Combines powerful beats with ground-shaking guitar riffs and a lyric-driven, melodic vocal style.

Delivers a soothing melodic respite along with a sense of spiritual awakening, and features the kind of inspiration and brightness that is rare in a world of mainstream copycats.

Our first winner of the year started his career making covers of his favorite songs and posting them on YouTube.

Another fantastic group of songs from all over the world.

Hello music fans, the Axel family is moving to upstate New York and the internet connection is bad for the moment.

With almost 50 entries, we have another great bunch of songs. As always, we were very impressed by the quality of submissions.

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This folk-rock toe-tapper combines a wistful sense of romance with a feeling that the best is yet to come.

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