Slovenly proudly kicks off 2011 with a monster 45 by Greek freak‐scene Acid Baby Jesus! Vibrating from Athens, the most ancient depth of the garage swamp, this lysergic squad has delivered a three track psych‐punk single that'll turn your speakers into ruinous rubble! The discus opens with "Hospitals," a classic stomper with an incredibly hooky vocal driven by a wailing riff overloaded with reverb, twang, fuzz and echo: a truly supreme anthem that ouzos with loud‐fidelity wizardry. The single's single, and equally stellar as "Hospitals", "It's On Me" has a brilliantly trippy video direct…

They are three infamous perfectionists who mix influences from rock, ambient, punk, indie, metal and jazz. Known as one of the premier live acts in Estonia they gathered immediate attention in the local music scene.

In 2010 the band released their long-awaited eponymous debut album, wrapped in moleskin and packed with a unique brand of “intense-rock” sound. Mew, Muse and Radiohead have been suggested as influences, while Aides gallantly keep on writing inventive rock music and giving impressive shows.

After touring Russia in 2010, the band started 2011 off with a performance at the Eurosonic…

As defined as in the modern fixture, ‘an old-school songwriter’ and a crowd pleaser. He is able to carry two traits nonchalantly. When you hear him on the electric guitar, he gives you the semblance of old school rockers like Jeff Beck or Mark Knopfler and every time he renders the acoustic guitar, shades of Martin Sexton is evident.

Alex Rintu, this mild mannered individual has an air of calm surrounding him, which camouflages an extremely dexterous musician within. Engage him in a conversation on music and you will see those eyes widen up and there will be spring in his step, which is just …

You have no doubt heard of the name Ali Love already. Maybe you know him from the infectious, funky electro-pop of his own album, 2010’s Love Harder which featured the singles Diminishing Returns and Moscow Girl. Or perhaps you know him either as the singer behind the Chemical Brothers’ smash Do It Again, or more recently from his collaboration with Justice where his voice spearheaded their Civilisation single, a song that was also was used by Adidas on a global advertising campaign featuring David Beckham, Lionel Messi, Katie Perry and a whole galaxy of superstars.

Alternative pop act alibi tom from Gothenburg digs deeper with new album “this sleeping”. Their unique music, generated by colliding classical counterpoint compositions with jam-session improvisation, has been recorded live in old rural churches together with mentor and producer Joakim Sehlstedt. This made for a living, breathing pop sound, adorned with harmonies and unexpected instrumental elements. Let’s call it playful seriousness – or the concept of making music being intimate yet big, dramatic yet contemplative and melancholic yet “so beautiful you just don’t know what to do with yourself”…

Axel Concato has the fingers he needs to play several instruments, a voice to charm, a physique to offer him equal pleasure and pain, and a musical talent to get him sought after. Born in Normandy, the town's influence on his music can still be heard today, largely because he's (still) surrounded by many of his childhood friends. He had a happy childhood, effortlessly picking up guitar, keyboard, bass guitar and drums. Possessed by the spirit of rock'n'roll, his musical gift led him to quit Paris for Camden, London, in 2001. Represented by Andy Ross, he was picked up to play keyboards in sever…

Beati Mortui is an industrial/electro/EBM band from Helsinki, Finland

Their music is a combination of dark electronic atmospheres and danceable beats with diverse female vocals to express landscapes of life and the many sides of it. The band's musical influences are gothic, ebm, industrial, electro, metal and black metal genres. The lyrics deal with personal experiences, real life observations and dark phantasy.

From the Austrian Alps to the United Kingdom, from Japan to Germany to Iceland and back through Europe, Clues is the debut album of self-styled noisepop cosmopolitan Bensh... and the sum of a six year expedition to some of the most ecclectic places in pop. 

Born in Innsbruck, Austria, Bensh studied composition in the UK in 2004. After a period of extensive songwriting and subsequent recording sessions with Dan Swift (Snow Patrol, Art Brut) and Gordon Raphael (The Strokes), he embarked on a cultural exchange to Osaka, Japan. Since returning to Europe, Bensh lived and worked in Germany, UK, Aus…

Bernhard Eder grew up in a little farming village in the Austrian countryside. After spending his youth on his mother's farm, he decided to become a car-mechanic, but soon realized that his love of music was much stronger than that for cars. After putting down his wrenches he formed a band called "wa:rum" with some friends and started playing at parties and small festivals in his region. In 1997, Bernhard decided to move to Vienna to study Audio Engineering.

Two years later, after finishing his studies in Audio Engineering, he began studying jazz vocals at the Vienna Conservatory. In the mean…

Black Friday sthlm begun in the outskirts of Stockholm. Originally intended as a hobby project, Black Friday sthlm took a spin towards a more serious state when Yofa and Hank met Jnao, and they all got excited about the music that came to be as a result of their collaboration. Later on the band expanded to a four piece act, joined by rkr on the second guitar.The first year Black Friday sthlm released two demos, the EP - #1, and a three-track single - ”I’ll Come to You” late 2009.

