About Good Music Radar

My name is Bowe and I am the founder of Good Music Radar. I am an artist and producer from The Netherlands. I started my career back in 2009 and I know how hard it is to be successful in the music business.

My first album Moving through the Night did not do well, then the second one Nomansland in 2013 got me some radio airplay on Dutch national radio and some Spotify streams.

In the years after that I kept doing many gigs, promoting my music and also making a living doing acoustic cover songs. Still my Spotify streams were not really picking up. Also it was quite hard to get some online coverage.

I just kept going and going, also sending many messages to Spotify curators. Just people like you and me that once started a BBQ list that got some following. That was a process that took me some years and also my music got declined many times of course.

In 2020 I was listening to my 2013 song Tired of giving good things up in a period without gigs due to COVID. For fun, I remastered it myself and really liked what I heard. I decided to re-release the track. To my surprise it was picked up on national radio in The Netherlands and got me a hit single! It’s so surreal when you’re driving in your car and you hear your own song.

Meanwhile I kept building on my online presence, also boosting my streams. Luckily I got support from Spotify too in their editorial playlists. That happened after sending an employee a reminder that I was getting airplay, but Spotify had not really picked up the track. Again I really needed to be proactive and help myself.

It seems like a wheel that’s very hard to get into motion, but once you do, more good things can come from it. In 2021 I hit one million streams for the first time.

As a huge Rolling Stones fan, in 2022 another dream came through. I managed to arrange a collaboration with Chuck Leavell, keyboardist and musical director of The Rolling Stones. Eric Clapton’s Unplugged album … also Chuck Leavell. Drops of Jupiter by Train, you guessed it, it’s Chuck. He’s also on two of my favorite John Mayer albums.

I wanted to create a website for talented artists to get their music heard and started Good Music Radar. In every review we’ll also feature a Spotify player, making it easy for listeners to check out cool new music.

I don’t write the reviews myself. They are written by super talented writers with a music background. For me that was the most important part. They know about music and sure as hell know how to write an objective review.