(King) Louie Bankston

Louis Paul Bankston, better known as King Louie Bankston, was an American rock and roll musician from New Orleans. Associated early on with garage punk, he abandoned the genre in 1998 and focused on Louisiana swamp pop, boogie woogie, boogie rock, and power pop.

Adrian Crowley

Adrian Crowley is a Dublin-based singer/songwriter with an introspective, moody tone. Crowley’s music is steeped in the folk traditions of the 1970s, calling to mind storytelling songwriters such as Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake, with a strong, often central emphasis on lyrics. Increasingly as his career has progressed, his sound has incorporated electronic music; this influence has been reinforced by his ongoing relationship with producer Stephen Shannon of Dublin “folktronica” act H...
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Adrianne Lenker

Al Doyle

Al Doyle is a British musician and songwriter. He is best known as the guitarist and synthesiser player for British indie electronic band Hot Chip and American rock band LCD Soundsystem. He is also a founding member of British electronic band New Build.

Alabaster Deplume

Alabaster DePlume is a Manchester-born, London-based bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist and orator. He’s a resident at the legendary London creative hub Total Refreshment Centre, a recording artist for the off-grid, Scottish Hebridean island label Lost Map, and now the latest arrival into Chicago-based International Anthem’s growing family of progressive musical explorationists. The music of his 2020 release “To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1” contains naturally elegant o...

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Alan Braxe

Alan Braxe is a singular musician with a rare and restless spirit. His penchant for composition and melody commenced at an early age, with classical training in clarinet and cello. Braxe developed an omnivorous appetite for music in his adolescence, devouring everything from Alexander O’Neal to Heaven 17 and Public Enemy.

Before long, Braxe was producing his own viral strain of dance music using only a mixer, a compressor, and an Emu SP1200.

Within a year, a handful of Braxe’s early demos...

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Aldous Harding

An artist of rare calibre and intensity, Aldous Harding does more than sing. Her body and face a weapon of theatre, Harding dances with steeled fervor in and through an omnium gatherum of emotions.

As a Bunraku puppet transfigures from graceful maiden into gnashing, black-eyed demon, so Harding spins through sinister torch songs, gentle laments and eerie odes. Her debut release with 4AD Party (produced with the award-winning John Parish; PJ Harvey, Sparklehorse) introduces a new pulse to the ...

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Alex Burey

Alex Burey is a producer, songwriter, mixer & multi-instrumentalist from the outskirts of London. His interest in music began at the age of 7 when Alex found classical piano. Once at school he began producing hip-hop & grime music for local artists. Since then he’s worked from his home studio on all styles of music; hip-hop to folk, classical to dance. Authenticity is a central quality to all the music he produces.

Alex’s approach to production is collaborative, working with t...

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Alex G

Not long after he finished recording Beach Music, his seventh full-length and Domino debut, Alex Giannascoli found himself in unfamiliar territory. “I took the record to a studio,” he says, “to get it mixed and mastered by some pros. But I was really nervous—usually, I’d just do everything myself and then put it out myself. I have this really precise vision and the best understanding of what I want to do.”

Over the course of six self-recorded and mostly self-released LPs, that vis...

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Alex Izenberg

Alex Izenberg first emerged onto the scene with his debut album ‘Harlequin’, released in 2016 on Domino Records. The album was colorful, full of mischief and concealed charm, while remaining deeply human and relatable at its core. In 2020, Izenberg followed up with ‘Caravan Château’, and he will soon release ‘Alex Izenberg and The Exiles’ in 2024. The latest project features melodies that are romantic and warm, with arrangements that are invitingly expansive, making expert use of...

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Alex Lahey

Alex Lahey is an LA based multi-instrumentalist, producer, and writer originally from Melbourne, Australia. Despite studying jazz saxophone at university, Alex hit her stride with her distinctive brand of infectious indie rock as showcased through two successful albums released on Dead Oceans in US/Europe and via her imprint Nicky Boy Records in Australia/NZ, where she’s been ARIA Gold certified, has charted in the ARIA Top 20, and has had multiple songs in the Triple J Hottest 100 o...

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Alice Jemima

Signed to Sunday Best, Rob da Bank’s independent record label, Alice Jemima merges sultry sweet vocals with contemporary electronic production, creating catchy yet intelligent pop that speaks of universal emotions. Initially breaking through via an enchanting cover of Blackstreet’s No Diggity – now tallying over 3 million plays.

Self-taught guitarist and singer/songwriter Alice Jemima started writing songs at the age of 12, and while at comprehensive school in her native Devon, she got ...

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Alison Mosshart

Fierce and fiery, a no-nonsense firestarter, Alison Mosshart is hardly a stranger to taking chances. Best known as one-half of acclaimed duo The Kills, when she’s not moonlighting as Baby Ruthless, the gnarly lead singer of blues-punk foursome The Dead Weather, Mosshart is a forever moving force. Over the years she’s collaborated with everyone from her Dead Weather bandmate Jack White to the Arctic Monkeys, Primal Scream, Gang Of Four, Cage The Elephant, Foo Fighters, James Williamson...

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All We Are

All We Are are a global gathering made up of Ireland’s Richard ‘O Flynn (drums, vocals), Norway’s Guro Gikling (bass, vocals) and Brazil’s Luis Santos (guitar, vocals), who met at university in Liverpool. Written initially in a cabin in the isolated Norwegian mountains, with follow-up sessions in a secluded cottage in North Wales, the album was finished and perfected in their studio in a disused school in Liverpool. The record was then recorded in London with producer Dan Carey...

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Allison Crutchfield

Allison Crutchfield has been writing and performing fantastic songs over the years, most notably in her co-founding projects Swearin’ and P.S. Eliot.

Lately she’s been part of the Waxahatchee live band and self-released the Lean In To It EP, but 2017 will see the release of her first proper full-length ‘Tourist In This Town’ in 2017 which is released on Merge Records.

Watch the video for “Dean’s Room” below which was directed by Lara Jean Gallagher.

Allo Darlin’

Allo Darlin’ are a fan’s band, with a DIY ethos. They are close friends who found each other and the music they make in London. Elizabeth and Bill are from Australia, Mike and Paul are from Kent. Their self-titled debut was released on Fortuna Pop in June 2010 to widespread critical acclaim. Their second album, Europe, was Rough Trade’s best-selling record of 2012 and was highly placed in many best of the year polls, including Rolling Stone, Emusic and Rough Trade. The band&...

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The Amazing Snakeheads

‘Amphetamine Ballads‘ is the debut album from Glasgow’s The Amazing Snakeheads, which will be released on 14th April 2014 on Domino Records. A monument to the redemptive powers of rock ‘n’ roll – full of rage, romance and dark humour – it is an uncompromising, astonishingly visceral debut album. The Amazing Snakeheads – Dale Barclay, William Coombe and Jordan Hutchinson – are truly a force of nature. On stage, Dale appears possessed by music, rock’n’roll chan...

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Andy Barlow

Andy is best known as one half of the electronic duo LAMB and his solo material released under the LOWB moniker.
Aside from his own projects, Andy Barlow has also produced and mixed brilliant albums for an array of talented artists, including the acclaimed Distance And Time for FINK and, in more recent years, DAVID GRAY’s latest album Mutineers and the brilliant debut album from THE RAMONA FLOWERS Dismantle and Rebuild.
His compositions have been used in adverts for both Guinness and the To...

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Andy Jenkins

Andy Jenkins is a songwriter from Richmond, Virginia. His debut album Sweet Bunch and The Garden Opens EP were released via Spacebomb Records. He has co-written songs on the Matthew E. White cult classic Big Inner and recent releases by Raf Rundell and Skyway Man.
 “an affably charismatic vocalist and supremely resourceful songwriter…like Harry Nilsson if he’d been born a Southerner” – Uncut

Andy Monaghan

Andy Monaghan is an artist, writer and producer operating out of the East End of Glasgow. As a member of Frightened Rabbit, he was a  multi-instrumentalist and contributing producer, in the studio and on stage.

Animal Collective

From their inception the four members of Animal Collective: Deakin,
Geologist, Avey Tare and Panda Bear have created music as primal as face paint
and as expressive as the yells they first fed into their sampler. Every new
record is a change in direction on a journey undertaken without maps. The
destination remains the same – the Collective consciousness, where formulae and
rules can never be applied. 

Anna Calvi

Calvi has been revered in the British music industry since she emerged in 2011, a soulful songwriter, virtuosic guitarist and captivating performer. Both her self-titled debut album and the 2013 follow-up One Breath were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, with her debut also receiving a Brit nomination for ‘Best Breakthrough Artist’. She’s collaborated with Brian Eno, Marianne Faithful and, on the 2014 covers EP Strange Weather, David Byrne. In 2017, she composed the music for T...

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Ant Whiting

Ant Whiting is a Mercury nominated multi-instrumentalist Producer, with 2 Double Platinum no 1 UK albums and several top ten UK hits to his name.  Ant has written with and produced for artists such as Lana Del Rey, M.I.A, Matt Maltese, Crystal Fighters, John Newman, Rizzle Kicks, Shaznay Lewis, Soak, Gia Ford, DNCE, The Feeling, Danny Jones and many more. He works from his home studio in Shepherds Bush where he is currently scoring a film soundtrack for BFI and also developing artist...
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Apollo Sunshine

Shall Noise Upon,  released  September 2nd, 2008 on the Headless Heroes label, is the third full-length album from Apollo Sunshine.  The band has already proven their versatility and skill on their past albums, 2003’s Katonah and 2005’s Apollo Sunshine, but Shall Noise Upon shows them at their strongest. We find multi-instrumentalists Jesse Gallagher, Sam Cohen, and Jeremy Black weaving through a multitude of styles: from mind-expanding pop psych to barn burning blues ...

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April Smith

“I was the surprise,” says April Smith, the bonus baby her parents won late and whose moxie and dash astounded everyone she met. Today, she remains a welcome bolt: a loose-lipped, cocked-hip gal whose music and mien could buoy the Titanic.

 

The girl from Toms River, New Jersey, swears she cultivated her magnetic personality in order to impress her much older and “insanely talented” siblings. Watching her brother play with his band, and her sister paint murals on ...

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Aquarian Blood

With Bending The Golden Hour, the third album from Memphis, Tennessee’s Aquarian Blood, husband and wife team J.B. Horrell (Ex-Cult) and Laurel Horrell (formerly of the Nots) continue the gorgeously stripped-down and atmospheric direction set on their critically acclaimed previous effort A Love That Leads to War. While Aquarian Blood has roots as a chaotic punk rock six-piece, the band shifted gears after two raucous cassette-only releases on ZAP Cassettes, a pair of seven-inches, and 201...

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Arch Garrison

There is a house by a river by a village by the foot of the South Wiltshire downs in which North Sea Radio Orchestra’s Craig and Sharron Fortnam live. A wheezing dog and a crackling fire were the backdrop to the creation of ‘King of the Down’, which was written, recorded and performed by Craig with additional vocals by Sharron, and features songs about the Mighty Thames, Roman Roads, ditches and mounds, vapour trails and mental un-health.

Fans of North Sea Radio Orchestra ha...

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Archie Bronson Outfit

Generating molten heat right from the opening bars of first track "Magnetic Warrior," Coconut, the new Archie Bronson Outfit album, is a record full of deep riffs, spaced loops and the sound of a band revelling in both their individuality and intensity. Coconut is a record of barely contained ambition and ecstatic overload. The album was produced by DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy (LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, Hercules & Love Affair) with recording sessions in Michigan, London and ...

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Archie Pelago

Archie Pelago is a production and live performance trio based in Brooklyn, NY . Formed in late 2010, the trio of Hirshi (trumpet/Ableton), Cosmo D (cello/Ableton) and Kroba (sax/Ableton) combine their varied backgrounds in jazz and classical music with a common love for rhythm and the wide open possibilities of electronic music.
 
In the studio, the three produce collectively and prominently feature their instruments, lending deeply emotive patterns and textures to their tracks. ...

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Arlo Day

Arlo Day is the moniker of Alice Barlow, a young songwriter and guitarist from South-East London whose unique ear for melody, haunting vocals and rumbling guitar tones have gained a quiet reputation as one of the capital’s best kept secrets.

Art School Girlfriend

When Polly Mackey – AKA Art School Girlfriend – released her first album Is It Light Where You Are in 2021, what was a shimmering debut felt to her more like a sublime denouement. 

The Welsh producer and multi-instrumentalist’s record revelled in expansive dreamscape sounds and diaristic writing that stretched deep into the emotional peripheries of a then very recent heartbreak. A protracted two years later, Polly was able to tour the record – then, embarking on a new relationship, ...

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Arthur Russell

Seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell prolifically created music that spanned both pop and the transcendent possibilities of abstract art. Though posthumously regarded as one of the most influential musicians of all time, his profound talent was never truly acknowledged before his untimely death in 1992.

His long time collaborators and friends included Philip Glass, Allen Ginsberg and David Byrne, the latter with whom he produced eccentric...

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Asian Dub Foundation

Famed for their electrifying fusion of punk rock, electronic beats, reggae, bhangra, hip-hop and politics, the one-time Mercury nominees & NME Award winners return with a freshly reinvigorated & retooled line-up to release their career defining best with Adrian Sherwood back at the controls.

‘More Signal More Noise’ (released via Believe Recordings on 6thJuly 2015) showcases a band shot-through with a new found sense of positive energy, militancy and purpose. Recorded in j...

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Astrel K

The Foreign Department is the second album by Astrel K, the solo project helmed by Stockholm-based British ex-pat, Rhys Edwards. Those already familiar with Edwards’ work will likely know him for fronting the cultishly great Ulrika Spacek, and given he operates as the principal songwriter in both projects, much of the same hallmarks of his cathartic, elliptical songwriting are present in Astrel K. Nonetheless, The Foreign Department feels like a rubicon moment of sorts, and the album that E...

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Austin Brown

Austin Brown is a founder member of critically-acclaimed New York band Parquet Courts, and one of the key creative driving forces behind the group’s ever evolving sound over the last 10 years. Their most recent release – 2021’s Sympathy For Life – offered a new twist, incorporating dance elements drawn from the long, illustrious history of Big Apple nightlife.

Brown has always maintained a multi-faceted approach to making music and began to explore his long-standing interest in writin...

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Austra

This confluence of classical and electronic has been at the heart of Stelmanis’s career before there even was a career. At the age of 10, Stelmanis joined the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus, where she sang regularly for the prestigious Canadian Opera Company. While simultaneously learning viola and piano, Stelmanis pursued a career in opera, studying privately for four years while making plans to study the genre further in college.

Spurred on by her production work for soundtrac...

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Avey Tare

Best known as a founding member of experimental pop group Animal Collective, David Portner’s (aka Avey Tare) psychedelic vision contributed to both Animal Collective’s highly influential output, a healthy solo catalog, and several warped side projects. In downtime from his main band, Portner has released records as wildly imagined as the completely backwards 2007 album Pullhair Rubeye and the more straightforward voicings of multifacted songwriting like 2019’s Cows on Hourglass Pond.

Po...

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Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks

Slasher Flicks by name alone is not what it appears to be. Scrambled horror film soundtracks? Not even remotely. A bunch of East Coasters making their quintessential LA album? No, more like escape from LA, say guitar-wielding lead singer Avey Tare (of Animal Collective), keyboard player and singer Angel Deradoorian (of Dirty Projectors, Deradoorian), and drummer Jeremy Hyman (of Ponytail, Dan Deacon). If LA is an environment to get lost in, as they claim, this group sewing roots in SoCal have...

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B-Movie

B-Movie formed in 1980 and quickly became part of the emerging New Romantic scene, supporting Duran Duran on their debut tour. However, their musical direction was more closely aligned with the psychedelic and post-punk sounds of bands like The Doors, Echo and the Bunnymen, Magazine, and early Ultravox.

Their songwriting combined shimmering guitar textures, swirling synthesizers, classic-style piano, and a tight rhythm section, all anchored by Steve Hovington’s distinctive baritone. The ban...

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BABii

BABii produces incredibly forward-thinking electro-tinged pop/R&B which features skittering beats and incredibly thick, layered synths with heavy bass with a semi industrial feel to them. The lyrics are dark, yet the vocals are sweet and despite its incredible pop hooks the whole LP drips with a sentiment of loss and abandonment. BABii wowed SXSW this year playing 7 shows in 5 days and being compared to everyone from Grimes to FKA Twigs and while those comparisons give you a jumping off p...

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Balam Acab

Alec Koone aka Balam Acab, like Salem and oOoOO, traverse the same shadowy territories that seem at once sensual and unnerving. He creates something akin to Burial being slowly drowned in an ocean of Drone, a cybernetic limbo haunted by distant machine moans, those trademark ghostly digi-diva vocals positively lost in another world all together. His first EP ‘See Birds‘ was released by the Tri Angle label in August 2010.

Balam Acab’s debut full length album ‘Wander/Wonder‘ came ...

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Bedouine

Like her name implies, Bedouine’s music has a nomadic heart. Sweeping, hypnotic. Esoteric yet familiar. It is untethered to place because its home is everywhere. Bedouine travels a spectrum of 60s folk to 70s country funk; All the while nodding to the at-ease vocals of a Brazilian songstress.

An outsider and an introvert, Bedouine prefers anonymity but loves making music enough to share hers with anyone willing to listen—even if it means confronting her fears. An aversion to the spotlight...

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Bella Hardy

Bella Hardy’s seventh solo album With The Dawn – her first since being named BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer Of The Year in 2014– isn’t just the latest collection of songs from this prolific and ingenious artist. The album is an account of one year of her life. Where previously Bella has adapted and explored traditional ballads and fables to tell her contemporary folk tales, the stories that inspired these songs are her own experiences: good and bad, happy or sad.

Bella releas...

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Benjy Ferree

Come Back To The Five And Dime, Bobby Dee Bobby Dee, the second full-length album from Benjy Ferree, is a musical eulogy to the forgotten child star, Bobby Driscoll. He portrayed Peter Pan in the 1953 Disney feature, then faced the reality of growing up in a world without Neverland. Once Disney’s golden boy of cinema, Driscoll was fired from Disney after the making of Peter Pan for the unforgivable crime of hitting puberty and developing acne. No longer cute and profitable, he struggled...

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The Big Eyes Family

Previously known as The Big Eyes Family Players, the group is a five-piece, based in Sheffield, UK, and headed by artist/printmaker James Green. In the last fifteen years they have released eight albums, having previously worked with the likes of James Yorkston, Alasdair Roberts, Terry Edwards and Rachel Grimes to name but a few, and played numerous shows and music festivals over the last few years, including Green Man Festival (UK), Field Day (UK) and Rolling Stone Festival (DE).

The band fe...

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Big Thief

Big Thief’s music, rooted in the songs of Adrianne Lenker, paints in vivid tones “the process of harnessing pain, loss, and love, while simultaneously letting go, looking into your own eyes through someone else’s, and being okay with the inevitability of death,” says Adrianne.

Masterpiece, Big Thief’s debut album, is filled with characters and visceral narratives, songs that pivot in the space of a few words. Adrianne’s voice and guitar playing speak of rich emotional territory wi...

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Bill Ryder-Jones

While some records are laboured with full stops, some are born from a hypothetical If… Bill Ryder-Jones’ first solo album is one such record.

Written as a tribute to a cult novel and recorded as a film soundtrack, If… is never all that is seems. Inspired by Italian avant-garde author Italo Calvino’s postmodernist novel If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller, Ryder Jones’ masterfully-woven soundscape asks the question that few musicians dare to: how do you sustain the magic?

“The boo...

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Bill Wells

Bill’s story is long and complex; a self-taught musical visionary from Falkirk. Bill has been able to build profitable liaisons around an open-minded Glasgow music scene, finding that groups like The Pastels, Future Pilot AKA, Telstar Ponies and Belle & Sebastian rate his music very highly, and are happy to collaborate with him. The first of these associations to really register is this highly rated sound-clash with Future Pilot AKA on Domino, which is the start of an ongoing musical pa...

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Black midi

black midi is comprised of Geordie Greep (vocals/guitar), Cameron Picton (bass/vocals), Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin (guitar/vocals) and Morgan Simpson (drums). The repartee between the quartet is quiet but quick and laconic. It’s a connection reflected in the intensely focused and driven live shows with which black midi have made their name, drawing comparisons to American groups like Shellac, but that’s only half the story to this deeply uncategorizable music. They bonded over shared musical...

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The Black Tambourines

The Black Tambourines make music grounded in the ethos of D.I.Y production and scuzzy, distorted garage-rock, but with ragged grooves and a sun-kissed haze. Their music has been described as “surf-punk that buzzes with urgency” – NME, “blissfully hazy garage-punk”– Clash and “scuzzy rip-roaring indie-rock” – BEAT.

Over the last year The Black Tambourines have performed at Glastonbury, Isle of Wight festival, The Great Escape (unofficially, pla...

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Blanche

In the fair city of Detroit, nestled among the garage-rock nooks and country crannies, lurks the music of Blanche. Husband and wife Dan and Tracee Miller trade intense and haunting vocals over an uneasy sea of pedal steel, banjo, raw guitar sounds, and sparse, driving drumming. The moods created in the songs seem to define Blanche. Some songs are sad and pretty, while others have a powerful, spooky feel. The melodies trick you into singing along with tales of superstitions, garbage picking, f...

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Blondes

Blondes, the duo of Sam Haar and Zach Steinman, first met at Oberlin College in 2003, where they studied electroacoustic composition and studio art respectively, and became collaborators in a smattering of short-lived experimental outfits. They moved to Oakland, NYC, and Berlin, where they founded Blondes proper, before settling in to Brooklyn as their home base.

Blondes quickly evolved from a home studio project to a live experience built around a tactile assemblage of synthesizers, sequence...

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Blood Incantation

Blood Incantation is a death metal band from Denver, Colorado, formed in 2011. They’re known for blending old-school death metal with psychedelic and cosmic/spacey elements. The band includes Paul Riedl on vocals and guitar, Morris Kolontyrsky on guitar, Jeff Barrett on bass, and Isaac Faulk on drums.

Blood Orange (Dev Hynes)

Seer, Producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter and vocalist Devonté Hynes is a globetrotting polymath for our times. The four albums he has recorded as Blood Orange have gained an international audience and the admiration of his peers. Hynes’ songwriting has helped essay the subjects of gender fluidity, twenty-first century vulnerability and the ennui of permanently-on connectedness into the modern lexicon. His lyrics act as a beacon to the vulnerable or temporally dispossesse...

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Bob Moses

The music of Grammy-nominated, Canadian-by-way-of-California duo Bob Moses finds a natural home at both Fabric and Bonnaroo. On their debut album Days Gone By, Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance paired their experience of growing up within the codes of the club scene with the signifiers of rock bands, such as a live drummer. Battle Lines, their second album, adds a further dynamic filter. Bob Moses is a band.

BOBBY

BOBBY is a cooperative musical project based on the talents of musicians from Partisan Records and Knitting Factory Records which is notable for achieving an avant garde alternative sound using polyrhythm as well as achieving critical acclaim before releasing their first album entitled Bobby. With Martin Zimmermann (Chunk) on the cans, Paolo Menuez (Pillow) on thweedles, Julian Labat (Crumbles) on low-end, Roby Moulton (Moldy) on wisps and Molly Sarle (of Mountain Man) to contribute vocally, ...

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Bodywash

Bodywash was formed in 2014 when Chris Steward and Rosie Long Decter began jamming in a basement rehearsal room at McGill University. Bonding over a shared affection for shoegaze and dream pop, the two found an immediate chemistry. “There is an excitement that comes from having people of diverse backgrounds and personalities in one room,” says Steward, “trying to make something beautiful together.” Tom Gould joined soon after on bass, and they recorded an EP in 2016. 

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Bolis Pupul

Hot on the heels of a whirlwind year touring the globe and releasing the acclaimed collaboration with Charlotte Adigéry, ‘Topical Dancer’, dance music’s suavest producer-singer-songwriter Bolis Pupul has announced his debut album Letter To Yu.

Letter To Yu is a love letter to Bolis’ late mother who passed away in 2008 in a traffic accident. Born to a Belgian father and Chinese mother, growing up in Gent, Bolis had not negated his Chinese roots exactly – his mother was born in Hong...

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Bonde do Role

 

This particular party started in 2002 when Gorky was DJing at events around Rio. "I was definitely influenced by 2ManyDJs," he recalls. "Well, I say influenced, I was completely ripping them off. But one of the things I’d play to be unexpected was baile funk." Baile funk is a Brazilian, and particularly Rio-based, party funk sound. Diplo has described it as "little children screaming about drugs over a Smiths loop and a breakbeat – perfect music." Some...

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Bonnie Prince Billy

Will Oldham (born 24 December 1970, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American singer-songwriter, actor, and musician. His music is often (perhaps inappropriately) placed under the genre of “alt-country”. Oldham has recorded under many names, including Palace, Palace Music, Palace Brothers, and Bonnie Billy. He often plays and records with other musicians, including David Pajo and his brothers Ned and Paul Oldham, but is generally the chief creator of the music.

 

He has also been involved...

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BORIS

Legendary Japanese sludge/doom rock trio Boris formed in 1992 and eventually arrived at the band’s current lineup of Takeshi, Wata, and Atsuo into 1996.  In the 29 years since, Boris has tirelessly explored their own rendition of what is heavy through methods entirely their own. Though the depths of their “heaviness” may intensify, their unique musicianship defies classification in any one genre or style, so let’s just call it real “heavy music” in extreme color. Their music has ...