The official release of their first full-length album, ”Harder For Every Heartbeat”, licensed by The Lads Producti…

Black Light Discipline is a Finnish band founded in 2005 on the idea to make captivating, synth-based grooves with a mix of metal and electro genres. This fresh mixture makes BLD one of the most interesting groups playing electro-metal and the sound could well be described as raw, fleshy and atmospheric. Their music's style is often categorised as electro-metal or industrial-rock.

In the band's lifespan, this Kuopio- / Helsinki- based group has developed their unique sound. Becoming more and more active, BLD is pushing the envelope every time playing live. There has been a good number of prai…

The 6 of them got together for real in 2008. The main core, the singer and the beat maker got together some 10 years earlier and they make a songwriting team while the rest would come (and stay) gradually, over last two years and they are Ewa X who is a classical viola player (with a strong urge to dance all nights in the clubs), another drummer, an experimenting one, Lord Gwadera, always trying to go beyond the usual way, a free jazz double bass player from the east, with loads of experience and in the end, Paul Bishop, a guy with a diploma, clarinet master, who would usually perform Reich or…

Known for her melancholic, alternative pop CALLmeKAT is the internationally acclaimed moniker of Danish singer, keyboardista and composer Katrine Ottosen.

Through word-of-mouth, she is drawing crowds in clubs throughout Germany, Benelux, France, Switzerland and Austria and all before an official international album release.

Her sonic identity pours from an intimate yet lively melting pot of artistic courage, where she creates music with an army of vintage keyboards and a voice that sets her apart from the indie-pop masses. Her music and compelling live performances has brought her recognitio…

They are impulsive, stylish, straightforward. Charter stands for authentic, ecstatic rock – inspired by the different, strong characters of the four musicians. In their songs the Finnish way of life of frontman Antti mixes with Berlin´s vibrant creativity and an individual drive for freedom and an escape from simple life. Influenced by the greatness of bands like Placebo, U2 and The Killers, the band takes melodic-catchy indie pop-rock on stage. With tracks like “Impossible You”, “Trust” and “Girl” they deliver an energy-packed show leaving you with goose bumps.

As a newcomer band, the four m…

Choir Of Young Believers is a new Danish act, with great international potential. The man behind this band is the 25 year old, Danish, Greek and Indonesian Jannis Noya Makrigiannis. For many years, Jannis has moved in the underground circles of the Danish indie scene and been a part of Lake Placid. Since 2006 he has been working on his solo material, which in May 2007 resulted in the release of the debut EP from Choir Of Young believers, called “Burn The Flag“.

The debut EP earned the band a lot of attention in Denmark. Reviews were great and the single “Sharpen Your Knife” was pick of the w…

Cold Cold Ground is a Finnish industrial rock band from Helsinki, formed in 2004.

Their debut album, This Side of Depravity, hit the record stores on August 2010 in Finland, and April 2011 it was released in the rest of Europe. 

Cold Cold Ground plays dark and noisy rock music with industrial influences. But the music is only a part of the package: the visual side and the overall atmosphere are equally important, especially when performing live.

Currently Cold Cold Ground is writing and recording their second album.

THE STORY SO FAR CORRODED started out in 2004 and after a couple of jam sessions the pieces of the jigsaw started to show a picture, it was dark, it was heavy, it was angry and it looked good. It was soon clear that the path of the band would be in the heritage of the heavy rock acts of the 70..s with additional layers of a more modern sound. CORRODED has established themselves as a force of nature when it comes to performing live with a vast track-record of successful gigs under their belt, including a U.K.tour. Late 2008 the fruitful collaboration with platiumproducer Patrik Frisk started ou…

D/R/U/G/S are free. The project of one Callum Wright, D/R/U/G/S craft some of the most euphoric, radical new music around . Made with the freeform attitude of synth visionary Oneohtrix Point Never, the fuck-you braggadocio of the Wu-Tang Clan, the cast-iron integrity of punk and the headlong desperate rush of rave, it’s untamed music for the moment.

22-year-old Callum spent his early years in “London council estate shitholes”, in his words, and moved to Manchester in his teens. Coming from a musical family (father, uncle, great uncle and granddad all worked as jobbing musicians), it was in hi…

Icelandic musician Snævar Njáll Albertsson is the mastermind behind Dad Rocks!, the solo project of the singer who initially rose to prominence with the Danish band Mimas. Dad Rocks!, however, is quite different: the guitar here is mostly acoustic and is accompanied by piano, trumpet, violin, viola, handclaps and much  more. As Dad Rocks!, Albertsson is inspired by acts such as Bill Callahan, Owen, Why?, Akron/Family and Do Make Say Think. This has led to a sound that is a unique mix of folk, pop and lo-fi with complex guitar-work and anthem-like arrangements. However, Snævar Njáll Albertsson’…

Daniela Spector is one of the leading indie singer-songwriters in Israel today. Her critically acclaimed self-titled debut (self released 2010) become an almost overnight sensation in Israel, with its gentle folk-pop ruling the radio playlists, starring in the end of the year's “best of” charts and titling Daniela the “Best Newcomer of 2010" by the Israeli music channel.

In the beginning of 2011, Daniela and her husband Ben formed an electric-folk duo, combining her singer-songwriting with his electronic production. Their first single, “Cut it out” (2011), immediately became #1 on the nationa…

The music of the Dash Channel can be described as pop and alternative. The new singles show the energetic and emotional profile of the band, which guarantees an outstanding performance. We think that it is mostly for the great deal of energy that makes our public simply happy.

