Breakthrough Band

After featuring so many beach, sunset and balearic flavoured bands in this column in the past, I really tried hard to avoid coming up with anything to do with the aforementioned…

Cults is the just recently formed lovechild of 21-year-old NYC film students and couple Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion. As opposed to many so-called ‘internet hype bands’ which…

Information on the Toronto based house production duo Azari & III seems to be sparse around the web. And that’s after two very successful club track single releases (‘Hungry For Th…

Although their Myspace profile has just been created a few months ago and they have only played a handful of live shows so far, Yuck are ‘all the rage’ over in their hometown Londo…

Penguin Prison is singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Chris Glover, residing in NYC and making electro pop in the true sense of the term. Reminiscent of the quirky Hot Chip …

On our neverending mission to bring you undiscovered pop gems from small labels, it’s all about Baby Monster this week. With only two original songs and a couple of remixes…

While the major labels are pretending to be struggling, sales are said to go down and some people even go as far as saying that ‘recorded music’ as a whole is on the decline…

Chaz Bundick from Columbia already has quite a history regarding creative activities, at only 23 years old. Having played in a punk band and studying graphics design, he now releas…

Goth aesthetics and sounds have been making quite a comeback in the recent past, the video to Jay-Z’s “On To The Next One” being the most popular example in mainstream music. The b…

Warpaint hail from Los Angeles and is an all-girl band crafting picturesque intimate and energetic songs utilizing traits of post-punk, shoegaze, folk and psychedelic rock paired w…

While I thought all the ‘best of the year’ lists popping up now would make it easier to come up with some belated nominations for our ‘Breakthrough Band’ section but in fact I had …

As the year is about to end and we have only got a few editions of the ‘Breakthrough Band’ column left for 2009, I felt like having a look around for acts that definitely enriched …

2009 has been a good year for rap with many good songs and releases by the established artists and a handful of newer names really blowing up such as Gucci Mane, Drake and Pill.

It is common knowledge that music blogs used be the main source of exciting new dance music. Used to be? Well, in these times of post-distortion disco, formerly lead by Justice and…

Clock Opera is a London four-piece revolving around producer and singer Guy Connelly and have first made the rounds this summer. Their sound blends chopped up samples and synthesiz…