party · On Air

The Broadcast Continues.
The Community Does Too.

Music, conversations, and original programming live here. Now see what artists are sharing, releasing, and doing across My Listening Party.

Enter Artist Activity
ARTIST ACTIVITY LIVETHE LIVING HEARTBEAT OF MY LISTENING PARTY
INDEPENDENT ARTISTS IN MOTION

ARTISTPULSE

See what independent artists are doing across MY LISTENING PARTY right now.

New music. Studio moments. Videos. Conversations. Collaborations. Milestones. The movement behind the music, happening in real time.

LIVE SIGNAL
ACROSS MY LISTENING PARTY

LIVE FEED

CONNECTING