Complementarity is what best describes DEER BEAR. The Ying and Yang parallel is obvious with the members being an odd couple: The female part is held by Anne Hjort, with a background rooted in the electro-popish. Her male counterpart is Lars Bjørn-Hansen who normally fronts the acclaimed death metal band Koldborn. But there’s no death metal in this musical setting, no insisting aggression, no screaming.
Their sound and songwriting stand in an appealing contrast to modernity, and one may sense a search for a more traditional insight and organic output. The style might be labeled as melancholic p…

Diver's music is affective, simple and honest. Emotions are realized powerfully, still quiet, with acoustic instruments and through a variety of different voices. The essence of their music is the contradiction between harmony and their lyrics dealing with insecurity and disorientation. Their songs are swirling around the difficulty to fulfill other people’s expectations,still trying to be true to oneself and about the discrepancy between overwhelming emotions and rational realizations.

Diver are: Olaf Schuberth, Stephan Ebert, Wolfgang Bruckner

Dolly Daggers is one of Sweden’s most musically innovative and visually challenging bands. Renowned for their euphoric live performances, hook driven songs with a voluptuous sound and screaming vocals, Dolly Daggers has become one of Sweden’s MOST WANTED unsigned bands. Recent gigs at Swedish Festivals Peace & Love, Siesta and NOA-Festival have taken the band to a new level and it’s now only a
matter of time before lift-off. Delivering the unexpected has become something you can expect from these untamed and utterly spontaneous Swedes.

This is Don Fernando, massive riffs, massive hooks, tight as fuck, no bullshit. From Melbourne, Australia, Don Fernando have been around since 2006 and unleashed fury on stages all over the world. With an unrelenting work ethic they have played around Australia extensively and toured Europe in 2010. Rock Sound UK described them as “The Australian band most likely to cause shock waves in Europe", their review said: "Don Fernando are the latest to drop a blinding effort on our laps. ‘The Banquet of...’ makes a meal of fuzzed up riffery, hulking big grooves and catchier than swine flu melodies”
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Dry the River formed in spring 2009. Based in a shared two-bedroom house in Stratford, east London the five came together via circuitous geographical and musical routes. From singer-songwriter Peter Liddle, born in Norway and drawing narrative inspiration from university studies in medicine and anthropology, to once homeless drummer Jon Warren, with his background playing in DIY punk bands, via classically trained violinist Will Harvey, the band are a diverse bunch.

Musically the back-history is no less intriguing, with the band citing an esoteric list of influences: Leonard Cohen, At The Drive…

The pianist, singer and songwriter Edda Magnason grew up in the countryside of southern Sweden. Her father comes, as her name suggests, from Iceland. Her self-titled debut album was released in 2010 and now Adrian Recordings are releasing "Goods", her sophomore album, along with her first single "Handsome".

Sufjan Stevens, Anathallo, Efterklang, Owen Pallett and Danny Elfman (yes, Danny Elfman). Throw them together and you’ll end up with Einar Stray. Next year the Norwegian genius is set to release Chiaroscuro, an album that any of those artists would be proud to have created. No hyperbole at all. It really is that special. The annoying thing is that he’s only 20. Makes you feel bad about yourself, doesn’t it?

Emma Acs is a very young but super ambitious 19-year-old girl from Copenhagen, who plays pop music with solid roots in the experimental 60s and 70s. It’s made even more clear with her musical entourage, consisting of members from Baby Woodrose and The Good The Bad. But the prominent company doesn't change that fact that she's an incredibly talented girl.

So how does it sound? The electric guitars are ruthless, 60s crunched and acid dripping. The rhythm eggs shake their way as a freight train, the piano plays one-finger-progressions, while an electric organ and a manly aah-choir makes a solid …

Eugene started his career in 2001 when he produced and released the EP “CALLING YOU”,  beginning also his parallel career as composer of soundtracks for photographic exhibitions and theatre shows.

In 2004 many live performances and multimedia shows brought Eugene to perform with  Innuendo at the “Festspielhaus” in Salzburg (invited by Roger Taylor, Queen), and to release the EP “DIOR DNA”, awarded in several Italian festivals and broadcast on Radio 1 RAI.

In 2005 Eugene took part in “La Fabbrica della Musica” shown on RAI Doc and on SKY, and was awarded the Special Critics’ Prize at the “SG”…

Evelinn Trouble likes nasty surprises. And Evelinn Trouble likes noise. The sweet pop melodies of her debut album "Arbitrary Act" have barely faded away, as the 21 year old girl from Zurich releases her newest album; a record to kick all boxes and comparisons in the balls. "Television Religion" is an act of liberation, sizzling with fury and energy, while still soft but sinister.

