Today's Top Tune

Gaby Moreno has a Latin Grammy in her arsenal. She also has Gabriel Roth, who is famous for producing artists like Sharon Jones and Amy Winehouse, taking the reigns as producer of her new album.

Iceland – with no McDonald's anywhere and yet the highest consumption of Coca-Cola per capita -- is a mystical place. It's also the birthplace of Samaris, whose members have settled from Berlin to The Hague.

Apart from being a major exporter of music, what do we really know about Sweden? First, the country requires that all its employers provide free massage, there's an average of 1,836,000 meatballs eaten daily in all of Ikea's 313 stores worldwide, and 89.9 percent of the population speak English -- including Erik Jonasson.

We can thank the Norwegians for the cheese slicer and for being the birthplace of modern skiing, as well as being home to electronic dance music producer and DJ Prins Thomas.

Music is a compulsory subject in Finnish schools for the first seven years, which might explain why Finland enjoys an abundance of choral singers. Jaakko Eino Kalevi proves the point.

Here are some obscure facts about Denmark: the national flag is the oldest state flag in the world and is still in use today, the country leads the list in Nobel laureates – and Denmark is home to Legos! It's also ranked #1 in the world in terms of life experiences, which brings us to today's featured band, Masasolo.

In just one calendar year, Mild High Club has been able to release its album debut and quickly followed up with a second full length recording.

One way to expand a musical palette is for artists to explore their own identity. In the case of Y La Bamba, frontwoman Luz Elena Mendoza explores her Mexican identity by looking back on echoes of childhood summers playing with her cousins in the orchards of the San Joaquin Valley.

Raised by two postal workers on California's Central Coast and a steady diet of Gospel music, Ethan Burns likes to flip through the radio challenging himself to learn new songs by ear.

After the Orlando Pulse Nightclub shootings Sharon Van Etten turned her sadness into song and said, "We're all trying to just fit in, to belong, and to be ourselves. It's not even whether you're straight or gay or white or black — it's not any of those things. It's about being safe and being able to be yourself.”