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Boshra AlSaadi

Boshra AlSaadi, aka SAADI, is a Syrian American musician living in New York City. Her sound shows traces of her vast and diverse influences ranging from dancehall to traditional Arabic dabke, from Brian Eno to Lady Saw, resulting in a real fusion of sound that would lend itself to a sweaty dance floor or a darkened bedroom. AlSaadi’s former projects include Brooklyn’s TEEN and the late great Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang.

Boz Boorer

Boz Boorer is a guitarist who composes music for Morrissey along with Jesse Tobias, Gustavo Manzur and Mando Lopez, previously Alain Whyte was a major writer too. He is not only famous and well known as a guitarist: Boz Boorer is a high profile, hard working artist and engineer who has scored many times in his different figures, and steadily performs live gigs in several countries with different bands, or as solo performer.

Rockabilly Guy was the first single Boorer released as a guitarist wi...

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Brad Stank

Brad Stank wants you to talk less and love more. A sensei of the slow jams, this sexistentialist-pop bohemian writes jazz-leaning twilight ruminations that puncture the mythology of R&B. Juxtaposing Eastern philosophies against sexuality, the Stank alter-ego – a unification of modern hip hop attitude and old soul – allows Brad to tap into the flow of a deeper human mysticism. A blend of lounge lizard jazz and smoky blues, the essence of creativity and knowledge weaves itself into ever...

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Brian Chippendale

Brian Chippendale is a New York-born musician and visual artist, known for his role as vocalist and drummer in noise-rock band Lightning Bolt, which he co-founded in 1994 with bassist Brian Gibson. In 2006, he launched his solo project Black Pus – describing the music as guttural, raw and freeform. Wasted Shirt is the latest collaboration from Chippendale, teaming up with Ty Segall to release 2020 album Fungus II. Outside of music, Chippendale is also a talented visual artist, celebrate...

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The Brother Brothers

The Brother Brothers are Adam and David Moss, identical twins carrying on the folk tradition for a new generation. Using minimal instrumentation, heartfelt lyricism, and harmonies so natural they seem to blend into one beautiful voice, the siblings draw on the energy and creativity of Brooklyn, New York for their full-length debut album, Some People I Know.

The Brother Brothers’ acoustic project emerges from several years spent traveling the country, both separately and together, playing i...

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Buck Meek

Buck Meek, the talented singer-songwriter and guitarist, has emerged as a captivating figure in contemporary folk music as a solo artist and as the guitarist of Big Thief.

 As a solo artist, Meek writes captivating and heartfelt music that weaves poignant storytelling with delicate melodies. After releasing his self-titled debut album in 2018, Meek moved from Brooklyn, where Big Thief were formed, to the mountains north of Los Angeles where he wrote many of the songs for Two Saviors rel...

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Buzzcocks

The nervous sound of eternal youth, the music of Buzzcocks has never aged, or ceased to influence each successive generation. Their definitive recordings, from Spiral Scratch to A Different Kind Of Tension, are now proudly included in the Domino catalogue.

By The Sea (Liam Power)

By The Sea come from the lineage of firework pop, bursts of colour and squeeze-your-hand intense love aligned with grey skies & work things.

Liam Power formed By The Sea in 2011, the band’s debut single ‘Waltz Away’ coming out on The Great Pop Supplement label that year. In November 2012 the band released their self-titled album through Dell’Orso and GPS. The NME noted how there was “a beautifully bruised element to this Wirral act’s debut from the subdued, morbid production t...

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The C.I.A

A project from the notoriously prolific garage-punk kingpin Ty Segall, the C.I.A. is a collaboration between Ty and his spouse Denée Segall, who had previously worked with his group GØGGS and handled photography and design for many of his album covers. Like much of Ty‘s music, the C.I.A.’s sound is lo-fi garage-oriented rock & roll, with plenty of dirty guitars and stripped-down melodies, while Denée handles the lead vocals with a vintage drum machine holding down the percuss...

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Caitlin Canty

Caitlin Canty delivers her fine-edged songs with a 1930′s Recording King guitar and a dusky alto, painting the line between joy and pathos with uncanny precision and power.  Raised in small-town Vermont, the daughter of a school teacher and a house painter, she spent a decade in New York City cutting her teeth on both sides of the microphone – as a performer and as the first employee of the successful Artists Den series.  In 2014 she will release ‘Reckless Skyline’, a...

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Carmine Appice

As drummer for Vanilla Fudge, Carmine Appice set the grooves for the groundbreaking band‘s 1967 psychedelic debut, inadvertently inventing Stoner Rock in the process. The Fudge had no precedent. The band was totally unique. No rock group, up until that point, had ever so lugubriously s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d out well-known pop tunes like the Beatles “Eleanor Rigby” and “Ticket To Ride,” Curtis Mayfield‘s “People Get Ready,” Sonny & Cher‘s “Bang Bang” Rod Argent‘s “She...

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Cass McCombs

The five albums Cass McCombs released on Domino represent the caucus of a canon of unparalleled contemporary American songwriting: Dropping The Writ, Catacombs, Humor Risk, Wit’s End, and Big Wheel And Others are all essential listening.

Castanets

Castanets is the musical project of Raymond Raposa, a San Diego native currently residing in New York City. While Raposa is the only constant member of the band, his records and live performances often feature a seemingly never ending rotating cast of musicians, the line-up often changing from night to night in a single tour. First touted by Pitchfork Media, Castanets were one of the more prominent proponents of the so-called freak folk movement (also known as psychedelic folk and New Weird A...

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Cate Le Bon

Be it on her more minimalist, acoustic-leaning 2009 debut album Me Oh My or critically acclaimed, liquid-riffed 2013 LP Mug Museum as well as 2016s Crab Day, Cate Le Bon’s solo work — and indeed also her production work, such as that carried out on recent Deerhunter album Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? (4AD, January 2019) — has always resisted pigeonholing, walking the tightrope between krautrock aloofness and heartbreaking tenderness; deadpan served with a twinkle in the ...

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Charif Megarbane (Cosmic Analog Ensemble)

Cosmic Analog Ensemble is the brainchild of prolific Lebanese music producer and multi-instrumentalist Charif Megarbane, a one-man musical force who writes, performs and produces all of its creative output. With a DIY music ethos, Megarbane has crafted an inimitable style of instrumental music, a melting pot of global sounds that effortlessly glides between 1960s Italian library music, Middle Eastern psychedelia, afro-beat and hip-hop breaks.

Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul

Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their music. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP on Soulwax’s record label DEEWEE, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoc...

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Cheek Mountain Thief

 

 

 

Mike Lindsay (Tunng)  has recently been hiding out in Iceland creating a solo album with members of the local Husavik community under the name Cheek Mountain Thief. Mike fell in love with Iceland after playing Airwaves 2010 and decided to spend two months in the remote Northeast town ofHusavik, borrowing enough equipment to build a small studio in a cabin facing the Kinnafjoll (CheekMountains). The album was completed in Rejkjavik with a host of local characters: a m...

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Chief

The story of Chief is one of two coasts. Though Evan Koga, Mike Moonves and brothers Danny and Michael Fujikawa were all born and raised as sons of Los Angeles, they left for New York University, worlds away. It was in New York that they first got to know one another as collaborators, rumbling through a number of semi-serious projects and solo ventures before feeling swept away by a small run of songs Koga had penned and presented to them. He had written them under the name Chief, a moniker t...

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The Child of Lov

The Child of Lov released his eyponymous Debut LP in 2013 on the Domino affiliate label Double Six with contributions from DOOM, Thundercat and Damon Albarn.

Chris Forsyth

Guitarist Chris Forsyth’s hypnotic instrumentals assimilate art-rock textures with vernacular American influences culled from a lauded career as a composer, improviser, and inveterate collaborator. Long active in the international improv/experimental underground, he’s released a series of acclaimed records as a solo artist that demonstrate a resolute engagement in making corporeal/cerebral music that transcends such subterranean realms, reaching instead for a bleeding-ed...

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The Clang Group

It’s just a rumour that was spread around town. It said there was a star that few had ever heard of. But that few included David Bowie, Morrissey and Elvis Costello and he’d produced them all. Also, this man had a band called Deaf School and they’d inspired many other bands from Dexys Midnight Runners to Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

It’s time Clive “Clanger” Langer was known by more than a few. He is a quietly-spoken, bespectacled pop wizard from North London...

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

In any discussion regarding songwriters and lyricists of 21st century indie music, Alec Ounsworth and his moniker, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, will feature prominently. Few have been as consistently brilliant, eclectic, and intimate; fewer still remain defiantly independent, refusing to sign deals that compromise artistic vision. That is what characterizes Ounsworth’s oeuvre, especially the lifetime project he initiated sometime in the early 2000s, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. And with each r...

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Clinic

Bubblegum, the mind-blowing sixth album from Clinic, is exactly 40 minutes long. Usually, long-players by this most extraordinary British band clock in at a clipped half-hour. That makes an extra 33% of murky psychedelic/punk excellence. But there’s a little more to it than that. This one comes from another planet, baby. Here’s why.

Clinic – singular, ambitious, revered by fellow musicians – forever sound like no-one else but themselves, because no-one else could even ...

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Coby Sey

Coby Sey is an artist, multi-instrumentalist musician and DJ from Lewisham, London. Coby Sey’s distinguished presence in London has elicited a bold impression of his compositions and performances, to much the attention of acclaimed artists and collaborators Tirzah, Mica Levi, Kwes, Kelly Lee Owens and Cosha.

Sey’s music is reflective of his vast spectrum of influences, yet he remains undeniably uniquely himself; experimenting with live instrumentation and electronic-based productions, meld...

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The Coral

The Coral’s past speaks volumes having sold over a million UK albums since their debut EP release in 2001, five of those hitting the top ten, including the chart-topping Magic and Medicine (2003) and eight top 40 singles. Without so much as a glance over their shoulder, James Skelly (vocals/guitars), Ian Skelly (drums/percussion/vocals), Nick Power (keyboard/vocals), Paul Duffy (bass/keyboards/vocals) and Paul Molloy (guitars) stride into the future to fortify their indefinable position in ...

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Coral Web

Sofia Arreguin is a musician raised and living in Los Angeles. She began writing and touring with a band called Wand (Drag City) in 2015. In the past few years she has also performed and toured with Devendra Banhart, Current Joys, Kathleen Hannah, White Fence, Shannon Lay, and Kamikaze Palm Tree. Her main instruments are piano and synth. In 2020, she discovered an old demo tape left behind by her dad Gregg. He had played guitar for Brian Eno, Seal, Chris Isaak, K.D. Lang, and many others, bef...
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Correcto

A Glaswegian cultural powerhouse, Correcto were Danny Saunders, the late Patrick Doyle, Paul Thomson of Franz Ferdinand and Turner Prize winner Richard Wright. Their sole, self-titled album is a buzzsaw tour de force.

Courteeners

To become the biggest band in Manchester, city of The Smiths, The Stone Roses and Oasis, is no mean feat. In 2015 that prestigious honour went to Courteeners, that summer playing to their largest hometown crowd of 25,000 at Heaton Park before closing the year with a record breaking seven-night residency at the city’s O2 Apollo. “What those gigs gave us was an unassailable belief that people believe in this band,” says singer and songwriter Liam Fray. “After four albums...

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Crippled Black Phoenix

Born from a blizzard of horned cats, Crippled Black Phoenix bring you a twisted cinematic experience, handcrafted by a mercenary crew of musical outsiders, giving depth and gravity to regal songs about love, loss, tragedy and redemption. Their debut album, A Love Of Shared Disasters, will be released on April 2nd on Invada Records on cd and vinyl. Back in 2004, the then Electric Wizard drummer Justin Greaves (also of Iron Monkey, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine) started recording songs and sou...

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Crooked Man

Mixing raw, back-to-basics house with pop-friendly vocals and hooks, Crooked Man is one of the many aliases of maverick Sheffield, England-based DJ/producer Richard Barratt. During his time with projects including Funky Worm, Sweet Exorcist, and All Seeing I in the ’80s and ’90s, and his production career in the 2000s and 2010s, Barratt never lost his passion for the classic house singles he introduced to Sheffield as a DJ. On albums such as 2018’s Crooked House, Crooked Man keeps th...

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Cryptacize

Cryptacize deals in the unforgettable melody, the forsaken chord and the extravagant sentiment. They offer a distinct kind of pleasure; it’s not casual background or ‘lifestyle’ music. Nedelle Torrisi’s surefooted and richly nuanced vocal arabesques, like a modern day Freddie Mercury or Ronnie Spector, strangely complement Chris Cohen’s guitar, maniacally sped-up a la Les Paul or staccato and funny like Roy Smeck or Adolph Jacobs of the Coasters. Michael Carreira’s syncopated drum ...

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Cults Percussion Ensemble

 

An absolute gem of a recording, passionatley brought back into the limelight from 1979 to 2013 by Trunk Records.

“The Cults Percussion Ensemble must have one of the best group names of all time. To many it will immediately come across as something sinister, a touch spooky and possibly a bit dramatic too. They are certainly two of those but the use of the word “Cults” here is easily misinterpreted. Cults, in this case, is the suburb of Aberdeen. I’m going there next ...

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DāM-FunK

Known as Los Angeles‘ “Ambassador of Boogie Funk,” Dam-Funk represents the citizens of the Funkmosphere. Headquartered in the Leimert Park section of L.A., Dãm (pronounced: ‘Dame’ as in Damon) spent the last few years cultivating a musical renaissance rooted in the early-’80s styles known as Boogie, Modern Soul and Electro-Funk. 

As a DJ/selector, Dãm attracts the most discerning Boogie Funk afficionados within driving distance of his storied Monday-night Funk...

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Damu

Damu (a.k.a. Sam Schorb) sure hasn’t wasted any time while working his way into the UK bass conversation. In less than a year, the Manchester-based producer—and one-time subject of our Bubblin’ series—has released an impressive series of EPs, including offerings on the Local Action, Silverback, and Keysound labels. The latter is also home to his recently released debut full-length, Unity, which finds Damu continuing to meld tweaked, videogame-referencing synth melodies with sk...

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Daniel James

Published jointly by Domino Music & John Congleton, producer/writer Daniel James has worked with numerous artists such as Paramore’s Hayley Williams (her entire Flowers For Vases album, Self Serenades EP and numerous songs on Petals For Armor), Cheat Codes + All Time Low, Judah & The Lion (including songs with Kacey Musgraves & Jon Bellion), David Byrne, H.E.R., Coin, The Regrettes and Efterklang among others. In addition, James has composed music used by brands such as...

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Dave Formula

Dave, Graeme and Nigel hatched the Formula 1 project in the aforementioned Bar Columnas in Seville in 2006 while attending WOMEX.

 

Since then Dave and Graeme have created a selection of recordings entitled ‘Satellite Sweetheart’, and is to be released on the Wire-Sound label on Monday 15th February 2010.

 

Dave’s debut collection of solo recordings features brand new collaborations on brand new material with Howard Devoto, Barry Adamson, John Doyle and even John ...

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David Shrigley

Shrigley finds humour in flat depictions of the inconsequential, the unavailing and the bizarre – although he is far fonder of violent or otherwise disquieting subject matter. Shrigley’s work has two of the characteristics often encountered in outside art – an odd viewpoint, and (in some of his work) a deliberately limited technique.

 

His freehand line is often weak, which jars with his frequent use of a ruler; his forms are often very crude; and annotations in his drawings are poor...

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Dawn Mccarthy

DAWN McCARTHY hails from a large, musical family and began writing and performing as a singer in 1987 at Milwaukee Summerfest, debuting as a singer-songwriter in 1997 upon London’s Spitalfields Music stage. She formed FAUN FABLES with Nils Frykdahl in 1998, with an extensive discography on Drag City Records, touring extensively in North America, with time in Europe, UK/Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Israel. She also recorded and toured with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (The Letting Go, 20...

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Dayna Kurtz

Dayna Kurtz began performing her original compositions in public as a teenager, and subsequently spent the better part of a decade touring solo across the back roads of America, selling CDs out of her trunk and mesmerizing club and festival crowds with her riveting live performances. Along the way, she opened shows for the likes of Richie Havens, Rufus Wainwright, Antony & the Johnsons, and Keren Ann. Additionally, Dayna has won over fellow “Living Room” habitué Norah Jones, who...

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DC Gore

DC Gore is part of a rich tradition of distinctly British disrupters, As inspired by the unvarnished portraiture of Martin Parr as he is Ballardian grotesquerie – and by the seedy witticisms of Jarvis Cocker and arch art-pop commentary of Neil Tennant, Gore conjures up what he describes as ‘a very English type of failure’. 
 Following the release of his dancefloor-focused melancholic debut single “California”, “Nietzsche On The Beach” is a sort of satirical fever dream set in ...

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De Rosa

De Rosa are a band from Lanarkshire, Scotland. They are songwriter Martin John Henry (vocals, guitar), James Woodside (bass) and Neil Woodside (drums). They released their debut single Camera on local indie label Gargleblast Records in 2004. The single was championed by John Peel and De Rosa spent the next two years recording their debut LP with Mogwai producer Andy Miller. They have released three acclaimed studio albums –Mend (2006), Prevention (2009), and Weem (2016) – on Gla...

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Deaf Club

Formed in 2010, British four-piece Deaf Club self-released a digital EP of 2011, Lull, featuring the track ‘Hana’.
Lull was followed in early 2012 by a double-A-side single, ‘Sunday’/‘Mirrors’. Between
these releases the band recorded a BBC Introducing session for Jen Long, supported 2:54
and set out on their own headline dates. So impressed was Long by the band that she put
out ‘Sunday’/‘Mirrors’ on her Kissability imprint, on a limited-edition cassette also
housing the f...

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Dean Blunt

Maverick musician and producer Dean Blunt, a London (Hackney), played bass in Graffiti Island prior to making bigger waves with Inga Copeland as Hype Williams. The duo was classified as chillwave and as hypnagogic pop, two terms Blunt rejected. From 2009 through 2012, Hype Williams released a handful of albums and several singles and EPs, where material ranged from lo-fi house to noisy collages with equally whimsical titles. Blunt started releasing solo material in 2011 and quickly built a di...

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Dena

Ever since moving to Berlin, Bulgarian-born singer/songwriter and producer DENA (born Denitza Todorova) has been working on her signature sound, a unique mix of handmade pop, self taught piano compositions, polyphonic harmonies and personal lyrics, combined with self programmed electronic beats. After her single “Cash, Diamond Rings, Swimming Pools”, released as an EP on the French label Kitsuné, went viral in summer 2012, DENA has received praise from some of the biggest media in Europe...

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Despot

 

Born Alec Reinstein, Despot is an American rapper living in Brooklyn, NY. Following the release of multiple singles produced by Blockhead including “Get Rich or Try Dying”, “Substance D”, “King Me” amongst others, Despot released the RATATAT produced single “Look Alive” on Definitive Jux in the fall of ’09. Despot is currently at work on his debut album.

 

 

Deux Furieuses

Newly signed to Xtra Mile Recordings, fierce duo Deux Furieuses have released second album My War is Your War as the follow-up to critically acclaimed debut Tracks of Wire (2016).
MWIYW lyrically and musically expands on their debut taking the post punk and Riot Grrrl influences of the predecessor and injecting a darker rock sound. The album reaches out to find common cause against a context of increasing right wing populism and the Me Too movement.
Since 2013, Scottish vocalist/guitarist Ros...

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Dice Raw

Karl “ Dice Raw” Jenkins is a mainstay of the Philadelphia Hip-Hop Scene, and most commonly associated over the years as a principal songwriter/collaborator /producer for The Roots.

At the young age of 15, the legendary Roots crew first took Dice Raw under their umbrella, when their production member, Kelo, first discovered him at a local talent show. Little did they know, Dice had already begun his music industry career at age 13, when he worked in California for New Edition offsho...

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Dirty Beaches

Alex Zhang Hungtai, known by his stage name Dirty Beaches, is a Taiwanese-born Canadian musician based in Montreal, Quebec. Dirty Beaches began as a one-man band, sometimes employing sampling, inspired by Zhang’s longtime love of hip hop. In addition to his own years moving between countries and on the road touring, films are one of Zhang’s influences, particularly those by Wong Kar–wai. Zhang said Wong’s movies are “usually about the passage of time, and how in relation it dis...

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Dirty Projectors

West African-inflected guitars, intricate three-part vocal harmonies and a fearless intellectual and compositional ambition all serve as useful signifiers with which to describe Dirty Projectors’ music. But it is the space between these elements, where melody and drama unfold among ascending voices and the intuitive and counterintuitive meet, that the essence of the band is located. David Longstreth’s singular talents have led to all manner of invitations from the great and the good but h...

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DITZ

A ferocious live band, DITZ create forward-thinking noise rock/post-punk which features vast arrays of pedal effects with influences from 80s and 90s post-hardcore and noise rock.

Their debut album ‘The Great Regression’ was recorded by Ben Hampson (Blood Red Shoes & Tigercub), mastered by Kate Tavini (We Are Scientists & Nadine Shah) & released on Alcopop! Records. Their limited-edition Dinked vinyl which sold out in under 24 hours and they gained plaudits from the likes of P...

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DJ Falcon

DJ Falcon (born Stéphane Quême) is a French DJ, record producer, and photographer. He was signed with Roulé, Thomas Bangalter’s own label, where he released his first EP Hello My Name Is DJ Falcon. DJ Falcon and Bangalter later formed a band together called Together where they released just two songs, “So Much Love to Give” and “Together”. DJ Falcon co-wrote and co-produced the song “Contact” with Daft Punk, released on Random Access Memories in 2013. An old version of Contac...

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Dolman

Dolman is a Bristol-born audio project by Scott Hendy of Malachai (Domino Publishing) and Ben Salisbury of DROKK (Invada RecordS), which has manifested itself into a full LP. Comprising instrumentals and guest vocalled tracks, the record evokes a dark cinematic air, like ‘The soundtrack to a film about Bristol that has never been made’.

Dolman is imbued with a quality of apartness that is distinctly Bristol. The album features vocals from some of the cities finest musical talent, ...

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Domenique Dumont

Domenique Dumont is a nom de plume for collaboration between multi-instrumentalist and producer Arturs Liepins, vocalist and ethnomusicologist Anete Stuce and perhaps an artist from France whose existence is neither confirmed nor denied. Hailing from a small country situated on the shores of the Baltic Sea in the North of Europe, the band has gained popularity and raised a lot of eyebrows not only in their homeland, but all around the globe, especially in francophone countries. Domenique Dumo...

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DRIFT (by Renaud Letang)

The art of Renaud Letang invites you into an intimately interconnected world. From inside his studio, the Grammy-nominated producer––behind some of the most canonised albums of the last few decades––is a therapist, a problem solver, and skilled technician who transforms the spaces he occupies into playgrounds for artists. Now, debuting as DRIFT and unveiling his own project titled DRIFT ISLAND, Letang creates music that is designed to be felt as much as heard.

Born in 1970 in Iran to ...

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Dub Pistols

The ascendancy of big-beat techno with punk rock attitude continued unabated with the Dub Pistols, a lager-swilling quintet headed by ex-club promoter Barry Ashworth and featuring guitarist John King, bassist Jason O’Bryan, programmer Bill Borez, and turntablist Malcolm Wax. Ashworth, who had been turned on to the vibes of Ibiza house in the mid-’80s, began promoting clubs in Britain later in the decade. He went aboveground by 1989 with Deja Vu, a much-loved club night for Madchester band...

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Ducktails

Unfurling out of Los Angeles this July comes St. Catherine, Matt Mondanile’s fifth outing as Ducktails. The new album emerges from the roots of Mondanile’s previous work, from the free-form, ambient bedroom experiments of seminal underground release Landscapes (2009), to 2013’s eighties pop re-imagination The Flower Lane, but ultimately moves Ducktails on to a more refined, personal and sincere place.

St. Catherine is a finely-honed colle...

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Earthless

Formed in 2001, Earthless prides itself on creating energetic, utterly unique and free thinking instrumental music inspired by an eclectic mix of German krautrock and Japanese heavy blues-rock. The Californian trio has dedicated itself to mastery of the mind-bending jam session, evoking the spirits of Jimi Hendrix and Black Sabbath in equal measure. Named after a song title from vintage New York garage-psych band The Druids of Stonehenge, Earthless‘ sound has been called “A sonic kaleidos...

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Eblis Alvarez

Eblis Alvarez is based in Bogota, Columbia, where he has been studying music since attending conservatory at eight years old and has been on the vanguard of modern cumbia music for over 20 years.   Though he is (very) reverent of Columbian and Latin music, his projects simultaneously pay homage while incorporating playful modern electronic elements, and lyrics that lean into the socio-political. Alvarez is the mind behind the musical projects ‘Meridian Brothers’ ‘Los Piranhas’ and &...

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Ela Minus

Bright Music for Dark Times . . . . Colombian (Brooklyn based) multi instrumentalist Ela Minus is a humble rebellion to the overly produced-laptop driven electronic music scene. Ela is a one-woman all hardware electronic orchestra. Following a strong desire to maintain the essence of improvisation both in recorded as well as on live music, she does not use any laptops in absolutely any stage of her production or live performances. She does everything herself and performs live using only hardw...