A sunny and melodic indie-folk quartet, some international hotshots have titled them "the crown jewel of Estonian music", Ewert and The Two Dragons have been taking the Baltics by storm. Finnish music magazine Rumba named them "the best band of the entire fest“ after their performance at Positivus 2010. Their critically acclaimed second album "Good Man Down" (I Love You Records, 2011) is already one of the best selling records in Estonia. In autumn the Dragons’ jangly charm will be tested on proficient European ears during a minitour to take them to Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Austri…

Drums, scratches, bass, vocals, effects — and just one mouth! Felix Zenger not only produces a wide array of sounds and complex rhythms, but above all uses his voice to create new and original music with a unique style of his own. And what with more than 30 million YouTube views (and counting) he just might be on to something…

The 24 year-old, awarded with Artist of the Year honors at the annual Funk Awards, has performed with or supported N*E*R*D, Kanye West, James Brown (R.I.P.), Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Kid Koala, DJ Q-Bert, The Scratch Perverts, Iiro Rantala New Trio, Joseph Bowie (De…

Fonovel hypnotizes the audience with their dynamic composition, reliving the analogue sound of 70. And 80. Their music can be described as electro-punk-rock. The wake-up rhythms, melodic guitar riffs and vibrating synthesizers create the unique live sound of Fonovel. The band features Radek Bolewski (vocal, drums), Pawel Cieslak (minimoog), Dominik Figiel (guitar). Their first record "Good Vibe" was released this March.

At the End of 2007, Fortune released their first Ep, an intense delivery of four Synth Pop-Rock bangers brightly crafted to simultaneously create uproar in the crowd as well as stir the emotions inside you. Needless to say the album to come was eagerly anticipated.

Miles away from his former Electro Hip-Hop duet Abstrackt Keal Agram that saw him pairing with Tepr (Yelle), Lionel Pierres now writes Pop songs in English destined for Fortune. In turn, as the musicians in the band get to add their creative input, the tracks then start to sound like new-wave hits, just highlighted with more contra…

French Films is a five-piece indie rock band from Finland. Their music is often described as a mixture of sunny surf rock and new wave. The group got started in 2010 by putting couple of home demos on their myspace page, which led to largely positive feedback and interest all over the world. In November 2010 the band released their first EP, Golden Sea, through Gaea Records and is currently working on their debut album, which is about to come out in fall 2011. Known for their furious live performances, the band has so far been touring around Europe and is now planning on visiting US, UK and Ja…

Funeral Suits are a three-piece alternative rock band from Ireland. Consisting of Brian James, Mik McKeogh and Greg McCarthy, the band formed in 2008.

A shared love of epic, distorted guitars, blistering harmonius pop, art rock and electronica led to the band spending the best part of two years holed up in a disused office space in deepest North County Dublin, writing, rehearsing and at times venturing out to play as special guests for Franz Ferdinand, Passion Pit, The Maccabees, Local Natives amongst others.

More recently they have just recorded and finished their debut album with acclaim…

General Elektriks is the brainchild of Hervé “RV” Salters.  A French national and a vintage keyboard player, RV quickly became the go-to Parisian for “vintage sound,” scoring session work with Femi Kuti, -M-, and DJ Mehdi, among others, before leaving in 1999 to relocate to the US.
 
Using his favorite keys, a computer and a mic, General Elektriks began as a musical journal that followed RV through his move from San Francisco to Seattle then back to Berkeley where he currently resides. It was in the Bay Area that he hooked up with the Quannum crew and started doing session work for them, and it …

This award-winning indie harpist/singer-songwriter has sold out shows from Philadelphia's Tin Angel to The Matador in Siberia. More Regina Spektor than Joanna Newsom, Grassie has toured across Europe, South America, North America, and Asia, earning grants from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation and the U.S. State Department, a slew of awards, and the fervent support of her fans, one of whom described her as "an awesome combination of Pippi Longstocking and the Mata Hari. Trust me, you never saw anything like this." Expect smart, accessible songwriting strewn with literary allusions, understatedly…

Ham Sandwich are a five piece Irish indie rock band, with members hailing from County
Meath and Dublin. Charismatically fronted by Podge McNamee (vocals/guitar) and Niamh
Farrell (vocals) the line-up is completed by, Brian Darcy (guitar) Ollie Murphy (drums) and
David McEnroe (bass guitar)

They have released two critically acclaimed albums on their own Record label route 109A
records ‘Carry the Meek’ in 2008 and’ White Fox’ in Oct 2010.

Ham Sandwich have played alongside such internationally renowned artists as My Morning
Jacket, The Buzzcocks, Electric Six, Whitesnake, Pere Ubu, Isobel Campbell, The…

Heike Has The Giggles is a super catchy heavy pop trio from Ravenna, Italy, formed in September 2006.

Emanuela Drei (lead vocal and guitars) sings mostly like PJ Harvey in raw, fast rock songs wich you can do well with in any (punk) garage. After two demo tapes (”Next, Please” & “How To Giggle”), released in 2007, the band immediately starts to play in huge Festivals (Italia Wave 08 Main Stage and Sziget Festival 2008) and opening for big foreign acts in the biggest italian clubs. They’ve played before the Wombats (Estragon Club - Bologna), GlasVegas (Bronson - Ravenna), Tricky (Vox Club - Mo…

Hellcity Punks is a rock band from Helsinki, Finland. Punks have a diverse sound incorporating the elements of hard rock, metal, pop and punk. Their lyrical themes center around an imaginary place called Hellcity, a future city located in a cold, dark and otherwise desolated part of northern Europe.

