About Ground Frequency

Ground Frequency is an independent editorial desk covering the world's live and underground music scenes through data. We track 22,079 venues in 169 countries and score 3,077 artists for momentum, then report what the numbers say — weekly rising-artist charts, venue intelligence, and data stories.

The name is the brief: ground for the rooms where scenes actually happen, frequency for what we do — measure them, week after week.

Ground Frequency is powered by MiSFY data — a live registry of venues, events and artist growth signals built by P.O.MFS, which operates this desk. That relationship is disclosed here and in every footer, and it comes with a bright line: listing status never shapes coverage. Whether an artist or venue is on MiSFY has no bearing on whether, or how, we cover them. See the editorial policy.

Richard Song — Founding Editor. Responsible for editorial decisions, standards and corrections.

Ground Frequency Data Desk. Our data-reporting byline. Data Desk pieces are drafted from the numbers with AI assistance and edited and approved by a human editor before publication — the process is documented in the methodology. We do not publish invented bylines.

Pride of Misfits, Inc. — a Delaware corporation · 2810 N Church St, STE 88674, Wilmington, DE 19802, United States · President: Wonil Song.

P.O.MFS is the operating name of Pride of Misfits, Inc., the company that publishes Ground Frequency and builds MiSFY.

Editorial, corrections and data enquiries: [email protected]

If you are an artist or venue and believe data about you is wrong, use the same address — data disputes are handled under the corrections policy.