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Electric Youth

After Electric Youth first made a splash in 2011 with their contribution to the Drive soundtrack, “A Real Hero,” the Toronto duo’s widescreen synth pop defined the stylish, slightly retro sound that flourished for the rest of the 2010s. On their 2014 debut album Innerworld, instrumentalist/producer Austin Garrick and singer Bronwyn Griffin defined their breezy yet pulsing take on ’80s sounds as filtered through a soft-focus 21st century lens. Later, they made the most of their flair f...

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Eli Winter

Eli Winter is a composer, self-taught guitarist, essayist, and Houston native. His music synthesizes aspects of folk, rock, jazz, and devotional music, maintaining a waggish disregard for genre constraints emblematic of Chicago, his adopted hometown. Across five LPs and counting for labels like Three Lobed and American Dreams, the scope of his music has grown to include guitar soli, instrumental duets, and bandleading. He’s collaborated with a wide range of artists live and on record, inclu...

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Ellis Island Sound

Ellis Island Sound started life as a duo consisting of multi-instrumentalists Mr Peter Astor and Mr David Sheppard, gentlemen adventurers in sound since 1997. Someone once said they sound like Nick Drake recorded by Conny Plank. Which is something. EIS have cut tracks, singles, remixes and eps for innumerable labels ranging from All City Chicago, faux-lux and Static Caravan to Warp, Island and EMI. They released an eponymously titled compilation on Heavenly in 2002. Messrs Astor and Sheppard ...

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Emilíana Torrini

An Icelandic singer/songwriter whose music embraces elements of folk, electronica, pop/rock, and trip-hop. Torrini was raised in Kópavogur, where she worked at her father’s Italian restaurant and attended opera school as a teenager. After releasing three albums in her native Iceland (Spoon, Crouçie D’où Là, and Merman), she joined forces with Tears for Fears‘ Roland Orzabal to produce her first widely released effort, 1999’s Love in the Time of Science. The famed Lord of the Ring...

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Emily Barker

Emily Barker is an award-winning singer-songwriter, best known as the writer and performer of the theme to the BBC’s hugely successful crime drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. She has released music as a solo artist as well as with various bands including The Red Clay Halo, Vena Portae and Applewood Road (with whom she released a remarkable album of original songs recorded live around a single microphone, dubbed “flawless” by The Sunday Times) and has written for film, including ...

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Emily Rose and the Rounders

Emily Rose & the Rounders are a traditional country outfit from Los Angeles, California. After the dissolution of several other country projects, Emily Rose took the reigns and formed her own band in 2017 which was formerly called the Blue Rose Rounders and is now the Rounders as we know it. They made a self-titled record which came out on Mock Records in February of 2022 which featured Nicholas Merz on pedal steel and former drummer Jordan Edwards, who passed away tragically in 2021. T...

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Emma Anderson

Emma Anderson, co-founder of Lush and, later, Sing-Sing, releases her debut solo album, Pearlies, on October 20, 2023.

One of the most underrated British songwriters to emerge from the era that encompassed shoegaze and Britpop, she has teamed up with producer James Chapman (aka Maps) for this collection that combines effervescent electronic pop with psych and folk textures with lyrics covering themes such as confronting your fears, embracing independence and moving on in life.

It arrives full...

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Endless Boogie

Formed in the heart of Brooklyn, N.Y.C., Endless Boogie are an American rock ensemble, known for traversing the styles of psychedelic rock, stoner rock, and blues rock. Made up of Paul Major (vocals, guitar), Jesper Eklow (guitar), Marc Razo (bass guitar), and Harry Druzd (drums) the band was formed in 1997 after the members began to indulge in Tuesday night jam sessions. After some time, word began to spread of the ensemble’s sound and indie rock musician Stephen Malkmus decided to coax th...

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Enumclaw

Hailing from Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A., Enumclaw are Seattle natives with the swagger of ’90s Britpop and grunge. Following the success of their critically acclaimed debut EP ‘Jimbo Demo’, Enumclaw returned in 2022 with their debut album ‘Save the Baby’, released on Luminelle Recordings. Produced by Gabe Wax, the album is titled as such for the dreams frontman Aramis Johnson has persevered in pursuing since he was a young child to make a mark on the world. It’s about the importan...

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Eszter Balint

Eszter Balint is a Hungarian-American singer, songwriter, violinist, and actress. In 2014 she was making progress gathering material for the new album when out of the blue-after a long hiatus from acting she was offered a part she couldn’t refuse. She agreed to star in a six-episode arc of Louis C.K.’s F/X series Louie, Season 4, a performance which would earn her considerable critical praise. Eszter also improvised compositions, sang and played violin for the episodes which featured her...

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Etienne Jaumet

Who knows Etienne Jaumet? His name might still be unknown… but his face doesn’t leave anyone indifferent: you only need to see him once on stage, shimmering and tense, surrounded by anolog machinery, synthesisers, sequencers and drum machines, to then recognise him anywhere.

 

With Etienne being one half of Zombie Zombie, the band’s first album is still its last. Until they record a second one (the other half of Zombie Zombie is busy with his other band Herman Dun...

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Eugene McGuinness

“I was born in London, and grew up in Essex but I went to university in Liverpool. I’m a bit of a three-headed monster; Liverpool, London, Ireland, all of them have influenced me in some way. I find it quite a weird thing to talk about, where someone comes from. It always seems to end up defining a person, and people would instantly associate you with a particular sound or with a particular group of people. I want to try to avoid that.” 

‘The Invitation To The Voy...

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Ex-Cult

Memphis’ Ex-Cult, released their album Negative Growth in 2016 via In The Red Records. It’s the third full-length from is a continuous onslaught of bristling, blaring, mono-tonal punk songs that run zig zag through dystopia dodging rifle fire and tossing hand grenades. There are no duds here, and no dramatic departures. The cuts hurtle on, one after another, like bad news that comes in nines, blistering the ground as they pass and deepening the surrounding pall of smoke. You coul...

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Farao

Farao established a trippy, textured mix of folk, rock, and whimsical atmosphere alongside ethereal vocals on her 2015 debut, Til It’s All Forgotten. Three years later, her follow-up takes a left turn, though it’s a wide rather than a sharp one, retaining much of her off-kilter electro-acoustic sound but recontextualizing it as dedicated alternative dance music. Titled “Pure-O”, the album was specifically inspired by Soviet disco and an obsession with the era’s analog synths. (The r...

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Fat Dog

When the chaotic south London rabble known as Fat Dog came together, they made two rules: they were going to be a healthy band who looked after themselves and there would be no saxophone presence in their music. Two simple edicts to live by, and two things long-since broken by the Brixton five-piece.

Fat Dog formed in 2021 after frontman Joe Love decided to seek out like-minded mavericks Chris Hughes (keyboards/synths), Ben Harris (bass), Johnny Hutchinson (drums) and Morgan Wallace (keyboard...

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Fat White Family

Fat White Family are the band for our times and for the good times; a lens through which contemporary life is exposed, investigated and celebrated, from Malden to Sheffield and back again, with no stone left unturned.

Faun Fables

FAUN FABLES is Dawn McCarthy’s vivid imagination come to life in song and theater, made to explore human pathos amid an animate earth with musical & physical storytelling forms. It has been attracting a devoted and eclectic following since 1997 with numerous performances throughout North America, Europe, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland and four record releases distributed worldwide on Drag City Records: EARLY SONG, MOTHER TWILIGHT, FAMILY ALBUM and THE TRANSIT RIDER.

Dawn McCart...

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Faux Real

It’s hard to pin down Faux Real. The Franco-American duo, comprised of brothers Elliott and Virgile Arndt, have been steadily broadening the scope of their project. Their high-octane DIY performances, involving matching cut-up boiler suits lined with fringe, barefoot dance routines, and crowd-splitting highkicks, are taking on a more established and ever more unhinged form — think Iggy Pop meets campy Eurodance boyband. Humble beginnings between Paris and London birthed their first self-t...

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Fear Of Men

Brighton, U.K. indie pop/dream pop band Fear of Men began in early 2011 as an extension of work Jessica Weiss was making for her art degree. Weiss had been making ambient soundtrack recordings for her short films, and met guitarist Daniel Falvey when he came to the exhibition of these films. The two art students started working toward a more pop sound in bedroom recordings, and eventually made a series of lo-fi demos designed to lure in other players to be in the band. Almost immediately, the...

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February Montaine

February Montaine was an outsider artist from the Midlands, England who was active between the period of 1985 and 1991.
Domino Publishing artist Sam Potter (previously of Late of The Pier) was introduced to his works of music, memoirs and prophecies some five years ago, and has been working with February’s step-daughter Suzy, to document Montaine’s unique take on the world since.
What was left by February varies from well archived stems to scraps of ideas recorded straight to tape. In the...

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The Feelies

The Feelies, the legendary and influential rock band, reunited at Battery Park in NYC on July 4th, 2008 opening for Sonic Youth. The classic Feelies lineup of Glenn Mercer, Bill Million, Dave Weckerman, Brenda Sauter, and Stanley Demeski performed their first show since 1991.

 

Formed in Haledon NJ in 1976, The Feelies released 4 albums- including their critically acclaimed and influential debut Crazy Rhythms, which was voted 49 in the top 100 albums of the 1980s by Rolling Stone magazin...

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Felix

 

 

 

‘Oh Holy Molar’ is the second album from the UK trio. The group produces bewitching, minimal chamber pop that works as the perfect framework for singer/songwriter Lucinda Chua’s oblique and emotionally immediate stories of superstition and searching for protection against bad omens. As a follow up to their debut ‘You Are The One I Pick’, the band return with a collection of songs with a sound stripped back to its very core. Something is said to h...

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Flasher

Although undoubtedly, and proudly, a band that could only be native to Washington DC and its politically-engaged DIY independent culture, the songs of Flasher speak to an experience that is universal – an instantly recognisable state of being where torpor and hedonism share an equal status, one experienced at the sharp end of inter-generational equality. The band’s music is a thrilling and energised response to such feelings of malaise – a layering of guitars and atmospheres, which prov...

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Fontaines D.C.

Barely a year after the release of their hugely acclaimed debut album ‘Dogrel’, which earned a Mercury Prize nomination and was named Album of the Year 2019 by both BBC 6 Music and Rough Trade record store, Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. returned with an intensely confident, patient, and complex follow-up album, ‘A Hero’s Death’.

Now, following their third album ‘Skinty Fia’ (2022) and taking home the Brit Award for 2023 International Group, Fontaines D.C. announce details of their h...

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Forest Fire

Forest Fire is an experimental rock band living in New York City whose music is based around the songwriting of guitarist/vocalist Mark Thresher. Band members are guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Nathan Delffs, bassist/multi-instrumentalist Natalie Stormann, producer/keyboardist Adam Spittler & drummer Robert Pounding.

With two albums under their belts 2009’s “SURVIVAL”, and last year’s “STARING AT THE X” the band have earned acclaim as one of Rough Trad...

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FOUND

FOUND is the brainchild of art college buddies: Ziggy Campbell (lead vocals, guitar), Tommy Perman (bass guitar, synth) and Kev Sim (electronics, percussion). The band create an unusual mix of garage rock, melodic pop and glitchy electronica.
FOUND began life as an experimental arts collective putting on many weird and wonderful events in art galleries, warehouses and even storage containers.
Their most recent project, an emotional robot band called Cybraphon, captured the attention of the wo...

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Foxes in Fiction

Toronto-native Warren Hildebrand began his Foxes in Fiction project in 2005, during his sophomore year of high school, as an outlet for his drug-induced, experimental sound collages. In 2011, Hildebrand hunkered down in his Toronto apartment, writing and recording what would later become his second Foxes in Fiction full-length album entitled ‘Ontario Gothic’. The album, which is centered around the idea of loss, finds Hildebrand looking back at the past five years while living in Toronto ...

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Fránçois & the Atlas Mountains

François Marry alongside his band The Atlas Mountains are Domino Record’s first signing to their French office in Paris. Raised in south-west France, Fránçois released his first album ‘Pleine Inondable’ in 2009 on King Creosote’s Fence Records and then settled down and made music in cities such as Bristol, Bruxelles and Paris.

François has been busy since the 2017 release of ‘Solide Mirage’, Frànçois and the Atlas Mountains’ fourth album. First, he headed to the 19th...

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Frankie and the Heartstrings

Sunderland five-piece Frankie and the Heartstrings released their first album Hunger in 2011 – an upbeat collection of indie pop songs frecorded with the legend Edwin Collins. Likened by the BBC to Orange Juice and Dexy’s Midnight Runners the lead track ‘Hunger’ found its way onto a Domino Pizza commercial. 2013‘s ‘The Days Run Away’ was recorded in Newcastle and London with former Suede figurehead and producer Bernard Butler. The band initially collaborated ...

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Friends of Dean Martinez

Friends of Dean Martinez is an instrumental rock band featuring members of Giant Sand, Calexico, and Naked Prey. Beautiful ambient rock reminiscent of Unwed Sailor. In a nutshell, FoDM is a combination of bits of electronic static intertwined with surf guitar inspired leads, reminiscent of pre “dark side” Pink Floyd, all droning to the beat of Nick Mason-esque drums, stretched over 30 minute intervals. The band was originally formed in Tucson, Arizona as an experimental side project by va...

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Frightened Rabbit

Ever since Scott Hutchison started releasing music as Frightened Rabbit more than a decade ago, his emotionally honest and incisively worded lyrics have been among the project’s most beloved qualities. Over the course of five albums, including their new Painting of a Panic Attack, Frightened Rabbit’s frontman has made poetry of his misery, and still somehow managed to make it sound anthemic — like a triumphant rallying cry rather than a downer. In all of those respects, Painting...

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Futurebirds

Futurebirds is a band that has carved its own path in the music world with an eclectic mix of psychedelic country rock. Formed in 2008 in Athens, Georgia, the band consists of Carter King, Daniel Womack, Thomas Johnson, Brannen Miles, and Tom Myers. Known for their rich harmonies and energetic live performances, Futurebirds have released several albums, including Hampton’s Lullaby (2010), Baba Yaga (2013), and Teamwork (2020), each showcasing their Southern roots and innovative sound.

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Genuflex

Introducing the heartbreaking Lynch tilted torch songs of Genuflex … who’s been described as “Scott Walker singing through a Cocteau wash of Bowie era Berlin.”

 He is also featured on the eagerly awaited  David Bowie tribute album due for release world wide September 6th on Manimal Vinyl, on which he has forged a luxurious cover of “Soul love” from the classic album Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

 

 

 

 

Geordie Greep

Geordie Greep is a musician and songwriter, known as the former frontman of black midi. His upcoming 2024 debut solo album, The New Sound, features contributions from over thirty session musicians across two continents, with half of the tracks recorded in Brazil. Greep’s work blends intricate jazz-funk workouts with surreal storytelling, exploring themes of desperation and grandeur. The music is characterized by a liquid and propulsive feel, alongside moments of brilliant absurdity.

George FitzGerald

George FitzGerald is a singular voice in electronic music, uniting underground dancefloor progressivism with pop’s cutting edges. Following the release of 2015’s debut album Fading Love and 2018’s breakthrough album All That Must Be, last year he released his third studio album, Stellar Drifting, featuring tracks with Panda Bear, London Grammar and SOAK, and artwork created by the celebrated designer David Rudnick.

Concluding a sold out UK and European tour in October, FitzGe...

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Georgia

Georgia Barnes is a Londoner, Producer and club-informed forward thinker. The self-titled debut Georgia album was both a statement of intent and an assured presentation of a life consumed by music, one spent alongside friends and accomplices Kae Tempest, Kwes and Micachu. Her 2020 album Seeking Thrills is a record that blossoms into life, animated by Chicago House piano lines, vintage drum machines, and Georgia’s bespoke street sass.

Gilla Band

Gilla Band (fka Girl Band) are a 4 piece noise rock band from Dublin, Ireland. Their sophomore album “The Talkies” will be released through Rough Trade Records on September 27th, 2019. This is the follow up to their debut album “Holding Hands with Jamie” that came out four years ago almost to the day. “The Talkies” was recorded in November 2018 at Ballintubbert House, Ireland, a stately home on the outskirts of Dublin. The alien construction of Ballintubbert and its corridors help...

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Girls Names

Belfast-based – Choice Awards nominated – four-piece Girls Names are a singular proposition, both geographically and psychically removed from their contemporaries at home and abroad. Released on 18th February 2014, their second album The New Life is the sound of a band on the fringes striving to forge their own path, purposefully out of step – and time – with their surroundings. Weighed heavy with the grey landscapes of their hometown, The New Life is isolation laid bare, shot...

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The Go Betweens

Gold Panda

Nearly three years after the release of his debut album ‘Luck Shiner’, Gold Panda announces his second album ‘Half Of Where You Live’, released on his own NOTOWN Recordings (and Ghostly International in America). The intervening period saw Gold Panda touring the world multiple times around and absorbing influences and probing potential new avenues of creative exploration on a handful of interim releases, leading to what feels like the definitive studio return of the Essex-born produce...

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Grant Hart

As founder and half of the songwriting engine that drove the mighty Hüsker Dü to his maverick solo work, Grant Hart has cut a singular path across the last three decades of music.  It is with great confidence that we say he has made an album to rival his greatest achievements.  A double album based on John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost, Hart distills its essence into pop and rock concoctions that nimbly flit through the history of 20th century music from Irving Berlin and ...

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Haiku Salut

Haiku Salut are an instrumental dream-pop-post-folk-neo-everything trio from the Derbyshire Dales. The group consists of multi-instrumentalists Gemma Barkerwood, Sophie Barkerwood, and Louise Croft. Between them, Haiku Salut play accordion, piano, glockenspiel, trumpet, guitar, ukulele, drums, and melodica. Their music also features electronic elements, which they refer to as “loopery and laptopery”.

Half Cousin

The Orkney Islands, off the north-eastern tip of Scotland, had never been known for their distorted junkyard pop. Not until the debut album by Half Cousin,”The Function Room”, appeared in 2004, inspired by the islands’ weather-beaten landscapes and off-beat characters.

 

Sought after singles “Half Turn/Mrs Pilling”,”Country Cassette” and “The Diary Fire EP” paved the way for acclaimed shows, supporting the likes of Hot Chip, The Earlies and Boom Bip. Collaborations, als...

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Half Wolf

Half Wolf was raised by humans in Fargo, ND. Growing up on her Dad’s record collection, Wolf’s songwriting is still shaped by Neil Young, Pink Floyd, and Talking Heads. In 2016, she moved to Minneapolis, MN to pursue music professionally.  After months of countless venues refusing to book her unless she had a band, Wolfdecided to start her own DIY venue out of her Westbank loft apartment. These multimedia shows attended by thousands, ignited her love of collaboration, and expanded her in...

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Hanna Benn

A composer, vocalist, and genre-spanning collaborator, Hanna Benn has been creating music for over a decade. Her multi-disciplinary approach has incorporated dance, opera, and theater — blurring genre and discovering new sonic landscapes in the process.

Her work as a composer has taken her across the globe, from most recently a premiere at The Perth International Arts Festival to Antwerp performing with the B.O.X Baroque Orchestra. Past works have been performed by the Northwest Symph...

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Hard Feelings

New York City’s Amy Douglas has made her reputation across the worlds of house and disco with her distinctive voice and stellar songwriting ability, she has become the “go to” for providing powerhouse vocals and killer hooks. After features with everyone from Juan MacLean to Treasure Fingers, Amy has since worked with such artists as Luke Solomon, The Crooked Man, Horse Meat Disco. Recently writing “Something More” for Roisin Murphy on her recent album Roisin Machine, she has a wide...

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Harvey Milk

An anomaly among the college/indie rock-centered Athens, GA, scene from which they emerged, cult favorite Harvey Milk was responsible for some of the slowest, heaviest, and most uncompromising rock music created in the latter half of the ’90s. The trio formed in the early ’90s with a lineup of Creston Spiers (guitar/vocals), Stephen Tanner (bass), and Paul Trudeau (drums). They released their first album, My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be, on the tiny North C...

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Hayden Thorpe

Hayden Thorpe is the Kendal born, former frontman of Wild Beasts. Following the band’s split in 2017, Thorpe has crafted his first stunning collection truly all of his own vision. Diviner was recorded over the course of 2018 with close friend and long-time collaborator, Leo Abrahams (Jon Hopkins, Brian Eno, David Byrne).
Diviner is a deeply emotional album: lyrically generous in its candid tone and self-awareness, the melodies resonant with sense memory. A startling departure from Thorpe’...

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Heather Trost

Heather Trost is best known for her work composing and performing as one half of the duo A Hawk and a Hacksaw. She has also played with Neutral Milk Hotel, Beirut, Josephine Foster, and most recently Thor Harris of Swans. She has arranged and performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Stargaze Orchestra conducted by Andre De Ridder, and has toured throughout the world.

In 2014 she released her first solo project, a 7 inch on Badabing records. In 2015, Trost completed “Ouroboros,&rdquo...

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Hen Ogledd

Hen Ogledd take their name from the phrase for the Old North, the Celtic region comprising Southern Scotland and Northern England in early Middle Ages Britain. The band members – harpist Rhodri Davies, Dawn Bothwell, Sally Pilkington, and Richard Dawson – all hail “from historically different tribal regions of the Old North”. On Mogic the group defy the orthodoxy of exploring mystical customs with acoustic instruments; instead they celebrate the paradoxes and similarities of the anc...

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Hinako Omori

Hinako Omori is a Japanese composer, musician and producer based in London. Her music offers immersive sonic architectures and environments in which to process and access emotional states through binaural recording or multi-channel installation, across ambient synthesizer and vocal music, classical arrangement and composition. Hers is music with spirit and awareness; it unfurls in the mind’s eye, inviting the listener to turn inwards. Likening her process to painting or weaving, she layers,...

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Holiday Ghosts

Holiday Ghosts’ music manages to perfectly encapsulate their name: fun on the surface, haunting underneath. Formed in Falmouth on the south coast of Cornwall, this indie rock four piece has two albums and one EP to their name.

The music comes via drummer Katja Rackin and guitarist Sam Stacpoole, with the two swapping lead vocal duties. Rackin’s voice is both melodic and instantly memorable, while Stacpoole’s playing conjures up all your favourite 60s guitar-smiths. Imagine what The Pas...

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Hollow Hand

“The attitude of the album is definitely DIY” says Max Kinghorn-Mills of Hollow Hand’s 3rd album. “About just doing everything yourself and not needing to rely on anyone. That’s the one thing I love about doing this: no one has any answers for you, you are your own boss and it’s YOUR OWN ADVENTURE. It’s down to you.” This independent spirit that propels the creative process is also one that gave birth to its title: Your Own Adventure. “The title is kind of amantra to summari...

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Honeyglaze

Honeyglaze – the South London based, haiku-loving trio comprised of vocalist and guitarist Anouska Sokolow, bassist Tim Curtis, and Yuri Shibuichi on drums. Born out of lead songwriter Sokolow’s un-desire to be a solo-act, the group met officially at their first ever rehearsal- just three days ahead of what was to become a near-residency, at their favoured ‘The Windmill’, Brixton. Forming a mere five-months ahead of a subsequent five-months of mandatory solitude, a parallel that’s b...

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Hookworms

Hookworms are hard working Leeds lads juggle living actual real lives with making super awesome music which now has a home on Weird World Records. Live and on record, like Spaceman 3, they pointedly subvert the tripped out sound environments of psychedelia with a darkly malevolent punk menace; unlike J.Spaceman et al, there’s no chemical assistance, these concepts and feelings come with clarity.’Pearl Mystic‘ (Weird World (WexUK)/ Gringo Records (uk)) was released in the Autumn of 2013...

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Hot Chip

Hot Chip’s position as the thinking person’s party band is
now firmly and magnificently set in stone, as is the group’s ability to mix the
highest strobe-lit euphoria with the most reflective kind of headphones melancholy.
In a career that has already produced six albums, an infinite number of mixes
and borderline devotional live performances, Hot Chip have claimed the
salvation of the sweet spot of the dancefloor as their own.

Hovvdy

Hovvdy (pronounced “howdy”) is the writing and recording project of Charlie Martin and Will Taylor. The duo, both primarily drummers, first met in the fall of 2014 and quickly bonded over a love for quiet music. Within a few weeks, they had combined songs and began recording their first EP in bedrooms and family homes across Texas.

By 2016 the two had committed to each others growth in songwriting and recording, resulting in their debut album Taster , originally released on Sports Day Rec...

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How to Dress Well

Since the release of his debut album Love Remains in 2010, Tom Krell – AKA How to Dress Well – has crafted a reputation as one of America’s most original, focused and beguiling young songwriters. Merging ever surprising production choices and aesthetic detail with a sensual but sincere R&B influence and a deep, grounded emotionality, Krell has steadily established himself as one of the most influential figures in contemporary experimental pop music. 

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The Human League

Synth pop’s first international superstars, the Human League were among the earliest and most innovative bands to break into the pop mainstream on a wave of synthesizers and electronic rhythms, their marriage of infectious melodies and state-of-the-art technology proving enormously influential on countless acts following in their wake. The group was formed in Sheffield, England in 1977 by synth players Martyn Ware and Ian Marsh, who’d previously teamed as the duo Dead Daughters. Followi...

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Hurray For The Riff Raff

Lynda Segarra was born and raised in the Bronx, which they left at the age of seventeen, running away from everything and everyone they knew, hopping freight trains or hitchhiking across the country in the company of a band of street urchins. Segarra moved to New Orleans in 2007, and formed two bands: Dead Man’s Street Orchestra and Hurray for the Riff Raff. In 2015, Segarra decamped to Nashville, then to New York, to make their last. album, 2016’s critically praised The Navigator, an amb...