The Punks are currently working on their 1st full length album with producer Ilkka Wirtanen. The first single 'Angelina Cries' is going to be published 29.8.2011.

Hellcity Punks have toured in Finland, Germany and Austria and have become well known for their wild and enertic live performances. Th…

Last year I am Oak’s melancholic folk album ‘On Claws’ received critical acclaim. The band formed around Dutch songwriter Thijs Kuijken have since played over 65 in tours and festivals through the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxemburg and Switzerland.

During this Thijs was also working on a new album called ‘Oasem’, which will be released in The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany exactly one year after the release of ‘On Claws’. The slightly darker ‘Oasem’ resembles the overall theme of its predecessors, but musically it might be more removed from the previous album than one would ex…

A neo-power-kraut galactic drama in three acts.
The journey starts off at galactic dawn, landing in high speed adventure on an uncharted planet. When we reach our destination, it turns out to be within ourselves. Something we recognise as human.
The album was recorded a year ago and has since been reworked to find its musical identity. In the production we have steered away from muscles and distortion in order to create an elegant and majestic flowing sound form. Powerful but frictionless, in constant movement.
Ikons are six musicians and one video artist. The album was recorded by Ikons and mixe…

In 2011 the third millennium A. D. when globalization in the good and bad moves people of different ethnicities and races without even the religions, ambassadors and heads of state can still understand each other and talk to each other, the Universe Supreme instructs a being, the Archangel to come down to earth and assemble a tribe music / the multi-ethnic "ISOLA SONG" to return to play as they were able to live in different worlds of music: Classical music, the DJ music, ethnic music and rock with the words, parables of life.
Thus, in one night while The same elected and sing a hymn propitiato…

"All apples are red" is the first album by Jules not Jude, with 11 tracks and a rearrangement of “the hospital”, from their debut EP Clouds of Fish. Each track proves to have a more mature and a more studie sound, being optimized by the fusion between genres: brit-pop rock and electronic music.
The duet, now become quartet, sends us to a surreal reality, which is made of dreams, where needs are shouted and unsound cliché become paradox and where all apples are red… exept for those who are not red.

Junes developed from a small idea to an internationally-consi- dered band already taking successful career steps, such as 3 soldout shows with Hurts, and slots at big Swiss festivals, in- cluding OpenAir St.Gallen and Gurtenfest. The new album, „Donʼt Leave Me In Autumn“, shows off the band’s familiar sound structures and mellow melodies, while mixing cello and violin with new electronic tones. The output is a spherical mixture of old and new sounds.

KAMP! is a Polish electronic pop trio formed in 2008 in Lodz, Poland. Their sound is often described as melodic synth-pop influenced by 80's new wave, 70's krautrock and 90's french house genres.

In February 2009 KAMP! released their first EP "Thales one" in Brennnessel net-label (www.brennnessel.pl), founded and managed by members of KAMP!. "Thales one" has been greeted with enthusiastic reviews and critically acclaimed in the leading independent media in Poland. Their next realese, SP "Breaking A Ghost's Heart" developed KAMP!'s celebratory, vintage disco sound and the title song became the…

In February 2008 John Parish [producer of PJ Harvey, Eels] was invited by a tutor at Bath Spa University to exhibit his recording skills by taking a group into the studio and letting students watch - Big Brother style. Kill It Kid were that guinea pig band. "We sat and slogged for like 12 hour days singing over and over again trying to get these songs right whilst about 20 students sat in the other room listening to us," explained KIK's vocalist Chris Turpin. "It was a bit strange - I don't know if there was tutoring going on or what." However, behind the glass screen and under the pressure Ri…

Formed in the provincial town of Weiz, in southern Austria, these boys started out when they barely had reached their teens. At first they only wanted to record a soundtrack for a short film their singer, guitarist and principal songwriter Wolfgang had shot, but then they realised, that Thurston Moore is way cooler than Jim Jarmusch, so they stuck with the music. Guitars piling up upon each other and sticking out to every imaginable direction, in a way, making Dionsaur jr. look pretty senior and dropping hooklines at a rate that making Lou Barlow and Bob Pollard run for their 4 tracks desperat…

Kinetik Control is a Finnish rock band that combines melancholic pop and rock influences without boundaries. Electronic elements and pop sensibility have been incorporated into the music completely in their own terms. The band has topped the charts in Finland in several occasions. Their latest album featured Michael Monroe of Hanoi Rocks as a guest star. Their upcoming third album will be mastered by Ted Jensen (Metallica, Lady Gaga, Britney Spears etc.).

Kitty Solaris is a well known berlin underground singer/songwriter following the footsteps of her alltime favorites Velvet Underground, Patty Smith and Catpower. In her kitchen in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg, she developed her very unique style, playing meditative, mellow and melancholic songs on her electric guitar accompanied by her tender voice. Always straight to the point with headlines and catchy hooklines.  After her first release "future air hostess" in 2007 the the second Kitty Solaris album "my home is my disco" was released on april 24th. Produced with the help of Gordon Raphael (The Str…

Originally a duo sporting weird lo-fi dada-pop of a kind that no one had ever heard before, Kreatiivmootor have by now expanded into a small orchestra, with music more diverse and polished – hypnotic electronic grooves enriched with psychedelic acoustic sounds, instrumental and vocal improvisation. Their expressive nature is best revealed in live performances which, more often than not, threaten to turn into a kind of Witch's Sabbath or Bacchanalia.

▲▲L▲ST D∆YS OF 1984▲▲ (Last Days Of 1984) are Brian Rice and Darren Moloney. Influenced by afro-beat, chilling out and tropical electronica they call their genre of music, 'Beach House'.

Beach House features elements of surf, afro-beat and 90's dance mixed with waves of nostalgia for 80's childhood movie soundtracks.

They released their first single, River's Edge in June 2011

We are living the fall of 2009. Lauri, the singer of The Rasmus has just landed in Singapore to visit the band's guitarist Pauli Rantasalmi. The two guys are going to write new material for the new Rasmus album. But something is wrong in a good way. Songs that are born in the Singapore studio are way different; more electronic and dancy. They even have techno influences and don't sound anything like the pop/rock tunes that launched The Rasmus to their huge success and millions of sold albums.

Lauri's solo album New World is completely different from the material that we've used to hear from T…

Musical maximalism. Collapsing synth supernovas. Thunderous drum starfields. Meshing pounding techno rhythms, shimmering cyber-synths and cascading dream-streams of sonic guitar-wizardry, Le Galaxie have stamped their 'grid vs. guitars' ethos on Ireland, UK, France and Sweden with their joyous, ceiling-melting live shows and debut album Laserdisc Nights 2. Hit singles ‘We Bleed The Blood Of Androids’ and ‘You Feel The Fire’ - the latter’s video winning ‘Best Dance Video’ at the 2009 IMTV awards and support slots with the likes of The Presets, The Whip, Boys Noize, Au Revoir Simone, I’m From Ba…

An all-girl band made up of four young Italian rockers who choose music as a weapon of rebellion to the customs: they are Le Rivoltelle. A feminine plural (that also sounds in Italian like “small revolts/rebellions”) which is ironic and nonconformist personality of the band: their real weapons are musical instruments, the songs are their bullets, the audience's emotions are their target.

Original and unconventional, the music of Le Rivoltelle expressed through rhythms and Mediterranean sounds, in a skillful blend of electric guitars, saxophones, violins and percussion. They write, compose and…

If, in the faint light of a campfire, you are asked to lend your guitar to either Jeppe or Emil Davidsen you should not hesitate. The two brothers are the voices behind Let Me Play Your Guitar and together the family related duo composes some of the most spectacular Folkrock songs long to be heard under the Danish moonlit sky.

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Untamed creativity and intuition combined with a joy for experiments and musical craftsmanship define LEYAN‘s sound that is treading the thin red line between indie, pop and rock. Distinctive, expressive vocals which often change effortlessly into falsetto liaise with unique guitar structures and riffs alongside multidimensional, siren-like synthesizer - always carried by the uncompromisingly driving rhythm section of drums and bass. The Berlin- based band soon gathered speed and has supported such renowned acts as SCOUTING FOR GIRLS, BLUE OCTOBER and TURIN BRAKES.…

Litoral is a name that is bent off of Pau Roca’s worries. The band consists of Iván Cuevas, Javier Monserrat, Manu Moreno, Guillaine Goose and Pablo Magariños; musicians with baggage from different origins and perspectives whom draw, as they say in one of their songs, an ¨electrocardiogram¨ on the map. Doing honor to their name their music coordinately drinks Mediterranean folk. 

By using only acoustic instruments each musician is able to mobilize their own instruments. They do not see distance with their public yet cautiously interact with the people as they throw large dosages of positive e…

The much-missed spirit of real rock ‘n’ roll is ready to return in the capable hands of Little Barrie.

Nearly four years after their last record, the world’s favourite rock ‘n’ roll-soul-punk-mod-blues band’s new album ‘King Of The Waves’ will be released on June 27, 2011, co-produced by the group with their friend, supporter and longtime collaborator, the mighty Edwyn Collins. ‘King Of The Waves’ Is already riding its own wave of massive success in Japan. It raced to #1 in iTunes’ alternative album chart and Amazon’s rock album chart there, and #2 in Amazon’s main album chart. Recent gigs by t…

Loane / Le Lendemain

Loane’s distinctive voice starts out confident, yet an initially imperceptible rasping edge gradually sets in. It’s what sets Le Lendemain (The Day After) apart.

The day after what? Yesterday, 2008 in fact, when Loane released her first album, Jamais seule (Never Alone). It won her several friends, touched by her simple grace and above all, the finesse of her emotions. Jamais seule and Danser, her signature songs, paved the way to slots on radio, and then the concert hall circuit whom she worked extensively for, for two years. Loane was right at home, despite having long…

Lucy Swann has captured the attention of the Norwegian music scene with her powerful vocals and explosive live performances. She composes intuitively and with her audience in mind.

Her pop music explores the balance between electronic and organic elements as well as mixing a classic British modesty with an intensely soulful presence. The outcome is hard-hitting, rhythmic and flirtatious co...mpositions, all relating to her primary sources of inspiration, gospel and soul.