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Ian Chang

Bringing electronic music to the physical realm, genre-bending drummer Ian Chang is an acclaimed drumming virtuoso known for his work in Son Lux and Landlady, Chang uses his kit to control and manipulate samples resulting in a seamless synthesis of raw performative intensity and sophisticated sound design.

Born in the colony of Hong Kong in 1988, Chang has lived a nomadic life. Stationed out of New York for 10 years, he built an impressive roster of progressive pop collaborators such as Moses...

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Ian Pickering

Ian Pickering is a co-lyricist for the British band, Sneaker Pimps. He has previously collaborated with Natalie Imbruglia, Front Line Assembly, Transporter, Emiliana Torrini  and is a founding member of Anglo-French dark electronic rock/pop group ‘The Noise Who Runs’.

Ibex Clone

Ibex Clone is a new project featuring George Williford (Hash Redactor) on vox and guitar, Alec McIntyre (Ex-Cult, Hash Redactor) on bass, and Meredith Lones (NOTS, Hash Redactor) on drums. Hailing from Memphis, TN Ibex Clone makes an expansive brand of pop that inhabits a space as driving and groove-laden as it is muggy and gothic. The trio, consisting of George Williford on vocals and guitar, Alec McIntyre on bass and Meredith Lones on drums, weaves together the loose ends of the past six...

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Iglooghost

Iglooghost is a UK-based artist who creates music, artwork, and puzzles that all gravitate around a fictional ecosystem of strange entities and tiny gods. Each of Iglooghost’s releases expands on this universe through multimedia content, and in 2024, he released his fourth album, Tidal Memory Exo, via Lucky Me. Splitting his time between making otherworldly laptop music as Iglooghost, he also collaborates with Kai Whiston and BABii collectively as ‘Gloo’—creating clothing, club nights...

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Ikonika

Ikonika is a UK-based electronic musician, producer and DJ often associated with Hyperdub Records and the Dubstep genre.

Her debut 12″, “Please/Simulacrum” was released in 2008 on Hyperdub Records. She has released music on Planet Mu, as well as a remix of DJ Mujava’s “Township Funk”, released by Warp Records. Ikonika’s music combines melodic synth patterns, driving drums, melancholic sub bass and unorthodox song structures. She was described by The Observer as “a rare female ...

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Illuminati Hotties

Illuminati Hotties are an American indie rock band from Los Angeles, California, created and fronted by producer, mixer, and audio engineer Sarah Tudzin. In 2021, Pitchfork included the album “Let Me Do One More” on their list of Best Rock Albums of that year. In her review, Nina Corcoran wrote: “Alternating between folk-punk ballads and power-pop rippers, Tudzin cracks open an oversized champagne bottle of fun and feelings.” The band’s third album is set for release in 2024, and i...

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Insecure Men

In many ways Insecure Men – the band led by the fiercely talented songwriter and musician Saul Adamczewski and his schoolmate and stabilising influence, Ben Romans-Hopcraft – are the polar opposite of the Fat White Family. Whereas sleaze-mired, country-influenced, drug-crazed garage punks the Fat Whites are a “celebration of everything that is wrong in life”, Insecure Men, who blend together exotica, easy listening, lounge and timeless pop music, are, by comparison at least, the last ...

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Integrity

Known for being one of the most incendiary and influential bands in hardcore and modern metal history, apocalyptic heavy music icons INTEGRITY formed in  1988 primarily as an outlet for the philosophical and spiritual musings of vocalist Dwid Hellion. With an intense sound that melds together high-velocity hardcore punk, heavy metal, thrash and angular, noisy guitar riffs with lyrical themes that include religion, the supernatural, mental illness, individualism, the occult, and Holy Terror...

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Islands

At the end of 2016, after ten years and seven albums, Nick Thorburn quietly decided to put an end to Islands and retire from music. There was no announcement or farewell, only two shows at Webster Hall in New York and the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the band’s widely adored debut album Return to the Sea. “This seemed like a perfect time to put a cap on things and close out the circle,” Thorburn says. He switched focus, selling and pr...

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Isom Innis

Isom Innis is a Los Angeles based producer, mixer, songwriter, & musician, and a member of the band Foster The People. Isom’s credits include writing and production work for Foster The People, Coin, Kimbra, Azealia Banks, The Kooks, Grace Mitchell, Day Wave, and most recently with Domino Publishing writer Lava La Rue on her single ‘Angel’

Jaakko Eino Kalevi

Welcome to Jaakko Eino Kalevi’s garden of earthly delights! Chaos Magic is the Finn’s wildest statement yet – a double-album of elemental pop and baroque electronics that plots a thrilling course through the Jaakko universe, drawing on cosmic jazz, dub reggae, neon synthpop, tender ballads and psych-rock nirvana, the whole thing laced with melody and mystery.   

Largely written and recorded by Jaakko in his new home of Athens, Chaos Magic features musical contributions from...

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Jack Slade

20-year-old South Australian based singer/songwriter & performer Jack Slade, brings a contemporary approach to alternative bedroom styled pop music drawing inspiration from many genres and projecting it on his own sonic creations. Being self-taught Jack has explored many sounds over the years and with his debut EP it’s his truest expression yet.

James Yorkston

 

 

‘I Was A Cat From A Book’ by James Yorkston will be released by Domino on Monday the 13th of August 2012.  His first album since 2008’s ‘When The Haar Rolls In’, ‘I Was A Cat From A Book’ finds James playing with a new band comprised of members of Lamb & The Cinematic Orchestra alongside old friends.  The album was produced by James Yorkston and Dave Wrench and mostly recorded live during 5 wintry days in Bryn Derwen Studios, North Wales. It’s an al...

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Jana Horn

Jenifer Jackson

Jenifer Jackson is an American songwriter, singer and guitarist known for crafting intimate, understated pop songs. She embraces elements of old fashioned country, bossa nova, and folk in her writing and singing, and always with great soulfulness.

Her songs have appeared on television (‘Bloodline’) and film soundtracks (‘Run, Fat Boy Run’ and Independent Spirit Winner ‘Daydream Believer’) and have been covered by a wide variety of artists in the USA and Europe.

Jackson currently m...

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Jennifer Castle

On Jennifer Castle’s new album Angels of Death, her third full-length record under her given name the Ontario songwriter summons a kindred classical vision of the Muses as domestic familiars intimately in league with death.. Space is sculpted in silence, and the songs resemble gossamer webs, visible only at an angle, sunlight refracting through dew. Castle’s voice is an instrument of exquisite ethereality and expressive linearity, limpid and narrow and pure as a mountain brook. Over the ...

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Jens Kuross

A graduate of Berklee College of Music, the music of Jens Kuross occupies a rare space in the world with his particular way of melding evocative lyrics and dreamy arrangements with introspective, yet sublime songwriting. In the last two years, the multi-talented singer-songwriter has released a string of hypnotic releases, most recently his acclaimed EP “Art! at the expense of mental health, Vol. 2”, which was released in October 2018 and served as the second instalment of his multi-facet...

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Jeremy Jay

Jeremy Jay was born in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista, in southern California. His family later moved north to Los Angeles, and then north again, to Monterey.

When Jeremy was 14, he began playing in high school bands with schoolmates, performing to packed venues in the area. Seeing her son’s devotion to music, Jeremy’s mother bought him an eight-track reel-to-reel recorder, which he used to make recordings in a studio that he built in the family garage.

When Jeremy was 18 he...

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Jeremy Black

Jeremy Black is a US-born music producer and composer living in Berlin. Born into a musical family, he started piano lessons at the age of five and the drums soon after. In high school he was mentored by Jazz legend John Scofield with whose daughter he had started a punk band with. He went on to study Music Production at Berklee School of Music in Boston, where he met Sam Cohen(Prod. Kevin Morby, Danger Mouse) and Jesse Gallagher with whom he founded the psych-pop group Apollo Sunshine. Signe...

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Jesse Gallagher

Jesse started his career co-founding the underground psychedelic pop trio, Apollo Sunshine (2001-2010) The group performed over 1000 shows across America & Europe, including several national late night TV performances, a headliner at Bonnaroo (2007) featured in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin & shared the stage with legendary acts Wu-Tang Clan, Toots & The Maytals, The Flaming Lips & Dr. Dog to name a few. . Breaking Bad used Jesse’s song “We are Born When ...

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Jessica93

Geoffroy Laporte aka. Jessica93

Taken from his Mad Max CB radio user name, Jessica93, is shaking things up in the French rock scene.  His fourth album ‘Guilty Species’ is more immediate, nervous and disillusioned and see’s Jessica93 start the most interesting path in his musical career. Something ardent, limpid, relieved of any digression and carried by compositions with toxic melodies and ferocious grace.

The Jesus And Mary Chain

Like the Velvet Underground, their most obvious influence, the chart success of The Jesus and Mary Chain was virtually nonexistent, but their artistic impact was incalculable; quite simply, the British group made the world safe for white noise, orchestrating a sound dense in squalling feedback which served as an inspiration to everyone from My Bloody Valentine to Dinosaur Jr. Though the supporting players drifted in and out of focus, the heart of the Mary Chain remained vocalists and guitarist...

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Jib Kidder

Jib Kidder is the performing moniker of musician and artist Sean Schuster-Craig. Born in Lousiville, raised in Georgia, educated in Michigan and bouncing between California and New York ever since, he has spent the last decade exploring a variety of approaches to psychedelic collage. In his audio recordings, songs, videos, sculptures, digital paintings, chalk murals & written work he has attempted to harness the humor and ambiguous poignancy specific to the experience of dreaming. 

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Joan Shelley

Joan Shelley is a songwriter and singer from Louisville, KY. She draws inspiration from traditional and traditionally-minded performers from her native Kentucky, as well as those from Ireland, Scotland, and England, but she’s not a folksinger. Her disposition aligns more closely with that of, say, Roger Miller, Dolly Parton, or her fellow Kentuckian Tom T. Hall, who once explained—simply, succinctly, in a song—“I Witness Life.”

Her perspective and performances both have been descri...

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Joanne Robertson

Joanne Robertson has become known for the lyrical drifting beauty of her music. The two solo albums she’s released, The Lighter (Textile) and Black Moon Days (Feeding Tube), both been hailed as brilliant extensions of the avant garde wing of the femme-folk tradition. But she is also a form-disrupter of the highest order, as she demonstrated early on with the Blood ‘n Feather collective, amongst other noise brigands.

For these new shows, Robertson is playing in trio format with Jasper Bayd...

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Joe Harrison

Joe Harrison is a producer, engineer, session musician and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. Harrison is a swiss army knife in the studio. In his 15 years working in the recording industry he has worked as an audio engineer for Mark Ronson and Adele, as a session musician for Taylor Swift and Gunna, and as a producer and writer for Frank Dukes, Anderson .Paak, Lianne la Havas, Nick Hakim and many others. Harrison is equally fluid throughout many styles and genres, while still mainta...

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Joe Wong

Los Angeles based multi-instrumentalist, podcast host (The Trap Set) and composer Joe Wong (“Master of None”, “Russian Doll”, “The Midnight Gospel”, “Ugly Delicious”, “Awkwafina is Nora From Queens” is newly signed to Decca Records for his debut solo record, Nite Creatures. Nite Creatures is a collection of 10 baroque, ruminative, songs that evoke the psychedelic heyday of the legendary UK-based Decca label, living in the pops and crackles between the Summer of Love and th...

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Joel Ford

Joel Ford first exploded onto Brooklyn’s electronic music scene as the formidable leftfield synth-duo Games, and later as Ford & Lopatin. While maintaining projects as an artist, Joel has spent the past decade working as a producer, mixer, engineer and composer for such projects as Oneohtrix Point Never, How To Dress Well, Jacques Greene, Autre Ne Veut, Com Truise, Cyril Hahn, Alex Cameron, North Americans, Kirin J Callinan, Heathered Pearls, and Young Ejecta.

Joel has recently emerged...

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John Andrews

New Jersey-born multi-instrumentalist John Andrews worked with several bands before stepping out on his own with solo project John Andrews & the Yawns — “the Yawns” being a fictional backing band at first, as Andrews played all the instruments on his debut. He did employ accompanists for his later albums, but his low-key and lo-fi pop vision changed very little once he had a band, with his murmured vocals and subtle, melodic keyboard work still his stylistic hallmarks. 2015’s Bit ...

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John Congleton

John Congleton is Grammy Winning American producer/engineer/mixer/writer. John works out of his his studio (EStudios) in Dallas, Texas. In addition to his production work Congleton fronted the indie rock band, The Paper Chase, and writes music for a newer project entitled The Nighty Nite and music for various projects, including MTV’s Jackass, the Discovery Channel, and several Halloween sound effects/music CDs.

John has worked with St. Vincent, The Walkmen, Modest Mouse, Angel Olsen (a...

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John Curley (Afghan Whigs)

In 2000, The Afghan Whigs disbanded after a 14-year run. Much has already been written about those days but it’s safe to say that the Whigs were one of the most influential and critically-acclaimed bands to come out of the alternative rock scene of the early 90’s – well known for unflinching lyrics and the bands’ consistently amazing live shows. Fast forward to the present. Afghan Whigs bass player John Curley has 2 kids and runs a recording studio in Cincinnati.

 

Curley’s cur...

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Joker’s Daughter

Born in London but Greek Cypriot by origin, Helena Costas studied violin from ages 7 to 13, then taught herself guitar and keyboards. As she became an adult, her mission came into focus. She wrote songs relentlessly, learned the art of production, and gained confidence as a performer as she played gigs around London.

 

Like a cryptic, symbolic dream, the music of Joker’s Daughter feeds on a range of conscious and unconscious influences, from classical violin training to Arthurian l...

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Jolie Holland

Jolie Holland is an American singer and performer who combines elements of folk, traditional, experimental, and rock. She has forged a timeless, captivating musical legacy; as she mines the depths of her, at times harrowing, life experiences, her creative choices are rooted in honesty and presence. they are also fearless.

On October 6th, she will unveil her latest collection, Haunted Mountain; intricately connected with friend and collaborator Buck Meek’s album of the same name, Haunte...

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Jon Auer

Jon’s musical journey started in the late ’80s in Bellingham, WA, where he formed legendary power pop band The Posies. Their first record, Failure, was recorded and mixed by a teenage Jon in his father’s home studio. Two years later The Posies signed a deal with DGC/Geffen and made four records for them, including the landmark Frosting on the Beater, which includes Jon’s classic singles “Dream all Day” and “Flavor of the Month” as well as his dark and epic “Coming Right Alon...

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Jon Hopkins

Jon Hopkins has been a trailblazer in electronic music for over two decades, captivating listeners worldwide. Prior to releasing solo albums, Hopkins was known as an expert producer, collaborating with the likes of Coldplay and Brian Eno, and securing an Ivor nomination for his work scoring feature film, Monsters (2010), directed by Gareth Edwards.

Now, in 2024, he is gearing up for another exciting chapter with the release of his upcoming album, “Ritual,” set for release August 30th. Wit...

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Jon Joseph

Writer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Jon Joseph works out of his studio in San Pedro, CA. Leaving high school early to pursue production, Jon Joseph built a name for himself around the Southern California alt-pop scene. Recent work includes co-writes and/or production for illuminatti hotties, Medium Build, Jakob’s Castle, Becca Mancari, Mini Trees, AVIV, BOYO, The Undercover Dream Lovers and many more.

Josef K

There needed to be a gloomy remotely intimate glam pop group named after a character created by Franz Kafka who detuned their pained, pining guitars like the Velvet Underground, who screwed up dance beats with as much nimble knowingness and/or amateurish exuberance as Devo, who faced up to long lasting reality with as much sad, mad grace as Magazine, who got stuck into logic as defiantly as Pere Ubu, who had spent a lot of time watching Television and listening to the first six or seven songs...

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Joshu

Raised in Antigua, West Indies on a potent mixture of Bob Dylan, calypso, and the ocean, Joshu is bringing a new island sound to the world. With notes of Jack Johnson and Jose Gonzalez, his songs resonate with the laid back lyricist in all of us. His Caribbean childhood was steeped in the eclectic musical tastes of his father and mother, from Mozart to Belafonte, which has inspired a beautiful combination of groove and folk.

2019 marks the release of his debut EP ‘Lines of Time’ and this ...

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Julia Holter

The common thread running through the Julia Holter discography is
her fearless individuality. The Los Angeles-based composer has amassed a body
of work that explores song structure, atmosphere, minimalism and the authority
of her voice.

The double album Aviary is epic in scale, moving through the chamber
pieces with which she has made her reputation to moments of drama and
orchestration on an epic scale.

 

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Junior Boys

Their music has drawn variously from disco, electro-pop, UK garage, R&B—and Frank Sinatra. They bear traces of Munich, London, Chicago, Virginia Beach, Tin Pan Alley—and yet they hail from Hamilton, Ontario. They are men of the world, but you can call them Junior Boys.

 

The men in question, of course, are Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus, and their story is an unlikely one: two childhood friends who had no real intention of becoming professional musicians—and yet,...

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JW Francis

JW Francis is an artist who can’t sit still. Born in Oklahoma and raised in France, Francis started his music career in New York, where he first built a name for himself, before taking to the road, where he has lived for the past three years.

What makes Francis special is his connection to people: he writes over 100 Valentine’s Day songs a year for his fans’ loved ones and regularly goes on ‘Dream Tours’, where he plays only in unconventional venues like fans’ backyards, roller-sk...

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Kae Tempest

Kae Tempest started out when they were 16, rapping at strangers on night busses and pestering mc’s to let them on the mic at raves. Ten years later they have published playwright, novelist, poet and respected recording artist. Their work includes ‘Balance’ (Domino Publishing) , their first album with band Sound of Rum; Everything Speaks in its Own Way their first collection of poems, the critically acclaimed plays Wasted, Glasshouse and Hopelessly Devoted. Brand New Ancients, their se...

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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, the world-renowned, award-winning electronic artist, transforms synth-driven soundscapes into immersive, otherworldly experiences. Known for her ability to weave organic textures with futuristic electronic elements, Kaitlyn creates music that feels both ethereal and deeply human. Her work blurs the lines between ambient, experimental, and dance music, capturing the attention of tastemakers and festival-goers alike. As a classically trained jazz musician and sound engine...

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Kaki King

When Kaki King went into the studio in upstate New York to record the tracks for her fourth album, Dreaming Of Revenge, her producer, Malcolm Burn, had one condition: “He said, ‘If someone can’t be sawing a log in half and whistling along to the song, I don’t want it on the record,’” King recalls with a laugh. And so the bar was set. Burn’s mandate was just the push King needed to make her most accessible CD yet. “Even though half the tracks are...

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Kath Bloom

The daughter of world-renowned oboist Robert Bloom, Kath was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, where she trained as a cellist. However, she soon gave away formal musical education for the acoustic guitar, which she taught herself over long afternoons spent among the tombstones of her local cemetery.

After a time working with conceptual artist Bruce Nauman, Kath met avant-garde guitarist Loren MazzaCane Connors in 1976, teaming up with him for a series of now h...

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The Kills

Dreamy and feverish, hooky and repetitive, obsessive and claustrophobic – that’s The Kills’ fourth album, “Blood Pressures”. ‘Obsessive and claustrophobic?’ repeats Jamie Hince: ‘yes, I like that. After we’d made the record, Alison and I talked about the theme: there’s a lot about gender, about relationships; it’s about sex – so, blood pressures’.

‘Right now, I would say it’s quite a dark record,’ says...

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King Creosote

‘From Scotland With Love’, released on 21st July 2014, is King Creosote’s first album since his Mercury-nominated collaborative record with Jon Hopkins (also Domino Publishing), ‘Diamond Mine’. Composed of eleven stunning and emotive tracks, ‘From Scotland With Love’ was created in collaboration with director Virginia Heath and Producer Grant Keir as an audio-accompaniment to a poetic documentary film of the same name, to be released for the Commonwealth Games this summer. F...

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King James & The Special Men

“The champions of New Orleans classic R&B…” -Alex Rawls, My Spilt Milk

Hot. Sweaty. Raw. Soulful. King James & The Special Men sound like New Orleans on wax, and they represent the Crescent City like no other. Rhythm & Blues (“Rock and Roll”, as it’s referred to outside of New Orleans) was born in “The City That Care Forgot” during the late 40’s/early 50’s in the years after WWII, and these very special men indeed are doing everything possible to not only ...

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Kings Have Long Arms

Freshfaced eccentric Adrian Flanagan aka KINGS HAVE LONG ARMS, used to live in Salford, Lancashire but now Lives in a small cave in a wood on the outskirts of Sheffield.

It is here you will find him making his joyful, uplifting, life giving “eccentronic unpopular music”. Regarded by many as a bona-fide Genius but known by his mum as “not a full shilling”.. On the budget of a giro and a mean line in Yee Olde Salfordian blag & charm, KINGS HAVE lONG ARMS has had some of the biggest ...

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Kins

Currently hailing from Brighton, England, Kins originally formed in late 2010 around a collection of home-demos by frontman Thomas Savage. Kins spent their first six months playing small shows up and down the coasts of Australia with the city of Melbourne acting as home-base. In May 2011 they released their 7-track debut E.P; ‘Dancing Back And Forth Covered In Whipped Cream’. After relocating to the UK, Thomas was faced with the task of finding a new rhythm section, which eventual...

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Kode 9/Spaceape

Kode9 is a London-based dubstep artist, DJ, and owner of the Hyperdub record label. MC The Spaceape is a frequent collaborator.

Like many dubstep artists, Kode9 comes from a musical background of oldschool jungle, drum and bass, and 2-step garage; he has mentioned his first encounter with jungle, in Edinburgh, as being “the most important musical event of my life”.

 

Kody Nielson

Multi-talented musician Kody Nielson has followed multiple paths throughout his career, from confrontational art-punk to neo-psychedelia to electronic pop. The New Zealand native first gained attention as a member of the noisy garage punk band the Mint Chicks, which he co-founded with his brother Ruban in 2001. After releasing several acclaimed albums, the group broke up in 2010, and Nielson formed the more pop-oriented Opossom, whose debut Electric Hawaii appeared in 2012. In addition to pla...

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Kris Delmhorst

Kris Delmhorst is an American songwriter, singer, and instrumentalist. She has released six full length records on the respected indie label Signature Sounds, as well as a panoply of EPs, side projects, and collaborations. A wide-ranging, eclectic artist, her recordings have included intimate acoustic sets, rock band renderings, home-recording landscapes collaged from found and unexpected sounds, and works of classic poetry refigured and set to music – not to mention an all-acoustic collect...

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L.A. Salami

LA Priest

Variously known as Sam Dust, LA Priest and L.A. Priest, Eastgate has built a reputation as a subversive, unpredictable musician, consistently innovating over the course of his work with his now defunct breakout band Late Of The Pier, his cherished Soft Hair collaboration with Connan Mockasin as well as his solo work under LA Priest. As well as releasing his acclaimed album Fase Luna (2023) which was labelled by MOJO as “a loose, hazy treat”, he also completed a successful string...

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Laetitia Sadier

Laetitia Sadier is the alluring female voice of iconic 90’s band Stereolab.

As lulling and gentile as her French accent is, Sadier certainly possesses a strong mind and places a lot of meaning behind her music and song-writing. The new album ‘Silencio’ ( out 24th July 2012 on Drag City) was so named in a poignant moment where Sadier felt she experienced total silence whilst visiting a church and realised that only in utter silence, one is free to explore their own thoughts....

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Lamb

Mancunian duo Lamb have achieved commercial success and critical acclaim with their distinctive, ever-evolving sound which combines passionate, heart-on-sleeve songwriting with unconventional arrangements informed by jazz, drum’n’bass, classical, and other genres. Lamb dwell in brash musical contrasts and, occasionally, contradictions that make their songs as musically complex and exploratory as they are vocally catchy. The duo’s self-titled 1996 debut, an arresting mix of jungle and tr...

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LAMPS

These days, good news is hard to come by, but here’s some: Lamps, LA’s notoriously unprolific noise-merchant trio, are ready to release their spectacular fourth album called People With Faces, out on In The Red Records. Produced by Ty Segall at Val’s, Lamps’ first recorded output since 2012’s landmark LP Under The Water, Under The Ground finds them breaking adventurous new terrain. I’d say they’ve matured, but I’d only say it behind their backs. Stalwarts Monty ...
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Laucan

When Lewes-raised newcomer Laucan began singing in falsetto after the break-up of an old band, he had his reasons. “I didn’t want anyone hearing my songs through the door of my room,” recalls Laurence Galpin, the 27-year-old behind the Laucan (pronunciation: Lor-can) moniker. Thankfully, his newfound readiness to be heard doesn’t come at any cost to his distinct voice on his debut EP, Up Tomorrow, released March 6th on Sunday Best. Between its impressionist lyrica...

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Laura Groves

There’s a confiding tone to Bradford-born singer/songwriter Laura Groves’ voice, one that extends a tender invitation into her world. As a member of Nautic, she took a sultry turn over horizontal funk, while her former folk-pop guise Blue Roses was veiled in pastoral allegory. Now, recording under her own name, she sounds stronger and surer than ever. On the deliriously wistful “Pale Shadows”, from her forthcoming solo EP on Bullion’s DEEK label, she uses memory ...

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Laura Les

Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Laura is a producer and songwriter currently based in Chicago. As a solo artist, Laura has released numerous EPs including i just don’t wanna name it anything with “beach” in it the title”, and “hello kitty stakes to the fucking CEMETARY”. As a part of the band 100 Gecs, Laura has released both the ep`”100 Gecs” and the full length “1000 Gecs” to critical acclaim. Laura has collaborated with Charli XCX, Black Dresses, Dorian Electra, Ri...

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The Laurel Collective

Where to even start when describing The Laurel Collective…? Collective by name and by composition also, the six piece (whittled down from nineteen a year ago) comprise members hailing from Wales, England, Nigeria and Italy. The Laurels are a genre trashing six piece led by the twin attack and contrasting vocals of front men Martin Sakutu and Bob Tollast. Imagine the motley crew spirit of such misfit gangs as The Specials and Dexys mixed with the rhythmical assault and groove of Sly Fam...

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Lava La Rue

Lava La Rue makes ambition look easy; an MC, musician, rapper, clothing designer, producer, and director, there isn’t a lot they can’t do. Since debuting, Lava has racked up more than 500m total streams, multiple Radio 1 Hottest Record and Chillest Record spots, and several 6Music playlist adds while being touted as a rising talent by the likes of NME, Dazed, Evening Standard and Forbes’ 30 Under 30. But their impact goes beyond industry accolades, and into community.

Lava’s long-awai...

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Lawrence Hart

Lawrence famously pushes boundaries on production and genre, weaving hard-hitting club-ready beats, emotional intricacies, and beautiful chilled pieces, suiting busy dancefloors and headphone sessions alike.
Lawrence Hart has collaborated with the likes of George Fitzgerald, Lil Silva, Chloe Howl and released a collaborative album with Casually Here.

Lawrence has recently amassed sweeping support across BBC Radio 1 (Annie Mac, Pete Tong – including ‘Essential New Tune’, Danny Howard, J...

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Léa Sen

Open-eared and open-hearted: these are the watchwords of Léa Sen’s music. At just 22 years old, the London-based singer, songwriter and producer has established herself as one of the capital’s most in-demand talents, meandering between gossamer vocal features for Joy Orbison to solo work that references everything from Bon Iver’s electronic timbre and folk guitars to Sampha’s impressionistic lyricism.

Singing from a young age as a natural means of self-expression, at 15 Sen learned t...

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Leatherface

Leatherface is a relatively obscure but critically acclaimed and highly influential British band from Sunderland fronted by Frankie Stubbs. The band is known for an eclectic style spanning American folk music, hardcore punk, post-hardcore and Dischord-style early emo.

Formed in August 1988, Leatherface has released eight full-length albums.

 

Rubber Factory Records released a tribute album to Leatherface in 2008 featuring 41 tracks by over 35 artists from several different countries who ...

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The Lemonheads

Evan Griffith Dando (Domino Publishing) formed THE LEMONHEADS with two high school buddies in late winter ‘86, in their senior year at Boston’s tiny Commonwealth School. A few months later, they spawned what is now one of the most sought-after punk relics of the 80s, the indie EP Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners. Boston-based Taang! Records immediately picked up on the LEMONHEADS, with three college radio pleasers to follow: the LPs Hate Your Friends (1987), Creator (1988), an...

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Lene Lovich

One of the more offbeat and memorable figures in new wave, Lene Lovich certainly drew much of her widely varied approach from her unconventional early experiences. Born of a Yugoslavian father and British mother, she spent much of her childhood in Detroit, MI. She later developed an interest in art and theater, enrolling at the Central School of Art. She took up the saxophone and, after a brief stint in a soul-funk band (with future collaborator Les Chappell), Lovich wrote a string of songs f...

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Leslie Winer

Described by music critics as everything from ‘a slightly nastier Tom Waits’ to ‘the Grandmother of Trip-Hop’ Leslie Winer has collaborated with &/or written songs for Grace Jones, Sinead O’Connor, Jon Hassel, C M von Hausswolff, done features for Christopher Chaplin, Diamond Version, Jah Wobble and been covered by Matmos & countable others.

She has also had her music featured in films including Sophie Fiennes’ ‘Bloodlight and Bami’ and Cheryl Dunye’s feminist clas...

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Liam Howe

Liam Coverdale Howe is a London-based record producer, musician and songwriter. Since forming 90s cult band Sneaker Pimps in 1996, he has had much success producing the likes of Lana Del Rey, Marina and the Diamonds, FKA Twigs, Ellie Goulding, and Tom Vek.

Light Heat

After Mazarin ended circa 2006, Quentin Stoltzfus stepped away from performing and releasing music. He did not, however, cease writing and recording music. Thankfully. With the help of an assembled group of friends including Paul Maroon, Matt Barrick, Peter Bauer and Walter Martin from The Walkmen, Quentin’s new venture, Light Heat, manages to weave classic references (Stereolab, The Byrds) with the sound of the future. The result is an album chock full of metaphysical news. Embodied within...

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Lightning Bolt

Bridging the worlds of technical playing and noise chaos with a colour and imagination unlike any other band, Providence, Rhode Island duo Lightning Bolt began their hypnotic pummeling in the mid-’90s and grew to become one of the most powerful and unique entities in the indie scene.

Lightning Bolt first took shape in 1995 as a three-piece art school project. Initially, Brian Chippendale’s explosive, nonstop drumming, Brian Gibson’s Contortions-like basslines, and Hisham Baroocha’s v...

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Lightships

 

 

Lightships; the project of Teenage Fanclub singer, songwriter and bassist, Gerard Love together with a cast of Glasgow-based friends Dave McGowan (guitar, Teenage Fanclub), Brendan O’Hare (drums, from the first incarnation of Teenage Fanclub), Tom Crossley (flute, International Airport and The Pastels) and Bob Kildea (bass, Belle & Sebastian).

In recent times, Gerard has been very much part of The Pastels, who operate occasional Domino imprint, Geographic.

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Lightspeed Champion

What about the man behind the Lightspeed Champion moniker? Who is he? Where did he come from? How much free time does he have? Working backwards: very little. Dev Hynes is a man who doesn’t like to sit around waiting for results; by the time the results are in, he’s on to bigger and better, or at the very least worse but different. A selected history of Dev rather breathlessly testifies to as much:

 

He began piano at age 7 (and yet he doesn’t hate it today). Next came ...

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Liquid Liquid

Space, particularly inner headspace was big news in the early eighties. All those derelict inner city landscapes represented both physical and mental wastelands. The most iconic music of the era serves as a map to those empty spaces rebuilt by flickering minds in stranger, more emancipated times: World Of Echo, Unknown Pleasures, Dare, Remain In Light, Computer World. It’s become a cliche to describe these records as strange documents from a lost brave new world but that’s what they are. ...

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Lisa O’Neill

‘Same Colth Or Not’ (Song Seeds Records 2013) captures Irish singer Lisa O’Neill at her best. An assured songwriter, as comfortable with lyrical pathos as she is comic turn of phrase. At times she is downright poetic, switching mood from forlorn love songs to shady tales of wheelbarrow smuggling. Her voice is a unique instrument in itself, subtle enough to execute the tender reminiscence of a song like ‘Speed Boat’ but powerful enough to bring the house down on the rousing call-to-a...

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Little Cub

Made up of Dominic Gore, Duncan Tootill, and Ady Acolatse, Little Cub are an alternative/indie pop trio based in South-East London, U.K. Although their sound developed primarily in London, the ensemble actually formed in Dorking, Surrey in 2015. Gore and Tootill met by chance and instantly bonded over a shared passion for LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and his label, DFA Records, alongside other seminal acts such as New Order and Aphex Twin. Gore then went on to meet Acolatse during a club ...

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Little Wings

Little Wings is the musical project of fine artist and songwriter, Kyle Field. Field was born in Alabama, the son of a college football coach, but his family quickly moved to California where he grew up to love surfing. In the late 1990s, Field formed the band Little Wings, of which he is the only permanent member. The band released several albums through K Records, including Light Green Leaves and Magic Wand. Field is also an acclaimed visual artist. His first book of drawings was released o...

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Liz Janes

Liz Janes is an accidental artist and a late bloomer. While attempting to accomplish four typical academic years of college, she dropped out, went farming, and started drawing. Went back to school kept drawing. Started making noise with instruments while imbibing with friends. Secret love of singing. Quietly began composing songs she knew for sure she’d never share. Three chords on an old Sears guitar. Made loud loud noise with friends.

Years later, friend says come over I’ll reco...

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Lomond Campbell


Lomond Campbell lives on the edge of a loch somewhere up in the Highlands in a dilapidated and long disused primary school. He has filled a classroom with old guitars & synthesisers, barely working echo boxes, tape recorders and various other home built contraptions, carefully positioning them all in between the drips from the leaking roof. It’s from here he writes and records his music. He made his first appearance on a collaborative album, recorded in one week, called ‘Expe...

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Lou Barlow

Hi, my name is Lou Barlow. This is ‘Brace the Wave’. 

One of my first song writing attempts occurred in 1983— it is called “Lou’s Anxiety Song”, released by my first band, Deep Wound. The original title was ‘Pressures’, but the singer decided to scream “Lou’s anxiety song!!” at the beginning (his commentary on the overly earnest lyrics ).The title stuck.

Deep Wound evolved into Dinosaur Jr. While playing in that band I beg...

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Lou Rhodes

Trading in the complex electronics of her previous project Lamb for simple folk, singer Lou Rhodes continued on her own after the breakup of Lamb in 2004. In early 2006, she self-released her debut solo record, Beloved One, which was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her second album, Bloom, arrived in 2007, to generally positive reviews. Released on the A&G imprint, it featured the single “The Rain,” and coincided with a promotional tour, which began later in the same year. 2009 saw...

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Louis Michot

Louis Michot is a Grammy award winning fiddle player and singer for Lost Bayou Ramblers, and in 2023 released his debut solo album “Rêve de Troubadour”. In 2018, Michot founded Nouveau Electric Records, promoting experimental and traditional around Louisiana French. In early 2020 Louis was named ‘Louisianian of the Year’ in 2020 along with his brother Andre. Louis began incorporating solar technology into his music operations in 2020, with a solar powered studio and a mobile solar mu...

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Lovvers

Although originally hailing from different parts of the UK, Lovvers formed whilst all four members were living in Nottingham in 2006. They are a strange mix of music’s forgotten / blank generation, re-calling the spirit of Darby Crashes’ Germs, the weirdness of Flipper, Wipers-style pop and the carefree attitude of The Replacements.

Having released four noisy seven-inch singles (three on the Jonson Family record label and one a 4 way band split release on OIB records) the band signed ...

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LOW

 

Low, a band from Duluth, Minnesota, formed in 1993. The band features Alan Sparhawk on vocals and guitar, Mimi Parker on vocals and drums, and Matt Livingston on bass and vocals. Sparhawk and Parker are married with two children; they first met in fourth grade in rural Minnesota. Livingston, the latest addition to the band, replaced longtime bassist Zak Sally, who previously replaced original bassist John Nichols.

 

Low’s first album, I Could Live in Hope, was produced by Kr...

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Luke Abbott

The success of his 2010 debut album Holkham Drones was something of a dream induction into the world of professional music-making for Luke Abbott. The “game changing electronic opus” stood out as “far and away one of Drowned in Sound‘s favourite records of 2010” and landed in Mojo‘s ‘Electronica Albums of 2010’ list, amongst wide-spread critical acclaim. It wasn’t just about 2010 though; far beyond its initial release Holkham Drones has continued to win over convert upon con...

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Luke Reynolds

Luke Reynolds is an artist, writer, and producer.
Reynolds has released six solo albums.  His most recent album Vanishing Places Vol. 2 Glaciers In Iceland was commissioned for CHANGE, a permanent polar art exhibit. As a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, he has worked with Sharon Van Etten, Adrian Utley, The Staves, Neko Case, Sarah Jarosz, The War On Drugs, Miranda Lambert, Regina Spektor, Guster and Phosphorescent.
He is a frequent collaborator with producer John Conglet...

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Luke Wyatt (Torn Hawk)

Torn Hawk is the project of audiovisual artist Luke Wyatt. Wyatt first gained notoriety for his “Video Mulch”, creating innovative visual work for the label Peoples Potential Unlimited and artists like Autre Ne Veut and Mi Ami.

The acclaimed “Tarifa” 12″, released on L.I.E.S. in 2012, debuted the distinctive Torn Hawk soundtrack-ready aesthetic of emotive guitars and smeared beats. The tracks sounded like the audio equivalent of confessional watercolors, framed with cinderblocks and...

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LUMP

LUMP began on an evening in mid June 2016 when Mike Lindsey (producer and member of bands Tunng and Throws) was introduced to Laura Marling (3 time mercury nominated songwriter) after her show supporting Neil Young at London’s 02 arena. To both their surprise, each had been admirers of the others work. A few days later they retreated underground to Mike’s London studio oratory to unite their energies and produce LUMP.

Lunar Vacation

The week that guitarists Grace Repasky and Maggie Geeslin turned old enough to drive, Lunar Vacation was officially formed. 

Repasky and Geeslin met in the eighth grade and began exchanging musical efforts almost immediately, but that blessed autonomy of first cars meant they could conquer Atlanta’s sprawling suburbs and play to their adolescent hearts’ desire. The pair forged a cluster of demos — just enough to fill a set — and took to as many stages as Atlanta could offer them. L...

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Lynks

By L’s own admission, Lynks began life as a comedy act. “I mean, I had a song called ‘How to Make a Béchamel Sauce in 10 Steps (With Pictures)’. I wasn’t taking it too seriously.” It’s all the more remarkable, then, that he’s gone on to become one of queer pop’s most potent forces. Instantly recognisable thanks to his self-made costumes – that he’s described as making him a ‘masked drag monster’, while NME went for ‘alt-pop gimp’ – his taste for thumping beats...

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Mac Kennedy (Poison Ruïn)

Evoking a rich tapestry of ice-caked forests, peasant revolts, and silent knights, POISON RUIN stab at the pulsing heart of what it means to live under the permanent midnight of contemporary life. With Harvest, the band aligns their sonic palette to their godless, medieval-inflected aesthetic symbolism, creating a record which strikes with an assured sense of blackened harmony.

“I’ve always found fantasy tropes to be incredibly evocative,” vocalist Mac Kennedy notes, “that said, even ...

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Magazine

Magazine was an English Post-punk group active between 1977 and 1981.

The band was formed in Manchester by Howard Devoto after he left Buzzcocks in early 1977. In April 1977 he met guitarist John McGeoch and they began writing songs which would become the first Magazine material. They recruited Barry Adamson, Bob Dickinson and Martin Jackson to form the first line-up of the band, which signed to Virgin Records.

Bob Dickinson left shortly after the release of the band’s first single “Shot ...

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Magic Bullets

Magic Bullets began as as a side project of a full time band in Redwood City, CA in 2004. What started as a lark became the main focus and the driving force for core members for years to come. 

In early 2007 the band released an album’s worth of recordings collected over the span of the three years since the band’s conception. Their first full length “A Child But In Life Yet A Doctor In Love” was released on Minneapolis’ Words on Music. 

Numerous tours of ...

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Makola

Rising duo Makola have their roots in Finland and Ghana but their sound, an irrepressible explosion of hip-hop and afrobeat, could only ever have been forged in London. Their latest track, ‘All My People’, compares the frosty reception Ghanaian immigrants received in the ’50s to the more inclusive attitude that largely reigns in the capital today (“nowadays everyone’s your bruv”), and does so to an infectious beat bolstered by some exuberant samples. Look o...

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Malachai

‘Beyond Ugly’ (released March 2014 on Double Six) is the last panel in the band’s Ugly triptych and that it was completed at all came as a shock to all concerned, least of all the group.  After the conclusion of the campaign for their second album, ‘Return To The Ugly Side’ (Double Six 2011), members Gee Ealey and Scott Hendy drifted apart with no definitive plans to take up arms together.  It was a chance meeting in Bristol that drew the two back into one a...

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Marah

Marah was formed by singer/songwriter/guitarist Dave Bielanko from Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, bass guitarist Danny Metz and drummer Ronnie Vance in 1993. Singer/songwriter/guitarist and harmonica player Serge Bielanko, Dave’s older brother, joined the band in 1995.

The group featured Mummers Parade influenced banjos combined with standard rock music instruments to create a highly eclectic Roots Rock sound. The quartet recorded two albums together: Let’s Cut The Crap & Hook Up Later o...

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Margo Cilker

Margo Cilker is a woman who drinks deeply of life, and her debut record Pohorylle, released in November 2021 on Portland label Fluff and Gravy, is brimming with it. For the last seven years, the Eastern Oregon songwriter, who NPR calls one of “11 Oregon Artists to Watch in 2021,” has split her time between the road and various outposts across the world, from Enterprise, OR to the Basque Country of Spain, forging a path that is at once deeply rooted and ever-changing.As Pohorylle traverses...

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Martin Courtney

Now that every record is a “big event”, it’s hard to figure out what really matters. Sometimes the quieter moments are things you connect with, and Martin Courtney (given name Martin Courtney IV), the frontman of Real Estate, just made an album of intimate moments worth treasuring.

After the 2014 release of Atlas, the third LP from Ridgewood, New Jersey’s Real Estate, Courtney started quietly chipping away at some new songs while he was waiting to head back on the road...

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Martin John Henry

Martin John Henry is a Scottish songwriter and founder of the band De Rosa. Between 2006-2016 De Rosa released three critically acclaimed albums on the Chemikal Underground and Rock Action labels. Henry released his first solo LP in 2011, entitled “The Other Half of Everything”.
Henry has collaborated with Malcolm Middleton, King Creosote, Barry Burns of Mogwai and writer Michel Faber.

Mass

After Rema-Rema split, Gary Asquith, Mick Allen, and Mark Cox formed arty post-punk outfit Mass with Danny Briottet. The quartet debuted in 1980 with the single ‘You And I’/’Cabbage’, following it up a year later with their sole album, Labour Of Love. The group subsequently split into two halves: Asquith and Briottet formed Renegade Soundwave, while Allen and Cox remained with 4AD for their new project, The Wolfgang Press.

Matthew E. White

Moving, redemptive and powerfully soulful, Big Inner (Domino Records) is a timeless record told in seven songs that mingle memory with the rawness of any given human moment. The references — from the lyrics that echo the common conditions of love, death, seeking, and finding, to open tributes to artists like Washington Phillips, Allen Toussaint, Jorge Ben, Jimmy Cliff, and Randy Newman — are their own scavenger hunt through music history and through White’s place in it.

A gi...

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Matthew Otto

Having launched into the music scene as half of Canadian art-pop act Majical Cloudz, Montreal based producer, songwriter, and mixer Matthew Otto creates music Pitchfork describes as “aural ambiance [that] humbly glows, soars, and contracts underneath.” A classically trained musician, Otto was studying electroacoustic composition when he was introduced to future bandmate and collaborator, Devon Welsh. Otto’s latest production and writing credits include tracks featured on Solange’s A S...

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Max Tundra

Ben Jacobs was lucky enough to grow up in a house with a piano. As a child he protested about the lessons in which he was forced to learn the music of the famous (dead) composers. “I used to prefer sitting at the keyboard at home and playing tv theme songs and music from adverts,” remembers Ben. Eventually he realised that this expanse of black and white keys could be turned to his own advantage and he began forming his own musical inventions.

 

Parallax Error Beheads You, the third ...

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Maya De Vitry

Maya de Vitry’s devotion to songwriting is her way of staying present, curious, and imaginative. Pennsylvania-raised and Tennessee-based, Maya first traveled and performed as a fiddling street musician, and then in bars, theaters, and on festival stages as a founding member of The Stray Birds. In 2019, she released her critically-acclaimed solo debut Adaptations (produced by Dan Knobler) and has quietly emerged as a prolific solo artist and musical collaborator. Violet Light (produced by Et...

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Mazarin

Mazarin was the psych-pop project of Philadelphia-based singer/guitarist Quentin Stoltzfus, whose previous effort included a stint drumming for the Azusa Plane as well as the solo four-track outing Therisphere. An EP, Wheats, briefly preceded the 1999 release of Mazarin’s debut album Watch It Happen.

McCarthy

80s indie stalwarts trading in politically energised guitar pop – a true treasure chest of hooks, riffs and leftist messages.
Hailing from Barking, Essex, McCarthy are today considered one of the standard bearing politically inclined bands of that era, possessed of a broader outlook and wittier, better observed lyrics than most of the competition

By the time McCarthy appeared on the NME’s C86 cassette they had already been playing together for a couple of years and released two excellent ...

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Mdou Moctar

Mdou Moctar hails from a small village in central Niger, where he taught himself to play on a homemade guitar cobbled together out of wood. In 2008, Mdou traveled to Nigeria to record a few tracks, which became viral hits on the mp3 networks of West Africa, later released on the compilation “Music from Saharan Cellphones.” In 2013, he released “Afelan,” recorded in his village. Then he shifted gears, producing and starring the first Tuareg language film, a remake of Prince’s Purple ...

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Meatbodies

Loud, fast, wild — you’ve heard this all before but you haven’t because the Meatbodies are brand new and they’re going to dominate your eyes and ears and give you a bang over like you’ve never had before.

“Every person involved in this deserves to be high-fived until their hands chafe and bleed.” – NOISEY

Chad Ubovich began ripping through the rock scene in 2011 as guitarist for Mikal Cronin (also Domino Publishing) and, eventually, bassist in FUZZ....

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Meg Baird

Meg Baird’s songs are rarely made up of tidy stories. In fact, for Meg, mystery itself is often the medium. With Furling, Meg’s fourth album under her own name, she explores the breadth of her musical fascinations and the environments around them—the edges of memory, daydreams spanning years, loose ends, loss, divergent paths, and secret conversations under stars. Furling moves through these varied spaces with the slippery, misty cohesiveness of a dream—guided by an ageless, stirring ...

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Mekons

Mekons are a british band, though they have been based in Chicago now for many years. Formed in the late 1970s as art students at Leeds University, they are one of the longest-running and most prolific of the first-wave British punk bands, and part of the post-punk movement that came down from north of England (Human League/Gang Of Four). Through the years, the band’s musical style has evolved, incorporating aspects of country, folk, alternative rock and even occasional experiments with dub...

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Melati ESP

Melati ESP is the recording alias of Indonesian-born, New York City-based multidisciplinary artist Melati Malay. hipernatural is their debut album.

Melati (Jasmine in Indonesian) grew up in Jakarta, a sprawling subtropical metropolis with a population of 30 million and the administrative capital of 17,000 Indonesian islands. Like other similar Asian megacities, Jakarta is a bewildering melting pot of ancient traditions and future technologies, which merge in a uniquely Javanese late-capitalis...

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Melissa Mary Ahern

Melissa Mary Ahern is a Brooklyn based singer-songwriter who first began generating buzz last Christmas surrounding her feature on the release of Sufjan Steven’s 2007 rarity “Lonely Man of Winter” out on vinyl 12/7 via Asthmatic Kitty. Though the artist has been frequenting the New York and Berlin music scene since 2011 this is her first formal, solo release. “Next To You” and “World of Wonder” are the first singles off of Ahern’s 2018 collaboration with Doveman — the produc...

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Melody`s Echo Chamber

Melody’s Echo Chamber is the name given to the work of Paris-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Melody Prochet. Possessing a penchant for wild-eyed psychedelia, homespun motorik rhythm and an effortless flair for the sort of melodic classicism redolent of chamber song, Prochet is at once both an aficionado of pop’s outer limits and off-kilter to its expectations. The album was recorded between Perth (with Tame Impala’s maestro Kevin Parker) and her grandparents’ beach house in...

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MEMORIALS

MEMORIALS is the new band of Verity Susman (Electrelane’s frontwoman) and Matthew Simms (Wire, Better Corners, It Hugs Back, UUUU). As a duo these multi-instrumentalists cover plenty of ground on stage, juggling instruments in a set up resembling that of a 5-piece band. Their sound touches on the many points for which they are known, veering from melodic songwriting to psychedelic noise, free jazz freakouts, tape loops and drones, and then back again.

The Memory Band

The Memory Band – Steven Cracknell and his folk supergroup – was born at the turn of the century and draws upon the disparate talents of a network of musicians all of whom share a predilection for music of an acoustic bent and songs about love and dancing. With rhythms, strings and singing in both harmony and unison.

The 4th offering ‘On the Chalk ( Our Navigation Line Of The Downs)’ ( Static Caravan 2013)  marks the 10th anniversary of one the most invigorating and much loved Fo...

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Mia Doi Todd

Mia Doi Todd was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Trained as a classical vocalist in her adolescence and teenage years, Mia began writing songs while a student at Yale University, inspired by the mid-90’s Indie Rock movement. She recorded her debut album The Ewe and the Eye – just her voice and acoustic guitar — in one evening at the “Spaceshed” studio run by the LA band Further who then released it on their label in 1997 just as Todd was graduating from c...

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Mica Levi

Mica Levi is a musician and composer living in South East London who uses programming software, written notation and improvisation to produce music. As well as being a composer for ensembles, film and theatrical productions, they are currently a member of the groups CURL, Good Sad Happy Bad and Tirzah.

Michelle Blades

A self-taught artist, a multi-instrumentist, Michelle Blades reveals a discography infused with multiple sounds as an extension of her nomadic life spent between Panama, where she was born; Mexico, land of her mother’s family; Florida where she escaped from Manuel Noriega’s dictatorship, Arizona, where the young woman met underground and alternative culture and France for a music career spanning over ten years. Between 2015 and 2016, Michelle Blades has released with Midnight Special Reco...