When she in 2010 released her critically acclaimed debut album "La Petite Mort", in which comparisons were drawn to Kate…

Between two distant worlds, between loner lyricism and a playful love of theory, unfolds the wide realm of LUISE POP. Rock’n'roll rubbing up against rigid electronics in a cascading melody of fireworks, surf noir banging against synth sounds in brilliant Technicolor as if The Drums, Le Tigre, Patti Smith and New Order would meet for a moonlight serenade at the Carnival of Souls. But beyond coquettish post-punk coolness we hear an echo of the Golden Age, in which a pop song could lift the world off its hinges in two and a half minutes. An intensity of the unfinished, more James Dean than Grace …

The 21-year-old Jenny “Lydmor” Rossander is a Danish electronic singer/songwriter. She started her career at 18 when she toured in a mobile home, where she lived, created music and played concerts as part of a larger tour. After that adventure she started accompanying DJs in the underground clubs of Copenhagen, where she would improvise sessions with just her voice, loop-machine and Kaosspad. In august of 2010 she contacted the legendary Feedback studios in Aarhus, where Stillwalker Productions (Efterklang, TV2, Maria Timm, Murder, Marybell Katastrophy and many more) now reside. She then recor…

Management del Dolore Post-Operatorio were formed in 2006 and released the album "Mestruazioni” on the Videoradio label at the end of 2008. The first work was well-received in the music press. In the same year, the boys met Raffaella Tenaglia (Pixie Promotion) with which they started carrying out a strategy to promote music products and events through the new web technologies and unconventional marketing tricks (Videopin). Thanks to a dazzling impact during live shows, the four guys were chosen to open for major artists like Zen Circus, Nouvelle Vague, Echo & the Bunnymen, Bud Spencer Blues Ex…

Marcel Cranc - with this name the Majorcan composer Miquel Vicensastre introduces himself. As if it were a pseudonym, Vicensastre has created this alter ego. That way he is trying to dissociate himself from the classical and experimental music that he has produced up to now. The name Marcel Cranc is a homage to the island Majorca, where the Sea and the sky are always present, and cranc (the Catalan word for crab) is the symbol of the animal which moves backward, to its origin.

Marco Notari is a singer-songwriter of the Italian alternative scene. His debut album “Oltre lo Specchio” (Beyond the Looking Glass - ArtesRecords/Mescal-SonyBMG), is released on 13th January 2006. The record moves the critics to enthusiasm and obtains very good selling results too, reaching the 37th position in the F.I.M.I./Nielsen Italian Official Selling Chart. In the meantime Marco Notari and Madam (his band) begin a long tour of 70 shows in all the most important Italian towns all the 2006 year long. In October “Oltre lo Specchio” receives a nomination as Best First Album from P.I.M.I. (I…

Marcus "Mackish" Price is a rapper, DJ and producer. When he was 17 years old his rapgroup FATTARU landed a major record-deal which resulted in 3 albums and several hit-singles in Scandinavia. Their debut-album won 2 swedish Grammy-awards in 2002.

In 2006 Marcus started dj:ing in clubs and producing his own music, moving more towards styles such as skweee, bootybass, electro, juke, house and ghettotech.
With his solo-project BASUTBUDET, and production for other artists such as MAPEI's "Video Vixen" he quickly won the critics appeal through his innovative, electronic, skrewed-up sound.
A…

Mary Ocher was born in Moscow (Russia, former USSR) in 1986 and grew up in Tel Aviv (Israel). She moved to Berlin at the age of 20 and has been playing more or less everywhere in and out of town ever since; both solo and with Mary and The Baby Cheeses.

A true artist whose creativity spans beyond music to filmmaking and drawings, Mary's art reflects her eccentric personality. Her recent album, "War Songs" (2011), is a concept album about what Mary might ironically regard as her favorite subject – war – as well as social status, persecution and hints of nationalism and sexual abuse.

She has re…

Mati Zundel, born in the quiet countryside in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, has investigated different styles of Latin American folklore from argentine chacareras and vidalas all the way to peruvian huaynos and mexican sonideros. Shamanic chants, charango, guitar, and loops are the backbone of Mati's music. Native voices soar over delirious percussion and intense bass lines meet with melodies that combine cumbia and psychedelia. Mati Zundel composes songs that were once traditional but with the sonic engineering of the future are ideal for dance floors where he turns into a shaman under a sky…

MIRACLE FORTRESS is the cognomen for Montreal-based musician and producer Graham Van Pelt. Also a member of Think About Life, as Miracle Fortress Graham records and performs a wide array of musical soundscapes, hooks and beats. His 2007 debut, Five Roses, received widespread critical praise, including a Polaris Prize nomination. He’s currently working on a long-awaited sophomore release.

My Name Is Music is a band that is about to make the leap to the top. With their debut album "Revolution", the Viennese duo stirred up a lot of dust, not only in this country. The legendary John Peel Radio Sessions, for instance, already announced that My Name Is Music will be the next big sensation from Austria. With their new album "We are Terrorists" (Pate Records), My Name is Music  once again offers a raw, rousing version of rock music in the tradition of bands like the White Stripes, Ting Tings, The Kills and Blood Red Shoes.

Christiania is the much-anticipated second album from Holmfirth-based solo artist Napoleon IIIrd; a compelling tale of small-town life and escaping it's constraints, told over nine tracks of rewired pop, operatic indie and lush, textured instrumental music.