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Middle Kids

One listen to Lost Friends, Middle Kids critically acclaimed debut record and it’s clear that the rising Australian trio is aligned with each member’s own vision. Its 12 songs veer from brittle blasts of indie rock to elegiac piano ballads to pop anthems destined to ignite stadium singalongs.

Lost Friends saw the band pick up the highly coveted triple j ‘J Award’ for Album Of The Year in 2018, alongside a nomination for Best Rock Album at the ARIAs. The album includes the band’s deb...

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Mike Lindsay

Mercury Music Prize winning producer, Mike Lindsay is best known for being the co-founder, composer and producer of UK experimental folk band Tunng and one half of the band LUMP with Laura Marling. Mike has co-written and produced many albums for Speech Debelle, Jon Hopkins, Gotan Project, Farao, DuBlonde, Low Roar, Jae Tyler, Beth Jeans Houghton, Serafina Steer, Hannah Peel, Cibelle and Laura J Martin.

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Mike Wexler

The work of Mike Wexler displays a careful attention to detail and his affinities for progressive rock as well as the Canterbury scene of the late sixties and early seventies.

 

Though there are hints of the Soft Machine, Quiet Sun, and Meddle-ear Pink Floyd, Wexler’s voice and arrangements are completely contemporary and completely his own. Mike released his first self-titled EP on I and Ear in 2005 followed by his debut full length Sun Wheel in 2006 for Amish Records.

Mind Over Mirrors

Mind Over Mirrors is the ever-evolving project of composer, harmoniumist, and synthesist Jaime Fennelly, who buttresses his modest instrumental foundation of Indian pedal harmonium with an array of tape delays, effect processors, and Oberheim synthesizers that belong to the world of classic analog electronic composition. Both as a solo artist and with various collaborators, he creates immersive interdisciplinary work that NPR has described as “an out-of-body experience.” His exploratio...

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ML Buch

ML Buch is Marie Louise Buch (b. 1987), a Copenhagen-based composer, producer, guitarist, and vocalist. Following the release of her EP ‘Fleshy’ in 2017, she released her critically acclaimed debut album ‘Skinned’ on the Danish imprint Anyines in 2020. ‘Suntub’ is her second full-length release, a double album consisting of 15 tracks, released in October 2023 on 15 love.

In her compositional practice, ML Buch sketches her music in an almost architectural way. The raw material is ...

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Moon Bounce (Corey Regensburg)

Moon Bounce is mutant pop pioneer and songwriter, Corey Regensburg. Taking cues from dance music, R&B, and even the rhythmic lurch of metal, his output combines soulful vocals with crafty percussion and hyper-controlled synthesis. Moon Bounce is almost always obsessed with groove, occasionally on the verge of falling apart.
Gaining notoriety from a slew of EPs, including 2014’s acclaimed Dress Rehearsal – the initial release from his Grind Select label — Regensburg’s ambitious com...

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The Mules

The Mules are made up of Duncan Brown on guitar, Timothy Burke on both the piano and synthesisers, Jenny Lau on the fiddle, Jim Lesslie on the bass, Ed Seed playing the drums and vocals. Other members which sometimes contribute to the sound of The Mules are Adam Beach (bass), Nico Beedle (fiddle), Henry Brown (bass), Nick Gill (guitar), Tim Hancock (piano), Tom Hobden (fiddle) and Dominic McGuinness (guitar).

The mules are a London-based ‘electrobilly’ band, fusing the rockabilly style wi...

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Mun Sing

Mun Sing is the solo alias of Harry Wright, a producer, songwriter, visual artist and DJ from Bristol. He has gained a reputation for exhilarating live performances and complex theatrical club music productions. His recorded output often merges tongue-in-cheek playfulness with obtuse rhythms and warped vocal sounds, resulting in some fiercely original dance music.

On his debut LP Inflatable Gravestone (Planet Mu, 2023), Mun Sing explored ideas around grief and addiction after the sudden l...

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Municipal Waste

Formed in the early 2000s, Municipal Waste from Richmond, Virginia, are a thrash metal band known for their high-energy performances and their blend of thrash, crossover, and punk genres. The band is made up of frontman Tony Foresta, Ryan Waste on guitar, Land Phil on bass, and Dave Witte on drums. They released their debut album, “Waste ‘Em All” in 2003 via Nuclear Blast Records, and have been with the label ever since. Subsequent releases have solidified their reputation for metal ban...

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My Brightest Diamond

Shara Nova, a classically trained vocalist and self-taught multi-instrumentalist who records dazzling, shapeshifting music as My Brightest Diamond, has always felt like an outsider. Over the course of four groundbreaking albums, she has resisted the conventions of genre, blending elements of rock, art pop, and chamber music into a sound totally her own. While fiercely independent, she like everyone else, still desires connectedness. This tension is at the core of her new album—A Million A...

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Myrkur

Myrkur is the one-woman atmospheric black metal project of Danish songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Amalie Bruun. The word “Myrkur” is Icelandic and translates to English as “darkness.” Born in Copenhagen in 1985, Bruun has been an active studio and touring musician since 2006, has released two albums and various EPs under her own name (none of which were black metal), and is a member of the pop duo Ex Cops. She has also been a fashion model, most notably in the Bleu de Ch...

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The Mysterines

Formed in Liverpool, The Mysterines – frontwoman Lia Metcalfe, drummer Paul Crilly, bassist George Favager and guitarist Callum Thompson – have undergone a radical transformation over the past few years. Fresh with new purpose and reinvigorated from songwriting sessions while secluded away in the countryside (in between playing to 60,000-strong crowds while on tour with the Arctic Monkeys), the band in 2024 are set to release the best music of their career.

Naima Bock

The roots of Naima Bock’s music are far reaching. Born in Glastonbury to a Brazilian father and a Greek mother, Naima spent her early childhood in Brazil before eventually returning to England and various homes in South-East London. This heritage combines with more recent pursuits in Naima’s music; from the Brazilian standards that the family would listen to driving to the beach, to the European folk traditions she tapped into on her own, and the pursuits that interest her today – studie...

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Nathan Micay

In Spring 2019, Toronto-born, Berlin-based DJ and producer Nathan Micay (formerly Bwana) will release his highly anticipated debut album, ‘Blue Spring’, via LuckyMe. The impeccable craft found in the huge past anthems that fuelled his rise is still present, but Micay has upped his own ante; a prodigious and natural creator, this is his best work yet. Highly melodic with complex but spacious sound design, this inspired work is a technicolour ride across sub bass, celestial future breakbeat,...

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Nathan Salsburg

An acoustic fingerstyle guitarist of great elegance and craft, Louisville’s Nathan Salsburg built up an impressive resume as a collaborator and sideman to artists like Joan Shelley, James Elkington, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and Jake Xerxes Fussell while quietly amassing his own catalog of solo releases like 2013’s Hard for to Win and Can’t Be Won, and 2018’s graceful instrumental guitar collection Third.

Growing up in Kentucky, Salsburg’s early exposure to the old folk and blues r...

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NÉRIJA

The septet of Nubya Garcia (tenor saxophone), Sheila Maurice-Grey (trumpet), Cassie Kinoshi (alto saxophone), Rosie Turton (trombone), Shirley Tetteh (guitar), Lizy Exell (drums) and Rio Kai (bass) is the collective sound of a group at the heart of an open, fresh and contemporary London jazz. It radiates the instinctive warmth and energy circulating between the seven band members of Nérija and their instruments, sharing the secret language they have developed together and which they are now ...

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Nick Thorburn

Night Moves

The songs of Night Moves conjure a spiritual energy only twenty-somethings dislodged by adversity and isolation could produce. Formed in 2009 by guitarist and vocalist John Pelant, bassist Micky Alfano, and multi-instrumentalist Mark Ritsema, Night Moves is a distinctly original concoction. Their honey-dipped sound seethes with a kind of down-home tenderness – and like the best glittering music – the arrangements are colossal in shape. Drummer Jared Isabella later joined the band, complet...

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North Sea Radio Orchestra

Back in 2002 North Sea Radio Orchestra were born in the lanes and alleys of the City of London, playing, in dusty old churches, a kind of chamber/alternative classical/folk high-Victorian hybrid music. Then escaping the City to play various festivals, arts establishments, 6Music sessions, venues of all kinds whilst releasing three studio albums to great critical acclaim. Now after a 4 year break they return with their fourth album ‘Dronne’.

All NSRO music is composed, recorded and lead by...

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Nothing

NOTS

Purveyors of what they call “weird punk,” Nots are a Memphis, Tennessee combo who lay out fast, simple, aggressive tunes fortified with jagged guitar runs, atonal electronics, and disorienting layers of reverb. Beginning as a lo-fi two-piece in 2011, the band soon gained the endorsement of Memphis blues-punk label Goner Records, and expanded to a powerful noise-making quartet with their first album in 2014. Their approach became more concise with 2019’s 3, which was both Nots’ third a...

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Nu Genea

“The Neapolitan, Berlin based, duo Nu Genea creates sounds that are influenced by an imaginary exotic far distant place, shaped by constant research of music from the past.
Their music path can be described as a historical research on “dancefloor music” in its purest way.
The key is the contamination of music genres which was born after the encounter of different cultures and populations.
Nu Genea is a project that comes out of jam sessions, melting synthesizers with instruments, contai...

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O’Flynn

O’Flynn is a young producer and DJ from London who has been hailed by Boiler Room as “one of dance music’s most prosperous newcomers”. One of the standout 12 inches of 2015 came in the form of O’Flynn’s debut release; ‘Tyrion’ quickly became a tool that Four Tet rarely left out of his sets, while the anthemic ‘Desmond’s Empire’ won support from Gilles Peterson and was used to soundtrack festivals throughout the summer.

Oli Barton-Wood

Oli is a freelance music producer, recording & mix engineer living in London. He works from his studio in Peckham and mix room at The Premises Studios in Hoxton. From working in house at RAK studios, Oli went on to engineer for producer Jim Abbiss before going freelance as a producer/writer. He is published by Domino, has 100m+ streams on his work and enjoys working on jazz, east African and Latin music alongside alternative pop.

Production – Nilüfer Yanya, Obongjayar, Rachel Ch...

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Oly Ralfe (Ralfe Band)

Ralfe Band is formed by Oly Ralfe and a number of other collaborators, known for infectious folk influenced songs, vivid surreal lyrics and classical and gypsy inspired instrumentals. In 2023, Ralfe Band return with their fourth studio album Achilles Was a Hound Dog, it is a masterclass of songcraft, drawing on experiences from band leader Oly Ralfe’s recent past. “For me, these songs are almost like an abstract diary where reality, memories and dreamlike narratives collide.”

The las...

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Omar Souleyman

Produced by Kieran Hebden of Four Tet, ‘Wenu Wenu’ ( Ribbon 2013) combines aspects of Middle Eastern dabke dance music and traditional songs with his own contemporary style. Often described as “Syrian techno”, Souleyman records and performs live with long-time collaborator Rizan Sa’id. 

One True Pairing

In 2019, Tom Fleming released his debut album as One True Pairing – his first since the split of Wild Beasts and an album described by The Quietus as “excellent” and praised by Clash for its “surprisingly confrontational” meditation on class frustration and self-despair.

Recorded with producer John ‘Spud’ Murphy (Lankum, black midi, caroline), new single “Frozen Food Centre” is a poignant small-town vignette about childhood, where home is a place to escape and there are ...

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Oog Bogo

The wiggy wanderings of Oog Bogo wind up on the same island of lost joys all at once, manufacturing a virtual jukebox of singles and side flips that won’t unplug, and just keeps reeling and raging on instead. A bright metallurgy of guitar pop, psych, post-punk and apocalypse disco.

Oog Bogo are a four-piece rock band from Los Angeles and their new album is ‘Plastic’, an electrifying set of songs and sounds that just don’t stop, working like a machine that makes joy and endless flips a...

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Optic Sink

With Optic Sink, Natalie Hoffmann (NOTS) creates a musical paradox: an endeavor that doesn’t really seem to belong to any particular time or place, constructed with sounds that are synthesized and stripped-down, yet bristling with urgency and brutalist emotion.

Written over a two-year period, the eight songs that comprise Optic Sink S/T sound like they should’ve been recorded in a bathysphere or on a space station—instead, they were captured via analog tape at Andrew McCalla’s Bunker...

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OSees

Psych-punk psychic warrior, ear worm-farmer, and possessor of many stamped passport pages John Dwyer does not let up. His group OSees (aka Thee Oh Sees, OCS, The Oh Sees, etc) have transmogrified to fit many a moment – from hushed druggy folk to groovy demonic pop chants to science fictional krautrock expanse and beyond – to suit his omnivorous whims. It’s common knowledge however, that at their shows, you’re there asking for a beating. 20 years going and the shows keep getting more a...

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Owen Pallett

Heartland, the third album by Owen Pallett, is a panoramic and orchestral work; a song cycle of Contemporary Fiction, and Owen Pallett’s finest work to date.

 Heartland’s narrative concerns a young, ultra-violent farmer named Lewis and is set in the imaginary landscape of Spectrum. Pallett describes the concepts behind the record: “The album is about the beginning, middle and end of a relationship. But it’s sung from the point of view of the object...

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Papercuts

Papercuts is made up of songwriter Jason Robert Quever who creates a ‘dreamy’ kind of pop by layering up a multitude of instruments ranging across, but not limited to; strings, autoharp, Mellotron, Moogs, 12-string acoustic guitars, piano and Echoplexes. Papercuts’ latest, and fourth, studio album ‘Fading Parade’ was released in March 2011 on the Sub-pop label. Papercuts currently has three regular live musicians – David Enos (keyboard and autoharp), Graham Hil...

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Parquet Courts

Parquet Courts’ blend of noisy, punk-friendly clatter and snarky, sometimes serious lyrics delivered in a menacing monotone struck a chord within indie rock circles with their 2012 album, Light Up Gold, and after loads of touring and a series of literate and scrappy albums made for What’s Your Rupture? and Rough Trade, they firmly established themselves as one of their era’s marquee groups. As the decade advanced, the band began to experiment with its proven formula, working with rap...

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The Pastels

 

The description “cult band” usually suggests a group that has been going for a while but is only really important to a very small number of people. This definition can be applied to The Pastels, in that they are a permanent feature of student bedrooms, scouring out the back rooms of the Western world. Such an impression may be unfair, as is the fact that good fortune always seems to have eluded them. But their music has been a breath of fresh air – and a fistful of dollars – to...

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Patrick Watson

A singer/songwriter, film composer, and pianist based in Montreal, Canada, Patrick Watson makes explorative chamber pop with his band — also called Patrick Watson — often blending spare indie pop, synthesizer experiments, cinematic orchestral song, and a melancholy tone. The group’s second album, 2006’s Close to Paradise, won the Polaris Prize. After composing music for several short films, Watson made his feature-length debut with It’s Not Me, I Swear! in 2008. Released in 2015, Lo...

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Paul Hardcastle

Paul Hardcastle has been one of the best-selling smooth jazz artists in the US for the past fifteen years, alternating between the artist names The Jazzmasters and Paul Hardcastle.

Not many people had noticed Paul’s name before ’19’, but this was his eleventh single, either under his own name or as part of two groups. “19” was No. 1 single in at least 10 countries including UK, Eire, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway in 1985. No 15 in USA. Won an Ivor Novello for “In...

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Peaking Lights

Peaking Lights is an electronica/dub duo consisting of Indra Dunis and Aaron Coyes. Their sound is also described as ‘krautrock’ or ‘psychadelia’ by some. After forming in 2006 due to an improvised recording session, the two moved to Wisconsin together and played gigs together to earn gas money. The first record Peaking Lights made was known as ‘Clearvoiant‘ and was made using minimal equipment, such as a small radio in place of an amp and a couple of tiny keyboards.Their debut a...

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PEEL

Peel is the musical partnership of Sean Cimino and Isom Innis; both multi-instrumentalists, as well as a visual artist and producer respectively.  The project was born from a month-long recording session between the two artists within Innis’s concrete loft, above the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.  Naturally, the cavernous space served as an industrial incubator for musical experimentation: where fleets of sewing machines once reverberated in the 1930s with metallic rhythms, no...

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Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue is: Rosa Slade, Katy Young and Olly Joyce. Through old-fashioned hard work and by embracing new technology Peggy Sue have unintentionally pioneered a new business model in a now fractured music industry. They weren’t looking for a traditional record deal but when Wichita Recordings stepped in, after witnessing a sold out ICA show in November 2009, it was obviously a meeting of minds and as the band’s favourite record label, the allure proved too strong. The deal was signed in De...

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Peter Oren

Indiana-born, everywhere-based singer-songwriter Peter Oren possesses a remarkable singing voice, low and deep and richly textured: as solid as a glacier, as big as a mountain. Similar in its baritone gravel to Bill Callahan, a hero of his, it rumbles in your conscience, a righteous sound that marks him as an artist for our tumultuous times, when sanity seems absent from popular discussions. His voice is ideally suited to confront a topic as large and as ominous as the Anthropocene Age.
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Peter Perrett

As leader of the Only Ones in the late ’70s, Peter Perrett was one of the new wave’s most enigmatic cult figures. His instantly recognizable vocals, which blended world-weary languor with sarcastic bite, and heart-on-sleeve romantic songs (like the classic “Another Girl, Another Planet”) made the Only Ones one of the more interesting bands of the era. After the band split in 1981, Perrett struggled through years of drug abuse and a stop-start musical career that included the 1996 albu...

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Petite Noir

Yannick Ilunga doesn’t dice words when he outlines the message woven through his debut album: “STAY POSITIVE.”  Yannick is half-Congolese, half-Angolan and was raised in South Africa. The 24-year-old artist known as Petite Noir still lives part-time in Cape Town, close to his family and his spiritual roots and that culture is immediately evident as it bleeds through his music. La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful, named after an uplifting 1987 Congolese film, is both a beacon and a...

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Phelan Sheppard

Keiron Phelan and David Sheppard make records together and separately under various guises. The first Phelan/Sheppard L.P. :”O Little Stars” was released in 2002 on Rocket Girl. The new album :’Harps Old Master’ was released September 2OO6 on the Leaf Label and features Phelan and Sheppard playing nylon string guitars, double bass, various woodwinds, xylophones, keyboards and electronics, with help from co-producer Guy Fixsen (trumpet, drum machine, Moog bass) and the Willard Grant Co...

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Pilote

Mr Stuart Cullen is a composer, producer and multi instrumentalist who has been working in the field of electronic music and, more recently, folk and country music, since 1998.

His ‘Pilote’ project has been on the go for nigh on 12 years, releasing five albums and multiple singles and EP’s in that time, gleefully skipping between the genres causing confused record store owners to file him under everything from Drum and Bass to Ambient, Soundtrack to 2Step. He was a founder member of Br...

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Pissed Jeans

Age and four full-lengths haven’t mellowed Pissed Jeans; they can still unleash a blare that will exfoliate your cochlea. Formed in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Pissed Jeans released Shallow, their first album, in 2005 on Parts Unknown Records. The band relocated to Philadelphia seven years ago, and Sub Pop released Hope for Men in 2007, and then King of Jeans in 2009. The latter was recorded by Grammy nominee Alex Newport, who also recorded 2013’s offering ‘Honeys’.

 

 

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Plastic Mermaids

Plastic Mermaids are a five-piece band from the Isle of Wight who, after building their own analogue studio, have self-produced one of the most genuinely original and sonically adventurous debut albums you’ll hear all year: ‘Suddenly Everyone Explodes’. In terms of musical influences, fans of The Flaming Lips, Arcade Fire, Sparklehorse and Tame Impala will all find something to love in Plastic Mermaids richly-textured sound. 

Porches

When Aaron Maine looks back on his early work as Porches, he’s often struck by how sad and angry it can feel. “That music turned out a lot more pessimistic than I intended it to be,” he says. “But when I took a sad moment and turned it into a song, it was a cathartic, positive, and clean process. For me, those moments were victories”.

As it turns out, Maine is very good at making songs. Over the past few years, the singer-songwriter has released a wealth of material on several influ...

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Pram

Birmingham’s Pram craft fairytales from concrete reality. The second city’s spin cycle of perpetual renovation, from the slum clearances to its current cosmetic upgrade, is etched in Pram’s restless groove, an endearing and gently refusenik mix encircling early Rough Trade innovators The Raincoats, astro jazz, sci-fi soundtracks, creepy Victoriana, tropical analogue and tumbledown funk. Born of an aesthetic universe where the senses are excited equally by the dust encrusted revolutions ...

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Pregoblin

Pregoblin is a collaboration between Alex Sebley and Jessica Winter. There have been a few incarnations of the band but it’s when Alex and Jess met in 2016 it fell into place. Before Pregoblin formed, Alex was a member of The Saudis, alonsgside Lias and Nathan Saoudi, and Jessica is a producer and writer and has worked with members of Gorillaz, Fat White Family, and Dinosaur Pile Up.

Prison

PRISON are a loose NY music collective featuring Paul Major (Endless Boogie), who along with Sarim Al-Rawi, Matt Lilly and many others over the years (including the late Sam Jayne)- have reached for the skies with this mega band. Unfurling a stream-of-consciousness, improvised, heavy, garage-infused psychedelic take on rock and roll…. 2025 sees the release of their sophomore album, Downstate, a heavy, weird, souped-up / psyched out vital release for all of you heads out there. 

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Protomartyr

After a year of extensive touring in support of 2015’s The Agent Intellect, Protomartyr returned to their practice space in a former optician’s office in Southwest Detroit. Guitarist Greg Ahee—inspired by The Raincoats’ Odyshape, Mica Levi’s orchestral compositions, and Protomartyr’s recent collaboration with post-punk legends The Pop Group, for Rough Trade’s 40th anniversary—began writing new music that artfully expanded on everything they’d recorded up unti...

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Pure X

On their third LP Angel it is clear that Pure X have, and always have had, an uncompromising musical vision. Over the course of each full-length the band has tirelessly reinvented themselves, opting to stay true to their own sensibilities rather than placate expectations or regurgitate a “successful” sound. After wooing both critics and audiences alike with their seductive, submerged-in-reverberation debut Pleasure the band pulled an about-face on their sophomore album Crawling Up the Sta...

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Purling Hiss

Purling Hiss is a rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, led by guitarist and singer Mike Polizze. Prior to evolving into a full band, Purling Hiss began as Polizze’s solo recording project in 2009. The music was characterised by a lo-fi, psychedelic sound. Classic rock plus singing/screaming guitars fused with Mike Polizze’s hope-n-dreamz explode into fresh, sonic heartbreak, happening right now.

Quasi

Quasi formed in Portland, Ore., in 1993, which means that it’s been fearlessly rocking since long before your website launched or you booted up an iPod. For years — 16 to be exact — it was a duo consisting of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss. In 2006, Joanna Bolme (of Stephen Malkmus + The Jicks) joined the band on bass.

 

Quasi flings words and notes relentlessly, hurling music across the stage like grenades. It is explosive and electrifying. Coomes devours his instruments, whether it i...

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Raf Rundell

Raf Rundell is one half of the 2 Bears and something of an ambassador for some of the country’s very best parties. His mini album The Adventures of Selfie Boy Part 1 received rave reviews on release in 2016 (“his solo debut feels like the start of something substantial… Rundell is a big-hearted character with a gravelly voice, whose uplifting songs tend to be riven with small-hours self-doubt” 8/10 Uncut).

Last seen a couple of years back on his debut long-player Stop Lying, Raf Run...

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Rafiq Bhatia

New York composer and guitarist Rafiq Bhatia seeks to shatter preconceptions about how much can be said without a word-and, for that matter, who can say it. His music has been described by the New York Times as “one of the most intriguing figures in music today.” In 2014, Bhatia became a member of the band Son Lux. 

Ragz Originale

Ragz Originale is a dynamic and eclectic producer capable of turning his hand to any genre, Ragz Originale’s Nature showcases his smooth and downtempo style, with album opener ‘Summer Blues’ seeing Ragz reminisce over a nostalgic trip to a sombre season. Packed with Ragz’s soulful harmonies, the artist adopts a more upbeat style on ‘Proof Read’, with tracks like ‘Disaronno Straight’ focusing on more hard-hitting subjects, serving as a mantra for his “mission to create” by ...

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Rahm

Rainer

Rainer – Rebekah Raa and producer Casually Here – real name Nic Nell – met through mutual friends and late nights, realising that working together could consist of a lot of watching hiphop videos on youtube with a bit of music making on the side.

“Sex can be scary and exhilarating and terribly not allowed all at the same time,”says Raa.  She should know – the new EP ‘Hope/Satin/Glass/Dreams’ braves the menagerie of emotions that come with bedroom trysts a...

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The Range

Bearing no relation or resemblance to Bruce Hornsby’s similarly titled backing band, the Range is the recording alias of James Hinton, an electronic music producer from Providence, Rhode Island. Hinton’s music typically utilizes manipulated vocal samples found on YouTube as well as from hip-hop, R&B, or dancehall reggae. He combines these samples with bright, sentimental melodies and simmering beats that reference jungle and footwork, playing with a slow/fast dynamic. His tracks have ...

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Real Estate

‘Atlas’ (Domino Records 2014), is the new album by New Jersey’s beloved Real Estate. A triumph of highly evocative, perceptive songwriting and graceful, precise musicianship, ‘Atlas‘ carefully refines, and ultimately perfects, the brilliantly distinct artistic vision that made its predecessors ‘Days’ and Real Estate so unique. The most collaborative Real Estate record to date, ‘Atlas‘ was written by Martin Courtney, Matt Mondanile, Alex Bleeker ...

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Red Fang

Ever since their inception in 2005, Portland’s RED FANG have strived to write heavy, catchy music underlaid with subtle complexities. Founded by David Sullivan, Maurice Bryan Giles, Aaron Beam, and John Sherman, the band had a distinctive and fully- formed sound right from the start: a mix of compelling rock songwriting and party-hard metal euphoria that speaks to the headbanger, the hesher, and the music student alike. The band’s two-pronged vocal attack and knack for finding the sharpes...

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Rema-Rema

While the early Axis label singles had served an important research and development function, the arrival of Rema-Rema provided Ivo with something more important: a reason for continuing. Returning to the shop one afternoon to find five people about to play Peter their demo tape, Ivo was immediately struck by the post-punk quintet’s music, later saying, “It was the first point I knew that we were actually doing something serious.” The band consisted of Gary Asquith (guitar/vocals), Marc...

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Retribution Gospel Choir

The most important thing to know about the rock trio Retribution Gospel Choir is that they are likely the most physically fit band on Earth. Drummer Eric Pollard is a distance swimmer, and Ultimate Frisbee champion with state basketball credentials. Bassist Steve Garrington also dazzles on the court, but it’s his long-distance running skills that mark him a champion. Alan Sparhawk, who plays guitar and sings, has extensive experience in American football, has been scouted for coaching work ...

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Richard Dawson

“I feel like shouting”, says Richard Dawson, quietly ‘I really believe in this album.  It feels somehow different than before…..that this can be something important, something of use.”

No listener to Dawson’s earlier music has ever discerned a lack of artistic ambition. Whether they got on at the last stop – the 4 track Tyneside-Trout-Mask-through a-Vic and Bob-filter of Nothing Important – or earlier in the journey, with The Glass Trunk’s v...

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Richard Jobson

At age 17 Richard Jobson was the front man for the Scottish Punk band The Skids, who had a string of hits in a 2 year period from 1979 to 1981, the biggest being the top 10 hit ‘Into The Valley’. The band was formed by Jobson and his friend Stuart Adamson who went onto create Big Country. Jobson went on to become part of the critically successful The Armoury Show before moving onto a long period of making spoken word poetry recordings for the Belgian label Crepescule including an adaptati...

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Richard Julian

Richard Julian is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter whose emotive storytelling and velvety candid voice transcend genre. Brokering common ground  between folk, jazz, Americana, and soul, Julian’s deeply personal, often wry, songs have been praised by distinguished artists like Randy Newman and Bonnie Raitt. In addition to leading his own project, Richard is known for his collaborations with Norah Jones — and for founding and curating the taste-making Brooklyn music venue Bar LunÁtico.

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Rita Donte

Born in Havana in 1989, Rita Donte is a Cuban singer, composer, and former flamenco dancer whose journey from Havana’s concrete neighborhoods to the shores of Baja California has been anything but linear. From early piano lessons and choir rehearsals to a professional flamenco career that ended due to systemic racism and health struggles, Rita found rebirth in music. Singing became a lifeline after a painful departure from dance, leading her to collaborations with artists in Cuba...

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Robert Ellis

Before signing with New West Records in early 2011, country songwriter Robert Ellis made a name for himself in Houston. Inspired by the country, folk, and bluegrass records he’d heard while growing up in southern Texas, Ellis began playing shows around the city, eventually landing a Wednesday-night residency at a local venue called Fitzgerald’s. His audience grew as a result of those weekly shows, nicknamed “Whiskey Wednesdays” for their rowdy nature and half-drunk clientele, and Elli...

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Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt is one of my favourite singers, writers, makers of wonderful music. It is with pleasure that I can introduce you to this, his latest album, and first for Domino. I first discovered Robert Wyatt’s music when borrowing, and then stealing, Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard from a library. Then came a second-hand purchase of the “Shipbuilding” 7″, which I played repeatedly, not even thinking to flip it over. A few years later, it was my near-20 years late discovery of the mid-’...

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Robin Richards

Since studying under composer and conductor Joe Duddell (New Order, Elbow, and Richard Hawley collaborator), Richards has picked up a number of commissions – notably including composing a new score for famed Hungarian-born director Paul Fejos silent comedy-drama Lonesome, as part of Manchester arts centre HOME’s Film and Music Project in collaboration with the Royal Northern College of Music. He also collaborated with visual artist Clara Casian on Birdsong – Stories from Pripyat, a film...

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Roisin Murphy

Ex – Moloko frontwoman Roisin Murphy released her first album in 8 years, ‘Hairless Toys’ on Play It Again Sam records in May 2015. It is a career defining tour de force.  Tipping its hat to the dark disco of European house music, Casablanca Records and Grace Jones, while seamlessly taking in the freedom and organic spirit of jazz, country and gospel.

 The rich, expansive production – by Roisin’s long time musical collaborator Eddie Stevens – is full of inventive loops and unli...

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Rosie Lowe

Rosie Lowe grew up in south Devon as the youngest of six siblings. Their father, an accomplished jazz saxophonist, encouraged them to follow creative interests and together they bonded over a shared love of music. For Rosie, a childhood love of jazz set her on a path that would dictate her future. “There’s never been anything else that I’ve wanted to do,” she asserts. “Music wasn’t an option, it was a necessity.” She soon became enamoured with the leading lights of the female si...

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Rosie Turton

Cited by The Guardian as ‘One To Watch’ and nominated for Jazz FM’s ‘Breakthrough Act of the Year’, trombonist, composer and producer Rosie Turton continues her rise since releasing her debut ‘Rosie’s 5ive’, with Jazz Re:freshed. Rosie’s music tells the tales of meditative soundscapes and improvisations, blurring the lines between the acoustic and electronic universes. 2021 saw the release of her latest EP ‘Expansions and Transformations: Part I & II’, exploring th...

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Rosita Kèss

From bossa nova to a taste of French chansons to old Cuban and Argentinian flavors, Rosita Kèss finds the thread, weaving her honeyed alto through four languages in eleven original songs on this tuneful international album recorded in New Orleans. Originally from Venice, Italy, Rosita Kèss’ gypsy aura led her to Berlin, Paris, Barçelona and London before finding a groove in New York and spending two years writing songs and making a new record in New Orleans. Rosita moved from Europe to N...

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The Royal We

From her Los Angeles home, future Royal We singer, Jihae Simmons had an idealised image of Glasgow, mostly drawn from Orange Juice and Belle & Sebastian lyrics. She was looking forward to moving to a place which would be like an ‘amazing tweeland’ where everyone had a lot of respect for nature and buildings which they’d want to explain in cafes like in a Godard movie far from the scuzz of the LA music scene. Meanwhile, Patrick Doyle was on his way to university and had stopped off i...

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Rustin Man

Paul Webb is Rustin Man. He was once a member of the legendary Talk Talk and collaborated with Beth Gibbons of Portishead on the memorable Out of Season. The debut solo Rustin Man album Drift Code was born of recording sessions in the deep English countryside, during which contemplation was as necessary as microphone placement. The result is Timeless British Music.

 

Ryan Lott

Ryan Lott is a composer, producer, and performer. In 2007, Ryan founded Son Lux and in 2014, Son Lux became a trio, both live and on record, with the additions of guitarist-composer Rafiq Bhatia and drummer Ian Chang. Their latest studio release is an album trilogy called Tomorrows, released in full in 2021. As a band, Son Lux scored the 2023 Best Picture Winner Everything Everywhere All at Once, which earned them a BAFTA and Academy Award nomination, with a second Academy Award nomination fo...

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Sam Evian

Premium is the glistening debut album from New York-based Sam Evian via Saddle Creek. Sam describes the album as “an analogue dream in a digital world.” Like flowing water, its cool surface entices and refreshes – then reveals hidden emotional depths. The sound of Premium recalls a sunbaked cassette of Pet Sounds or All Things Must Pass, composed with glowing guitar chords, aching pedal steel, Wurlitzers and iconic 20th-century synths. Inspired by the soulful classic sounds of Jackson B...

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Sam Mehran

Curse, Matrix Metals, Wingdings, Flashback Repository, Explorers, The Sweethearts, Yoga, Blues Runner, Intense Dudes, Outer Limits Recordings, Outer Limitz, 2 X Love, Green Crack, Test Icicles, MELT, Happy Healthy Boyz, 90210, NLS Crew, burqa, S*A*M

Over his 15-year career, Sam Mehran started a lot of projects and played in a lot of bands – but Cold Brew is the first time his solo music has been released under his own name. As a songwriter, guitarist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Sa...

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Sam Potter

Sam Potter is a musician, artist and author based in Berlin. A founding member of cult band Late Of The Pier, he has also collaborated as a writer with Franz Ferdinand and more recently in stitching together the mysteriously rediscovered works of the late February Montaine. Across his many fields of output he looks at helping people reconnect to the emotional properties of sound. ‘Ecstatic Data Sets’, his recent book for Rough Trade Books, explores emerging technology’s role in helping ...

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Sam Shipstone

Sam Shipstone is a writer and guitarist formerly in the band, Hookworms and is currently in the Leeds based rock band, Yard Act (alongside James Smith, Ryan Needham and Jay Russell) and Holodrum.

SASAMI

Two Sasami’s exist in harmony. First is Sasami Ashworth, the conservatory-trained classical French horn player, producer, and composer—an artist with a studious approach to craft. And then there is all-caps SASAMI, the fearless performer and protagonist of her increasingly audacious albums. After establishing herself with the poised melancholia of her eponymous 2019 debut, Sasami embraced volume and control on 2022’s Squeeze, which led to support slots with the likes of Haim, Mitski, a...

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Seamus Fogarty

Seamus Fogarty’s poetic, experimental songs combine folk-rock and more rustic traditional folk with electronic elements including synthesizers and sound effects. His full-length debut, God Damn You Mountain, saw release in 2012. While continuing to rely on instruments like guitar and banjo, he leaned more heavily into synths, samples, and field recordings on albums including 2020’s A Bag of Eyes.

A native of County Mayo, Ireland, London-based musician Seamus Fogarty started offering his f...

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Sean Oakley

Producer / Songwriter / Mixer / Engineer / Astronaut / Swimsuit Model / Karate Champion

Shannon Lay

Shannon Stephens

Shannon Stephens is a Seattle-based singer/songwriter. She began her career in 1993 as the voice of the Michigan folk-rock band Marzuki, co-led by Sufjan Stevens. When Marzuki disbanded, Stephens moved to Seattle and embarked on a solo career. Shortly after the release of her debut LP, she lost her taste for the business side of musicianship and retreated, spending the next eight years focusing on home, family, and the pleasures of an abundant garden. Those years of domesticity gave rise to...

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Shapes and Sizes

Shapes and Sizes are a four-piece Canadian indie rock band who managed to release their first and self-titled album in 2006. Since then, Rory Seydel, Caila Thompson-Hannant, Nathan Gage and John Crellin have released two more albums, the latest being ‘Candle to your Eyes’ which launched in 2010. Being picked up by Asthmatic Kitty Records when Shapes and Sizes were touring across the west coast, texas and the mid-west of North America, they have since been able to achieve more exposure tha...

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She & Him

She & Him make music for an eternal springtime, when the temperature is warm enough to go riding with the top (or at least the windows) rolled down and the radio turned up. They occupy an alternate universe where the saddest of songs feel as warm as sun showers; the rain may be coming down, but somewhere nearby, everything looks bright. What began as a fascinating, no-strings attached collaboration on 2008’s Volume One has evolved into a bona fide, touring band, and She & Him ar...

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She Drew The Gun

Passionate, principled, and refreshingly plain-spoken, Louisa Roach will not be cowed into silence. As She Drew The Gun, the Wirral-based singer-songwriter has spent the last few years cementing her reputation as a vital voice in the alternative scene, using punk-infused psych-pop as a vehicle for exposing injustice and for advocating for a fairer and more tolerant society. 

She Keeps Bees

Jessica Larrabee, born in Washington DC, has been a self-taught singer, guitarist, and performer since childhood. The daughter of an R&B drummer and a delightfully eccentric DC party girl, Jessica has attitude to spare. Records were always spinning at the Larrabee house…Rick James, Patti LaBelle, Chaka Kahn, Grace Jones, Lou Reed, Millie Jackson…not music a six-year-old normally gets the pleasure of hearing.

 

After being in bands for most of her young-adulthood, Jessica mov...

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Sheer Mag

Coming on like a soulful yet unholy amalgam of the Mekons, Thin Lizzy, the Jackson 5, and the MC5, Pennsylvania’s Sheer Mag distill big ’70s riffs and garage punk attitude into a hook-filled, lo-fi dance party.

The band formed in Philadelphia in 2014 around the talents of Kyle and Hart Seely, Matt Palmer, Ian Dykstra, and powerhouse vocalist Tina Halladay, and within a year started issuing a flurry of 7″ releases that caught the attention of everyone from Stereogum and Pitchfork to Roll...

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Shep Solomon

Sheppard attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City. Upon graduation, he formed two bands, which were signed to EMI and SIRE respectively. During this time, Sheppard co-wrote material with other songwriters.

Upon deciding to focus on songwriting full-time, Sheppard went on to achieve 14 top 3 single positions in the United Kingdom and Europe, including his second UK number-one single, “Don’t Stop Movin'” by S Club 7. This singl...

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Shirley Collins

Shirley Collins – legendary folk singer and one of England’s most respected song collectors –  has announced her return to recording after 38 years. With her new album, Lodestar, Shirley has created the unlikeliest release of the century so far.

Lodestar is a collection of English, American and Cajun songs dating from the 16th Century to the 1950s, recorded at Shirley’s home in Lewes by Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown of Cyclobe and produced and musically directe...

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Silicon

Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage was born in Marsden, West Yorkshire. As well as being a poet, he is a playwright, librettist, broadcaster and songwriter, who also writes extensively for theatre, television and radio.

Over the past three decades he has received numerous accolades including the Sunday Times Young Author of the Year, one of the first Forward Prizes, an Eric Gregory Award, a Cholmondeley Award, a Lannan Award, the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize, the Hay Poetry Medal and a prestigious Ivor Novello Awa...

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Simon Liddell

Simon Liddell is a member of Olympic Swimmers, Frightened Rabbit and Poster Paints. Simon’s latest project, Poster Paints, is a Glasgow based duo with Carla J Easton. Poster Paints create visceral dream pop and shoegaze; the perfect amalgamation of Liddell’s wondrous guitar work and Easton’s dreamlike vocals to stargazing effect.

Simone White

Born in Hawaii, in a family of artists. Her mother was a folk singer, her father a sculptor, her grandmother a burlesque performer, her grandfather a poet, her aunt wrote pop songs in the 50s.
Simone White lived in Los Angeles, Eugene, Seattle and London and worked as a writer, actor and photographer but it wasn’t until she moved to NYC in 2000 did she start recording and performing her music onstage.

Simone White has released three albums and one EP on the British label Honest Jon’s; mad...

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Siouxsie and the Banshees

Siouxsie and the Banshees were among the longest-lived and most successful acts to emerge from the London punk community; over the course of a career that lasted two decades, they evolved from an abrasive, primitive art punk band into a stylish, sophisticated unit that even notched a left-field U.S. Top 40 hit.

Throughout its numerous lineup changes and textural shifts, the group remained under the leadership of core duo Siouxsie Sioux, born Susan Ballion on May 27, 1957 and Steven Severin, b...

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Sky Larkin

Sky Larkin are Katie Harkin (vocals and guitar), Doug Adams (bass) and Nestor Matthews (drums). Formed in Leeds, Yorkshire, Sky Larkin began life with long time friends and school mates Katie and Nestor rehearsing in bedrooms and garages before adding Doug to their ranks.

 

From then on, their ascent has been rapid and exhilarating. Refusing to be musically pigeonholed or viewed as a provincial concern, there’s a timeless, international scope to their music, echoing the likes of Th...

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Slint

SLINT began in Louisville, KY in 1986 with drummer Britt Walford, guitarist David Pajo, guitarist/vocalist Brian McMahan, and original bassist Ethan Buckler. In 1987, SLINT recorded their first album, Tweez, in Chicago with Steve Albini (Pixies, PJ Harvey, Nirvana), which was released on the minuscule Jennifer Hartman Records and Tapes label in 1989, and later reissued by Touch and Go Records in 1993. With new bassist Todd Brashear, SLINT recorded their second album, Spiderland, ove...

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Slumberjunkie

Slumberjunkie is the project of Somerset-born, London-based Jed Hampson. Using both bases as a constant source of inspiration, teenage years in the West Country attending drum n bass and dubstep free parties evolved into the club-centric London nightlife.

Slumberjunkie is the culmination of over 15 years of writing and recording under various different aliases, with his distinctive style marrying jungle and bass music with the ethereal soundscapes of artists such as Cocteau Twins. Recent supp...

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Smith Westerns

Smith Westerns consists of Cullen Omori (vocals), Max Kakacek (Guitar), and Cameron Omori (Bass). All members range in age from 19 to 20. Since forming in 2007, Smith Westerns have managed to tour both the United States and Europe while supporting the likes of MGMT, Florence and the Machine, Belle and Sebastian, Girls, and Passion Pit. Their self recorded “lo-fi” debut Smith Westerns released in 2009, garnered critical acclaim for their youthful and glam rock tinged approach to po...

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Smudge

Tom Morgan fronted Aussie stalwarts Smudge, a tremendous ‘slacker pop’ trio who he formed in 1991 with drummer Alison Galloway. They quickly became known for the melodic, mini-pop masterpieces of Tom Morgan with colourful lyrics and their low-fi approach to recording, releasing three albums (plus a collection of B sides and unreleased covers), a mini-album, a handful of singles, and appearing on several compilation albums. The albums Real McCoy, Wrong Sinatra and Manilow were reissued is ...

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Snapped Ankles

They came from the trees. Now settled in fertile east London, Snapped Ankles maintain the feral energy of the forest.

Snapped Ankles outsider status has always allowed them to hold a mirror up to society. Now the boundaries are not so clear. In the seven years since Come Play The Trees was released, their cult has flourished. Second album, Stunning Luxury, saw the band invited to play the BBC 6 Music Festival and a KEXP session on the back of a sold-out UK tour which culminated with two night...

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Snuff

Dominated by fast tempos, simple but hooky tunes, shout-along choruses, and lyrics full of quirky wit, Snuff typify a certain strain of old-school U.K. punk while also showing a truly distinct personality of their own. Led by drummer and vocalist Duncan Redmonds — the only constant member throughout their career — the band’s speedy approach suggested the influence of American hardcore as well as second-division U.K. punks like the U.K. Subs and the Exploited, while the addition of a tro...

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Soft Hair

Soft Hair are Connan Mockasin and Sam Dust (LA PRIEST / Late of The Pier). 

The album’s recording took place over five years amongst the pair’s solo careers and outside lives. After the dispersion of Late of the Pier, whom Connan supported on tour in 2009 (the first time the two met), Sam travelled in the far east, Africa, Europe and elsewhere, spending time inventing his own instruments, producing and directing, and re-emerging as LA PRIEST in 2...

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Son Lux

Son Lux is the grand genre-less dream of Los Angeles composer Ryan Lott brought to roiling, vivid life with the help of two New Yorkers, guitarist Rafiq Bhatia and drummer Ian Chang. Each is a writer, producer, and performer with omnivorous taste and a penchant for wild improvisation. The band’s unique mix of electronic pop, unusual soul, and outright experimentalism feels more inviting than ever on their fifth album, Brighter Wounds. The songs therein leave behind Son Lux’s typical unive...

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Sorry

Sorry are a new London band centred around Asha Lorenz and Louis O’Bryen, two 19 year-old childhood best friends. Along with Lincoln Barrett (drums) and Campbell Baum (bass) Sorry have been making a name for themselves on London’s underground circuit since 2015.

Although starting life with a conventional rock band set up, Sorry’s tastes are wide-ranging and reflect their age and omnivorous YouTube-era musical upbringing where rock, hip hop, noise, electronic soundscapes, grime and folk ...

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The Specials

The Specials were the fulcrum of the ska revival of the late ’70s, kick-starting the 2-Tone movement that spurred a ska-punk revolution lasting for decades. As influential as they were within the realm of ska, the group and its impact can’t be reduced to that genre alone. The Specials were one of the defining British bands of new wave, expanding the musical and political parameters of rock & roll. Protest was an integral part of the group, particularly their initial lead songwriter Je...

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Spectrals

In 2011 Spectrals signed to Slumberland (in North America) and Wichita (for the rest of the world) and those labels released the debut album, ‘Bad Penny‘. Recorded by Richard Formby (Wild Beasts, Spectrum etc.), the album was critically acclaimed, with Pitchfork giving it a 7.5 and described it as having “a youthful spirit but rooted in a classic sound”, whilst the NME gave it a 7, welcoming “another intelligent, funny, soul-baring songwriter to the fold”. They als...

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Speedy Ortiz

“Necessary brattiness” is the motto for Speedy Ortiz’s dauntless new collection of songs, Twerp Verse. The follow-up to 2015’s Foil Deer, the band’s latest indie rock missive is prompted by a tidal wave of voices, no longer silent on the hurt they’ve endured from society’s margins. But like many of these truth-tellers, songwriter, guitarist and singer Sadie Dupuis scales the careful line between what she calls being “outrageous and practical” in order to be heard at all.
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Spencer Cullum

British-born, Nashville based Cullum returns with his second Coin Collection record in April’23. Featuring Yuma Abe, Dana Gavanski, Caitlin Rose, Erin Rae and many others, Coin Collection 2 is a kaleidoscopic journey through folk music’s past, present and future. Growing up in the large East London town brought Spencer early exposure to classic pub rock by way of his father such as Dr. Feelgood and Thin Lizzy, and farther-flung music by way of his mother, such as Talking Heads and Lou Re...

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Spinning Coin

Over the space of three years, two singles and countless gigs, including tour supports with Teenage Fanclub and Real Estate, Spinning Coin have determinedly made their music heard: beautifully rough-hewn guitar pop that takes in frustration and escapism, but also gracefulness and splendour. Their first album, Permo, recorded with Edwyn Collins at his AED Studios, and at Glasgow’s Green Door with Stu Evans, captures this balance perfectly. It’s an album both of bold steps and of si...

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Steelism

New to Nashville’s music scene are two extraordinary young musicians—one American, one Englishman—at the helm of instrumental band Steelism. Jeremy Fetzer on guitar and Spencer Cullum on pedal steel are joined by a team of the finest young musicians in Nashville. Following in the traditions of instrumental artists such as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Ennio Morricone and Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Steelism let their instruments do the talking, creating intoxicating...

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Stef Chura

“For most people who create art I would assume there is some kind of deep unanswerable hole in your soul as to why you’re making it…” So says Stef Chura ahead of the release of Midnight, her gritty, vehement new album – recorded and produced by Will Toledo of Car Seat Headrest – and her new collection of songs for the Saddle Creek label. Illuminating that search for answers with a fevered sense of exploration, Midnight is a bold leap forward from Messes, Stef’s contagious debut ...

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Stereolab

After forming in 1990, Tim Gane, Laetitia Sadier, Simon Johns, Joseph Watson and Julien Gasc dedicated their time to creating alternative rock music, often likened to such artists as The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine. Being signed to Duophonic/Elektra for nearly the whole of their active years, Stereolab released 10 studio albums, the latest being released after their disbanding in 2010, going by the name ‘Not Music’ and consisting of previously unreleased materi...

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Steve Mason

Once a founding member of The Beta Band, Steve Mason is now best
known as an artist with a rare melodic gift and an urge to experiment. From his
debut solo album, the elegantly melancholy Boys Outside, to his latest release About
The Light, Mason has never taken a step back, continually investigating where
the boundaries between the craft of song writing, technology and free
expression meet.

Steve Reid

Born: January 29, 1944 Bronx, New York (USA) Began playing professionally at age 16. Recorded first record with Martha & Vandella`s (Motown) at age 17, working in the Apollo Theatre house band, under the direction of Quincy Jones. Worked his way through college (Aldelphi University- Garden City, New York) playing jazz six nights a week. Graduated 1965 – B.A. Degree. Went to Africa for three years – performing with various African bands ( e.g. Guy Warren, Fela Ransome Kuti, Alp...

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Steve Reid Ensemble

Steve Reid: Dakar 2007 – Getting Jiggy…”I knew how much Trane wanted to go to Africa and he inspired me to go. Art Blakey, my first inspiration, also spent a lot of time in Africa because it was the root. So, I went on a freight liner, it was carrying diesel engines, it only cost 75 dollars. I took my drum set… it was really strange, we got to the Canary Islands and changed to another boat, I remember it was called African Moon on Pharaoh Lines. This guy came running up to m...

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Steven Severin

A key member of the infamous “Bromley contingent” which helped to redefine fashion and culture in Seventies England, Steven Severin formed Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1976 with Siouxsie Sioux.

Steven was featured on all 16 albums and 30 singles as co-lyricist and songwriter during their two decades long career. Since the split of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Steven Severin has been busy working on various solo projects and collaborations – such as the original motion picture sondtrack fo...

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Sunny War

Sunny War enlivens traditional folk and blues by freshening her musical attack and writing lyrics that reflect 21st century concerns. Her first album, “Worthless”, arrived in 2014, and she continued to gain attention as she built up a cult following that crested with the release of 2018’s “With the Sun”.

Born Sydney Lyndella Ward to a single mother in Nashville, the singer/songwriter spent her childhood moving around the United States with her parent, spending significant time in bo...