It’s been a busy few years for Napoleon IIIrd. After a sold-out national tour with Mercury Prize nominees and fellow Leeds alumni Wild Beasts, he played at festivals including Bestival, Green Man, End Of The Road, Leeds and Truck, he performed in front of 1,000 people at the palatial Koko in London for Club NME, and he toured Europe widely…

nokeys is a new wave/post punk band (their references scope from Depeche Mode and Joy Division to early U2 and the Smiths among others). nokeys have a past, but they’re not very interested in it.

 They’re interested in their present.

Their first album “The Regency”,  produced by Swedish producer Stefan Boman (Kent, Hellacopters, Backyard Babies and many other Nordic acts) put the band on the map, with its original blend of languages, new wave and dark atmospheres and intense energy.

After releasing "The regency" in November 2009 in Italy (SFEM /Audioglobe) and Sweden (SFEM/Wonderland), noke…

In the midst of the music industry crisis Norman Palm had an idea: Why not visualize the bedroom-recordings he had made in his last art-school days in Paris, produce a hi- 200-page artbook
around the CD, name it Songs and throw it on the collapsing market via his own DIY-record label? Ignoring everyone’s advice paid o : Not only did Norman’s book sell, soon was he invited to
play live shows all over Europe. He played at countless art events, sang next to Jane Birkin in a Parisian radio studio, was hyped by music sites such as Stereogum, got lmed by french Blogotheque
and eventually found himself …

Born in 2002 with the name of Redrum, Panic Room is an alternative rock combo with a solid and concrete personality. In 2003 the band released a very lucky single, published in over 17,000 copies with Rockstar Magazine and then went through a long streak of gigs all around Italy.

In 2008 the band released their debut album “EQUILIBRIUM”. Many magazines, webzines and radios all over Europe have reviewed the album enthusiastically, and the band is now looking forward to bringing it to a wider audience. Panic Room can count on the videoclip "Star" (directed by Zedd Cavallo, who worked with many …

Artist nick name of Jakub Kmieć - polish brilliant composer of ambient and electronic music. In his music he combines euphoric with dark atmosphere of electro, ambient and synth pop.

Rutsi Buba is a rock'n'roll-garage-rockabilly trio, deeply based in the Tel Aviv and Israeli rock'n'roll and indie scene. Playing live nonstop, they had just released their first album "AgaAgaBoo" (2011) with two labels in Israel (DmDm Creations and High Fidelity).

Rutsi Buba is taking its ear-pleasing and feet-bombing live show over to Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Austria this September

Sansa is a talented young Finnish songstress . Her music is a mixture of pop, folk and even "trip hop".
Sansa's brand new album "Savior" will be released in G/A/S (G-Records / Rough Trade) and also in the US later this autumn.

School Is Cool brings you adventurous indiepop with bouncing rhytms, that refers to Pixies, Paul Simon, Kate Bush, Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend, The Dodos and in a way Händel.

After winning Belgium’s biggest rock contest Humo’s Rock Rally 2010 in a very convincing way, this Antwerp-based band played more than 60 festivals in Belgium last summer including Boomtown, Dranouter, Pukkelpop, Crammerock, Pukemarock. Their first single “New Kids In Town” was the summerhit of 2010 (hotshot or highest rotation and 7 weeks number 1 in Belgium’s biggest hit list De Afrekening on Studio Brussels). “In Wan…

Silent Scream continues where Varjo ended. The debut album In The Cinema is inspired by the horror movie classics and creates the movie soundscape feeling together with tribal rhythms. The story of the band goes back in 1996 when Antti Lautala and Henry Waldén formed a band called Varjo (a shadow in English). Varjo was influenced by gothic rock, post-punk and ambient but it differed from other gothic bands by the Finnish lyrics. At the beginning of the 21st century Varjo was the most successful gothic band with Finnish lyrics. After the third album there were changes in line-up but also a trag…

Sleep Party People - the bedroom project of Brian Batz - is like one of those fairy tale gems that keep radiating magical colours when it’s dark, that actually grow bigger and brighter when nighttime falls. It's something special and important and utterly beautiful.
With the aid of an old drum machine, a piano and a guitar, a unique dreamlike universe arises. With traces of My Bloody Valentine shoegaze, Cocteau Twins mystique and Flaming Lips idiosyncrasy the result is hard to define.

State of Grace from Sweden play energetic rock with electronical influences.

The band started in 2008 and were soon established as a must-see-live band.

Highlights from 2010:

* the release of State of Graces debut album “Gospels in the Wine”.

* when State of Grace supported rock legends Status Quo during their summer tour. 

Highlights 2011 (so far):

* State of Grace won Sweden’s biggest competition for unsigned bands, Rockkarusellen, competing against over 600 other acts.

* the release of their second album - “The United Colors of State of Grace”.

* the 20-date tour all over Sweden.

A short and intense immersion in the places of dream and vision....Sounds and words that give voice to the mud and the light that we are....sounds generated by objects of all kinds - confetti on ceramic, wooden sticks, fists on the furniture, forks in a grater, programmable music box, lids, spoons and cutting boards....disillusioned and dreamy characters, they go along their way, asking harrowing questions....."Us", a beautiful and terrible and forlorn humanity.