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Superorganism

Occasionally, along comes a band that perfectly captures so much of what is thrilling about music right now. In 2017, mining the golden moments of pop’s past, sights firmly set on the giddy possibilities of music’s future, emitting an infectious sense of wonky fun and producing a kaleidoscopic riot of sound and visuals, that band could well be Superorganism.

Superorganism is a sprawling, multi-limbed collection of international musicians and pop culture junkies. They number eight in tota...

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Sweat

Sweat emerged tentatively out of the shadows of South-East London in 2016 with the filmic Be Complete / Tambourine “double-B side”. With support from Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1 and a few notorious semi-legal shows leading to lots of ‘hype’ in the UK and ultimately the Pink Love World EP. Re-emerging with a slightly altered lineup, even more ambitious visuals and a sound that is recognizably them but sounds like their previously staunchly analog aesthetic has been marinated in a digital ...

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Sworn Virgins

The table has been flipped over, the wine spilled on their custard coloured linen suits, and the pudding squitted all over their dumbfounded faces. A new chapter has been written, one dedicated to the unwanted. Love songs for losers, a dance with the undesirables, a five minute walk in the park after dark while the kids sleep cozy.

Sworn Virgins, school never taught us these valuable lessons, but life taught us good. Elbows deep in the adventure, eyes closed while driving. Strip yourselves do...

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Sydney Minsky Sargeant

Sydney Minsky Sargeant is a Yorkshire based singer-songwriter, composer and producer, also the mind behind the band – Working Men’s Club.

Tall Tales and the Silver Lining

Tall Tales and the Silver Lining is a Los Angeles-based band led by songwriter Trevor Beld Jimenez. Beld Jimenez grew up on the sounds of ‘70s AM radio, along with L.A. classics like Jackson Browne, Court and Spark-era Joni Mitchell, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, and The Byrds. His music incorporates all of that – classic songwriting, great playing, simple, hook-heavy arrangements and thoughtful production – but updates the sound for today. It’s straightforward, heartfelt rock & r...

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The Television Personalities

Ask anyone. Anyone with even just a slightest interest in pop music and they will all have a different take on The Television Personalities… Someone will mention that they were Kurt Cobain’s favourite band. Someone else will go on about how they were the inspiration behind Creation Records and Alan McGee’s biggest heroes. And a third person might call them the Original Babyshambles, from across the room someone will ask if they really did support Pink Floyd on the back of their ‘I Kno...

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Terry Malts

Since 2010 and over 2 albums and a slew of singles and tapes, Terry Malts have been exploring the murky area where hope meets disgust, an area populated with anger, hatred, exhaustion, delusion, seclusion, consumption, life, death, breathing, eating and a host of other conflicting and confusing ideas. Their records to date have a been a refreshing blast of catchy punk, pop-influenced but also chaotic, noisy, shredding. Imagine Bubba from Void sitting in with Descendents and and you’re part ...

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Test Icicles

Sounding like a bootleg Def Jam t -shirt at the end of a sweaty party the Test Icicles trio made a sound already casting a long shadow of influence among their peers and a new generation of messy hyper-hormoned kids. The trio of 25-year-old Rory Atwell and 19-year-olds Sam Mehran and Devonté Hynes burst out of underground file sharing sights and into messy one off gigs in friend?s houses in a riot of shredder guitar solos, beatbox rhythms, fringes and drainpipes. Whilst many bands claim...

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These New Puritans

Since their debut Beat Pyramid, the brothers Jack and George Barnett have operated in their own singular, creative space. Domino released both Beat Pyramid and its follow up Hidden.

These New Puritans began playing music together as children – writing songs on a massively over-sized guitar and a pair of bongos from a charity shop. “We’d learn Captain Beefheart songs together,” says Jack. “And I would slow down Aphex Twin songs to analyse them, then create copies, to learn how to...

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The Third Eye Foundation

The grandly named Third Eye Foundation is of course just one person, Matt Elliott. Conversley, The Third Eye Foundation sound like a group of like-minded musicians, closely turned in to the moment, but each with their own stylistic nuances. Maybe this makes him a little bit schizo, or maybe it just shows the care and attention that’s gone into making this compelling music.

Thomas Bartlett

Thomas Bartlett (born October 13, 1981), also known as Doveman, is an American pianist, producer, and singer, known for his work with Yoko Ono, St. Vincent, The National, Rhye, Norah Jones, and many others. He produced Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell, and three songs for the film Call Me by Your Name including “Mystery of Love” (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2018); and for the final season of Game of Thrones he produced Florence + the Machine’s “Jenny...

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Thomas Ragsdale

Yorkshire based composer Thomas Ragsdale melds cinematic electronica with immersive soundscapes and blissful techno workouts.

Spending his formative years composing a varied catalogue of music for TV, film and advertising companies, his gradual shift into the world of performing music is one that’s quickly won acclaim from the likes of Resident Advisor and FACT. His music has been featured with great effect in two groundbreaking BBC documentaries by Adam Curtis including the acclaimed ‘Hy...

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Tiberius B

Original, unfiltered and radiating tenacity, Tiberius b is a singer and producer adept at both emboldening audiences and offering them catharsis through diaristic songwriting. 

Raised in the woods on a remote island in Western Canada, Tiberius’ take on pop music is as raw and electrifying as these early surroundings. After relocating to their birthplace of London, England in 2017, they traded the synths for a borrowed B.C. Rich Warlock guitar and swaggering downtempo beats, calling on infl...

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Tirzah

As Tirzah, English singer/songwriter Tirzah Mastin pairs her down-to-earth vocals with the experimental productions of her friend Mica Levi. Rooted in U.K. garage, grime, and British R&B, the duo’s collaboration evolved from the disarming dance-pop of 2013’s underground hit “I’m Not Dancing” to the raw R&B of her 2018 debut album, Devotion. Even as her sound changed, the intimacy and honesty of Tirzah’s music remained.

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Torche

15 years into their career, TORCHE have established themselves as a cornerstone of American heavy rock. Their highly anticipated new album, Admission, sees the band expanding on the themes and songwriting prowess that have always reverberated with music fans throughout their critically acclaimed discography. Everything about Admission feels like an elevation. TORCHE’s guitar work is loaded with powerful, refreshing riffing and an array of profound textures, proving to be more versatile and...

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Touts

TOUTS are a three piece teenage punk band from Derry, Northern Ireland. The unhinged, angry and visceral teens are Matthew Crossan, Jason Feenan & Luke McLaughlin. “A singer that can’t sing, A mod that can’t play bass & a drummer that can’t see”.

The toils and tribulations of small town life is a path well trodden, but not in the way Touts do it, they’ve dug the path up and set fire to the rubble. Inspired by dodgy politicians, shitty school life and the s...

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Traams

Few bands are as capable as being as heart-on-sleeve, direct and real as TRAAMS. The trio, who formed in 2011 after first meeting in a club night in Bognor Regis at which guitarist and vocalist Stuart Hopkins was the DJ, have been on a journey which has led them far from their small-town origins. It was Grin, the group’s 2013 debut album, which first documented their breakout: brimming with anger, angst and frustration, the record was about more than just a literal urge to escape – it do...

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Trailer Trash Tracys

Trailer Trash Tracys – aka Suzanne Aztoria, Jimmy Lee, Adam Jaffrey and Dayo James – rose to prominence with the spiralling debut “Candy Girl/ You Wish You Were Red”, which went on to be championed by the likes of Guardian and Dazed and Confused. Taking their cues from wide, varied influences and interests such as ‘solfeggio harmonics, the transitionary period of analogue to digital in Western pop music and Sufi Poetry'”, the quartet make kaleidoscopic yet otherwo...

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Trevor Beld Jimenez

Born in Southern California in the 80s, raised on a steady diet AM radio Trevor absorbed it all, like a sponge. Add his uncle’s Bob Dylan songbook at his side,  at 12 years old he understood where he wanted to go and what he wanted to do.  Exploring the coasts, hiking the hills, and Little League soon gave into a full-time obsession of music. An obsession that wouldn’t just selfishly exist as someone looking for the fast track to stardom but rather a truly giving multi instrumentalist...
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Trevor Powers

Trevor Powers (born March 18, 1989 in San Diego, CA) is an American musician, producer, and composer based in Boise, ID. He began recording music in 2011, releasing a trilogy of albums under the moniker Youth Lagoon before announcing the end of the project in 2015. While taking crash courses in classical theory, jazz, and ancient modes throughout the time that followed, Powers started making music experiments inspired by the visual works of artists such as Francis Bacon, Sister Gertrude Morga...

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The Triffids

Like some unholy trinity, The Triffids, along with Nick Cave and The Go Betweens seemingly conspired to change people’s attitude towards Antipodean rock in the mid-eighties, never before taken even remotely seriously. I984 was the pivotal year when The Go Betweens released Spring Hill Fair, Cave debuted with From Her To Eternity and, in late August, The Triffids arrived in the UK with two albums in tow, Treeless Plain and the mini-lp Raining Pleasure, recorded and released in Australia for ...

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Tristen

Making rock and roll music in Nashville, the mononymous songwriter, Tristen, has established herself as a prolific and introspective musician over the past decade. With a “knack for penning an infectious hook” (Entertainment Weekly), she has collaborated with artists like Vanessa Carlton (she co-wrote Carlton’s latest album Love is an Art) and Jenny Lewis (playing in the Voyager touring band), and opened to critical acclaim for artists ranging from Robyn Hitchcock to Television.

Tunng

Mercury Music Prize winning producer, Mike Lindsay is most known for being the co-founder, composer and producer of UK acid folk band Tunng. Releasing six albums worldwide since 2005, with their sixth record Just released in August 2018. Tunng are considered pioneers of the “Folktronica” genre, defining a sound that went on to inspire the Nu folk/Acid folk movement.
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The Twilight Sad

Originating from Scotland, The Twilight Sad are a dynamic presence in the indie rock scene. Their debut album, “Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters,” released on Fat Cat in 2007, established their distinctive sonic identity, effortlessly merging post-punk and shoegaze with haunting melodies and emotionally charged lyrics.

Their latest album, “It Won/t Be Like This All The Time,” released via Rock Action Records, received critical acclaim and commercial success, peaking at number 17...

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Ty Segall

Ty Segall has been playing music and producing records since 2005, producing over a dozen albums under his own name and multiple other headings, including Epsilons, The Traditional Fools, Fuzz, GØGGS and The CIA. His music has been heard in movies and he has composed several television theme songs as well as playing on most of the late night shows currently on the air. His most recent album, Deforming Lobes, was recorded on the Freedom’s Goblin tour of North America, in support of one h...

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Ulrika Spacek

Ulrika Spacek are an English alternative rock band formed in 2014 currently composed of singer-guitarist Rhys Edwards, guitarist Rhys Williams, guitarist-keyboardist Joseph Stone, bassist Syd Kemp and drummer Callum Brown. Edwards and Stone were previously members of Reading band Tripwires, with Williams having previously toured with the band as an additional guitarist and releasing material under the Viscous Liquid moniker.

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Una Rose

The solo project of Una Rose (Rosie) Long Decter from shoegaze duo Bodywash, Myth Between finds her trading walls of sound for delicate synths, crystalline vocals and deft lyricism. Far from an exercise in apathy, the EP probes the ineffable—the way feelings circulate and stick, laughter builds and dies—seeking hope in passing impressions. Long Decter was named after her two grandmothers, Una Decter, a social activist in Winnipeg, and Rose Long, a music teacher in St. John’s. She grew u...

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UPCHUCK

Upchuck is a band called together by lead guitarist Michael Durham, who took almost a year dedicating his time to composing songs and searching for rhythm guitarist- Alex “Hoff” Hoffman, bassist- Armando Arrietta, drummer- Chris Salado, and vocalist- Kaila “KT” Thompson who combined are inventively raucous and revolutionary. The black vocalist demanding to be heard, explains to listeners the past, present, and future traumas as a black woman that not only pains her but many other blac...

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The Vaselines

Formed in Glasgow in 1987, The Vaselines released two singles and one album, Dum Dum, on the 53rd & 3rd label. Splitting up in 1989 (in the same week their album was released), they might have faded into obscurity but for the intervention of a certain band from Seattle. Nirvana covered three Vaselines songs, helping to fuel a growing after-the-fact appreciation of their seedy, two-and-a-half chord, garage pop manifesto.

 

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Vashti Bunyan

Now based in Edinburgh, Vashti’s story tells of the thwarted promise of early fame, disenchantment, long-term exile and eventual rediscovery. In the mid-‘60s, after quitting art school to concentrate on music, she was discovered by The Rolling Stones’ guru, Andrew Loog Oldham, signed to Decca and recorded a single written by Jagger / Richards. Reviews touted her as ‘the new Marianne Faithful’ or the ‘female Bob Dylan’ (though Vashti claimed to be neither), yet further singles re...

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Vilde

VILDE is the solo project of Australian born, Stockholm based, Thomas Savage. After the disbanding of his prior UK group, Kins, Thomas relocated to Stockholm where he began writing & working on what would become VILDE. The debut song released, Produce, was written during a week of complete isolation in the Swedish countryside of Dalarna in the midst of winter. Thomas acknowledges this particular week as his most productive since he can remember, due to the lack of an internet connection.

Villagers

The depth of emotion communicated in the songs of Conor O’Brien is reflected in his two Ivor Novello awards, for Best Song – “Becoming A Jackal”, and Best Album – Darling Arithmetic, which formalised his reputation as one of the leading songwriters of his generation. Of even greater significance is the relationship Villagers have built with their audience, one coloured by a great sense of communal catharsis and the capacity for articulating the affairs of the heart that are too oft...

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Visuals (Andrew Fox)

A singular songwriter and producer from New York City, Andrew Fox is a mercurial and versatile artist whose diverse body of work represents his distinctly surreal, cinematic sensibility. 

After several releases on art-house electronic labels  as VISUALS (Nicolas Jaar’s Other People, Bruno Pronsato’s The Song Says), in 2019 Fox dropped the pseudonymous handle to release his 2019 LP Shock By Shock under his own name.  Taking cues from David Bowie’s Young Americans and Shuggie Otis’...

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Wand

Wand is the shifting but unmistakable collaboration between Sofia Arreguin (keys, vocals), Cory Hanson (guitar, vocals), Robert Cody (guitar), Lee Landey (bass), and Evan Burrows (drums). This is a band that has lived, feuded, thrived, and grown together through years of dedicated jamming, touring, and recording across western and eastern states, continents, and mindsets. In a world that insists we must increasingly rely upon ourselves, Wand listens to each other, and this is their sound.

Warm Drag

As Warm Drag, Los Angeles’ Paul Quattrone and Vashti Windish blend their garage rock roots with a record store’s worth of influences — including dub, hip-hop, harsh noise, and minimal synth — into a sexy, subterranean sound on releases such as their 2018 self-titled debut album. Quattrone, a drummer for Thee Oh Sees and a former member of !!! and Modey Lemon, reconnected with Windish, a vocalist formerly of Golden Triangle and K-Holes, by chance in Los Angeles. The pair soon began mix...

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Warmduscher

Warmduscher is:
Clams Baker (Mutado Pintado/Paranoid London)
Lightnin’ Jack Everett (Fat White Family)
The Saulcano (Insecure Men, Fat White Family)
Mr Salt Fingers Lovecraft (Childhood, Insecure Men)
The Witherer aka Little Whiskers (Paranoid London

The Wave Pictures

Inspired by the tongue-in-cheek confessionalism of the Smiths, solo Morrissey, and the scrappy D.I.Y. aesthetic of the C-86 school, the Wave Pictures began in 1998 in the tiny rural village of Wymeswold in northern Leicestershire, in Great Britain’s East Midlands. Heavily influenced by their parents’ classic rock record collections and John Peel’s indie-centric radio show, lead singer and guitarist David Tattersall, bassist Franic Rozycki, and drummer Hugh J. Noble were first called Bli...

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Waxahatchee

Waxahatchee is the musical project of American musician Katie Crutchfield, a critically acclaimed songwriter and storyteller signed to Merge Records has released five studio albums: American Weekend (2012), Cerulean Salt (2013), Ivy Tripp (2015), Out in the Storm (2017) and Saint Cloud (2020).

Her latest LP, Saint Cloud is an intimate journey through the places she’s been, filled with the people she’s loved. Written immediately in the period following her decision to get sober, th...

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Wayward

London based duo, Wayward have gained some serious steam in recent years. They’ve co-crafted cuts for artists across a spectrum of genres. From studio sessions with Grammy-winning creative giant Skrillex, to Ninja Tune’s Park Hye Jin, and alt-indie enigma Chelou. Firmly establishing themselves as broad respected producers. Releases have come through Fort Romeau’s Cin Cin Records and Australian-based Beats Of No Nation and Silver Bear’s recent catalogue is the work of the disce...

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We Are Catchers

There’s over five thousand miles between Liverpool and Los Angeles. One vast expanse of ocean and no direct flights. Land wise, there’s Ireland, Newfoundland and then a continent’s worth of cities, towns, lakes, rivers and rocks. A chaos of wi-fi connections and errant mobile signals; weather systems and colloquial differences. On one side, Big Sur. The Pacific Coast Highway. On the other, Crosby Beach. The M62. The similarities aren’t immediately obvious. Yet…

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Wesley Gonzalez

British singer/songwriter Wesley Gonzalez first made a name for himself as the enigmatic leader of Let’s Wrestle, a sharp-witted London trio whose tuneful and eccentric punk earned critical accolades and a devoted audience. Gonzalez, along with bassist Mike Lightning and drummer Darkus Bishop, formed Let’s Wrestle in 2005 when he was 15 years old. They earned a somewhat fiery reputation both as a wily live band and for their three LPs, ‘In the Court of the Wrestling Let’s’ (2009), ...

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Wet Leg

moisturizer. Active ingredients: kinship, Davina McCall, tourburn, ketamine, true love, every Alien film, Dan Carey, devotion, the Solent, CPR dolls, rapid success, Jennifer and Needy, obsession, guitars, lesbian sex, Suffolk, and cabin fever. The ripping second album by Wet Leg, the Isle of Wight five-piece founded by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers is fun and freaky and fabulous, an unbridled display of the live muscle they built up over a few years of non-stop touring. Punchier, prettie...

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The Whip

Between that bewildering news bite and the bitter breakup of New Order, one has to wonder: Who the hell is making important music in Manchester these days? Well, The Whip, for starters. Just ask the Parisians who run Kitsuné Records—a taste-making label/lifestyle company that dropped The Whip’s “Divebomb” 12-inch in 2007. Or anyone who’s been swept up in the band’s limb-loosening gigs over the past year, including a festival-conquering Glastonbury appearance and buzz-stirring sho...

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White Fence

‘For the Recently Found Innocent’ (2014 Drag City) is many things — the fifth White Fence album, the first White Fence album to be recorded outside the bedroom fence (with live drumming!), the first White Fence record to be produced for Drag City Records. Plus also, a sophomore pump: the second time that Tim Presley and Ty Segall (also Domino Publishing) have met to record music (does anyone remember Hair?), this time pure and simply committed in the name of White Fence. Inevitably, the...

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White Lung

After the critically acclaimed release Deep Fantasy (2014), White Lung return with their fourth album Paradise. Vocalist Mish Barber-Way, guitarist Kenneth William and drummer Anne-Marie Vassiliou, reconnected in Los Angeles to work with engineer and producer Lars Stalfors (HEALTH, Cold War Kids, Alice Glass). In October of 2015, White Lung spent a month in the studio, working closely with Stalfors to challenge what could be done with their songs. Bringing all the energy, unique guitar work a...

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White Williams

Joe Williams, the Cleveland born 24-year old behind White Williams, played piano from a young age, often being scolded by his piano teacher for making his own sounds and messing with the pedals. By the age of 15 he was drumming for a noisy scream band whose first show was opening up for Black Dice and the Rapture. Playing in DIY venues exposed Joe Williams to a wild party lifestyle of fires, noise bands, art and performance. With a growing interest in electronic music, he started making music...

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Wild Beasts

“On the last day of making Boy King I had a minor breakdown in knowing what part of myself I was revealing. It’s a bit ugly, a bit grubby, arrogant,” says Hayden Thorpe, reflecting on the recording of Wild Beasts’ fifth album, their most naked and direct to date and a marked change from the optimistic aesthetics of 2014’s Present Tense. If that album found Thorpe, Tom Fleming, Ben Little and Chris Talbot in reflective mood, absorbing a fascination with online culture and electronic ...

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Wild Smiles

Wild Smiles are Winchesters’ very own Chris Peden, Joe Peden and Ben Cook. In 2013 they released their debut A/A ‘Sweet Sixteen/Tangled Hair’ on Geoff Barrow’s Invada Records. A 5 track EP soon followed which gained attention from the likes Zane Lowe and Huw Stephens and then the band hit the road. Wild Smiles had by this point ditched the debut album they already had completed and took time out to concentrate on honing their song-writing, determined that every track would be a classi...

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Wilma Archer

Wilma Archer (nee Will Archer) is a London-based writer, producer, composer and performer who has been creating and releasing music in various forms since his early teens. Signed to Domino Recordings, he’s released two solo records, one under the name Slime and a second as Wilma Archer. Outside of his own work, Archer has proven himself an active collaborator, working with a range of artists including MF Doom, Sudan Archives, Sam T. Herring of Future Islands, Jessie Ware & Celeste, alon...

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Wilsen

Wilsen is the creation of 27-year-old London native Tamsin Wilson. Forged in the burgeoning creative quarters of Brooklyn, Wilsen’s fragile, seductive sound sits at odds with the transient cultural moods of her adopted neighbourhood, instead sharing a closer creative affinity with the timeless sonic textures of European dream pop.

Alongside Wilsen bandmates Johnny Simon Jr and Drew Arndt – both songwriters & producers in their own right – Tamsin Wilson’s passion is for the...

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The Wolfgang Press

One of 4AD’s longest serving acts, The Wolfgang Press were formed by Michael Allen (vocals, bass) and Mark Cox (keyboards) in 1983. The pair had previously played alongside future Adam And The Ants guitarist Marco Pirroni in Rema-Rema, who cut one EP for the label in 1980. They then briefly reunited in Mass, who managed a single and an album before disbanding (Mass colleagues Gary Asquith and Danny Briottet went on to form Renegade Soundwave). The Wolfgang Press’ debut album, The Burden ...

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The Wytches

Formed in November 2011 after moving down from Peterborough, this Brighton based Surf/Doom three piece comprise of guitar/organ/lead vocalist Kristian; semi-professional poker playing drummer Gianni, and fiercely eloquent bassist Dan, who is currently writing a science fiction novel by the name of The Curious Adventures of Charlie Revel. They released their first single, the AA-side ‘Beehive Queen/Crying Clown’, via HateHateHate Records on June 3rd 2013, which sold out almost immedia...

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Yo! Majesty

“This is about being real. Straight up. We believe in what’s just, what’s right, what’s real…” – Shunda K of YO! MAJESTY

 

When YO! MAJESTY’s self promoted Yo EP surfaced in 2006, everyone who heard it couldn’t help raising an eyebrow along with a fist. With a quickness, the liberating chant of “fuck dat shit” – echoed in the standout track “Club Action” – spread throughout the world as listeners began ...

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Yorkston/Thorne/Khan

The second Yorkston/Thorne/Khan album represents a confluence of currents, among them the north Indian sarangi; jazz-tinged bass, reminiscent in places of Danny Thompson; acoustic guitar that owes a debt to Elizabeth Cotton, Dick Gaughan and Mississippi John Hurt; and three very different vocalists. The combination is unusual: YTK’s Everything Sacred, released in 2016, may be the only precedent. Yet while, on paper, the constituent elements might seem disparate, the new album is, if any...

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Young Magic

Young Magic is Jakarta born Indonesian-American vocalist Melati Malay, and Sydney-born songwriter-producer Isaac Emmanuel. The pair met in New York City in 2010 and began collaborating above a speakeasy in Brooklyn. Alongside original member Michael Italia, the trio signed to Carpark Records (Toro Y Moi, Beach House, Dan Deacon) on the strength of one single (Sparkly/You With Air) and a wave of positive press. Touring in Europe and North America began after a series of limited edition 7″ re...

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Your Friend

Since the release of her debut self-recorded EP, Jekyll/Hyde, in early 2014 via Domino, Taryn Miller (Your Friend) brings us her debut album Gumption. 

 Miller began writing the songs that would become Gumption at her studio space and apartment in Lawrence, KS after returning from touring in mid-2014. Recorded with producer Nicolas Vernhes (The War on Drugs, Deerhunter) at the Rare Book Room in Brooklyn, Your Friend fulfilled a penchant for drones, loop...

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Youth Lagoon

In 2023, Trevor Powers released the acclaimed Heaven Is a Junkyard, an album of warped Americana that brought his focus back home. “I realised everything worth writing about is happening inside my house or right next door,” he says. “There’s an eternity of secrets in the American suburbs.” With Pitchfork awarding it “Best New Music” and The Guardian dubbing it a “masterpiece,” Youth Lagoon’s first album in eight years pushed the project into a neo-western realm that is bot...

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Zomby

Dubstep producer Zomby has created music almost completely anonymously since 2008, with his debut ‘Where Were U in ’92?’ Earning himself a cult following in Electronic music circles, He returns in 2013 with the 4AD release ‘With Love’, the follow up to ‘Dedication’ (2011).
A record divided into two volumes, ‘With Love’ moves seamlessly between the dance floor and after-hours emotional introspection, serving as a love letter to the soulful dance music of his past.

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